Spooncraft

You have to pronounce it like you’re a carnival worker and roll the R.
Yes ladies and gentlemen this here is going to be a hodgepodge, grab bag, big freaking mix of all things recently unearthed from the latest Beta build 8885 of the Wrath of the Lich King. So let’s go down the list.
Engineers (me) [...]

Oh hai! So how exactly does Inscription work? We’ve seen that you can make scrolls like the typical stat booster ones that give a 30 minute buff (like Scroll of Agility IV and all that jazz) but the bigger pull for the profession would be the glyphs that one can add and “socket” into your [...]

Sorry I forgot to put this up much earlier but I was sleepy and only now that the caffine has elevated me to a higher plane of existance did I remember. Here are 23 new cooking recipes in the Wrath of the Lich King.
Once more thanks go to WOR for the screenshot collage.

Fur Lining - Stamina - “Permanently enchant bracers to increase stamina by 90. Can only be used on the leatherworker’s bracers, and doing so will cause them to become soulbound.”
Fur Lining - Spell Damage - “Permanently enchant bracers to increase spell power by 70. Can only be used on the leatherworker’s bracers, and doing so [...]

Completely forgot to post this yesterday, my apologies. As usual images from game data files courtesy of MMOC.

Considering that I am completely in love with engineering, it makes me double happy to see us getting some very useful and incredible little gadgets in Wrath of the Lich King. The portable mail-box for one is downright awesome, and grenades/bombs now also doing siege damage means we’re going to have some much needed love [...]

Just a few patterns added this push but still nice to see Blacksmiths will be able to make some very impressive looking Paladin gear as well as shields. A big thank you as always to MMOC and WOR for their continued efforts at screen capping items and patterns that we can’t normally get to.

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Some of these have some really nice applications to them, especially the hunter mobility ones.
Hunter

Glyph of Aimed Shot - Decreases the cooldown of Aimed Shot by 1 sec.
Glyph of Arcane Shot - Your Arcane Shot refunds 20% of its mana cost if the target has one of your Stings active on it.
Glyph of Aspect of [...]

Tanking in WotLK & Blessing of Salvation
One change we made recently is baking in the old bonus from Blessing of Salvation into tanking forms. Up until now you were pretty much just doing without the old Salv because there was no way to replace it, and many raiding guilds will tell you that buff is [...]

Coming to you straight from WOR (and parts unknown) In the latest BlizzCast they spoke a lot about professions changing in the Wrath of the Lich King and I showed you the pattern for a tailor specific flying mount: the Magnificent Flying Carpet! World of Raids scored some images of what this flying mount looks [...]

I realized I have been posting a lot of information on glyphs and such but never showed you the interface for them. My bad. This is a quick update, I just woke up and Spooncraft hasn’t left the station yet so bear with me a lil’ bit. This image is pretty old (from when beta [...]

I forgot to add these earlier today when I did the tailoring post. So here they are for your enjoyment, images of new tailoring bags (you can now make 20 slot bags on the extreme cheap) and the bag space for warlocks is now 32 soul shards large. I also put in some spot lights [...]

More images of the new jewelcrafting epic gems that were added in the latest build (18 of them) also the first look at a new type of token that you receive as a reward for doing professions daily quests. You can use these tokens (like heroic badges) to buy new crafting patterns. Images from WOR [...]

Not terribly much here but still very exciting. I bet that more will be discovered later today but for now you can see that the epic crafted weapons got a major buff and there is a new type of weapon chain that looks very promising. Thank you as always to Teza for the great quality [...]

A lot of these patterns aren’t finished yet as you will see some of them don’t have any stats associated with them. The new spell threads and embroidery looks really nice, more incentive to be a tailor. Props and thanks to Alex Ziebart for the 34 images.

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Yesterday Blizzcast Episode 4 aired (still hasn’t popped up on iTunes come on Blizzard how many times you dropping the ball this week?). The first part is a pretty interesting interview with a guy I admire a lot (Russel Brower) and about the music of Warcraft. The rest of the show is pretty centered around [...]

So herein lies the nature of a Beta test, things change minute to minute and as more time passes, better resources are unearthed for your pleasure.
Some of this has already been posted by me earlier today but for the sake of keeping things shiny and sexy, here they are again with two times the flair.
Blacksmithing

Socket [...]

Well it’s official, I’m finally going back to my 1st love in crafting when Wrath of the Lich King comes out. Engineers have been really hurting for a long time now with the complete lack of anything truly worth while.
All other professions have had something given to them in patches or in the Burning Crusade [...]

These are the new Inscription Glyphs (well some of them) you can find in the expansion. When Inscription is fully implemented we’re going to have a lot of fun with some of these new enhancements.
Priest

Glyph of Lightwell  - Increases the amount healed by your Lightwell by 1 to 6%
Glyph of Renew - Increases the [...]

There is a lot of information on professions (I already got a bunch a while ago during Alpha) but in the latest build there are new developments that will make some of you very happy. Here are a lot of new Meta Gems from Jewelcrafting and new Blacksmithing patterns.
Socket Bracer
Permanently add a socket to your [...]

I’d say this is both bad and good for Alchemists in the expansion. You folks got a passive ability now that increases the effects of all potions/elixirs and such on yourself, but there’s a debuff now for chugging those swirling technicolor concoctions.

That’s in line now with the 2 minute debuff you recieve after getting hit [...]

Currently Death Knights can self enchant their weapons with Runeforging, which works almost exactly as regular enchanting only without the materials and such.
Runeforge enchants do not stack with other weapon enchants. But in most cases the runeforge enchants are better, and they are certainly a lot cheaper. If you find yourself in a situation where [...]

Right now there really isn’t a way we can accurately guess how the economy will shift in the coming expansion. At the same time Blizzard has been pretty vague in explaining any new money sinks. With no new mount skill (so far) it’s interesting to imagine the possibilities.
Right now I would venture that Herbalism and [...]

It’s the first of the month again and as usual if you’ve got some reputation with the Consortium you can swing by Aeriss’ Landing in Nagrand and pickup your bag of gems.
Honestly I post this regularly as a reminder since I forgot to get mine way too many times before, but this late in the [...]

This here is awesome. I won’t go into semantics about it right now since is pretty short with everything going on so I’ll just cut to the details.
Here’s the 1st which is a new Herbalism bag you can get from Sporeggar reputation. [Mycah's Botanical Bag] - 4 x [Primal Mooncloth], 2 x [Fel Lotus]
Here’s the [...]

Finally, the last profession. Now Leatherworking got some really crazy stuff that has pretty much now become a staple of the profession in the Burning Crusade; Drums & Armor kits. What Blizzard has planned int he expansion looks AMAZING. This is the first time in a while that I don’t regret keeping Leatherworking & Skinning [...]

Muahaha PART 3! Alrighty on to the big gatherers. Here we have pictures!
MINING: Let’s start off with a new ability. Miner’s Revenge (Rank 1) - Requires: Mining Pick. Hurls your pick axe at the target, inflicted 45 to 55 physical damage, ignoring any armor. 30 yard range, 5 minute cooldown.
I got no idea (not in [...]

Here’s another followup on the professions post I just put up. I had to give it it’s own unique post since it’s a VERY long list. Check after the break to see the freaking PIMP new enchants that we might get. Right now let me tell you that Titanweave, Shadow Armor, Icewalker, and Deathfrost look [...]

Let’s go down the list right quick since I know a lot of people are asking about this stuff. Here’s what we have so far regarding professions in WotLK. I will cover the most vague or undeveloped professions in this post and the more fleshed out professions in following posts.
Alchemy: There isn’t jack. It’s just [...]

I’d be lying if I said I’ve been sitting here with my thumb in my rear all weekend long. It’s been particularly hellish recently so things are slow to pickup momentum. It’s the 1st of the month though so aside from paying your bills and outrageous child support, you should go to Nagrand and see [...]