Professions used to be shopping lists and were boring. It was hard to make any Gold because everyone could make everything.
Now you have to specialize early which means not everyone can craft everything at the highest quality at the start of an expansion.
This means that professions have become very profitable because most people won’t take the tiem to learn them.
I made plenty pre SL, DF.
Only for those that luck out and get first to items people want, and also people needing to be on higher pop servers. This system is a joke at best - - it is also far from profitable for the general public. It only is profitable for the niche few.
New crafting system is for mega goblins and exploiters. Yet is required to buy from them for PVE bis.
It screwed most players. But that’s probably so more buy tokens.
What do you mean? It was a GIANTTT grind in the old days. I have PTSD from what felt like endless hours grinding khorium nodes after school for like 2 weeks.
Luck has nothing to do with it. It’s simply understanding the market and professions. Which most people won’t take the time to do.
Of course luck plays a role.
How is the general player base going to know that they bricked their path and picked something that usually should sell well or be in demand… you speak of understanding the market as if there is a tell tale sign now of what will be in demand with these professions.
What happens when Blizzard changes something and all of a sudden, that bow, or bracer, or trinket/ring you did in DF isn’t so sought after in TWW.
Things to factor in which a good portion of it is sheer luck that you are able to find a niche market.
You have crafting orders paying zilch… and have to spam trade to fight over potential gold. When in the past I’d flesh out my professions and could craft lots more, have more options/paths, and make gold… felt rewarding… not this iteration.
Well if you look at the AH you can see what’s in demand. However I thought that profession tools would be valuable at the start going in so I specialized in those for a few professions and made good gold from that.
Then with most professions you can either make good quality reagents early or the final product. The difference in price between a 1or 2 star vs a 3 star reagent is huge.
And yet somehow I did the quests -without reading them- and remembered doing them. But yes, thank you for remembering for me what I did and didn’t do in game. You know me better than I know myself, it’s no wonder you know the crafting system better than me - it’s designed for folks like you with extrasensory perception. Congrats on your awsome talent. I chose not to do them, clearly. I saw the yellow exclamation marks and should have known instinctively what the quests were. You have shown me that I chose this fate. Bless you, I did not know how empty was my soul until it was filled.