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Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:04 pm
by Adam-Savage
This is a nice and very different change that I welcome.
We've heard of people trying to play as pacifists in World of Warcraft, but there wasn't a lot of support for it in the game. A lot of the experience was earned from holiday events, battleground dailies, profession dailies, items with repeatable quests, and collection quests scattered across the game. If they played a healer, this was much easier as they could heal dungeons and battlegrounds without participating in the actual killing themselves.
Blizzard added another way to earn some experience with the latest patch for Cataclysm. You now earn experience when both gathering from mining and herbalism nodes. This is being reported about 4,000 experience for herb nodes in Wintergrasp at level 80. However, these do suffer from the same experience reduction that lower level quests are hit with. As an example, a level 83 player mining a copper node earns 5 experience, but earns a couple thousand from a titanium node.
Originally Posted by Daeleht (Source)
This is an intentional change, however the values may not be final. Tradeskill nodes are intended to give you experience when you loot them.
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:07 pm
by Slickrock
very nice. Also great for leveling alts who are going to be tradeskill bots for you anyway.
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:08 am
by Sarayana
Yeah I noticed that on the PTR. My baby shammy was getting 85 exp from herbing earthroot and 75 exp from killing a mob her level (at level 6-7). I didn't know that was the reason, but I love it!! Blizz really does pay attention to its clients' wants, eh?
*contemplates making a pacifist toon...*
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:53 pm
by Teigan
Perhaps a happy, hippy druid? Please tell me fishing grants exp! That would be grand! I would fish my way to lvl cap!
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:07 pm
by Sarayana
Ooooh, I love the idea of a happy, hippy druid. Male troll?
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:08 pm
by Teigan
Ya mon! Dat be da way!
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:14 pm
by Sarayana
Hahaha. I'm starting to feel a slight panic at the thought of all the toons I'll be making in Cata. Jazek will be remade (shammy in <Petopians> - I want her to begin in Echo Isles and be elemental, and well, low level elemental just plain sucks at the moment...), I'll be making two worgen (a warlock who'll be taking her time and working on Loremaster as she levels and a warrior to level with the hubby's mage), of course there will be goblins (so far I'm planning a rogue and, uhm... a mage perhaps? Or a hunter.), and I really want to make a dwarf shammy, perhaps a nelf mage, and then of course I want to try out the new Tauren starting zone, and the undead zones look like they'll be AMAZING, and... and... and... /panic
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:17 pm
by Teigan
Hehe, yes. That's quite the roster you've drawn up there! So far, I'm "limiting" myself to a troll druid, troll hunter, worgen something, goblin hunter, maybe another dwarf hunter to go with the geology theme, goblin rogue, troll shaman...ok, yeah, I think I have too many too! That's already more slots than I have left on Nesingwary!
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:25 pm
by Sarayana
I thought your geology toon (which, by the way, totally has to work her way up to "Professor"!!!) was going to be an engineering goblin!
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:31 pm
by Teigan
More than likely.
Not ruling dwarf out, though, just in case. I'm pretty sure I'll love the goblin girls. What I've seen they look like such sassy, spunky things! But, in case there is something about them that just drives me nuts, she'll be a dwarf. But, yes, otherwise. Goblin lass with engineering, working towards "Professor"
So this
goblin hunter, maybe another dwarf hunter to go with the geology theme
really should read "goblin hunter (or maybe another dwarf hunter if goblin doesn't work out) to go with the geology theme.
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:45 pm
by Sarayana
Goblin will rock that theme, I'm certain.
Hmm... in the spirit of combining toons, maybe Jazek will be a pacifist? But then elemental really isn't a logical spec for her... *ponders*
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:53 pm
by Teigan
Sarayana wrote:Goblin will rock that theme, I'm certain.
Pun intended?
Well, you said you want to check out the Tauren area and they have druids, so maybe your pacifist could be a Tauren druid? But really, a happy, hippy male troll would be the ultimate. Taurens aren't really hippies, so much.
Re: Cataclysm Beta: Mining and Herbalism gives experience
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:30 pm
by Sarayana
Actually no...
