Peter's Blog

Spent some time going through my spell book. This revealed a number of things:

Dwarves have a +5 gun specialisation which is good unless you are a dwarf paladin who can't use guns. A waste of a racial specialisation. For a while I was confused about why I have this in the spell book but cannot use guns and I think this explains it. There is no sign that my paladin can buy extra training for ranged weapons (guns, axes, spells etc).

To use skills like cooking, mining, smelting, fishing, engineering you have to open your spell book and click on the skill! Must have missed this in skimming the manual but it makes a BIG difference. Discovered I had the skill to make dynamite! All the rock I have been mining and selling can be made into dynamite which is a ranged weapon! I've spent some time doing mining and engineering and have a nice supply of dynamite and copper bombs. This looks like a whole new aspect of the game, gathering materials, making powerful weapons and either using them of auctioning them. Instead of questing/fighting you can set up a business making and selling goodies.

I also made myself some shot thinking I could sell it but for some reason it cannot be sold and I cannot use it as I can't use guns. Maybe I can auction it or create another character and pass it on. Left it in my bank vault pending inspiration. Update: it can be auctioned. It is not a big seller like guns which you can sell as many as you make but it can be offloaded.

World of Warcraft is definitely addictive and time consuming.