1. The recipes that grant skillpoints are hugely expensive in materials required.

2. It’s a lot of ore, and farming ore without epic flight sucks. Even if you find it on the radar, people will swoop in and nab it before you get there.

The second reason is mainly the one that’s been causing problems. I’ve just been making the occasional repair bot here and there (guaranteed skillpoint, yay), but really not making any progress. I mean, the only real reason to hit 375 was the epic flying machine, and I was nowhere near the amount of gold needed for epic flight.

Then the other day my girlfriend just dropped the gold in my lap for epic flight. Isn’t she awesome?

Of course, the first thing I did with epic flight was the Blade’s Edge Cave Run. I mean, that’s pretty much the test drive for an epic mount. *grin*

Second thing I did on the list was go farm for ore.

Holy. Crap.

I kid you not, in just a few hours I farmed up an insane amount of ore. Adamantite, Fel Iron, even a Khorium vein or two! I gleefully scurried off to the forge to smelt my ore, then took a good look at my engineering plans to see what I could use to skill up.

Hmmm. Adamantite Rifle looks pretty good! Not many materials, and it’s yellow.

Made one. No skill point. Nekkid cow frowns.
Made two. No skill point. Nekkid cow swears.

Clearly that brilliant plan wasn’t going to work, so I went for plan b – Repair Bots! A bit of Khorium from the auction house, the theft of a few primal fire from my druid…

Tada! 375 engineering, and it only took eight repair bots.

My raid will never be unrepaired again!