It's That Time (is money friend): Goblin -or- Gnomish Engineering

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Hey everyone,

I am hoping to make a more solid decision before I head home from work today, and I need your input! I have a few questions where the answers online seem to be conflicting with each other.

  • Can you retrain the Gnomish/Goblin part of the profession, or do you have to drop Engineering entirely?
    -If yes above, I won’t be doing that for a while.

  • So then, should I go Gnomish or Goblin? Why?

I think I’m leaning towards Gnomish because I’m a Rogue. The attack speed buff from the pet is great, and Death ray is great too in PvP. I’ll be PvE’ing quite a bit, however I love PvP a lot as well.

Then I continue to think further and begin to lean towards Goblin for those Sapper Charges. It’s fantastic damage. I think late into Classic’s life, I won’t be using the the death ray as much as I’ll have better trinkets.

Help? Thanks everyone!

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Goblin rocket boots are better than the gnomish ones.

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Gnomish has 30 minute cooldown, doesn’t break, Goblin has 5 minute cooldown, can break.

Do they go faster than one another? I remember they didn’t.

(ps thanks for the reply!)

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Gnomish is regarded as a PvE styled track and Goblin is usually more PvP gadgets.

I would think whatever you pick, you’d be happy with as long as you have the intentions of knowing what you’ll get out of it.

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Not sure if I’m remembering correctly but I think the sappers were BOE so even if you went gnomish you could use them, you just can’t make them.

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You’re right, they are BOE.

Hmm…

The list I see that’s BOP for Goblin isn’t nearly as good as Gnomish. I guess it’s coming to a convenient factor if I am Goblin to make the Sappers.

Edit; I guess I came to the conclusion to get Gnomish. Something I read intrigued me about the Battle chicken. It can detect stealth. Not sure if that’s a private server bug, or intended, but worth finding out.

I’ll revisit this in the future and let you guys know.

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Im just gonna get death ray and net. then retrain as goblin. I hve plenty of mats so shouldnt be bad

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In Vanilla, you had to drop engineering entirely to retrain if you wanted to switch specialization. I believe switching specialization for engineering was introduced in a later expansion.

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Thank you for clarifying, it’s good to read that here.

Other forums have a mix of this and otherwise.

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