How to Make a Wormhole

First, I want to thank all you guys who left comments about the new Engineering changes that were published yesterday.  I spent most of Monday at airports and on planes, so I was unaware that new tradeskill changes had occurred.  From what I've seen, Engineers are rejoicing at all the new toys coming their way and I certainly don't blame them.  Patch 3.2 looks to be the patch that us tinkers were waiting for :)

There are a number of things to be excited about, but the top ones for me would have to be Jeeves and the Wormhole.  Jeeves may require a bit more effort on my part, but I was hoping the Wormhole would be easily acquired.  So earlier today I went ahead and copied my Engineer to the PTR for testing.  Thankfully I was right - the recipe for the Wormhole is available from the trainer in Dalaran:



Of course the description here is pretty cryptic, so as soon as I found the recipe I knew I had to make one and test it.  Between my engineer and jewelcrafter I was able to cobble together the various eternals and the titanium.  The only thing left is to test... here is my first Wormhole created right inside the Engineering shop:



Neat, huh?  I was kinda tickled that it looked like a mage portal, I wasn't really sure what to expect from it.  Next, I clicked it to see where it would take me:



I thought it might possibly just transport me to a random location - you never know with these kooky engineers.  But it just gave me a menu of choices to wherever I wanted to go.  This list seemed a tad random, but I was willing to go with the flow.  Anything with options is an improvement over the transporter trinkets of the past, amirite??

Since my engineer is only level 75, I opted not to go anywhere out of her league like Storm Peaks.  Instead I settled on a safe place like Howling Fjord.  Surely I can't get into any trouble there:

Oops!  Clearly I was wrong to underestimate the mischief potential of those pesky engineers!!  This is me stuck on a small ledge, somewhere near the top of Utgarde Keep.  I was so high up that I couldn't see any actual ground, just fog.  And as I mentioned, I'm only level 75 so it's not like I can just fly away from this spot.  Luckily an engineer such as myself is always prepared for emergencies... my hearth was available.  So I used it to get back to Dalaran and safety.

Moral of the story: this thing can malfunction - so make sure you have a backup plan.  Although I suppose you could argue that it did function, just didn't give a result that was particularly useful to me.  Use at your own risk =)