Minor Engineering notes

I don't know if this is just an Alliance quest, but there is a quest that requires an Engineering crafted item, called a Hair Trigger. (Actually, the schematic calls it an Explosive Trigger, but the resultant item is a Hair Trigger. WTG, Blizzard.)

Anyway, this item can be made by anyone with 375 Engineering (the maximum skill you can get to with Burning Crusade). Unfortunately, to make this item requires a component that can only be gotten by having 450 Mining. (WTG, Blizzard.)

And I don't know how I feel about this, but there are mobs that can be "mined" for Engineering skill increases. (Okay, that is a presumption on my part, because Blizzard hasn't seen fit to put the Engineering Trainer in Valliance Keep. It is instead in Dalaran, which currently requires you to be 74th level to enter, unless you're a Mage (71st level) or are portaled in by a Mage.) Much like you can currently mine dead Earth Elementals, in say, Nagrand, and sometimes get Motes of Earth, there are mechanical creatures in Borean Tundra that you can mine and get Engineering components. I've managed to get a few useful components, including the aforementioned Hair Trigger, and the latest in high tech... bolts. Yep. A Handful of Cobalt Bolts.

Goddamn it Blizzard.

confuzzled

Okay, for someone who eats more of the green leafy stuff then I do...

When did black olives become a staple of chef salads?