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Good news for those with engineering, PTR Patch notes were updated for the 3.3.3 PTR to make the non-combat Pet Bombling and Lil’ Smoky bind on equip.

This will give players another method to make gold with engineering as they can craft these and supply them on the AH for players who haven’t been able to pick them up before (as they were BoP and engineer only) or players seeking to buy them towards completing acheivements.

Also savvy players without engineering have a potential to profit from this change right now by buying and selling the materials required to craft these items or going out and farming/mining to be prepared to supply the AH for the incoming spike in demand.

Main Materials required

I am only including the trade good items that I’d suggest buying now and reselling once patch goes live.
Lil Smoky = 1 x Core of Earth 2x Mithril Bar and 1x Truesilver Bar

Pet Bombling = 1x Heart of Fire 6x Mithril Bar

Buy up these items at the current 100% market price (you have been scanning the AH with auctioneer consistently right?) these items should experience a big spike in demand once patch 3.3.3 goes live. I’ve already bought up 800g worth of mithril bars and added all the above items to my Auctioneer Snatch list. Buying and selling on the auction house is a major way I make gold and I learned this technique from WoW Schools Guide.

How To Get the Recipes

The way to acquire the recipe for both pets was changed in patch 3.1 when it used to be contained in Gnome Engineer’s Renewal Gift. The recipes are now BoP drops off of mobs located in Gnomeregan.

Schematic: Lil’ Smoky drops from three different mobs in the instance – Arcane Nullifier X-21, Peacekeeper Security Suit and Crowd Pummeler 9-60. The drop rate reported on wowhead is around 1-2% which seems low, but I think this is due to engineers only getting the drop which skews the numbers for non engineers who are looting.

Schematic: Pet Bombling drops off of the last boss in the zone Mekgineer Thermaplugg, although wowhead reports that the recipe is a 9% drop rate from the boss, I believe it is a 100% drop for engineers (those without engineering don’t see the drop when they loot which skews the numbers).

Getting to Gnomeregan

I believe these pets are going to sell for high amounts of gold in the first couple of days and not many players will have hte recipie, since it is quite the hassle to get it, especially for horde players, I decided to take some time and get the recipes myself.

Gnomeregan is located in Dun Morogh which is where the main city of Ironforge is located. Horde players will have a bit of a journey getting there but a very quick way to do so for us engineers is to pick up a quest from Sovik who is the engineering mats seller located in Orgrimmar (located next to engineer trainers near the blacksmith). He’ll give you a quest called Chief Engineer Scooty, go fly to rachett and take the boat to Booty Bay.

There you meet up with Scooty who will give you a Goblin Transponder that will allow you to teleport directly to Gnomeregan instantly every time you step on the teleporter behind him. Don’t worry this is completely safe and as he adjusts the teleporter for your weight, height and size

Time To Get Patterns

I recorded the time I entered the instance (12:28am) to see how long it’d take me to find the mobs and get all the recipes, and this was a tall task as I’ve never been to Gnomeregan (I think I wound up there accidently once doing the teleporter on a previous character). I used this map to get an idea of where I was going, I found Crowd Pummler 9-60 at the south side of the Engineering Labs area (#7 on the map), he didn’t drop it, I then travelled down the thin hallway on the left towards #6 and #5 and saw a lot of the Arcane Nullifier’s and Peacekeeper Security along the way.

At 12:51am (23 minutes into the run) I looted the Lil’ Smoky pattern from an Arcane Nullifier.

I continued down the hallway towards Thermaplugg, only took me 1 minute to reach him and took him down with ease. He dropped the Pet Bombling Schematic at 12:52am with a total time of 24 minutes invested to grab these 2 schematics.

I know the time may vary, especially to get the Lil’ Smoky pattern but I wouldn’t say it’d take you more than an hour to get.

Here was a helpful comment I found on WoWhead regarding their experience with the run as well:

It took me 5 resets. To better my chances I killed Crowd Pummeler 9-60s + Arcane Nullifier X-21s + the Peacekeeper Security Suits along the way. Taking the back door I turned left directly before the elevator. This leads to Pummeler (atlas helps). Then I continued that direction and took the first left which leads into the large circular room that lies before the tunnel to Thermaplugg – this is where i found the Peacekeeper Security Suits (only 1 or 2). Then i continued down the passageway to Thermaplugg, going up and down both sides of the ramp killing Arcane Nullifiers. It was tedious but i finally got it. Just keep trying and hopefully you are more lucky than i was! source

Good luck with making gold with this change, be sure to check out my full predictions on how you can profit from patch 3.3.3 changes.

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