Preamble:
This is how I would overhaul and fix professions. One of the driving factors in playing World of Warcraft is acquiring gear. This is typically done through raiding and PvP. The objective for most players is to get the best gear to be as strong as possible for completing and competing in end game content. In other words, the central focus of the game is the gear that permits us to participate in the content. With that in mind I would bring back relics as additional gear rewards for players to collect.
Gear is something we are constantly replacing as we progress through the game and as we advance through new patches of content. Because of this, professions that offer enchantments to gear always have a source of income from the auction house. Players enjoy decking out their hard to obtain gear with the best and most expensive enchants, making it even better. I decided that there should be a lot of ways to enhance your gear one way or another.
To bring balance to player selling and income on the auction house, every profession has the ability to enchant something that another cannot. Making each profession unique in what they bring to the table.
Players need more then financial incentives and deserve rewards for achieving and maintaining high level professions. I would bring back profession perks as an added bonus for those players. These perks are purely cosmetic and don’t add a competitive advantage. There perks and bonuses such as mounts would be available across all your characters, as long as that character maintains the profession.
ENCHANTING
Craftable Enchants (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Main-hand (Swords, Daggers, Glaives, Axes, Maces, Polearms)
∙ Off-hand (Swords, Daggers, Glaives, Axes, Maces)
∙ Head
∙ Chest
∙ Hands
∙ Feet
Craftable Gear (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Wands
∙ Off-hand frills
Perks (Exclusive benefits for those that maintain maximum crafting skill):
∙ Unique transmog weapon glow effects.
TAILORING
Craftable Enchants (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Back Embroidery
∙ Tensile Strengthened Shoulders (Cloth)
∙ Tensile Strengthened Leggings (Cloth)
Craftable Gear (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Head (Cloth)
∙ Shoulder (Cloth)
∙ Back (Cloth)
∙ Chest (Cloth)
∙ Wrist (Cloth)
∙ Hands (Cloth)
∙ Waist (Cloth)
∙ Legs (Cloth)
∙ Feet (Cloth)
Perks (Exclusive benefits for those that maintain maximum crafting skill):
∙ Unique Shirts
∙ Invisibility Cloak: When you embroider your own cloak, receive a bonus use effect to your cloak that turns you invisible.
∙ Spinning Wheel: Place a spinning wheel down which can be used by cloth wearing classes to repair their gear.
LEATHERWORKING
Craftable Enchants (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Patched Shoulders (Leather)
∙ Patches Leggings (Leather)
Craftable Consumables (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ War Drums
∙ Battle Horn
Craftable Gear (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Head (Leather)
∙ Shoulder (Leather)
∙ Chest (Leather)
∙ Wrist (Leather)
∙ Hands (Leather)
∙ Waist (Leather)
∙ Legs (Leather)
∙ Feet (Leather)
∙ Quivers (Relic)
∙ Demon Skull (Relic)
∙ Fist Weapons
Craftable Items (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Various taxidermy decore for player housing or guild halls.
∙ Animal hide rugs.
Perks (Exclusive benefits for those that obtain and maintain maximum crafting skill):
∙ Tannary: Place down a tannery allowing raid members that wear leather to repair their gear.
BLACKSMITHING
Craftable Enchants (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Reinforced Shoulders (Plate & Mail)
∙ Reinforced Leggings (Plate & Mail)
Craftable Consumables (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Sharpening Stones (Melee Temporary Enchant)
∙ Weight Stones (Melee Temporary Enchant)
∙ Shield Spike (Shield Temporary Enchant)
Craftable Gear (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Head (Plate & Mail)
∙ Shoulder (Plate & Mail)
∙ Chest (Plate & Mail)
∙ Wrist (Plate & Mail)
∙ Hands (Plate & Mail)
∙ Waist (Plate & Mail)
∙ Legs (Plate & Mail)
∙ Feet (Plate & Mail)
∙ Swords
∙ Axes
∙ Daggers
∙ Maces
∙ Glaives
∙ Fist Weapons
∙ Thrown
Perks (Exclusive benefits for those that maintain maximum crafting skill):
∙ Flail weapon transmog.
∙ Anvil: Place an anvil down allowing raid member that are plate or mail wearing classes to repair their gear.
JEWEL CRAFTING
Craftable Enchants (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Neck Socket
∙ Ring Sockets
Craftable Gear (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Rings
∙ Necklaces
∙ Trinkets
∙ Off-hand frills
∙ Idols (Relic)
∙ Draconic Treasure (Relic)
Craftable Items (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Common Gems (Sta, Str, Agi, Int, Crit, Has, Mas)
∙ Rare Gems (Sta, Str, Agi, Int, Crit, Has, Mas)
∙ Epic Gems (Sta, Str, Agi, Int, Crit, Has, Mas)
Perks (Exclusive benefits for those that maintain maximum crafting skill):
∙ The One Ring: When you socket your own ring, add a bonus use effect to your ring that turns you invisible. (Shares a cooldown with your other ring)
INSCRIPTION
Craftable Enchants (That can be sold on the auction house):
(Missives add secondary stats to gear, you cannot put two of the same secondary stats. In this expansion, max level head, shoulder, chest, hands, legs, and foot gear does not have secondary stats, they must be added with missives.)
∙ Common Missives (Haste, Crit, Mastery)
∙ Rare Missives (Haste, Crit, Mastery)
∙ Epic Missives (Haste, Crit, Mastery)
Craftable Gear (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Off-hand frills
∙ Libram (Relic)
∙ Sigil (Relic)
Craftable Items (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Glyphs (Various Glyphs that add aesthetic customizations to various class abilities)
Perks (Exclusive benefits for those that maintain maximum crafting skill):
∙ Custom flavor text on your main-hand weapon.
ALCHEMY
Craftable Consumables (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Flasks
∙ Elixers
∙ Potions
∙ Oils (Caster Temporary Weapon Enchants)
Perks (Exclusive benefits for those that maintain maximum crafting skill):
∙ Philosopher Stone Trinket: Extends durations of flasks and elixers. Can be scaled up to equal to bis ilvl trinket.
∙ Midas Touch: Transmog option to have your weapons appear solid gold.
ENGINEERING
Craftable Enchants (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Belt Buckle (Waist Socket)
∙ Cufflinks (Wrist Socket)
∙ Scopes (Temporary Ranged Weapon Enchants)
Craftable Gear (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Guns
Craftable Items (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Mechanical Mount
∙ Mechanical Pet
∙ Various Devices
Perks (Exclusive benefits for those that obtain and maintain maximum crafting skill):
∙ Rocket Boots: Add a use effect to your boots. Giving you an additional sprint cooldown.
∙ Parachute: Add a use effect to your cloak granting you slow fall.
∙ Teleporter: Add a use effect to your belt granting you the ability to teleport to your inn. (15 min cooldown)
∙ Invisibility: Add a use effect to your belt granting you the ability to turn invisible while out of combat.
∙ Goggles: Can be scaled up to BiS ilvl head gear.
∙ Tinker’s Pocket Watch Trinket: Can be scaled up to equal to bis ilvl trinket.
Use effect: resets the cooldown on all engineered items.
∙ Tinker’s Music Box: Can be scaled up to BiS ilvl trinket.
Use effect: Plays a melody. Giving you a buff equivalent to the war drums and battle horn buffs.
WOOD WORKING
Craftable Enchants (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Carvings (Staff)
∙ Carving (Bows)
∙ Carving (Crossbows)
∙ Carving (Guns)
Craftable Gear (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Staves
∙ Bows
∙ Crossbows
∙ Idols (Relics)
∙ Totems (Relics)
∙ Sacraments (Relics)
∙ Off-hand Frills
Craftable Items (That can be sold on the auction house):
∙ Reagents for enchanters wand crafting.
∙ Reagents for engineers gun crafting.
∙ Player Housing & Guild Hall furniture (chairs, tables, cabinets, beds, weapon racks, weapon displays, etc.)
Perks (Exclusive benefits for those that obtain and maintain the maximum crafting skill):
∙ Totem Weapon transmog.
∙ Trogan Horse (Mount)
∙ Catapult (Mount)
∙ Fiddle (Toy)
∙ Lute (Toy)
∙ Flute (Toy) Nearby rat critters will follow you.
Lumbering (Gathering)
Harvest tree nodes for Wood Working reagents.
Perks:
Termite (Pet)
Woodpecker (Pet)
Beaver (Mount): Allows harvesting of trees without dismounting.
Unlocks more trees for lumbering materials on your homestead (player housing).
Mining (Gathering)
Gather mining nodes for reagents.
Perks:
Mole (Mount): Able to mine nodes without dismounting.
Increases the size of the quarry for mining materials on your homestead (player housing).
Skinning (Gathering)
Gather reagents from dead beasts.
Perks:
Enables your livestock to be more abundant on your homestead (player housing), resulting in more skinning opportunities.
Herbalism (Gathering)
Gather reagents from herb nodes.
Perks:
Humming Bird (Mount): Able to harvest herbs without dismounting.
Enables you the ability to plant seeds for various herbs on your homestead (player housing).
Farming (New Secondary Profession)
Player housing has a phased area surrounding it, acting as the exterior of the player’s homestead. By increasing your farming skill, you will be able to plant seeds to grow reagents for cooking and raise livestock for cooking reagents.
Outdoor stables to show off three of your favorite mounts.
Players with gathering professions will have additional features available to them. As you increase your farming skill your daily yields from your daily gatherings will increase as well. (Farming these reagents will be limited and won’t be sufficient enough to replace world gathering, but will be a supplemental added bonus.)
Herbalist can plant herbs which can be harvested once per day.
Miners will be able to harvest daily nodes from a small quarry on their homestead.
Lumber Jack’s will be able to harvest additional tree nodes.
Anglers will have fishing school nodes in their small pond.