Adamantite Rifle

Greens follow a different leveling scheme than blues, and blues different than purples. A level 110 purple is much better than a 110 blue, while that blue is also much better than a 110 green. Not wowhead.com's design. http://www.wowwiki.com/Item_level

For anyone using this stupid gun to level Outland Engineering:

It took me 17 Adamantite Rifles to get from 69 to 70. Have fun.

Only real use is to level up engineering, one of the cheapest things from 355-365/370, not sure when they turn gray.

The only problem with leveling up with these is that many people do it, which floods the AH so badly that they don't sell unless you undercut by a large amount. Currently on my server there are over 20 and I haven't started making mine yet.

The main downside to this gun is that it's so quickly replaced that you can't hardly sell it!
The matts needed to make it are more than what you'll be selling it for.
On the other side, however, you can pick one up cheaply on the AH if you're looking for one.

and it doesnt require level 70 if you can organise a summon up there

This is a common versioning system that 99% of the software developers use. It allows you to push out more than 10 minor versions per major version. So, it's not Blizzard's system nor is it a "bad" system. :)

Making a field repair bot 110g works too.

Creating these til 370 is MUCH cheaper than Repair Bots, though not nearly as useful. On my server, the repair bot materials average about 70g, whereas this is roughly 25g, and also much easier to farm for.

Much better way to level up is the Repair Bot 110g. compairing: Adamantite Rifle: Adamantite Bars x 8 ~16g Primal Earths x 2 ~10g Fel Iron Bolts x4 = 2g vendor Yields: disenchant +- 5g average total loss = ~25g per attempt (green at 370) vs Adamantite Bars x 8 ~16g Khorium Power Core x1 Khorium Bar x3 ~10g Primal Fire x1 ~20g Fel Iron Bolts x8 =4g from vendors Yields: either a very useful raiding tool, or about POSITIVE 25 gold from AH--- yeah make money selling them. Also, repair bot is red until 370 and then yellow, so you are very likely to skill up

My $0.02 on Luciferhawke's #2: Khorium Ore may be harder to come by, but on my server, stacks or Khorium Bars are selling for 80g-90g, which is pretty darn cheap. Much easier to sell 3 or 4 stacks of Adamantite Ore and buy 1 stack of Khorium Bars then to farm them yourself.

Sold by Viggz Shinesparked, a goblin, where the rest of the vendors are.in Shattrath.

Yes these are very cheap to level up Engineering on, but be prepared to make a lot of them.

I started making them at 368. I finally reached 375 after my 18th rifle made.

I'll do the same thing with these that I do with all the greens I'm getting from the Shattered Suns daily quests, which is disenchant them. My Tailor needs a steady supply of Arcane Dust these days, so it works out well for me. Besides, it wouldn't be the first time I took a hit to get a skill bump.

can't agree with this. 2 things 1. Repair bot schematic requires you to be level 70(68 for druids) Doesn't help if you want 375 before 70. 2. Khorium is much harder to come by

If any new engineers are power leveling up for the mount, only make them up to 374. The normal flyer will give you the last point almost guaranteed.

This is a very good rifle for a level 69 rogue. if you want to stay 69 to farm the bg's for a bit, yet you enjoy going to redridge and executing gnomes with your gun, this has some high top end damage to aid in one shotting.

Wow, this is listed as a higher itemlevel than the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle. GG wowhead!

This DE's into 2 Greater Planar Essences generally.

Just wanted to point it it was 2.1, not 2.10. Blizzard has a bad system of going in order
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
Youd think 2 would be next, but noooooo
1.10
1.11
Then 2
2.1