If you all haven’t seen yet, you can now purchase Enchanted Crests from a vendor now instead of needing to go through an enchanter. Crafting gear for new players is pretty convoluted and this is a really good change and a step in the right direction. I do however think it would just be easier to understand and more convenient if you could simply right click the crest when ever it reaches the stack threshold needed for purchasing an enchanted crest. "Use these to upgrade your gear, at 40 stacks right click to transform into an enchanted crest allowing you to craft gear of greater value.
Terrible change
Rip enchanting
Are you KIDDING me? As an enchanter, this is a terrible change. Crests were the only thing as an enchanter I actually crafted publicly. 
I’m also wondering if the augment runes being handed out in the raid are going to decrease their prices…it seems Blizzard is getting rid of the last few things I did to make gold casually.
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Should have added new helm, shoulder and neck enchant to compensate the crest removal, other enchants almost make no profit.
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Massive L Blizzard you just made enchanting yet again irrelevant to the crafting order system. Like who came up with this idea…If the idea behind this is to make things more simper then that’s fine, but now you need to give enchanting something else.
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Thank goodness they did. My time will appreciate this quite a bit in S2 as I’ll likely be crafting and recrafting a ton just like in S1. I’d prefer they remove this unnecessary and transparent waste of time instead of making sure enchanters can demand tips on crest enchantment.
I was already making my own crests anyhow so I will appreciate no longer needing to and I wasn’t paying tips for it to begin with.
Probably better to keep it at a vendor with a confirmation box for purchase so that no accidents and complaints happen.
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this is a good change. the fact that we had to double up on crafting every single time was stupid
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Enchanting was already on track to become a glorified gathering profession.
So if that’s what it’s gonna be, where tf are my finesse and perception stats? Destroying an item only gives multiples of dust, and that’s still a maximum of like 3. Can’t combine up. Can’t even reliably get higher rank mats when maxed out on Designated Disenchanter.
The crest runaround for everyone else was dumb, no doubt about it, but enchanting was designed around that as a sink for mats and skillups.
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Half of a good idea, and without the accompanying overhaul to the enchanting profession probably a bad idea.
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Cool, now just give enchanters something decent to craft. Maybe a decent trinket for each role.
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Well yeah I understand that, but now enchanting is useless when it comes to using their new system. I doubt we are gonna see many prof tools or wands on the public orders…lol If they are gonna make a big change to a profession like this out of know where and last minute they should try to give us something in return I feel.
As a general rule, adding a new interaction is always going to make things harder to understand and less convenient for most players. The game is complicated enough as it is without adding little asterisks like “currencies sit in your currency tab and you spend them at vendors except for this one”.
See, they could have fixed this by instead of having public orders expire, they get fulfilled by the game. You just have to wait, say, 24hr, 3 days, something like that to give the enchanters a chance to do it.
You could even put a minimum commission on it so the rate doesn’t crash to zero.
That lets enchanters enchant, but doesn’t paralyze players on dead servers.
I would ritually sacrifice a puppy to have more viable crafted trinkets than the alch stone.
With how bad the raid trinket options are, and how impossible the M+ ones are to get, even a stat stick would be incredible to have.
Yeah it was sad the JC trinkets ended up being a bust, and the decks again.
The darkmoone decks are so convoluted I dont even know what to do with them on my scribe. No demand either, so a talent tree not filled out.
The enchanted crests loss–well, I do enchanting pretty passively, so now can even more casually DE gear and make weap scrolls.
With this new fail change will you still need the normal enchanting mats to get the crest enchanted from the vendor? Have not been able to find an answer to this.
They really need to take another look at enchanting and change some things around, especially after this change. Give us something we can actually craft so we can make some sort of money. Change the patron orders so they’re not centered solely around the illusions cogwheel, which ties up a good chunk of points. Make designated disenchanter actually reliably give higher quality materials when maxed out, along with a higher quantity. Getting 2-3 dust from an item but an enchant needing like 60 dust is absurd. Just needs an all around tweak of some sort.
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Just as an aside, transmorgifying mycobloom on an alchemist often gives a bunch of storm dust–it’s been my main source of storm dust since the scrolls require that ridiculously high amount. I also have the DE enchanting tree maxxed and it still gives crap drops, even for shattering the gleaming shards.
I find it amusing that they put it on a vendor, so we still have to go buy the nascent crest from the crest people, then go to the enchanting vendor to buy the enchanted version.
Just remove the nascent crest item and put the enchanted crests on the crests vendor.