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1. One Response to “Any word on when they’re going to make engineers not useless in 3.1…”

2. Well… I gather the saving grace came today when Blizzard announced the removal of consumable ammunition won’t be happening in 3.1. So you have a little longer to make things and sell them for a nice profit.

   I think Engineering has always been a niche specialty. Obviously in BC it became a tad over powered with some of the helmets it could make, and of course there was the de-facto tanking gun up until the release of the Sunwell. Now it still has some of those features, but it’s not as predominate as it once was.

   But this is by design too.

   Blizzard doesn’t want the professions to be something that are so great they are essentially required for a given class. Remember Leatherworking in BC? Everyone who was a hard core Sunwell raider had to have Leatherworking for drums. It was really really really dumb to have Priests respec to Leatherworking just to get a continuous drum rotation going on. Blizzard knows this, and at BlizzCon last October Ghostcrawler made mention several times that they never want to return to that horror.

   And truth be told, Engineering now is at least more useful/fun than it was four years ago.

   By kyrios on Feb 10, 2009

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