Hello, been playin' WoW.
I like it a lot. Can't really say anything fresh about it, except this:
You can only have two primary trade skills, so I picked Mining and Skinning. Those you can use to gather stuff and sell to player crafters - and you make really decent money (more than enough to buy crafted goods you need).
With mining you get the ability to sense "nodes" in your area - and you just go mine em, just like in eq2. Skinning however, is different. After you kill and loot a beast, its body is still there. You rt click it again to "skin" it - and these pieces of leather are what is used by tailors and others to make stuff.
Anyway, came into a major city w/ a buncha copper ore - went to the Auction House (and the AH is SOOOO nice - just set it and forget it, as the turkey roastin man says on TV) and saw that "copper bars" were what players wanna buy. Well, w/ the mining skill, I noticed I got a button for "smelting". So I went to the big forge (it's huge - 100 foot tall plumes of cascading molten metal) - and opened the window thinking "oh crud, this will take years - I have 48 copper ores - if I have to spend a minute on each one...."
But no! There was a "create all" button. Took a minute or two, and I had 48 copper bars. Sold em in the AH for over one and a half gold!
But that "create all" button - wow - all I can say is these people read my mind. Sorry to all you who love to tradeskill, but after the shawl questin in old eq (which I quit before finishing - just too insane) - I'm a total burnout on crafting. But WoW's system is so nice. If you wanna spend hours crafting, that's cool. I understand. But I don't.
Well, have fun, people. I'm finally happy. No more angry gnome. GL all and good drops!