Engineering Should be a Secondary Profession

[Liolang-daggerspine]

@Texasdktoast-sargeras

Title. Engineering has never had the same mainstream crafting or commerce functionality as any of the other primary professions. Engineering’s strengths have always lied in its utility items, gadgets, and gameplay aids. With DF they tried to make engineering relevant in the new profession system by adding crafted braces, but the profession still couldn’t compete in the market. If Blizzard is never going to make Engineering truly Primary, then just make it an official Secondary profession so everyone can use it on all of their characters as a utility profession alongside cooking, fishing, & archaeology.

Engineering’s perks lies in such tools as wormhole generators, unique gadgets, mounts, & transmogs. It’s relevance to primary gameplay isn’t any more sophisticated than archaeology or the other secondaries. So just call it what it always has been, a secondary profession. Let’s stop gating people from having the functionality of two real primary crafting or gathering professions by removing the choice between full crafting competence or convenience tools/utility.

Make engineering secondary.

Totally disagree that Engineering is a secondary kind of profession, but hey, if it’ll clear up a spot for another profession, I’ll say anything under oath necessary to make that happen, lol

[Liolang-daggerspine]

@Scarfacer-destromath

Engineering is more usefull than any other, be it goldmaking, endgame usefulness, fun items, teleports etc.

yeah, Ive made a crap ton of gold off engineering and its making that stuff that engineers use to make aother crap. lol. Players just seem to prefer the convenience, which is fine by me, lol

[Greymarc-amanthul]

You seem to be ignoring that Engineering is heavily reliant on Mining for mats, and that there are no secondary professions that are reliant on other professions to progress the way Engineering is on Mining.

[Rilota-moon-guard]

What if engineers could make an expensive “license” or “manual” for old xpacs that allowed the character who used it to use certain engie gadgets.

[Breadisfunny-turalyon (Breadisfunny)]

if anything should be secondary it should be inscription.

[Brakkarion-wyrmrest-accord]

If it was in terms of reliance on a gathering profession, Tailoring and Enchanting don’t require much from any other profession the same way cooking is (they sometimes might need something for a few crafts but not everything).

[Herné-moon-guard]

You know what SHOULD be secondary professions? Herbalism, and about half the ones that are main professsions and one or two secondary professions need to be primaries… why is archeology secondary? That takes a literal degree and lifetimes of study!

I dunno how they place WHAT and WHERE just seems so arbitrary.

[Greymarc-amanthul]

That was not always the case for Enchanting as (like they now are in Classic) they were reliant on Blacksmiths (and a little on Alchemists) to craft their wands.