Time to dust off the old pickpocket macro?

I don’t visit the official WoW forums that often; there’s just too much noise. However, I read this thread from cover to cover. Surma, a rogue on the Maelstrom US realm, has looted an epic thrown weapon that has never been seen before. It’s called Spinesever and its stats bring tears to my eyes.

Now, the item in itself is awesome, no doubt, and it can be yours for 4999g. However, the real kicker is this: Surma claims that he found the item in a junkbox that he pickpocketed from a mob in Shadowmoon Valley. Please, read the last sentence again and let it sink in.

Surma could be making the pickpocketing part up, of course, even though the item itself has been confirmed. So, is this a hoax, a bug or a patch 2.3 buff to pickpocketing? No one outside of Blizzard knows at this point, but the latter would be very interesting indeed. I haven’t bothered with pickpocketing for a very long time, and with Blinding Powder no longer needed, I can’t see why I’d ever do it again. A chance, however small, of epic world drops inside junkboxes could change that very quickly.

Daily cooking in patch 2.3

I started doing the daily cooking quests yesterday when patch 2.3 went live in Europe. The quests are given out by The Rokk in Shattrath’s Lower City. So far I’ve gotten the Revenge is Tasty quest twice. Take that, Monstrous Kaliri! The hunter has become the hunted *maniacal laughter*.

The quest reward is a selection of random cooking supplies, that might include a new recipe. Today I was lucky enough to receive the Spicy Hot Tolbuk recipe. I actually expected that I would need to do the cooking dailies for a long time to get it, but either it was just dumb luck or the drop rate is not that bad after all.

These boots are made for, uhm, kicking butt?

I just picked up the pattern for Boots of Utter Darkness from the Auction House. At 950g I probably paid too much. It’s a pretty rare pattern, however, and I really want the boots, so I plunked down the cash anyway. Now I just need the two Primal Nethers required and an enchanter who can put Surefooted on the boots, and I’ll be good to go.

What’s cooking?

The last couple of days I’ve been working on my cooking skill. Why? Glad you asked! Cooking is a profession that I haven’t been paying much attention to up until now. Some of the Burning Crusade buff foods like Ravager Dog (+ 40 Attack Power bonus) and Warp Burger (+ 20 Agility bonus) are definitely appealing, but other things were always higher up on my list of things to do.

That has changed, however, because of one particular recipe, which will become available with the soon to go live patch 2.3: Spicy Hot Talbuk (+20 Hit Rating bonus). This is the first recipe with a Hit Rating well fed bonus, which is a big deal for raiding melee classes who are lacking in the Hit Rating department. The recipe is a reward from the daily cooking quests that are coming in patch 2.3. More information is available at Kaliope’s.