Things changing with 4.0.1

[zenga]

- Armor pen is removed. People will want new gems. Take note.

Yeah, and the transmute cooldown has been removed on raw gems. Buying all the cheap scarlet ruby, aut., blue (forgot name) I can find for some time now. I figure the gem market is going to resurrect for a week or 2 after 4.0.1 hits live.

[Shodokan]

5000ish emblems of triumph = full "heroic" 348 blues. Which using garfrost would equal about 10,000 minuets or 150ish hours worth of farming to have our teams ready to go with full pre-raid quality gear Since the vendors SUPPOSEDLY have been added and such.

Since we still have about two months before the expansion comes out... that would be approximately 3 hours of garfrost per day to get it all set =P Not sure i'm willing to put that much effort in but still.

[Alemi]

5000ish emblems of triumph = full "heroic" 348 blues. Which using garfrost would equal about 10,000 minuets or 150ish hours worth of farming to have our teams ready to go with full pre-raid quality gear Since the vendors SUPPOSEDLY have been added and such.

Since we still have about two months before the expansion comes out... that would be approximately 3 hours of garfrost per day to get it all set =P Not sure i'm willing to put that much effort in but still.

How would this work, exactly?

A - There's a 4,000 point cap going into Cataclysm
B - You can't buy lvl 85 gear until lvl 85
C - Items are costing about 1650 -2500 on beta

So, yes, you can store up 4,000 points and get 1 or 2 pieces at 85 - but hardly a full set.

[Shodokan]

How would this work, exactly?

A - There's a 4,000 point cap going into Cataclysm
B - You can't buy lvl 85 gear until lvl 85
C - Items are costing about 1650 -2500 on beta

So, yes, you can store up 4,000 points and get 1 or 2 pieces at 85 - but hardly a full set.

They are currently on beta, but theres "rumors" of the vendors going in to 4.0.1 to give people SOMETHING to do other than screw around with talents and do the pre-cata lore stuff. If you can then your points are moot. Yes there is a cap of 4,000. There is no proof anywhere you need to actually be 85 to buy from the vendor itself from what I've seen. It's isn't gauranteed that the vendor is going to actually be put in... but if it IS then people can do what I said. If not then obviously you can only get to the cap.

Does that mean I just wasted a sh#t ton of gold and time leveling 10 alchemists? Or will the new epic gems have a cooldown?

For the end of wrath? Yes. In cata though all high level professions are apparently going to need an item that alchemists make on a one day cooldown.

[Svpernova09]

They are currently on beta, but theres "rumors" of the vendors going in to 4.0.1 to give people SOMETHING to do other than screw around with talents and do the pre-cata lore stuff. If you can then your points are moot. Yes there is a cap of 4,000. There is no proof anywhere you need to actually be 85 to buy from the vendor itself from what I've seen. It's isn't gauranteed that the vendor is going to actually be put in... but if it IS then people can do what I said. If not then obviously you can only get to the cap.

For the end of wrath? Yes. In cata though all high level professions are apparently going to need an item that alchemists make on a one day cooldown.

They can easily put the vendors IN, but not spawn them.

[Stabface]

There is no proof anywhere you need to actually be 85 to buy from the vendor itself from what I've seen.

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread....Id=14574620792
In addition, purchasing any item with these secondary currencies (Honor Points and Justice Points) will now require that the purchaser meet the item's minimum level requirement.

[Alemi]

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread....Id=14574620792
In addition, purchasing any item with these secondary currencies (Honor Points and Justice Points) will now require that the purchaser meet the item's minimum level requirement.

Thank you for beating me to it

I'm converting all of my emblems to gold. I just don't see the value in hording points for one or two items.

[Slats]

Yeah I was gonna look for that post as well - Blizzard aren't stupid and they do have a duty of care to people who will obsessively farm things like Garfrost to have an advantage in Cata.

Since it looks like we are going to have quite a long time till Cata and we will be playing with Talents and such for awhile at least we can fine tune our macros ad setups.

=)