So, I was a 300lvl Gnomish Engineer. Went Blacksmithing, for reasons unknown. Anyway, I have re-leveled my ENG to 201 at the moment, and have found the soothsaying for Dummies book.
I want to go Goblin, to make use of a few items there, and then switch back to Gnomish. When I switch back, will I have to re-lvl ENG to 200 again, or can I just come here to the book?
You have to redo engineering completely.
I was afraid that was going to be the answer.
Thanks.
you are also doing it backwards. Goblin items are better but prone to breaking. Level gnomish first to get the reliable items then level goblin for the better items and the ability to repair them.
It also depends where you want your teleporter. Some of us would much rather have a Tanaris port than a Winterspring one, so we stay Gnomish.
Yeah i stayed gnomish and just leveled goblin eng on a different character. It’s not like engineering is hard to level or even costs that much. There’s no added benefit to doing it on one character over just leveling the opposite on another unless the transport is your main focus.
you two are missing the point. He is saying he wants to level goblin then relevel it as gnomish. There is zero point in doing that except to waste gold since you can just buy all the goblin toys and use them anyway and toss them when they break I guess.
Hey is this really true?
I ask as a genuine question.
If you have to re-level it, then why does that book exist?
To choose specialization again
Flying by the seat of my pants here can’t rember for sure, but I think it was used in TBC to switch specializations. In Vanilla there was no way other than completely dropping engineering and reskilling.
Are we certain about that?
The book does exist in classic and it existed in Vanilla.
I THINK (could be wrong), that it does still work in vanilla/classic.
I think that’s why it’s there.
You drop, level again to 200+ and then use the book to choose specialization
Thank you.
That still doesn’t make any sense.
If you drop the profession, then why would you need a book to choose a new specialization after re-leveling it?
Wouldn’t you just choose the specialization normally from the appropriate NPCs?
I have a sneaking suspicion that people are wrong about this and/or don’t know how to do this, and many people may POSSIBLY have leveled engineering 2x when they did not have to.
My guess is because specializations are quests, and probably not flagged repeatable. So you have to use the book to choose, or something to that effect anyway.
Could well be. But think of it like this. Suppose I’m a blacksmith. I go, say, swords. Then I drop and and re-level, to go, say, armor.
Why is there no other such tome for any other profession?
No, you dont
That is correct
But why not? That doesn’t make sense and no other profession that has specializations works like that.
Because that’s how it’s done in classic.