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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Twilight Highlands Vendor Nerf

Twilight Highlands Vendors


BEWARE:  Prepare for a flood of competition in the major markets for Leatherworking, Tailoring, Enchanting, and Blacksmithing.  And the Engineering Cogwheels Market is now completely dead.  Why you ask?

In Patch 4.1, they added new vendors in the respective profession shops in all major cities.  Yeah sucks, I know.  Well, sucks for those of us that have been pushing our alts to level 84 in order to even be able to obtain the end game crafting patterns.  Prior to the WoW Patch 4.1 change, you had to be level 84, then complete a quest chain in order to unlock the high end profession vendors in Dragonmaw Port.  This was an excellent way to limit the number of crafters in the professions that were represented in the Twilight Highlands, but now that gate has been opened wide.

In Patch 4.1, new vendors are in the major cities offering players the same recipes that were previously exclusive to the Twilight Highlands vendors.  Currently you only need to be level 75 to pick up the same recipes, since you have to be 75 to get to last tier of the crafting professions.  This means there will be a ton of new characters entering into the markets that were previously gated.

Leg Armors, Ebonsteel Belt Buckles, Cogwheels, high end enchants, high end craftable PvP gear and everything else is going to get much more competitive once players start to realize these new vendors are in the major cities.

One thing to note is that only recipes and cogwheels are included in this change.  The materials from the Inscription supplier were not included in this Patch 4.1 change, but they could be added in the future.  Don't buy too many in case they are later added to the major cities as well.

Blizzard is supposed to rolling out new PvP craftables as the arena seasons change, so I'm assuming this is the first step of that plan.  Can we can assume that the new recipes will be the ones available on the Twilight Vendors while the old versions get moved to the major city vendors?

So currently there is no need to go visit the metal trader, the shard trader, the cloth trader, the cogwheel trader, or the leather trader in Twilight Highlands.

PS:  I broke this store first on my newsletter and have given a few other newsletter first information releases. 
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