I have 3 different characters with different professions, I don’t have a lot of time to play on a daily basis and was really enthused to see the new profession system lets you keep empowering gear so you don’t feel too behind. So I am leveling, then I hit 60-70 on all my professions and there is nothing left to skill up on except for spark of ingenuity equipment? So, because I didn’t catch the initial wave in the first 2 weeks, I don’t have a chance in heck to level my skill any further until you unlock sparks? Why wouldn’t you have filler recipes?
You’re “supposed” to use your limited time to grind Renown with the various factions to get recipes they sell that would (in theory) get you to 100. This needs to be done on each character of course because Renown isn’t account wide. And of course those recipes are mostly for BOP items that also have somewhat ridiculous or incredibly expensive material requirements, so unless you can somehow find people to submit work orders you’ll end up spending tons of gold crafting stuff for yourself just to disenchant or vendor it…
My advice, unless you want to treat crafting like an in-game job, don’t bother.
Are there actual filler recipes? I thought they were all still like 50 skill.
Once you max out the stuff the trainer sells, your only other options are BOE recipes from the AH (or random drops), or getting renown with whichever factions sell recipes related to your profession.
If you look in your Unlearned recipes, each one has a little info section above the materials list telling you where to get it.
I generally peek at wowhead to get an idea of what recipes can skill up to what level. From the wowhead main page, hover over “Database”, then “Character”, then “Professions & Skills”, and finally your profession. It’ll bring up a page with all the recipes and their skillup ranges for yellow, green, and grey. You ignore the number next to the profession name (EX: “Blacksmithing (100)” ) because it is wrong for recipes that are learned via specialization or purchased from vendors, as they don’t have a skill requirement. The tooltip you get when you hover over the recipe will show the location of the pattern.
Here is Blacksmithing for exampe:
Notice that in this example for blacksmithing that Master’s Hammer and Khaz’gorite Blacksmith’s Toolbox both go to 100 before they grey out.
Also notice that on top of steep KP or renown requirements, many of these recipes are going to cost a pretty penny in mats, mettle, or both. To the point where while it’s technically possible to use them to level, it’s not really practical for many.
The system was obviously designed with the idea that crafters will be able to level up their profession by doing orders with mats provided by customers. It didn’t quite work out that way for a lot of people.