World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 10 | Page 24

ARTICLE

24 // World of Warcraft Community Magazine

PERFECTING IMPERFECTION:
ENGINEERING - IT’S COOL STUFF
E

By Sam Wheatly

ngineering: How Blizzard

my favourite profession.

rocks; Engineering gives you

took the fantasy tropes of

Sure, most of the devices are

god damned teleporters, rocket

generations and thought “You

gimmicky, expensive to make

launchers, and universal remote

know what? I think we can

and become useless after you

controls. So, we’re just going to

improve on it.” Which is actually

go up ten levels, but while other

go over a few devices that I love to

how engineering works generally

professions may give you valuable

spend hours gathering resources

now that I think about it.

resources for the Auction House,

for so I can just open my inventory

Well, Engineering is definitely

superior armour, or pretty

and stare at them with glee.
Ah, the mount that changed
the game back in the Lich King
days: The Mekgineer’s Chopper!
(That’s a Mechano-Hog if you’re a
member of the filthy Horde), the
first two seater mount before the
encroaching swarm of Recruita-Friend mounts. And no, the
Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth
doesn’t count because that was
a THREE seater mount, do your
research. Now sure, I didn’t
have any friends to ride with me,
but who needed friends when
you had a roaring motorcycle
underneath you. Even with the
flying two-seaters, this is still
my favourite friendly-mount,
especially with the no-fly zones.
The schematic for it can be

The GameOn Magazine