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 [...]

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 [...]

Before 2.4 went live we got to see the new +spell haste gems that were supposedly going to be made available. For some reason they be missing.
Fedora from Bronzebeard server contacted a GM in game regarding the gems who said that there indeed must be a problem because the rep vendor should be selling those [...]

Picking up where I left off in my last post, here are the changes to the jewelcrafting specifics that are accessed once the Harbor is taken and the world event has reached it’s final phases.
Shaani - Jewelcrafting Supplies
Jewelcrafting

The price of the 38 Epic Gems patterns sold by Shaani has been increased to 50 Gold insted [...]

Finally a use for all those green quality gems that Jewelcrafters have been stockpiling. You HAVE been stockpiling them right?
This patch added a new recipe to Jewelcrafting: Brilliant Glass
It can be trained from the JC trainer, it’s green at 375. It currently gives a rare gem every time.

As well there are new material costs (more [...]

Keeping in line with all these crazy new changes to how useful Heroic Badges are, it seems Blizzard is stepping up and making all the sexy end game gems now purchasable with the coveted Badges.

For starters the cost has been dramatically reduced for the alchemy trinkets I mentioned earlier. They all required 2 nether vortex’s as well as 16 of a specific primal, the cost has been reduced to only 6 primals and 2 vortex’s.

- Assassin’s Alchemist Stone (was 16 Primal Shadow)
- Redeemer’s Alchemist Stone (was 16 Primal Life)
- [...]

The following patterns appeared on the server, they are not yet availabe, but its only a matter of time. All patterns from Black Temple and Hyjal (including the Scales of Sand) will be obtainable via the Shattered Sun Offensive.

The patterns needed to craft the new BOP epic jewelcrafting trinkets is now available on the Shattered Sun Offensive reputation vendor.

The guys over at mmo-champion are bringing in more mined information on loot, spell IDs to confirm the loot being legit, and reports from the european side of things where presumably they have access to the PTRs already. Once more as I write this the PTRs are not available for us in the states.