Damn those Lotuses

I'm not someone who tracks all the news around new patches and expansions that closely. Usually I find out about stuff when a guildie mentions it on vent. So last week a couple of guildies were talking about cooking in the expansion, which got me looking into it a little more.

I am quite irritated that they are bringing back the Wrath equivalent of Northern Spices with Rice Flour, Black Pepper and 100 Year Soy Sauce. Ugh, just ugh. Look, I totally understand requiring Ironpaw Tokens to learn recipes. But I really liked that in Cata once you learned the recipe, you could just cook things up without these extra reagents.

I'm especially annoyed we need them for the new feasts. Cooking with its six paths and farming for required vegetables seems a bit overwhelming. I don't know if as a guild we're going to have to coordinate and plan who is growing/providing what.

Speaking of cooking, look what I found on my grocery list after Clawcon:



Yes, that says "Tell Jess he's a good tank". Apparently Jess thinks I'm not supportive enough.

Anyways, so I'm irritated about needing those cooking reagents. But I am probably even more irritated that they're bringing back the notion of needing those damn Lotuses. Yes, the horror that was Frost and Fel Lotuses in Wrath and BC are back with a vengeance in the form of Golden Lotus.

Argh. Argh! Look, I realize that Cata flasks required more herbs and Volatile Life, but at least all of those mats were farmable. You knew you could gather up the mats to be able to make the flasks. Thus, I really hate going back to drop rate RNG in terms of being able to make flasks. And it looks like the data on making the MoP equivalent cauldrons isn't out yet, but I am scared to see what it is.

It just seems like they are making professions more difficult. I understand they want to prolong the time between patches and keep us busier (i.e. grind) longer. But I'm a little concerned what the return of cooking reagents and the damn Golden Lotuses is going to mean for creating feasts and cauldrons for raids.

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Are you ready for the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby?

Long time readers of this blog know that I have always been a big fisherwoman in game, long before it became trendy, with everyone doing it. I used to get a lot of crap and disbelief from guildies for how much I fished, but it was a huge money maker for me from level 20-40 or so.

You'll also see that any screenshots of me show K with the Salty title, a title that I never ever change. I don't know, I just very much identify with it. It references my fishing, as well as my choice of language at times.

Anyways, because of this I'm looking forward to the new fishing tournament coming out in patch 3.3, the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby. For detailed info on this new tourney, as always check out the bible of all things WOW fishing, Els Anglin

The basics:

1. Starts on Saturdays at 2 pm server
2. Fish from any pool from Northrend for a Blacktip Shark
3. Stone and turn it in to the cute Walrus guy who will be next to the Dalaran fountain.

Here's why this is big. To get the Salty title now, you have to win either the original Stranglethorn Fishing Tourney or this new one. So this will definitely increase the number of folks who will be running around with the Salty title. I don't know... I guess I can share.

Will I try the tourney? Well, the rewards for winning are Dread Pirate Ring and Boots of the Bay. I don't know. I may just try for it and see if I can be the first person to get it, but not actually turn it in since I know a lot of others want the Salty title.

Now for strategy. The key is going to be finding an area with a dense concentration of pools but with low competition. I am thinking that the coast of Borean Tundra in the Frozen Sea as well as Sholazar Basin is going to be packed. I don't know if I would go there. Instead I may choose the Northern lakes in Howling Fjord, the Blue Sky Logging grounds in Grizzly Hills, or Lake Kum'uya in Borean Tundra.

Will you be participating in this new derby?

To close this fishing related post, a super cute pic of three of us in the guild:

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A philosophy lesson

Here is a philosophy from this blog: Karma is a bitch.

Ok, let me dial back and explain. So I'm going about my druidy day, which has lately involved a lot of herbing in good old Sholazar Basin. I often mindlessly herb while I'm chatting with others, watching tv, or talking on the phone. So I'm minding my own business, when all of a sudden, I get ninjaed by a hunter on a herb that I had landed to herb. Ok, ok, I continue on my way, only to get ninjaed again by the same hunter on the next node. WTF?

Now I'm mad. First of all, a hunter seriously? A hunter wants to challenge my herbing? Geez, at least give me a challenge with another druid or a pally with their 'fly fast thingie'. So what do I do? Well I actually say out loud "Ok, it's on now" and start flying in the direction I saw the hunter go, knowing very well that I could out herb him.

So I then spent a good amount of time flying faster to the next node (yay for not having to waste time summoning a mount!) and herbing all the nodes before the hunter even got there. When I saw the hunter deciding to switch directions, I started following him that way as well. I know... I'm evil. Repeat it with me friends, "Karma is a bitch".

After a while, it was clear that I had exerted my herbing dominance (rawr) and my bags were spilling out the wazoo with herbs and Eternal lifes. But as I shared in guild chat, I just couldn't get myself to leave the zone. I found myself staying just so that I could prevent this hunter from getting more herbs. I mean I knew that there was nothing to keep this guy from staying on all night after I logged, but still. It was the principle. I guess that would be called vindictive or spiteful herbing? As Jess commented, "Hmmm, the payback is strong in this one."

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Going for the gold cap

Guildies or friends in game will sometimes mention how I don't really have any alts. This is true. But you know what? I have a confession of sorts, one that some guildies know about but that which I've never talked about on this blog. I have an inscriptionist alt that is going for the gold cap. Yes, my friends, I have and continue to be part of the crazy glyph world.

I leveled a DK alt specifically for this purpose a while back, before dual specs went live. I chose a DK so she could level quickly to 65 to max out in inscription. Initially, K just farmed all the herbs for this alt to mill, but serious inscriptionists today know its more worth your while to buy the herbs cheap off the AH when available rather than farming them (time is money friends). An amusing side note from inscription is that it has definitely broadened my knowledge of other classes abilities. When someone talks about some skill or talent, while before I wouldn't have even recognized it, now I'm like "Oh, yeah! I sell that glyph all the time!"

While I don't have any other level 80 alts, I would definitely consider this whole money making business a form of alt-ing, though for inscription you don't have to spend a lot of time to make gold. Anyways, I'm not hard core into it all the time. I could definitely be spending more time on selling my glyphs plus making money via alchemy, which yes, isn't as good as inscription, but is decent. My intensity in the gold making business does have peaks and valleys. But I do get into the competitive factor of the whole inscription market, as competitors come in and out of the market.

So why am I doing this? I don't know... I guess its a pretty crazy goal for someone to reach in game. But I do want to achieve my goal of the 214,748g gold cap amount. I've thought before about what I should do with all the gold once I reach the cap. Come up with some crazy schemes or bribes for my guildies? Give some out randomly and see what folks will do for WOW gold? Hmmm the possibilities...

Anyone else a crazy inscriptionist? Are you going for the gold cap?

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Just two words

TURTLE MOUNT

That is all.

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Obsessive compulsive cooking

Here I am wearing my Chef's Hat that I got a couple weeks ago. I think it looks super spiffy, though I wish I could equip it and show it in tree form. They added the equip buff in patch 3.2, and it really does let you cook super fast. I cooked up a bunch of fish feast in no time.

I've mentioned before that I lay out all of the fish feast for our raids. Now I've started this slightly obsessive compulsive habit of how I place the feasts before fights. See Exhibits A, B, and C below:

Auriaya:

Mimiron:

Trial of Champions:

Yeah if there is a circle anywhere near where we are preparing for a fight... expect my fish feast to be centered in it. I don't know why I started this, but I figure with eating the same fish feast over and over, its my way of sprucing it up a little bit. Consider the presentation my equivalent of raspberry sauce swirled on a plate or parsley or something.

Now speaking of cooking, I do really love the fact that we can now start fires so much more easily than before. But has anyone really considered the safety implications of this? I mean sometimes I run around Dal and there are fires just everywhere, often very close to each other:

I try to be a responsible fire starter, specifically starting them in a corner or side location. What a dork I am.

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You fish on your side, I fish on my side.

This is Lake (I kid you not) Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Massachusetts. In Nipmuc (Algonquian), this name approximately means "Englishmen at Manchaug at the fishing place at the boundary". However, there is a humorous myth that says that this name means "You Fish on Your Side, I Fish on My Side, Nobody Fish in the Middle".

I would like this humorous myth to be applied in WOW fishing. I seriously don't get when someone comes right up and fishes from the pool I'm fishing in. Ok, ok I sorta get it (but still don't like it) in the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza, but seriously? During just regular fishing of Nettlefish or Salmon or whatever? In typical feisty K fashion when someone comes up and fishes from my pool, I'll sometimes just follow them to their next pool and return the favor.

Am I the only one who gets annoyed by this?

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So you think you can herb, eh? A harder herb quiz

A couple weeks ago I posted here some pics of herbs from Northrend to see if people could identify them. Well apparently that was too easy. So how do you think you'd do with Azeroth herbs? While I was picking lower level herbs to level inscription up on an alt, I took a bunch of pics. I was surprised by how many I didn't even recognize or remotely remember. My favorites? Numbers 16, 20, and 28. Soooo purty!

Now if you can name these herbs from memory, props to you. If you need some more help, click here. **

**Meh, I thought I had figured out how to do expanded posts in blogger.... apparently not.

• Arthas Tears
• Black Lotus
• Blindweed
• Briarthorn
• Bruiseweed
• Dreamfoil
• Earthroot
• Fadeleaf
• Firebloom
• Ghost Mushroom
• Golden Sansam
• Goldthorn
• Gravemoss
• Gromsblood
• Icecap
• Khadgar’s Whisker
• Kingsblood
• Liferoot
• Mageroyal
• Mountain Silversage
• Peacebloom
• Plaguebloom
• Purple Lotus
• Silverleaf
• Stranglekelp
• Sungrass
• Wild Steelbloom
• Wintersbite

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More herbalism and alchemy talk

I mentioned a while back that I'd talk a little more about my crazy herbalism and alchemy habit, with which I have been able to buy Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth, Loop of the Kirin Tor, and most recently Je'Tze's Bell. I don't bother with doing dailies for the money because I find that the return on my time is greater with herbalism and alchemy.

So step #1, is to get the herbs.

I herb in three zones. Sholazar Basin mainly for Goldclover and Adder's Tongue, Storm Peaks for Icethorn and Lichbloom, and I've recently put Zul Drak more into the herbing rotation for Talandra's Rose. Now a quick note about Frost Lotus. To me, they seem to follow the philosophy, "When it rains it pours". I either get several in the same zone, nearly back to back, then none in the next zone. So if I'm out specifically looking for some, and I don't get any after several rounds in Sholazar Basin, I head over to Storm Peaks or vice versa. Just the other day, I got NINE, yes NINE frost lotuses in Storm Peaks in one night.

Ok so lets now go into why I am picking these specific herbs...

Step #2, the alchemy. I don't regularly end up selling a lot of flasks and instead use them for myself and guildies. But I do sell a ton of elixirs, though really I only make and sell three types:

Elixir of Accuracy. You can get Tiger Lily along lakes and rivers everywhere, but a great place to load up is also the lake NE of Warsong Hold in Borean Tundra. I am often the only seller of these elixirs on Drenden, and typically sell the elixirs for an average 7g each.

Elixir of Deadly Strikes. So here's what I make with all the herbs I get from Sholazar Basin. These elixirs are up on the AH a lot more often so I have more competition. But I would say I also sell these for an average of 6g each.

Spellpower Elixir. These go for a little less on Drenden, I would say an average of 5g each.

Finally.. #3, AH mechanics. I would say its important to consider when you are putting elixirs up on the AH. I shoot for when the hardcore guilds are raiding and put up a lot of stuff so they are on there for Tuesday and Wednesday nights. It may also have something to do with having less competition on these nights since perhaps with work and school less people are farming stuff for themselves or putting up stuff to sell on the AH? I don't know... but often I will just stock my elixirs in my bank to wait until these days. I don't sell as much on the weekends when the AH is often flooded with stuff and there is too much undercutting for my taste.

So by selling these elixirs, a very casual herbing run will make me at least 250g. Now if I want to work a little harder, that goes up to 500g. Don't forget that by herbing you will also be collecting a lot of Eternal Life that you can sell as well. Now if I've really bought something crazy expensive and want to make back some gold, I have been known to have some crazy herbing days where I make 1000-1500g+ in one day. Now this includes selling some mana/health potions and flasks as well.

I've joked around with Jess that you could consider my alt to be making money. But if you are an herbalist/alchemist and have no money... I cannot stress to you how easy it is to make!

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Purty herbs

I'm not afraid to admit that I am an herbaholic. My guildies know to call me out if they see me in Sholazar Basin or Storm Peaks too long (though I have started herbing more lately in Zul'drak as well). But... just... one... more... herb...

Have you really looked closely at how pretty the herbs are? Can you identify all of these herbs?

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I am salty! And pygmy silliness

Some nights you get on WOW and have serious business... other nights are more about serious silliness. Last night I finally got my fishing achievement done, and now I am salty! Its actually a pretty proper title for me, as those who have heard me over vent well know that I've been known to hurl some salty words now and again. Jess says venting wouldn't be the same if I didn't say "Damn it all to hell".

Now the biggest hurdle to the title for me was re-doing One That Didn't Get Away, where you have to catch one of the rare fish. The annoying thing is that I am pretty certain I caught one of those before achievements were tracked... I just got rid of it at the time because it didn't do anything. But I finally got Dark Herring from a pool of Fangtooth Herring from the lake south of Gjalerbron in Howling Fjord.

This meant the only thing I had to do was Deadliest Catch. I knew Vel wanted to do it as well, and we decided to take along a meatshield with us. Here we are after taking down Gahz'ranka.

We then decided hey, let's try Hakkar in Zul'Gurub. Can one tank, one dps, and one healer do an old 20 man raid boss? Uh... not so much. It wouldn't have been so bad if Jess didn't keep getting mind controlled and Vel kept getting silenced. Jess said some website mentioned that a small group of reasonably geared 80s could do Hakkar easily, but apparently by the term "small group", they meant more than 3.

To round out the night, we went back to Dalaran and decided to get drunk on Pygmy Oil. This is what happens after you drink a bunch.

Here we are shaking what our momma's gave us. Look how cute Jess is with the bebeh shield.

We caused a bit of commotion in Dal... here is our poor unsuspecting friend Suzzy who was afk (probably fortunate for her).

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Chef Keredria

With the latest patch, I am now a chef! As a new budding chef, I'll take some inspiration from Morimoto and DeLaurentiis. Speaking of Morimoto, K would like some more sushi in Northrend. But anyways, I can now cook Fish Feast.

Oh and my Oracles egg hatched successfully into Proto-Drake Whelp. I'm convinced carrying it around in my bags all week did the trick. ;)

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Kitteh loves flowurs

As Jess pointed out the other day, if you find me in Borean Tundra for any amount of time lately, it is because I am trying to farm Fire Leaf so that I can make Flask of Endless Rage.

Now's here's the funny thing about picking those Firethorns. You have a chance of getting the Fire Leaf or the Fire Seed. Apparently when you pick a Firethorn, you have a much much higher chance of getting the item that you could actually use. So if you are a toon going off of mana, nearly 80-90% of what you pick will be Fire Seed. This was the case for me when I first went to the Geyser Field area, as it was for my herb/alch partner in crime Vel.

I'm trying to pick enough Fire Leaf for both Vel and I to make flasks. I fly around in flight form, swoop down, then shift into kitty form before picking. A little more work, yes, but now I would say 70-75% of my picks are Fire Leaf. So if you are a druid herbalist trying to farm Fire Leaf, switch into kitty or bear form before picking.

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Wrath Cooking and Fishing preview

Here are some of my quick thoughts around cooking and fishing in the expansion.

1. It seems to me that they are trying to make comparable food buffs with both fish and meat, which is great. So you wouldn't have to fish in order to make some of these food buffs for yourself. But I will of course still level fishing, because I mean let's just get real here... this is K speaking.

2. I'm glad food buffs last an hour instead of 30 minutes. K was getting a little thick around the middle from eating so often.

3. A couple of new food buffs.

4. A new very interesting raid wide buff. So everyone in a raid can partake in this feast and get this buff. Yum yum!

5. Nearly all of these recipes above are for end or near end game cooking. The recipes and the Northern Spices required to cook these up can only be bought with Dalaran cooking awards, received by doing daily cooking quests. You can pick these up once you get yourself to Dalaran. The one exception to this is the Great Feast. (see next paragraph)

6. As for what we can immediately expect to cookup in Northrend, Brom Brewbaster for Alliance in Howling Fjord (one of the two starting zones) teaches 15 recipes. Orn Tenderhoof in Borean Tundra (the other starting zone) teaches the same recipes for Horde. Fourteen require a cooking skill of 350 and one requires 375 (the feast). Both trainers will teach you how to make the Great Feast, as well as Clam Chowder. The chowda will also give you all three buffs, but it is not something you can set up for your entire party.

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This zombie craziness and using it for another purpose

I am sure most of you have seen this zombie craziness going on right now. There I am in Nagrand the other day and this is what I come across:

Well when I realized that in zombie form, you can port from Shatt to the Horde capital cities, the little wheels in my head quickly started turning. The first thought in my head was, "Oh, could be an easy way to get to Orgrimmar to do the achievements related to fishing there!" So I tried that last night.

I went to Shatt, became infected, then waited to turn into a zombie. Then I ported from Shatt to Org. Now as soon as I ported, I was booted out and it took me a bit to log back on. When I was able to log back on, I had died! But the good thing is that the place where you port into in Org is a little hut area on top of water. Right below it there are a bunch of rocks and stuff where you can rez and easily hide. So that is what I did. From there I just cast a line and fished up one fish, getting the achievement to fish something in Stormwind and Org.

Well then I decided to try to stealth around in kitty form and check out the city and see what else I could do. I ended up going into Ragefire Chasm and killed the main boss in there. I was going to try to fish for Old Crafty inside the waterfall in the Valley of Honor, but I had died so much finding my way and getting into Ragefire Chasm (being detected by guards) that I left it for another time. I wonder if Elixirs of Camouflage or anything could help being detected by the guards so much...

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More noobishness

A while back I commented about my noobishness around not having known that there were purple, orange, and green gems. I have no clue what it is about the mining/jewelcrafting professions that I am so clueless about, but I just discovered something else last week.

There I am on a bright sunny day, fishing and picking up some Fel Iron Ore. I had just recently downloaded Enchantrix, which I had never used. So I look at the ore and the enchantrix data says 17% chance of being prospected into blah blah blah. I'm like what? What is that? And I see that it mentions the two draenites, deep peridot, blood garnet... all those green gems I buy on the AH to do my diamond transmutes. Then all of a sudden a lightbulb goes off. What? Is ore turned into these gems? Kinda like how gear is disenchanted?

So I quickly whisper Jess to find out more. "Uh, yes, K" Jess replies. OMG (sorry Atania, no OMG warning there)! I knew that I never saw any ore nodes for these green gems. I think I just figured that there were places for them that only miners knew about, places that I just never came across. But I do fly around all of outland herbing... and still never saw any such nodes. Seriously, where did I think golden draenite came from? Did I think they just fell out of the sky? Or as Vel suggested, the golden draenite goose? It boggles my mind that I just now figured this out. (bonks forehead in total noobishness)

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An alternative way to farm mageweave and runecloth

Now perhaps you are like me and have an alt that is leveling up tailoring. Most of the cloth seems generally easy to get or buy, except for mageweave and runecloth. They are ridiculously expensive on my server. Now I think most people know that a really great place to farm mageweave is the ogres in Tanaris.

Well, here's an alternative. And yes, of course it involves fishing. Fishing the coasts of Feralas and Tanaris will get you bolts of cloth. Here is what I got during a 2.5 hour fishing expedition. I fished the floating wreckage pools as well as the pools of fish.

* 8 green items
* 40 BOLTS (yes, bolts) of mageweave
* 18 BOLTS of runecloth
* 69 thick leather
* 20 rugged leather
* 42 stonescale eel
* 75 firefin snapper
* 42 oily blackmouth
* 12 superior healing potion
* 16 greater mana potion
* 14 rumsey rum blacklabel
* 34 stranglekelp

When K was leveling up, she spent so much time fishing these pools, that Jess had to seriously do an intervention to make me stop fishing and get back to leveling. But with hauls like above, can you blame me?

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A closer look at Fel Lotus

Ah, the ever so beautiful Fel Lotus... let's take a closer look at this queen of all herbs, shall we? In exactly the past two weeks, I have picked 20 Fel Lotuses. I decided to track the zone and herb from which they were picked, to see if there was any method to this madness. Here's the last 20 I've picked (in the exact order).

* Terokkar: Dreaming Glory
* Zangarmarsh: Ragveil
* Netherstorm: Felweed
* Terokkar (Barrier Hills): Mana Thistle
* Zangarmarsh: Ragveil
* Hellfire Peninsula: Felweed
* Netherstorm: Dreaming Glory
* Zangarmarsh: Ragveil
* Netherstorm: Netherbloom
* Zangarmarsh: Ragveil
* Terokkar (Barrier Hills): Dreaming Glory
* Terokkar (Barrier Hills): Dreaming Glory
* Terokkar (Barrier Hills): Dreaming Glory
* Nagrand: Felweed
* Terokkar (Barrier Hills): Mana Thistle
* Terokkar: Dreaming Glory
* Nagrand: Felweed
* Netherstorm: Netherbloom
* Terokkar: Dreaming Glory
* Netherstorm: Dreaming Glory

So what does this tell us? Well I know that this is a small sample size and probably not statistically significant. However, it seems that for me my Fel Lotuses like to hide in the Barrier Hills, within Ragveil in Zangarmarsh, and within Dreaming Glory.

Disclaimer: I do little herbing in Hellfire Peninsula and Blade's Edge, and none in Shadowmoon Valley.

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Fashion time... lets talk bags

In real life, I have to admit that I have a somewhat unhealthy obsession with bags and shoes. I have more handbags than I should, but when you come across a beautiful white leather Marc Jacobs bag for over 50% off at an outlet store, you just don't say no. Well, maybe you do... but I don't. In WOW related news, the new patch notes that came out brought some new bag news.

There is a new 28 slot herb bag coming out, Mycah's Botanical Bag. I am currently running around with Satchel of Cenarius. with an Cenarion Herb Bag in my bank. so this will be nice.

It looks like Haris Pilton will also be offering a new bag, Gigantique Bag. So this Gigantique bag is a 22 slot bag that she sells for 1200g. I might have considered buying this bag, however here is what annoys me about the WOW bag system. Why do I have to continue carrying around the stupid ugly 16 slot backpack? If I have the money to be able to upgrade my bags, I should be able to get rid of the 16 slotter. I am much too fashionable for the ugly bag, plus I don't do backpacks... it wrinkles my cloak. Sigh.

Secondly, I think leatherworkers should be able to make more bags beyond leatherworking bags. I mean, think about it... the nicest bags in RL are leather! I would love to be able to ask my skinning/leatherworking friends Atania or Nio to go skin some crocs and make me a bag like above. /drool

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The WOW Economy... I don't get it

Does anyone else get seriously confused as to what kind of economic principle the WOW economy follows? It boggles my mind sometimes. I've mentioned before some of my reactions to it, including how it went crazy after patch 2.4 (my guess was that with all the new dailies, people had more money, so prices went up). What's odd is that I thought things would eventually stabilize, but it hasn't. I also found it odd that prices for green gems that I use to make my daily earthstorm diamond (shadow draenite, golden draenite, and deep peridot) skyrocketed even more than other items after patch 2.4. These gems used to sell for 50s each and were suddenly listed for 2-3g each! What in the world? Did all the miners die off or something? Or did they all go to some miners conference?

Prices for herbs also went up after 2.4, but they seem to have gone up even higher in the last couple of days. Just last night I am perusing the AH and I see a stack of terocone up for 73g (yes, seriously... 73g), a stack of felweed for 30g (a week ago you'd sell a stack for 12g or so), and not a single primal life up. I decided that the universe was telling me to go pick some purty flowers and I spent some time herbing.

I couldn't wait for my herbalist/alchemy sister Vel to log on so I could share the crazy news. The two of us get all excited and make sure to tell each other when the price for herbs or super mana or super healing potions are high or have no other sellers. She thinks that there may be some herbalism syndicate setting these crazy herb prices. A while later the two of us were in Hellfire and I cautioned Vel that she better not try to steal my felweed or that we would have to tustle. But hmmm a fire mage vs a pile a kindling. Not liking my odds too much there...

Vel also mentioned that she's had a lot more competition for herbs lately than before. And when she mentioned that, I realized that yes, I too have had to deal with a-holes who try to swoop down and steal the herb I'm already herbing. But wait... having more herbalists and more supply on the market should mean prices come down. So has demand for herbs gone up even more than supply? Did a bunch of previous herbalists/alchemists drop herbalism for tailoring or something?

So what's going on? Why have prices for primal life gone up (from what used to be 6g or so before the patch, to nearly 16-20g now) while the prices for primal earth and primal water don't seem to have changed that much? Are that many people switching professions to make that much of an impact on the economy? I don't get it.

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