How to make Professions viable

[Shádôw-ravencrest]

@Shádôw-ravencrest

Professions – Some people like being crafters of their servers. They focus on gathering, selling and crafting some of the most epic, awe inspiring pieces in the game. Add, deep profession quest lines, return profession passives so your characters performance will benefit a certain way when you become a master, return/add profession specialties (i.e. goblin vs. gnomish engineering). Add levels of profession mastery (not based on character level) but rather how much you train/level your profession. Add high level, super rare patterns that require you to travel/explore all of Azeroth to find, run dungeons/raids to obtain. Return to more mounts/pets being able to be crafted. Make the gear that is on par with high level Mythic that takes rare, exotic materials and is BoE to sell to the community. Have these pieces inspiring and cool sets that players want to get just to Tmog. Have your secondaries compliment your primary professions (i.e. you can find ancient rare crafting patterns via archeology). Have your catchup mechanics by disregarding the earlier expansions crafting tiers but add incentives to going back and collecting patterns and leveling those, that could improve your mastery and potency of your passives. I could literally just go on and on here.

Here’s some ideas I threw out on professions a couple days back. I only skimmed the surface, there are many more things they could do here