So, I’ve been leveling enchanting on Elisse just to have one, because hell, I’ve never had a high level enchanter.

I’ve realised this was a bad decision.

No, not that enchanting doesn’t make any money.

It’s more the level of self-whoring involved in making said gold, and the amount of stupid people an enchanter has to put up with. I never knew there were such varying levels of stupid involving enchanting.

You get the “can you enchant my legs/shoulders/helm” people. This is the mildest stupid you can put up with, and they usually go away after I explain. Bonus points if I can link my tailoring and convince them to pay me mats + 10g for a leg patch.

You get the “come to whatever obscure city I’m in, do this enchant that no longer gives you any skill points, and don’t charge me for it” people.

No really. People invite you to groups, and expect you to leg it to whatever city they are. They don’t even say anything.

*group invite*
*5 minutes pass*
“Come on, hurry up, aren’t you coming?”

People seem to have it the wrong way. YOU go to crafters, not the other damn way around. If you make me come to you, I’ll charge you, skill point or not.

Do you ask the drugstore clerk to come to your house to bring you your stuff, and not charge you for it? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Then there’s the trend that some retarded crafter at one point of time has dreamt of starting, that has ruined the entire economy of crafting, but mostly enchanting.

Yes, it’s the “no fee with your mats” trend. And then there’s its doubly retarded sister, “I pay you if I skill up”.

What next? How about doing it with your mats for free? And pay the customer on top of that?

You roll professions to make gold from them, not to encourage the entitlement mentality of 12 year olds.

What this has accomplished is that now 90% of customers expect every enchanter to not charge, regardless of the enchant’s skill level. Yup, just have mats, expect the enchanter to come to you, and spam trade wondering why she isn’t trading on her end. It’s not at all like this profession cost any money to level.

A thankfully smaller percentage expect payment for themselves, because their mats that cost all of 20g on the auction house just made me get a skill-up.  A SKILL-UP, FOLKS. ALERT THE PRESSES.

On my second day of being above 350, I just paid a scribe to make me two stacks of Armor Vellum, and got a hold of a scribe friend for a stack of Weapon Vellum.

What I’ve learned is that you can sell scrolls of certain enchants on AH for twice the mats’ cost. That’s 30ish gold profit per scroll. Which happens to be triple what I charge per enchant.

Peddling self in trade for 10g per enchant, and the occasional skill point if I’m lucky?

What’s that?

Sometimes I really don’t understand people.

Take, for example, the people who queue for AV at 5 in the morning in my battlegroup.

I was in a series of about five matches where literally everyone turtled.

Everyone.

Imagine getting into the match, and ten minutes later looking at the scoreboard to see only Galv and Balinda are dead, with zero towers/graveyards contested. That kind of match. For reference, the average 61-70 AV in my battlegroup lasts 13 to 15 minutes with about 300-350 honor for both sides upon ending.

The entire Alliance was bottlenecking near Icewing and Horde at Iceblood, and anyone who tried to get past got dismounted and killed in short order. I tried to stealth past, but considering a LEVEL 9 GNOME saw through my stealth in Ironforge the other week… argh, don’t remind me. Still have no idea how that happened. I’m saying screw Thick Hide and respeccing into Feral Instinct. Anyway. I couldn’t get past. No one could get past. I eventually just gave up and joined the mindless killing group near Iceblood. Ressing, healing, dying, ressing, healing, dying over and over again. I think someone eventually won via reinforcements around 45 minutes later.

Why, oh why, would you join a battleground and insist on not achieving objectives? This is AV, it isn’t exactly world PvP.

And then there’s the people who yell “noobs go cap db bunkers lolololololkekbur you suck l2p” while farming HKs midfield, the people who dismount and chase you across the field (I had a moonkin chase me literally from Iceblood to Stormpike, he could probably have gotten 5 other HKs during that time with a lot less effort… but who knows what makes people tick, really), the people who put an entire set of dots on you while you’re riding past and collect their free HKs 18 seconds later, the people who cap a bunker and walk straight out while you just know that 20 seconds later you’ll read “The Whatever Bunker was taken by the Alliance!” in your chatbox…

…and of course the people with the retarded AFK mods reporting the entire battleground AFK.

Seriously. This deserves its own post. Because it’s maddening. In the aforementioned series of terrible AVs, there were quite a few of those reporting basically everyone AFK. Sort of like crazy old ladies eavesdropping on their neighbors and calling the police on every little noise they hear. Needed a bathroom break, took a couple minutes to get a drink? Reported. Did you stand still for more than a minute? Reported. God forbid, you’re stuck defending a bunker or a graveyard? Who cares, reported anyway, report them all and let Blizzard sort them out.

In those couple of matches, basically the entire defense consisted of a series of pink dots until they started begging in /bg for whoever was reporting them to stop reporting, because they were trying to defend. And still it didn’t stop. Those weren’t people in the cave, either – they were people in Frostwolf Keep who were recapping the towers and Relief. People who, you know, had to not do anything for a few minutes while Alliance regrouped for their next attack.

In one match I ran with the pack to Icewing, helped these two warriors cap it – then two mages came and we put up one hell of a fight, but the warriors were really poorly geared and couldn’t nail the mages before they got me. So I ressed at Snowfall and thought ugh, the run to Dun Baldar, I’ll just go grab a snack and come back. Raided the fridge, came back with a plate, and what do I see? Reported, and this one guy has spamwhispered me with “leecher”.

…wait, this is the warrior I just healed in Icewing….

/facepalm

What’s horrible is that you run into some battleground Nazis who think people should just AFK out if they need to go to the bathroom/grab a drink/take a phone call. I was reading a thread in the official forums awhile back, who suggested you should do just that. “If you are AFK for even 10 seconds, you are not putting 100% in the battleground and should be replaced with someone who should!”. Because battlegrounds = srs bznss. I wonder if these people regularly leave their raidgroups too because they need to respond to the call of nature. “Sorry guys, need to go to the bathroom, please invite someone else who can give the raid their 100% instead!” Oh wait…

My suggestion is to ban the use of any and all mods who auto-report people. While I agree that sometimes leeching gets out of hand (hello botters who botted their way to full S1 and nonset epics), this self-righteous reporting does, too. When your defense needs to speak up and say “hey don’t report us please, we are defending here” when it’s crystal clear they are defending, there’s something wrong right there. Everyone gets the occasional Inactive debuff – sometimes because they really deserved it, sometimes because they had to hit the bathroom/kitchen and some no-lifer with an itchy reporting finger decided they had to be reported for that. There needs to be a distinction.

Most importantly, there needs to be less stupid people. That would solve the problem all by itself, guaranteed.

In other news: Starlet landed herself a Light’s Justice along with the Moroes offhand tonight, and finally had enough honor to buy the S3 boots. Seeing a ~100 healing boost in one night is pretty sweet – 15 badges short of the PvP cloak, too.

Already bought all the mats for Boar’s Speed and most of the mats for a 81 healing enchant, though, and ended up spending around 300g on enchants in one night, which does not amuse me. Because lately I’ve just been spending like mad with no attempt to make it back. SSO dailies with a resto druid = Q_Q of the highest degree. Simply unpossible unless I manage to drag Zilli there with me. I haven’t even specialised Starlet’s alchemy yet (multiple BM runs, just ugh) so I can’t proc flasks to make some money. Dailies have killed crafting, anyway.