Engineering 4.0.6

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[quote='Taelas' pid='184863' dateline='1297404334']Tonight I decided to go herbing before they hotfix herbs again. I got 88 Volatile Air for 106 stacks of herbs. Not exactly a high drop rate. But I did get over a level of exp for my trouble.

I too leveled my paladin with mining, but did some quests along the way.

Yeah, that sounds about right. That's ~1800 gold, at the lowest price I've seen Volatile Air.

I don't see the problem?

I don't get to sell any. I have a blacksmith, alchemist, and something like eleven engineers to feed.

My objection to the direction Blizzard is taking engineering is not the lack of profit. I never expected engineering to bring in much gold. My objection is that they are again nerfing the slight edge engineering gave in PvP. The Parachute Cloak is now essentially useless. Any time Blizzard finds an item they have created that is actually useful in PvP (engineering or not) they take it away. Recall stealth detection as a stat on goggles other than Catseye? Remember the Tidal Charm? How about Skull of Impending Doom?

I thought the recent problem with the Parachute Cloak was a bug, which is why I posted in this forum. Then I found it in the patch notes.

I wouldn't mind so much if they gave a high level item to replace a nerfed low level item, but to my knowledge there is no equivalent to the former Parachute Cloak.