Stank Industries

"TONI STANK BUILT THIS IN A CAVE! WITH SCRAPS!"

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"You know... this world is kind of pretty"

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"Hello, everyone!

Meet my NEWEST creation, straight out of Tinkertown, W.A.B.B.I.T.!

Weaponized Automaton Bunny Built in Trash!

Get it?! He's already SUPER STRONG! I watched him mercilessly gut down a snow troll warrior! I mean, I hope he remains that way...

Or else it's going to be a baaaaad time for all involved..."

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"Hello, everyone on the Stank Industries line!"

"My name is Edelrin Highgrove! I've been a part of the company for a few days now but I'm excited to get to work!

My first assignment is out in Tinkertown! I have no idea what it will entail, nor what to expect being a member of the Stank Industries team! I can't wait to meet everyone-- Oh? I'm not supposed to talk about my involvement?

And I refer to myself as employee #00135... got it... Okay! One day I'll earn my name then!"

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Upcoming content

Well! I've gotten most of the classic recipes now! It's time for this author to set their sights higher!

That being said, I'm gonna start adding content related to this character here on this blog. So expect to see some screenshots, art, and otherwise of Employee #000135!

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A continuing conundrum.

So far, I'm not having much luck within the confines of the challenge regarding soloing dungeons. Being a hunter is making this quite difficult. I've asked for help from several different experts on the class itself and still find the crawl to be...

Beyond rough...

Part of the problem lies with the fact that mechanical pets can only be Cunning pets despite many of them being different creatures (like A-Me 2). I'm still trying to figure my way around this issue, if there even *is* a solution...

But I recently joined the Zone Locked community and so far, it's fairly friendly. A few offered to help me out, give me pointers, and run the dungeon with me. If I can get help consistently, then perhaps that's just the route I go.

But what happens when I get to later expansions? Who knows!

I can always revise the confines of the challenge to make the impossible... possible. Why not, right?

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From the Gorge to the Hive!

Whew! So, the low down:

I got to level 30 by gathering around and exploring different regions as needed to level engineering. I stopped my leveling and then my journey first took me all around Hillsbrad, then to Feralas, and finally landed me in Searing Gorge.

I'm realizing that soloing these dungeons is gonna be a little tricky as a Hunter...

So far, very few trinkets have dropped from quests and the ones I do find aren't all that helpful. I did get an epic necklace from the Thorium Brotherhood.... Maybe I could write a story about that.

But there was so much Mithril in Searing Gorge that, by the end of the quest, I was able to power all the way to 250 engineering. It's wild what a little side-tracking can do.

After that, I realized I get to go back to an old mysterious zone I've always weirdly enjoyed: Silithus. I mined enough Thorium to dream about it but it still wasn't enough to get me to 300. A little disappointing but I need to quest around in that den of evil anyway.

So after I get to 30, the next step is figuring out what I can do to solo easier. My pet can only take so much. But there's GOT to be a way to do it.

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Progress thus far

So in the two days I've been off and on playing for this challenge, I've gotten to 130 engineering and level 28.

As my challenge states, I'm gonna have to wait until I get a mount, but so far I've been enjoying running around the Eastern Kingdoms. So much so, I ended up finishing up the Wetlands story.

Playing as Survival Hunter is interesting and W.A.B.B.I.T. seems to be tanking semi-well. I'm a little worried about soloing dungeons to get some of my schematics but it shouldn't be too bad. If all else fails, I'll go on an adventure to be the strongest level 30 twink for this challenge.

My only worries are... should I go Goblin or Gnome? Both have neat stuff and fit The Lore™.

Speaking of, I'll post more lore stuff regarding Stank Industries and Edelrin's adventure in the future. Maybe. This is all in good fun anyway.

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"Are you looking to start your career as an engineer? Perhaps you want to start your own business? YEAH RIGHT! Either way, get yourself some standard issue FLYING TIGER GOGGLES! Protect your eyes from flying pieces of sheet metal as a future employee of STANK INDUSTRIES!"

"Warning: Stank Industries is not liable for any damages, injuries, or any possible death related incidents while wearing Flying Tiger Goggles."

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This is Edelrin and her brand new pet bunny, W.A.B.B.I.T.

They're about to go on an adventure!

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Purpose of this blog

Hey, everyone!

I'm doing a challenge, where I have to tackle each expansion's engineering in order! I have several rules for myself, which I will post down below. I wanted to share this because I wanted to share another silly way to play WoW and I really don't have an active guild to share this with.

So if anyone wants to try it with me, here are the goals and rules:

The goal is to get engineering to max in every expansion on one character and get most, if not all the recipes that I can.

Level lock per expansion

Classic, BC, and Wrath, level 30

Cataclysm + Pandaria, level 35

Warlords of Draenor, level 40

Legion, level 45

Battle for Azeroth, level 50

Shadowlands, level 60

Dragonflight, 70

No AH unless:

Non-mining mats

A recipe that has an absurdly low drop-rate

Mounts and pets have to be obtained through engineering

Hunters can ONLY use mechanical pets

If not Goblin or Gnome, can buy the Mecha-bond Imprint Matrix pre-challenge

No using dungeon finder/raid finder

Because engineering is expensive and so is transmog, 1k gold is allowed from main account.

This isn't meant to be a soul crushing challenge. Just one to make unlocking engineering more fun. It's loosely based off of Lord Knabble's "Zone Locked" challenge but with a little less restrictions to adapt to this idea and keep my sanity.

If people are interested, I can post updates of my adventure and share some of the challenges I faced! If anyone wants to join me, hit me up here.

Pictures of my elf coming soon. <3