So, if someone wants to use the public crafting orders as Alchemy, why would you spec into Flasks when the only things you can make are for gathering stats? Literally nobody is going to want these, not the least of which being because the materials to craft these are worth way more than the flasks.
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Finesse: You have a x% chance to gather more of the primary reagent found here.
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Deftness: Increases your gathering speed.
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Perception: Increases your ability to spot rare reagents while gathering.
It seriously boggles my mind, it’s like Blizzard didn’t want Alchemy to use public crafting.
Everything about Alchemy right now just feels like they said screw it. Public orders for the flasks are useless. No one ever needs or wants them. Other professions have items that are not BOP that they can craft using the system, but not alchemy where it would maybe make sense that people would have their own herbs…
Hell, every couple days I open up my alchemy again thinking maybe I’m just taking crazy pills, but I swear nothing I craft is worth more than the material costs. I’m convinced most of the auctions for potions are folks just crafting at a loss testing to see if maybe they can make some gold this week hoping for hidden changes.
I randomly got a bunch of public orders one evening for some Perception phials, but I figure the guy realised they weren’t worth it and never heard from him again.
I definitely agree that the overall Alchemy design - for crafting orders especially - is a little out to sea. Deftness, Perception, and Finesse phials just aren’t impressive enough to warrant going out of your way for them. At the very least, they aren’t impressive enough to seem impressive enough, which is the most important factor for orders.
Deftness probably has some value at a certain percentage, but how much less than half a second per node does a player actually need? Finesse also has value, but, with Perception, it seems like a stat that devs would want contained below the threshold where it’s actually feels worthwhile. Of the three, Perception is likely the most valuable, but, perhaps ironically, its value is imperceptibly low.
Allowing for more phials and potions to be BoP and allowing non-Alchemists to spend their own mettle on BoP Alchemy orders seem like the no-brainer bits of review the profession needs. Having the product economy for Alchemy specifically mostly uncorked just leaves so many of the recipes and crafting stats feeling like throwaway investments.
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perception…It’s for fishing, and so worth it…best way to get recipes in a bottle…
However, there should be crafting orders available for all alchemy DF phials and potions…
Crafting orders would be great if ALL crafted items were on the crafting order table index, from all expansions…with sort by expansion…everything craftable should be able to be order via work order imo…everything.
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Crafting orders, for public at least, is just a dud in my opinion.
They went all in on some crazy mats sometimes, people needing to gather 'em up and then everyone seemingly wanting the best thing.
I wish they just kept with the regular AH and let crafting orders be a small thing for some end game crafts that would be BoP, not the mess we got.
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this would make to much sense
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