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Several changes have been made to
professions
. The profession leveling cap has been increased to 525 skill, with the new skill rank of
Illustrious Grand Master
. New recipes have been added to all professions, and a new secondary skill has been added, Archaeology.
Tradeskills
Some tradeskill crafting recipes will now grant multiple skill-ups relative to the difficulty of the item. For example, the tailor-crafted
Deathsilk Robe
grants 3 skill points upon crafting!
Professions are no longer listed under your general tab in the spellbook but have moved to their own tab inside of the spellbook. Inside you will find all your professions, with progress bars for the skill level and any specializations if you have one. Each profession will have all of its relevant spells linked to it (e.g. Jewelcrafting will have
Jewelcrafting
and
Prospecting
). See it
here
!
Alchemy
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What's New In Cataclysm
Alchemists will be seeing a few major changes in Cataclysm, including a couple of crazy new recipes (like the
Mysterious Potion
or the
Potion of Deepholm
), a new transmutation system, and their very own mount!
Vial of the Sands
- Teaches the unique
Sandstone Drake
mount. It allows the alchemist to turn into a dragon, fly at mount speed, and even carry a passenger!
Lifebound Alchemist Stone
- Alchemist-only trinket. Increases Stamina, Mastery, and healing/mana potions' effect. Required for transmutations.
Cauldron of Battle
/
Big Cauldron of Battle
- Guild rewards. Basically like a
Create Soulwell
, but for Flasks instead of Healthstones.
Gem Transmutations now take 3 uncommon/green gems of the same color (e.g. if I want to transmute an
Inferno Ruby
, I need 3
Carnelian
s), as well as 3 of a certain herb (
Heartblossom
in this example).
Only one raw meta gem -
Shadowspirit Diamond
. It is created by transmuting 3 of each uncommon/green gem. Note that you get 2 Diamonds per transmutation.
No more elemental transmutations.
Transmute: Living Elements
turns 15 Volatile Life into 15 of any (random) other Volatile element.
There are two metal transmutations -
Pyrium Bar
(4x
Elementium Bar
s, 4x
Volatile Earth
s) and
Transmute: Truegold
.
Blacksmithing
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What's New In Cataclysm
New base materials include: various Volatile elements,
Obsidium Bar
s,
Folded Obsidium
s, and
Elementium Bar
.
New pseudo sets include: Bloodied Pyrium, Ornate Pyrium, Hardened Obsidium, Redsteel, and Stormforged.
Obsidium Skeleton Key
is the new Blacksmithing key, and
Elementium Rod
is the new component for Cataclysm's Enchanting rod.
Blacksmiths get to keep their additional sockets from Wrath of the Lich King.
Enchanting
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What's New In Cataclysm
The new basic materials are:
Hypnotic Dust
,
Lesser Celestial Essence
/
Greater Celestial Essence
,
Heavenly Shard
, and
Maelstrom Crystal
.
Most weapon enchants provide procs instead of passive bonuses - see
Elemental Slayer
or
Windwalk
, for example.
Enchanters-only ring enchants will provide only base stats - strength, agility, stamina, or intellect.
Exclussive new pet:
Magic Lamp
/
Enchanted Lantern
.
Engineering
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What's New In Cataclysm
High-Powered Bolt Gun
is not only a tool required for some cool schematics, but also a powerful weapon!
Loot-A-Rang
, for all your looting needs.
Two new pets -
De-Weaponized Mechanical Companion
and
Personal World Destroyer
.
A number of new gadgets for your gloves and belt.
Cogwheel Gems
for your Engineering goggles.
Herbalism
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What's New In Cataclysm
now grants Haste rating in addition to the healing effect.
Azshara's Veil
,
Cinderbloom
,
Stormvine
,
Heartblossom
,
Whiptail
, and
Twilight Jasmine
are the new Herb objects.
All of the new herbs have a (small) chance to drop
Lifegiving Seed
, as well as some
Volatile Life
.
No more Frost Lotus-like rare herbs!
Inscription
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What's New In Cataclysm
Ashen Pigment
is the new pigment, and
Blackfallow Ink
is the ink created with it.
Burning Embers
and
Inferno Ink
are the rare equivalents of the two above.
Dust of Disappearance
is the 81+ equivalent of
Vanishing Powder
. Like its predecessor, it is used to remove Glyphs your character is currently using.
Adventurer's Journal
is a new handy item that has a chance to buff your quest experience gain, damage vs. beasts/humans/dragonkin, movement speed, or give you a chance to heal yourself with attacks.
Forged Documents
start a quest that rewards you with 10g.
Darkmoon Card of Destruction
, of course. It produces a random card from one of the four new decks -
Earthquake Deck
,
Hurricane Deck
,
Tsunami Deck
, or
Volcanic Deck
.
Cheap replacements for the should enchants.
Fun items like
Origami Slime
,
Origami Rock
, and
Origami Beetle
.
Jewelcrafting
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What's New In Cataclysm
New uncommon gems:
Carnelian
,
Nightstone
,
Hessonite
,
Jasper
,
Alicite
, and
Zephyrite
.
New rare gems:
Inferno Ruby
,
Demonseye
,
Ember Topaz
,
Dream Emerald
,
Amberjewel
, and
Ocean Sapphire
.
Only one meta gem:
Shadowspirit Diamond
.
Jeweler's Ruby Monocle
.
Fire Prism
takes 3 of every uncommon gem and drops some rare gems.
Chimera's Eye
is the reagent for the new JC-only gems.
Leatherworking
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What's New In Cataclysm
Savage Leather
,
Blackened Dragonscale
, and
Deepsea Scale
are the new basic materials.
Cheap leg reinforcements.
LW-only Bracer enchants will provide only base stats.
Several pseudo sets - Bloodied Dragonscale, Bloodied Leather, Bloodied Scale, Bloodied Wyrmhide, Darkbrand, and Tsunami.
Mining
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What's New In Cataclysm
Obsidium Ore
is the new lower level common metal.
Elementium Ore
is the higher level one.
Pyrite Ore
is the rare vein, sometimes found instead of Elementium.
Skinning
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What's New In Cataclysm
Savage Leather
,
Blackened Dragonscale
, and
Deepsea Scale
are the new materials obtained through Skinning.
Tailoring
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What's New In Cataclysm
Embersilk Cloth
is the new cloth. It can be turned into
Bolt of Embersilk Cloth
or used for
Unravel Embersilk Cloth
.
Instead of specialization-specific cloths, Tailors will be able to create Dreams by combining 8 Stacks of Embersilk and 30 of any one of the Volatile elements. The element will determine the type of dream created (e.g.
Volatile Fire
is a reagent for
Dreamcloth
).
More powerful spellthreads and Tailor-only cloak enchants.
New pseudo sets like Deathsilk, Emberfire, Fireweave, and Spiritmend.
Flavor items like
The sexiest dress in Azeroth
and
High Society Top Hat
.
The new bags will be
Embersilk Bag
and
Illusionary Bag
.
Other Skills
Archaeology
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Research Projects
Archaeology
is a brand new secondary profession introduced in Cataclysm. Similarly to the other secondary professions - Cooking, First Aid, and Fishing - it can be trained regardless of how many of the rest you have. As the name suggests, this new profession involves a lot of riding/flying around, digging, and searching for long-lost artifacts unearthed by Deathwing's reemergence. Here is how it works:
When you first train Archaeology, you are given the spell
Survey
. You also gain the ability to track dig sites on your
world map
- make a note here, not the minimap. Each one of the 4 continents will have 4 dig sites (marked with a little digging shovel icon) at any one time - and those sites will be randomly generated for every player, which should mitigate competition for resources and ganking to a minimum. In addition to that, every player can only dig in the dig sites marked for him or her - and the only way to get a new dig site to spawn is to exhaust an old one by unearthing all 3 fragments in it.
When you get to a dig site (zone maps also display those, by the way - as pretty visible red circular shapes), you need to start Survey-ing it. Every time you cast Survey, surveying equipment will spawn next to you - it consists of a spyglass-looking part, and a light. The (front lens of the) spyglass indicates the direction the closest fragment is to you, and the light indicates how close you are to it. Green means very close - within 30-40 yards of it; yellow is medium distance, and red is far away. If you cast Survey within about 10 yards of a fragment's location, you will unearth it and loot a few fragments of an artifact of one of the 10 races - determined by the type of dig site you are researching.
You need fragments to "Solve" artifacts. The first time you pick a fragment of a certain race, you are randomly assigned an artifact of appropriate level/tier from that race's "collection". Every artifact requires a different number of fragments, but the starting ones are around 30. When you get to that number, you can click the "Solve" button in your Archaeology window and turn the fragments into the artifact, which then appears in your inventory. Any leftover fragments are reassigned to the next artifact of that race.
There are two types of artifacts - common and rare. Common is the kind of stuff you will be getting almost all the time - relatively easy to solve, and rewarding only a gray item you can sell. Rare artifacts are the ones that actually give your character something - a pet, a mount, a weapon, and so on. Something worth mentioning about the weapons - they seem to be Bound to Account, but not in the way Heirlooms are. You will still be able to trade those between characters on your account, but they won't scale with level. So if you create some weapon for your 85 raiding character, and you no longer need it, your alts will be able to receive that item in the mail but won't be able to use it until they meet the level requirement for it.
Reforging
Reforging
is a rather simple process that allows you to swap existing stats on an item for other stats the item does not currently have (some restrictions apply). Alliance players will need to visit
Ithurian Whitespire
in Stormwind near the Stockades, and Horde players can speak to
Enchanter Farendin
in The Drag. When you speak to the NPC, it asks you to drag and drop the item you want reforged. After dropping the item in the slot it asks which stat you would like to reduce and what you would like to increase.
You cannot reforge primary stats (with the exception of Spirit), and you can only add a stat if the item does not already have it (for example, you cannot remove Hit Rating to add Crit Rating to an item that already has Crit Rating). Also, you can only decrease / increase a statistic by the fixed conversion value presented.
