I Will Not Craft In WoW Again

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I do not trust the devs to make crafting worthwhile for the average player. After what was done to Relics Of The Past – first a gold nerf, then an ilvl nerf – the devs have demonstrated clearly, once again, that they do not want WoW to be a game in which players can take control of their own gearing, whether for leveling or progression, through crafting. I do not trust the devs to refrain from watering down or completely decimating the relevance of crafting, making hours of player effort and preparation worthwhile.

I will gather mats and sell them, and I will buy what I need on the AH. I will never craft in WoW again, even if the devs make crafting viable again, because I do not trust them not to pull the rug out from under me. It’s sad, but also freeing. The devs should save time and resources and do away with crafting altogether, because they do not respect the system and they do not respect their players.

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Thanks for letting us know.

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It was an exploit. You know it, I know it, we all know it. Find another gold farm but don’t even try to claim this wasn’t justified.

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yeah crafting is in a weird spot right now. nothing is worth anything and crafting mats are worth less than legion grays. Squish further made old potions/gadgets/etc even more worthless(thorium grenade 24 fire damage lel).

I don’t think they have any idea how to design consumables anymore, nor how to tune professions to be relevent in the levels they’re suppose to be relevent in.

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Is the problem for sure, dumbed it down to add engagement to selected areas of the game for gear progression.

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Well, I’ll never forgive them for gutting Inscription. The worst thing they’ve done next to burning Teldrassil.

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The work done shows its creator has very low knowledge (if any) of this games historical crafting system.

Example: Khorium - Ghost Iron - Somebody didn’t know what differences they possess.

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to day, the only crafting mat worth anything is arcane crystal, and that’s crashing for obvious reasons(how good is picking/mining the same node on 5+ characters?).

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I remember all the hype and nonsense from the entire team (including Ion) saying crafting is going to be fun and relevant again… When after Shadowlands is over and no one needs anything crafted, because that seems to be their M.O. Crafting is practically useless the entire xpac, then suddenly after leveling it for hours and hording mats you can make good stuff at the end. But, by that time you don’t need it and it’s worthless on AH because no one else needs it either.

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Those 5 subs seem to be worth more on paper than a dedicated crafter/gatherer.

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Crafting professions are still the best income in the game if done right, even i jumped onto the cloth buyout train, but it is what it is, was an exploit and i knew it. good thing i didnt stock heavly.

You wanna craft less? good, less cancel/repost fighting i have to deal with.

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If you look at the Shadow Lands legendary system crafting is going to be super important.

After Shadow Lands, who knows…but everyone should definitely pick up a profession or be ready to drop a good amount of gold on the AH.

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ALL crafting professions are slave labor(20-140 hours for whats effectively an equivelent of $15, or $3 if argentina apparently). There’s a reason there’s a very specific trending “trade” in trade chat.

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Honestly I’m there with you. I have alts just to have all professions but the ones who craft gear have been worthless for quite a while. It looked like that was going to change with those cute tokens to upgrade gear from other expansions but since they heavily nerfed the max ilvl you can upgrade to it’s going back to being worthless. I also think gather and sell is all I will bother with from now on and my gear crafting toons are all benched as I see no reason to waste time on them anymore.

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I dont mean to go off topic but your character appearance and transmog is awesome. Dont see that direction often.

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Gold is easy to make. I want to see some substance built into our 15 year old crafting system.
Make the goods useful, effective and of course fun.
Relics were designed by an artistic creative mind, then destroyed by a metric chasing suit.

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The multiboxer druids farm all the mats for me, i just gotta hit a button and afk and have a sammich. $$$

I make a tokens worth of gold a day easy.

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By the way…is crafting not looking any better in SL? :frowning:

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What happened? Was Professions nerfed because those lvl 111 multi boxing Druids were spam making those fist items and making 20-30k gold an hour?

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$20 a day.