Seriously, I don’t know how you guys managed to screw up professions since Legion, but it’s an achievement with your lameness. Tommy Wisaeu did better filming The Room than you guys do with your own game.
Crafting Order System was a great idea, but it needs to be open to other expansions. There are transmog hunters who would like to get the old BoP transmog from Dragonscale Leatherworking, Elemental Leatherworking, Tribal Leatherworking, Armorsmithing, Weaponsmithing, Swordsmithing, Axesmithing, Hammersmithing, Mooncloth Tailoring, Shadoweave Tailoring, and Spellfire Tailoring. Plus you have BoP patterns from Classic-MoP (I BELIEVE) that have armor/weapons that are BoP as well.
Also, can BoP patterns from boss drops no longer be BoP if they’re from before Legion? Most seem to have gone away, how about completely doing away with patterns that are BoP from old expansions?
Specialization has COMPLETELY FAILED. This is a bigger disaster than TBC’s specializations. The old-school specializations at least made it so that they could level up in general. These current specializations don’t even have a specialization button or vendor to reallocate points. I pretty much can’t level up Tailoring or Enchanting without COMPLETELY dropping either profession and with as many patterns as I have, that’s NOT going to happen. It’s time to make the specialization drops farmable so we can max this out in a few days vs a few months. This was a completely unmitigated disaster.
Sounds like a skill issue. Both of those are able to be max skill without a time gate. If you’re talking about max knowledge, then yeah that’s going to take a while. That was the whole point of the profession revamp.
The Revamp was more like a SETBACK. The Knowledge drop rates are terrible. Grinding for them shouldn’t leave me thinking “I’ve never prayed harder for a stroke in all my life.”
My priest is both tailoring and enchanting. I was doing it every week until I maxed knowledge. I hit up the bridge northeastish of Valdrakken where they are battling drackthyr like enemies for one of the drops. I did the centaur cap on the east side of O plains to get the one from raiders (other centaur too). Went into azure span to kill gnolls for the their drop (also a gnoll camp in the northern part of Thal) and the elementals around the azure vault area for the final drop.
All of those dropped pretty regularly for me each week. Never more than 30mins for me, usually like 15ish total mins, but occasionally 30 mins total.
Hopefully that helps.
On my end, I really enjoyed the specializations. There’s definitely some things they need to adjust fix up, but for a first iteration, I like the direction. Realistically I think they need to do a pass on every specialization path and ensure there is a pattern at the end that can get you to 100 skill without needing BoP mats (like masters hammer for BS for example). It can be expensive or require farming, but not time gated behind limited bop mats.
I really enjoyed being the dagger guy on my server for a while. I got to meet a lot of folks and make some friends. A lot of us crafters on the server banded together to point people in trade chat to the correct person. We made our own crafting network. It was really a neat experience.
I think they need to look over the work order system though. I think if they could find a way in game to allow people select mats from the AH while placing the order, then that would be handy. I would prefer public orders to require all mats again (I think the AH thing would make that easier on the people placing the orders too).
I hope they fix up some stuff, but continue on with this new system.
That actually does help. Do you know the names of the items that’ll give me chant/tailoring? I figure there’s 4 or so items for the non-gathering professions, right?
Dear Wow Admin:
Please let the items that improve specialization drop. the drop rate us way to few. ten times increase the drop rate would be a good start.
Thanks
Thanks. Weekly is still bull, it’s late enough in the expansion, these should be daily at the worst, and farmable at the best. I still don’t understand why they’d intentionally make leveling up a profession difficult.
I’d personally like the Crafting Orders to be open to older patterns that make transmog which are BOP, not BOE. I’m glad they’ve made crafting worth it it’s just specializations are utter trash. Why should I pay 100,000s to level up current material? When I leveled up Tailor/Chant from TBC-MoP, it wasn’t that expensive. Legion was a failure, BFA was bad but not as bad, and Shadowlands is an improvement when it comes to leveling.
The work order system is a very big leap for professions this expansion. It is very welcome and has had for my part an enthusiastic response. Expanding it to past expansions would be mind blowing for me.
Maybe less to the mog market in ah but I don’t care about those.
Also, there is a weak aura that tracks witch knowledge items you have gathered each week. It doesn’t track the Reach summoned rares but at least you can see where you are at on each toon. https://wago.io/w4D9R3Ykr/14
I disagree. It’s for people who like to craft instead of running M+. Because if you’re not running 8 mythic dungeons every week then you’ve got plenty of time to max your profession and grind out products.
It doesn’t do “Whales” much good because they can’t max 15 alchemists for transmutes just by buying mats out of the AH. They have to put in time.
