I took this profession one month ago and I fully invested 120 knowledge points in Designated Disenchanter. Not only not giving rank 3 ref crystals mats when disenchanting champ & hero gear (yea, I find this quite insulting), but also not giving any knowledge points for that silly catch-up mechanism - I’m still about 200 points behind.
Not sure if it’s bugged or just badly designed, but I destroyed tens of epic items without getting any knowledge points, including weapons that I could of sell to the vendors for few thousands gold.
This is bringing me to the conclusion that the new profession system is bad for me. Maybe others are happy with it but I’m not and I feel I’m wasting my time and resources. Having 3 qualities of mats is bad. Really. I also hate to have them in bags. One bag is full with all the qualities of herbs, etc. … bad bad bad design.
(please replace the “bad” word with a real bad word)
Do the weekly q for enchanting, go gather the 2 weekly treasures, disenchant a number of item till you hit the epic KP item. THEN hop on any crafting alt you got and make the cheapest blues you can make and funnel them to your chanter to DE. You will get caught up in no time. The dilemma between vendoring and DE has been with enchanting since the dawn of WoW. Welcome to World of Warcraft!
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While I agree that the UI design should make it more obvious when you are eligible for catch-up points, you could have simply asked how it works and we would’ve helped you.
As kaladei pointed out, you have to complete the weekly activities first before catch-up points are granted. DEing things without those activities being done is pointless.
Once you know that, enchanting is by far the easiest and fastest crafting profession to catch up. (The more you know animation here lol)
Epic Darkmoon decks and cards are relatively cheap to buy and give you the catch up KP very quickly when disenchanted.
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