I spent over 40 hours last week grinding uldaman in hopes of some blacksmithing BOE patterns, and didn’t get that many. I don’t see how it’s possible to obtain most classic patterns or gear, the AH prices are atrocious. One of them is like 259k for just that 1 item. Arcanite bars cost like 75k for 100… it’s really wild. I don’t see why they don’t make it more attainable. I’m honestly so bored of grinding I might quit tbh, it’s getting old, every little thing takes 300+ hours
Well, maybe try playing when the content is current?
“Just grind 20 years ago, man”
lol, I like you
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you’re likely gonna have to do the grind if you don’t wanna pay for the items instead. Went through it back in the day all the same.
Least constructive comment so far.
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Lots o stuff is unintainable now
You lookd everything up to see if it’s still getable?
Also it’s prolly really low drop chance so keep grinding
Sure. Those 10+ year olds were really able to keep up with that stuff 20 years ago. 
Ridiculous comment is ridiculous.
As for the OP… best you can do is create the mats yourself. Some old profession recipes were always rare or difficult to make. I’m not sure they’ll really change that. But it’s also a good idea to save up mats now, learn those professions, as we’ll need them for housing, too!
yep blacksmithing is going to be one of them
Mats are incredibly easy to farm and make with alts. Patterns are rng, so that can be rough. High prices for something like arcanite bars just makes you decide whether you’d rather spend time or gold.
Why can’t we have a collection event? i dont get why it has to be boring and agonizing
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Thats OG content, stuff dosent drop like retail lol
Step 1: Build a time machine.
I don’t even know what this means.
Personal problem.
Literally not what I said. I even mocked the person who implied that.
As a hardcore collector, I can tell you first hand that the design of Vanilla was to create (sic) 1000 items, only one of which you were ever actually supposed to make.
Since there was no large storage system, no xmog system, no real PRACTICAL means to collect things, you were only ever supposed to find any ONE of those thousand things, and make just that ONE thing.
The fact we now DO have a practical means to collect everything… make it insanely daunting. It really is hard to imagine just how much stuff they packed into Vanilla… until you try and craft it all. It feels like there is more just in Vanilla, there there has been in the next 10 expansions combined. It’s crazy!
Doing anything in Vanilla is all about small bites. You’ll burn out in a heartbeat if you try and do it all at once/ in a short time frame.
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