All the existing recipes that grant a skill up require “Finished Prototype Regal Barding” or “Finished Explorer’s Regal Barding”. Not only are the materials to craft these expensive, Leatherworkers do not even learn the recipe until Renown 29 with Iskaara Tuskaar and Renown 22 with Maruuk Centaur. I AM able to craft some purple staves for skill, but that too is gated behind 2 Sparks of Ingenuity per craft.
I (wrongly?) chose to specialize in Rune Mastery and Runebinding for the Staves, Vantus Runes, and Profession Tools. I have made it to Inscription Skill 70, and hit a brick wall. The only way to acquire recipes that would increase my Inscription Skill is to specialize in Archiving… but here I’m caught in a Catch 22 because I can’t learn Archiving until I reach skill 100.
I think it’s pretty ironic that, by choosing to specialize in Staves, I have only crippled my crafting 30 skill points behind everyone else, making my potential Staff crafts sub-par compared to non-staff specialists.
It’s not terribly better if you had gone runemastery + archives, which also softlocks at 70.
The only way to continue is to make deck boxes through work orders. In a guild of 50-ish people gearing up for raids right now, not a single one of them is interested in the gold sink that is Darkmoon decks + boxes when there are better or comparable mythic trinkets (or even more farmable heroic trinkets) they can get.
On top of which, I’ve yet to see someone put in for a public work order for a deck box on my server - which you’d have to snipe from another scribe also desperately trapped at 70. Because I’m willing to bet there’s significantly more scribes that need their ten crafts than there are people looking for deck boxes. And the people who are buying decks in pre-raid, are often cutting edge folks who have a scribe in their guild that they’d funnel the work order to.
And then you’d still be making them down 30 skill points, and need a staggering 190 knowledge points in order to make all four boxes at high quality anyways.
Ultimately the problem isn’t whether you went runebinding or archiving, it’s that every profession - except alchemy - softlocks at around 70, and then requires a healthy population of epic work orders specifically for the choices each crafter has made while competing with everyone else in their profession who did the same.
I’ve actually been thinking… what do I do here? Next week people will get their second spark, at which point I then gain the ability to craft stuff. However, are people going to want to spend their precious sparks on the low quality staff craft that I can do, especially when the raid is going to drop significantly higher item level? Probably not. Even if they do, I’m still competing with every other scribe who went the same route I did for those points.
Honestly, it feels like I’m stuck waiting on the weekly trickle of inscription knowledge for me to dig myself out of this hole… which feels like a months long road ahead of me.
I’m rapidly losing interest in this new profession system… I don’t mind gameplay elements based around discovery and learning, but if there’s something I’m supposed to do to fix this, I don’t know what it is. I’m kinda bummed out… this isn’t really very fun at all.
I came here looking for advice on how to get past skill 65 in Inscription, I went into Rune Mastery and Archiving thinking this would be a good choice for the beginning of the expansion and that I could then spec into Staves later, well I didn’t know I would have to wait until skill 100 to get to that specialization.
The only items I can craft that have a green or yellow arrow are dragonriding cosmetics that no one has the materials for and one staff that I wouldn’t waste my materials on because, I’m not spec into staves, lol.
How are we supposed to reach 100, there are no new recipes that offer skill ups?
And we can’t get to 100 until sparks are released.
REALLY, really terrible design decision.
I’ve literally done all I can and can’t gain 1) anymore skill points and 2) ANYmore rep with the artisan’s guild.
This has, all in all, been a nightmare for our profession.
Sure I can make piddly profession equipment, but that’s rapidly becoming not worth the material cost versus what we can charge for it. Flooded market and all that.
but if you went into Profession Tools as your post suggests, you should have access to the pattern “Scribe’s Resplendent Quill”, which should give points all the way to 100. The pattern is only 10 knowledge points into Profession Tools, so you should be able to get it on Tuesday and continue to skill up.
I went Treatises and wrongly chose Darkmoon Cards… and im in the same boat. They’re just too expensive and cumbersome to create that there is no way i’ll be able to utlize that craft for skill points. I thought it’d be a bit easier but its just a bit out of reach.
There is a staff i can make but just flatlined and making Treatise’s as they appear for people.
I was actually eyeing Runebinding to make staff crafting better… but that’s not going to happen since i need 100. heh.
id love to make the dragon parts, i have the centaur LW piece but its too dang expensive to get 1 knowledge point out of it… lame
I also went vantus rune spec for guild needs. I feel your pain OP. You probably wont like this suggestion but my solution was to do the consortium shuffle to get rank 4 reputation to learn the blue cooking rolling pin. About 2 million gold worth of runed cringebark later and im at 99/100 skill. My last point will be making a darkmoon deck box fot an alt. Good luck to you.
