I went into the talent tree blind and took Hammer Control and Armorsmithing. I figured it would be cool to make my own gear. Now I’m stuck at 65. You shouldn’t need to find a guide to not break leveling the profession.
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OP could do that, but he choses not to, or simply hasn’t read his recipe list to figure out how to navigate the slow spots.
Actually I’d be more than willing to grind out the rep for recipes if I had any idea HOW people are blowing through the reputation grind. (though how anyone enjoys blowing through content like that is beyond me) I looked for guides and haven’t found how people were doing this. Apparently I’m missing something.
But the fact remains that unless you choose a ‘right’ specialization tree you’re screwed until you grind the necessary rep to unlock a recipe that can potentially give you skill points to open up the other specializations
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I can’t level tailoring because I need azureweave bolts for frozen spellthread and I can’t learn azureweave bolts because I don’t have draconic needlework
I need 75 tailoring to learn draconic needlework and my tailoring is 50.
I learned Blue Silken Lining from the Cobalt rep but it requires Azureweave Bolts.
Don’t worry, reading a guide wouldn’t help you get past 65 skill. That’s the wall where you can only level by spamming trade chat offering to pay people money if they let you craft items for them. It’s just really badly designed that way
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This just happened to me because of the awful UI. I will not resubscribe if they do not fix this and I am sure they won’t. Maybe they will when it is much too late. Oh well, I keep trying to hang on and Blizzard just keeps trying to poke me off.
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Yup, a lot of online guides are flat our wrong for many professions and you end up with a dead profession for months.
For example Wowhead’s enchanting guide. You ain’t getting profit with that.
A respec is essential at this point. The only ones saying otherwise are extreme goblins.
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I know Blizz wants to make them important and relevant and I 200% agree, love it, but locking you out in a new system that needs time to learn is totally not the best way to make it work.
If you don’t want people to abuse the system why not making it so you can reset the points once a season but at a cost of something like 10k resources, that way you filter bots and low level alts to abuse the system and only dedicated players can pay the fee
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It is quite literally cheaper to buy the Azureweave bolts than it would be to make them yourself, so this is a pretty flimsy excuse.
This needs to be addressed, as I’ve come to realized I have ruined my Jewelcrafting specialization. The way I had my knowledge points invested, with what I originally thought was a good plan, not only prevents me from meaningful level gains, but everything I craft will result in a net lost of several thousand gold per level.
This feels horrible and make me not want to bother with professions.
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i feel your pain, i like to figure stuff out without reading guides. as a consequence, i have screwed my leatherworker, alchemist, tailor and enchanter. go me. there is still hope for inscription, which surprisingly seems to not totally suck this time. i was so excited for leatherworking. which is on lockdown till probably next winter when i might have the time to grind out 11 levels of renown. meh oh well, thats the life for an uber casual player. 2 hr grind to get past the lockdown? i dunno who said that but id like to know exactly what this “grind” is … cuz it sure isnt the rep grind.
yeah, like a 1 month CD on respecing so if you really mess up you have some hope.