To all EngineersFollow

Sure. Prices of primals being what they are, you could fly a route around Nagrand and Zangarmarsh once in the morning and once in the evening, zapthrottling up motes of water and air, and make a reliable 80g...unless another engineer is getting there first.

Sure - engineering helps my toon kick butt doing his dailies and questing and...oh, you mean selling stuff?

I know people can make a steady profit crafting the engineering items needed for various quests and selling them on the AH--the deadly blunderbuss on Horde is an example that can be crafted at much less than 300 skill.

I very much doubt they make 80g a day. The only non-gathering profession I can think of that would make that kind of money at less than 300 skill would be the disenchanting side of enchanting. Engineering is more profitable as a gathering profession than as a crafting profession.

If you sell the stuff that sells well, then you'll make some cash. I doubt you'll get 80G a day using it though. On the other hand, Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, and Clothcrafting/disenchanting all combined can make you 200G a day pretty easily. Note that that is the total combined profits. It does depend on your server some too. Take about 45-60 minutes a day which isn't terribly bad.

I couldn't help it. Saw this comic and thought of this thread: Flintlocke

My guide to making money with pretty much any tradeskill:

1. Farm the mats to craft something.
2 Don't craft it.
3. Sell the mats.
4. Receive money.
5. Woot!

The card to access the schematic is not binding and can be traded on the AH. It's how three of my engineers got it :)

And if it's not on your AH, faming for it really isn't impossible. The security card to access the schematic doesn't only drop off the boss; it has a chance to drop off all mechs in the entire instance (highest rate on the Arcane Nullifiers). If you've only been farming the boss, no wonder it has taken you so long; he only has a .81% chance to drop it, compared to the 2.36% chance each time you kill one of the 10 or so Arcane Nullifiers on the way to his room!

Not sure where you got your information, Rusttle, but someone's pulling your leg big-time if you thought it only dropped off Thermaplugg!

Edit: Ohhhh, you looked up the schematic itself! No no no! That's a horrible way to get this schematic! You want the Security Card: DELTA that drops off of all mechs. Then you access the Computer D terminals and they will teach you how to make a Discombobulator Ray. Wow, I hope you didn't farm Thermaplugg; that would be insane!

Edited, Sep 27th 2008 8:43am by LockeColeMA

... Did you look at the link I posted? It's 2.36% off the Arcane Nullifiers, and about 1% off any other mech in the zone (including things like the chicken-walker sentries, etc).

You only need one of the DELTA punchcards, it isn't used up when you access the schematics, and thus can be resold on the AH. It might take a while (it is a low drop rate, after all), but clearing all the mechs in the instance a few times isn't tough at 70. Might take an hour of farming if done efficiently, would be my guess.

No problem, and congrats! It's a great item, although I think they took out its ability to dismount people. Definitely can't knock them off their flying mounts any more... too bad, as that was great fun back in the early days of TBC!