Engineering Pets - Part 2 - Yetis & Toads

© Fractalized Toad by Andy Mc on Flickr under CC Licence

In my previous post, I listed out all the materials required for the lowest level Engineering pets - the Mechanical Squirrel, Pet Bombling & Lil Smoky. This post is for the next two pets, the Tranquil Mechanical Yeti & the Lifelike Mechanical Toad - two very different creatures in many ways & two that I cannot make myself yet! Having a master list of materials is very useful though - I am buying the less common materials cheaply whenever I see them on the Auction House so once I have the plans, I can go into full scale production.

Tranquil Mechanical Yeti (Skill 250)

This schematic isn't quite as easy to get as the earlier pets but it is still not difficult either. Your engineer needs to be level 56 with a skill level of 250 to be able to see a quest given by Umi Rumplesnicker (I love that name btw!) called 'A Yeti of Your Own'. I won't go into the whole chain of quests required to see this quest as it is well explained on the Wowhead comments for the quest (link above).

Materials

1 Cured Rugged Hide
4 Thorium Widgets
2 Globe of Water
2 Truesilver Transformers
1 Gold Power Core

Thorium Widget = 3 Thorium Bar + 1 Runecloth

Truesilver Transformer = 2 Truesilver bar, 2 Elemental Earth & 1 Elemental Air

Gold Power Core = Gold bar (gives 3 power cores though)

Summary of Most Basic Raw Materials

1 Rugged Hide
1 Deeprock Salt
12 Thorium Ore
4 Runecloth
2 Globes of Water
4 Truesilver Ore
4 Elemental Earth
2 Elemental Air
1 Gold Ore

If you have problems obtaining Elemental Earth & Air, you can farm these easily from the Elementals in Silithus whilst farming for the expensive Essence of Air (always a good seller either 'raw' or as part of heirloom enchants for Agility weapons).

I also did a post recently on farming for Globes of Water although if you can get them off the Auction House, it will be much easier of course.

As I mentioned above, I don't have this schematic yet but checking The Undermine Journal for my server, I'm kicking myself for not leveling a bit faster! The average price is listed at about 2500 gold & with the materials cost for under 100 gold usually, I like that price for sure! There are also very few on the market. I'd guess not many have bothered with the quest chain so I'm adding that to my to-do list right now!

Lifelike Mechanical Toad (skill 265)

Now this is probably one of the rarest schematics in game - my only advice is to watch your Auction House & if you see the schematic for 10,000 gold or less, snap it up! I would perhaps be a little careful though, until the Pet Battles go live in Mists of Pandaria, I have no idea how the demand for a mechanical toad may change.

Personally I'd go for it but then I like to tinker with various markets & have a fair bit of cash tucked away, if you are a bit strapped for cash then I'd say proceed with caution on this one.  If you see this schematic for super cheap though - don't hesitate to snatch it up. There are many players like myself who are watching for it & will pay very good money for it so you will make nice profit just from selling the schematic.

Materials

1 Living Essence
4 Thorium Widgets
1 Gold Power Core
1 Rugged Leather

Thorium Widget = 3 Thorium Bar + 1 Runecloth

Gold Power Core = 1 Gold Bar (makes 3)

Summary of Most Basic Raw Materials

1 Living Essence (farming post coming soon!)
12 Thorium Ore
4 Runecloth
1 Gold Ore
1 Rugged Leather

What does The Undermine Journal say about my server? Well the average is 500 gold per pet but there are 2 players battling it out at the moment so recently the price has dropped to around 300 gold. The EU average is around 600 gold. As for the schematic? well that has an average price of over 17000 gold across the EU servers with only 1 seen on my server in the last 3 months or so.

Summary

Both these pets are fairly easy to get materials for & have good selling prices. If you can make either or both, you should have a constant income from sales of these pets. It may not be the largest income stream but as a steady sideline, I'd say go for it!