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I'm a leatherworker, 290 skill, with precious few orange recipes to work with. Then I noticed that my winterveil Winter Boots recipe was orange. So I faffed about half the morning collecting bolts of woollen cloth and copper bars, hunted down sufficient rugged leather for 5 sets and bought the rune thread I would need.

None of the 5 sets gave me a skill up. I thought this was odd, so I opened a GM ticket. They responded by ingame mail while I was briefly AFK, telling me it was an issue with a custom user interface. That's nonsense, surely - so I opened another ticket to tell them so. This one got an ingame mail response while I was having my lunch - this time, they claimed that orange recipes do not always give a skill up.

What then is the point of the grey/green/yellow/orange listings? More to the point, every orange recipe I made before the boots gave a skill up, the few I've made since all gave a skill up.

Are they just feeding me a line because it's a busy saturday and I might shut up and go away? I realise that, if there is a small percentage chance of not getting skill up from an orange recipe then it is not beyond possibility that that could happen 5 times in a row, coincidentally on the same recipe, but not before or after (coincidentally on different recipes). I'm not so inclined to believe that is the case, though.

By the way, the boots vend for 1copper, have no stats and cant be DE'd - I doubt I can find a player market for them either. If you were considering making some, my advice is: don't.

EDIT: I just reread the skills FAQ sticky. This site seems convinced orange=100% skillup...as am I, from experience.
EDIT: just had a futile conversation with a gm, who denied treating me like an idiot because he never used the word 'idiot'. Someone should change the sticky, since the Word of Blizzard is that orange does not equal 100% skill up.

Edited, Jan 19th 2008 11:01am by jiggeryqua

Edited, Jan 19th 2008 11:33am by jiggeryqua

Maybe not - but why then make them appear orange? It's downright deceitful.

Sounds like a bug to me, and Anobix is right event items are not supposed to give skillups.


P.S: You dont know Dilbrt? Lololololololol.

Game mechanic explination: In warcraft, professions have a skill level. In order to learn additional crafts, you must have the correct skill level in the profession. What I meant was, for instance, if the recipe required you to be 100 in that profession, that you were probably barely 100, so it showed orange. If the skill required 100 and you were, say 300, the skill would be grey. There's no need to get an attitude with me just because you can't comprehend what I'm saying.

There was a bug in the event as my GL made boots and got skill ups, and they fixed it quickly and I never got a skill up. I do not know about the color thing, it was hard to say a level of the boots, but we were both over 300 LW

Sometimes I wonder the same...

I must say, we appear to be getting quite a few new posters in the last few days that are asking a question, meeting some Allakhazam people, and flaming away at the answers.

I've downgraded my filters to see Sub-Default. The comedy value is wonderful.

Perhaps someone should sticky Flea's opening post? That seemed a good example of how to meet friends and influence people, or at least the correct way to deal with any Random Allakhazam "love"...

Quoted in agreement.

I have never failed to get a skill up on an orange item on trained pattern for the major crafting profs (LWing, Tailoring, Blacksmithing, Engineering, Herbalism, Enchanting). First Aid and gathering profs are a different story.