i think your lacking in the thinking department if you don’t realize that if public orders had minimum settings that it would almost completely invalidate private and guild orders
well that’s it guys. the solution to my car making bad toast is to not use my car to make toast.
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When you figure it out, we’ll be here.
thats your prerogative
Yes, but that’s honestly how most things work.
You can post something on the AH or offer a deal to a friend.
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But why would you ever want someone specific to do it when you can have anyone do a public order and get the same result, likely faster than waiting for a specific person to be available? Subjective personal reasons aside, there’d be no objective advantage to using personal orders if public orders had quality settings.
I’m sure you will be. Because while you gave up looking for a crafter instantly, you’re content to sit here and blame someone else all day.
Also: Answer is nothing. You went with an any-rank public order and got your item.
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The public order system is currently entirely wasted and useless outside of PvP gear for people who don’t care about PvE ilvl and for limited niche things like treatises that don’t have quality.
Nobody ever wants below quality 5 on any item with quality.
Quality limits on public orders would make crafting more accessible to a massive number of people. It would be a huge improvement. It’s also a simple change Blizzard can make easily at any time with little effort.
Ant-farm syndrome is the only reason we don’t already have public order quality limits.
Same but after 30 minutes discussing the topic and seeing the responses the only real solution is to stop caring and quit participating
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Ding ding ding! And here’s the argument for a pubic system. Pop it in the system, and someone will grab it. Like a store. No more spamming trade chat.
That’s a whole lot of excepts.
Mythic raiding is useless except for mythic raid guilds or heroic guilds that want to push a bit or pugs who want to do the first boss or two or for transmog hunters.
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woah woah woah. i don’t think anyone asked for… that
I already had it done. Not sure what you’re posting about. Re-read the thread, maybe?
thats not a good thing… remember this is an mmo and blizzard is trying to incentivize interactions
Public orders have a different use case than private orders.
Because it would handicap the way gear-crafting professions make their money and would diminish the social aspect of finding a crafter.
That is important in an MMO, I have a guy who does my Blacksmithing when I need it, I’m the Leatherworking guy for a small handful of people on Trade as well as in my guild, and I know a few people who do Tailoring and the like every time. These are important building blocks to an MMO and make the world feel more alive and personable, rather than just sending your order into a big blob of people. I know that this person can do X, Y, Z at 5 star and so I go to them. If I could set a 5* minimum public order I would never have that and at that point you might as well just make an NPC fulfill the order, there’d be no difference to me.
As for handicapping earnings, right now as a Leatherworker when I see someone looking for things I am able to craft, I charge a flat fee of 5k gold. This seems pretty reasonable to me, especially since Leatherworking mats are fairly cheap and 5k gold is easy to come by. Some crafters try to extort people and charge absurd fees like 20k, which is a crazy amount. If someone suggests 20k, tell them no, it’s easy enough to find someone else. Even I get turned down by people sometimes, which is okay, they can find a crafter which has fees more suitable to them.
I used to say “tip whatever” but people get real cheap and at a certain point it just isn’t worth my time to press the button (especially when often the cheap people would also require a full explanation of how to send an order, and would often supply poor quality materials making it impossible to actually make it at the rank desired).
It wouldn’t be worth anyone’s time or gold investment to level a profession if the public orders were full of people demanding Rank 5 gear whilst offering a 150 gold commission. Look at crests, look at missives. 1 silver/1gold commissions are the norm with mats and unless you want skill points it’s a waste of time. That’s what would become of crafting. It’d make them into basically dead professions.
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Friends and guildies as already mentioned.
If your point is that it would kill trade-chat crafting orders, yes, it would likely significantly reduce anyone needing to use that avenue to get a craft. I’m not sure why that’s a negative.
Of course, people really into crafting would still offer trade chat services since you can only do a limited number of public orders a week and they may be trying to make more gold than just what you can get from a small number of orders.
They may even advertise services for a price lower than what most people end up having to offer to get a public order filled.
So you got your item, but are still complaining several hours later? That’s not the win you think it is.
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LFG exists, so…not sure about your point.
I don’t need your validation, thanks.
Just off the top of my head:
-You see the price asked for a particular craft if X amount
-You find a crafter that is willing to do it for less, so you send a personal order.
Back in MoP, instead of putting ore (?) on the AH, I had a guild that would buy it from me each week because I gave them a bulk discount.
You also see people post things like “X for sale, cheaper than AH, pst me”
In other words, there are times when people prefer a public system whereas other time they may want to deal with a person directly.
ive already pointed out that LFG is more interactive then LFR so whats your point?