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Keep in mind those are all learned from the JC trainer and not special drops or rep. related patterns. I got JC up to 355 yesterday and hoping to find some of the epic trinkets from wotlk to ease my mind on wether i made a massive mistake or not.

Nice find.

I am curious about The Sons of Hodir though. Are they a horde only faction? The only reason I ask is because they have the mammoth, which indicates it is a horde only mount, but they are also the only ones who have shoulder enchants.

Sons of Hodir are a neutral faction of Vyrkul in Icecrown Peaks that you can eventually befriend after some quests. Both factions can do so.

Mammoth is both factions, and that's intentional I'd imagine. The Grand Caravan mammoth is definitely both factions.

Where'd you hear they were Horde only?

Yea, that was what I was looking at. Seems if it was for both factions it wouldn't have any race listed at all.

As far as I can see, you get the ability to add a socket your Bracers, Gloves and Belt, as well as adding a socket to a 1 handed weapon.

True, going purely by the descriptions, it's unsure whether these modifications are for yourself only, or if you can get a BS to do it for you.

The Bracer and Gloves socketing appears to be self only ... description is "adds a socket to your gloves/bracers"

The belt buckle looks like something you can craft and trade, like enchanting scrolls.

The socketing of a weapon's description is "adds a socket to a one handed weapon", so it appears that you can get a BS to do that for you. Nasty possible effect though .. Wowhead's spell details for this says it's a permanent enchant, which means it won't stack with enchanting enchants. So, something to use while levelling only.

And yeah, I know the epic weapons are not that great when compared to the Arena weapons, but they are the basic epic weapons (dunno why they, or any of the other gear available now, are epics anyway - but that's a debate for another day, maybe another life), and are learned from the trainer. I believe the higher level, BoP weapons which require master specialisation will be very competitive. Ofc, if you don't do arenas at all .. even these weapons appear to be quite worthwhile at this stage.

All that being said, I'm skinning / leatherworking atm, and fully intend staying that way ... gief fur lined goodies ;)

Edited, Sep 25th 2008 8:53am by robertlofthouse

Socketing items don't appear to require a specialisation (ie, they don't say "Require Armorsmith / Weaponsmith", etc), so I don't think that's a concern.

As for the sockets not stacking with Enchants, it seems to only be an issue with the socket weapon option. It's a supposed issue, based purely on my interpretation of the details from Wowhead, so don't take it as 100% fact. It is, however, a possible concern nevertheless.

The belt buckle looks simple enough - it's like the current leatherworker's leg enchants.

As for levelling a profession, getting the prof specific benefit, dropping it (I'm assume you're talking about dropping it) in order to level another profession and stack the benefits ... keep in mind that when you drop a profession, you would lose access to anything that required you to have that profession in the first place. I'm not 100% sure you can enchant your rings as an enchanter, then drop enchanting and keep the enchanter specific enchant. (Edit : I see what you did there, if socketing doesn't require a specialisation, then you could do this no problem, as you items would still be socketed)

Ofc, any and all of this can change, so it's pure conjecture at this stage anyway. ;)


Edited, Sep 25th 2008 11:26am by robertlofthouse

Yeah but that is a brown bear. What about the "Reins of the Ice Mammoth"? Is that a totally fake mount? Or is it for both Alliance and Horde?

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?search=ice+mammoth

Lol! Ty ty