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>>Are you asking to go back to the Rebreathers as the only way to get skill increases?
The days of rebreathers and clockwork watchman, yes, I'd much rather see that. Doesn't mean geerloks shouldn't exist, but their trivial should be appropriate for the price of their parts and ease of getting them...somewhere around 125 at max.
Rebreathers also weren't that bad for skilling up with. The problem with them is and was the weight/size issue. If they weighed 2 or so and were medium sized, people would actually want them. Instead they had to introduce an insulting reason to buy them, the warrior epic. And that artificial reason barely provided enough market for a single gnome per server.
Ease of getting to 250 is bad. Well, the real bad is inability to raise the skill caps...but making getting to 250 easier with every expansion is not a good thing.
>>This is not possible with Tinkering.
I beg to differ. Considering that's basically what I did with tinkering. I stockpiled coiled springs, sold collapsed on my trader mule. And worked my skill up that way, making money every step of the way. I also did a bit of dumpster diving in SH/PoK for geerlok parts, but most of my skill ups came from collapseds. Then, once I hit 242 (and for that, I did lose some money, but nothing previous profits didn't easily cover), I shifted to woks and, once they became available, crab crackers.
That's all it takes for tinkering. A high int to maximize skill ups, a willingness to not force it most of the time, and a bazaar vendor mule.
Now, it's not JC easy. JC is the easist of them all since it has the best sell to merchant prices, everything is vendor sold, and it's 2 stackable items per combine.
Anything that is easy to get has no value. People should be able to take pride in their accomplishments, but for me, when I hit 250, it didn't mean much to me because it had been made too easy by then. And I'm the first 250 on my server. I've got more respect for the guy with 240 skill who did it before PoP. He had to work at it. I had it served to me on a collapsible silver platter.
Most people don't even realize just how easy it is.
The days of rebreathers and clockwork watchman, yes, I'd much rather see that. Doesn't mean geerloks shouldn't exist, but their trivial should be appropriate for the price of their parts and ease of getting them...somewhere around 125 at max.
Rebreathers also weren't that bad for skilling up with. The problem with them is and was the weight/size issue. If they weighed 2 or so and were medium sized, people would actually want them. Instead they had to introduce an insulting reason to buy them, the warrior epic. And that artificial reason barely provided enough market for a single gnome per server.
Ease of getting to 250 is bad. Well, the real bad is inability to raise the skill caps...but making getting to 250 easier with every expansion is not a good thing.
>>This is not possible with Tinkering.
I beg to differ. Considering that's basically what I did with tinkering. I stockpiled coiled springs, sold collapsed on my trader mule. And worked my skill up that way, making money every step of the way. I also did a bit of dumpster diving in SH/PoK for geerlok parts, but most of my skill ups came from collapseds. Then, once I hit 242 (and for that, I did lose some money, but nothing previous profits didn't easily cover), I shifted to woks and, once they became available, crab crackers.
That's all it takes for tinkering. A high int to maximize skill ups, a willingness to not force it most of the time, and a bazaar vendor mule.
Now, it's not JC easy. JC is the easist of them all since it has the best sell to merchant prices, everything is vendor sold, and it's 2 stackable items per combine.
Anything that is easy to get has no value. People should be able to take pride in their accomplishments, but for me, when I hit 250, it didn't mean much to me because it had been made too easy by then. And I'm the first 250 on my server. I've got more respect for the guy with 240 skill who did it before PoP. He had to work at it. I had it served to me on a collapsible silver platter.
Most people don't even realize just how easy it is.
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