The marketplace for ordering a crafted item is a great idea. However the implementation is wacked. Too often, craft orders are put in expecting the crafter to supply mats at their cost. There should be a mechanism that would prevent this from occurring. The order placer should be mandated to commission at least 10% above the cost to craft. The system shows you what the cost to craft is. There’s no reason when placing an order to fail to cover the cost of the craft. Since completing crafting orders is tied to various types of game progression, the current system puts crafters in a difficult position having to eat the cost in order to gain the benefit of completing crafting orders. At the very least, enable completing of orders to provide knowledge points after reaching max craft level, and points towards leveling when not at max. Craft orders shouldn’t put crafters at a disadvantage and those ordering crafted items at an advantage of basically gaining free, no cost higher level gear.
On some professions it can be worth it to take the no mat orders with low-ish tips. I’ll gladly take an 1800 loss or whatever for 3 LW or Inscription points on an alt. They already had it where it was required for people to have mats in the order and there was an inordinate amount of whining on the forums about people claiming there were never any orders.
Unless this is limited to public orders only, this would entirely defeat the purpose of the profession knowledge system.
They already do.
I’'m not earning any leveling points as a tailor and doing as many orders as I can daily. And yes, it should be limited to public orders.
So to make people use the system, the crafters take a loss most of the time. That needs to be improved.
Are you not crafting stuff that gives skillups like gear? Also it’s just a loss in the beginning, once you’re max and people will send you personal orders, it’s a license to print money.
I’ve exhausted recipes that give skill ups. I have some that require sparks, and that hasn’t opened for me yet. I’m totally confused on that, since I’m level 70. Good to know that there is gold to be gained eventually.
Make sure you’re spending your knowledge in places where you can learn the epic wildercloth crafted gear. People put up orders for it, and it gives 3 skillups per piece up to 100. Also for tailoring if you’re renown 15 with the dragonscale people, you can get the Wildercloth Fishing Hat recipe, which gives skillups to 100 and is really really cheap to make. Though if you’re not speccing into gear crafting (which it sounds like you aren’t) then hitting 100 really doesn’t change your profitability.
Sparks are obtained from a quest in Valdrakken. You can get 5 sparks from the questline. Once you have completed it, alts can skip the questline and they get all 5 at once.
I don’t have any problems with the way they changed crafting orders. It saved me from mailing mats from alts to my crafters so they could complete an order for me.
There are times I’ll do it for someone else if the tip is right. But it also helps me to keep tabs on the miscreants who are trying to rip people off. It’s always helpful to know who the grifters are.
You only get 4 orders a day so you should prioritize skillups, first crafts and stuff that makes money for you. You can happily ignore orders that don’t fall into those categories. And since it clearly states whether they have provided all, some or none of the mats, there’s no reason to get tripped up.
Imagine if the work order system filled the missing mats by pulling from lowest price on AH and presented you with a total cost, then below that had a box to input payment/tip in addition to the mats cost…