I feel the same way.
Begging to find people to recraft my gear all the time drove me to desperation so I finally dropped my 2 gathering professions I’ve had for years to pick jewelcrafting+leatherworking so I can recraft my gear.
Well yeh sorry their conc, but also your acuity, so even to get someone else to craft I still need to participate somehow in the crafting scene to even be able to afford it.
It also depends on server, I have 2 guildies who went heavy on crafting, both have given up since my server has almost no profit now even using concentration across many alts it’s just not worth the time and effort the minimal gold they get from it.
And that’s part of the issue, on a larger server like Area 52 or Stormrage you can still get something out of it, but even over here on an the second largest OCE server there is nothing to be made so people are just not doing it.
Two professions worth having to avoid the public order/trade chat spamming are alchemy and enchanting. Look for the highest selling flasks and enchants on the AH and craft 3Ts of those items, like the Scout’s March for enchants or Alchemical Chaos for flasks. Both 3-4k items that sell out fast.
(That’s if anyone is interested in this particular WoW time sink, not everyone is. You can get the same amount of gold by hitting three gold world quests.)
I doubt we’ll really see any changes to crafting. They screwed it up back in Legion and it’s been the same ever since. I can’t imagine orders will change much at all.
Until they maybe make orders cross-realm one day, you can server transfer to high pop realm and still be member of your guild on low pop realm.
This way you are still member of your guild and enjoy benefits of high pop realms such as many crafters around.
2 Likes
I think if you have a friend on your friend list you can assign to them personally.
May be worth it to make alts on high pop realms and get a few crafters added to your list
That’s crazy because I literally have never waited more then 30 secs for anyone to craft anything. Always get spammed by multiple people, then again my main is on Thrall.
I consider myself a crafter. I have many alts covering most professions (often several chars for the same profession to cover multiple specs).
I’m on a small server. I craft for folks when I can but I’m not interested in chat spamming and sitting in town. I want to PLAY the game.
When I’m online, and not in a raid or a key, I’m available for crafting and will happily do a quick alt swap. But the existing system means nobody is going to find me. I tell people they can add me, but it’s a mess. I’m rarely on the char that crafted for them.
We need a directory where crafters can say “I’m on. This is what I can do (across my entire account). These are my terms/price.”
We need something like group finder but for crafting. I’m fine if they want to keep it a little manual and require people to talk. I’m fine if they want it tied to servers. Give me a way to put up an ad and make a name for myself that doesn’t require me to afk in town, that doesn’t require me to be on the right faction. They talk about wanting crafters to have an identity, to feel like a crafter, spamming a chat box doesn’t make me feel like I’m role playing a crafter. Setting up a little kiosk or billboard or advert? That feels more like it.
1 Like
The system for both personal and public orders requires that the customer provide 100% of required acuity, there is no option to not provide 100%. If an item requires a spark, same deal… you can’t skip providing a spark, nor acuity, enchanted crests, 2nd-ary stat missives… only the basic mats can be missing from a personal order (they changed public to require ALL mats).
OP probably meant Concentration since the customer can’t provide that, only the Crafter. It’s not intuitive to many customers that don’t craft as they have no clue how precious Concentration is to a Crafter that has a regular stream of orders, so they cheap out with 2-star mats and expect a R5 item with a moderate-to-poor tip and then claim Crafters are “just greedy” when they don’t bother fulfilling an order with tip below market value relative to the quality of mats provided.
Eliminating mat quality would be a huge step towards simplifying and making the system less convoluted for the sake of complexity with no “gameplay value” added for that complexity.
1 Like
Fixed that for you as your reply is completely out of the context of server identity for crafting.
1 Like
I could see them allowing you to set a star min level on public orders and even all recrafting but they would need to add filters in on the crafters side to auto filter out all the trash orders that would suddenly be up. Things like someone expecting a five star weapon, providing only the crests and no tip.
Add in filtering and let the fun begin.
As a crafter, I love the mat quality. At least, the crafted mat quality. I made so much gold just crafting highest quality alloys. It’s a much more passive way to earn gold compared to the utter slog of having to farm raw gold or mats. I log in, craft, post on the AH and then get to spend the rest of my time playing what I want to play. Yes, it’s more complex, but provided you invested in a profession, it’s a much, much easier and time-efficient way to make gold. For me, the quality aspect does have gameplay value!
Absolutely hate the state of crafting in WOW, quit doing it, no longer fun.
Its fine the way it is
It’s fine if you are on a larger server and in the correct faction.
I am on OCE, on a horde heavy server… playing as alliance. I get the fun times of putting crest crafting orders up and waiting hours for even them to get done. Some days during peak I can count on one hand how many times I see someone post in trade chat per hour.
They really need to do cross realm and cross faction everything, there are too many players who are in an unfair advantage, whilst those on larger servers on the correct faction have zero issues, it’s a bit lopsided.
All orders are cross-faction, only guild orders are cross server.
Change server/faction and all your problems are gone.
Trade chat, more-so the ability to PM someone from the opposite faction is not.
So trying to find someone who can even see my message and PM me that they can do my order is impossible unless I swap to an alt. Everything just needs to be made cross-everything at this point, we made it like 90% of the way and then nothing.
True, trade chat isnt cross-faction, but craft orders are.
Yeh it’s all a pain in the rear, some easy fixes for Blizzard.
At minimum they can do cross-faction and cross-realm chat and PM options and a better way to organise my friends list so I can add crafters to my friends list and organise them easier.
And an unlimited amount of friends because some people actually have a maxxed out friends list, so even if they find a new crafter what can they even do about it?