Peter's Blog

Enhanced my engineering skill in World of Warcraft enough to make a boomstick, some kind of gun. My character cannot use guns so decided to auction it. Sold it for five silver coins, a profit of about three after buying some of the parts needed. This encouraged me to make a couple more along with some gun sights. Also auctioning some copper bombs and bits and pieces I have found but cannot use. I've already sold another gun. I've never sold anything on ebay, it's good playing virtual entrepreneur, it will either prove my feeling that I am not a natural salesman or persuade me that if I put my old junk on ebay I have little to lose. Update: bombs don't sell well in auctions. Only engineers can use them and since they can make them themselves they don't need to buy them.

For what it's worth, I would imagine the miner/engineer trades I chose would be a better match for a class that can fire guns (hunter?). Miner/blacksmith would be better for paladin as I could make big hammers and maces AND use them.

I would be playing it now only I haven't installed the latest 600M (mandatory) patch on my laptop and I haven't been spending enough time in the same room as my other half.

I can easily do two or three two hour WoW sessions a day. Because there are so many different aspects to the game (questing, exploring, trading, grinding) and because it is basically free form (wander about, if something proves too hard then do something else) it takes much longer to get bored than other games I have played.