Hey i really hope blizzard will let us be able to reset or refund specializations as its possible to get stuck and not being able to rank up blacksmithing at all as you will need sparks to even get the chance to skill up
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No its not - what specialization did you go?
The same thing is possible with Tailoring. If you don’t pick the Draconic Needlework specialization, you’re stuck at 65, because all recipes need Azureweave/Chronoweave Bolts which are locked behind that specialization.
Doubly so if you went Tailoring Mastery / Textiles, since Garmentcraft has the Spark of Ingenuity items.
Same thing with Jewelcrafting. I went with the setting specialization so I could get an early advantage with equips and figured I could start making actual gems later. Then I found I wasn’t terribly efficient with my materials so I did a little bit of enterprising.
Now I’m stuck at rank 80 and the only ways to progress are to either make things that require sparks (nobody is willing to part with them unless I have raid-tier recipes), or if I spend 45 points to get a glassware recipe that gives me one rank up per day. The only alternative is for me to spend 4500 mettle making reputation recipes.
If I had just gone with faceting, I’d have already hit 100 and had access to everything I actually wanted.
Not OP but I’m assuming Hammer Control and Specialty Smithing. That only gives you access to one recipe that can give a skillup past 60, the Toolbox, which requires 225 Mettle per point, and we can only collect 100 or so Mettle a week so it will be several months before it can be used to hit 75 and open another tree, as well as essentially throwing away tens of thousands of gold worth of mats on a bunch of BoP toolboxes.
Try going out there and killing a few monsters, running some Heroics.
Because I’ve got several non-spec recipes on my Warrior here, and those are the ones that I didn’t sell for big profit when/where I could. A lot are BoE so you can check the AH, or find them on another character.
But if you do that - then you have 30 skill from Hammer Control and 40 skill from Specialty Smithing, plus you can put knowledge in to make a blacksmiths toolkit - which you should be able to 4 star which is a lot higher than some other people.
Additionally you can also specialize in Obsidian Seared Alloy (which you can get from a quest) which should be able to get you to 75, and you can make it more efficiently than others. Buy the mats on the AH and craft it at rank 3 and then sell. Sure you might lose some money, but thats the cost of leveling a profession now.
The problem is, what other people? I don’t know what Bleeding Hollow is like but on Stormreaver where my main guys are you can go days without a single post in chat. You have to assume that anything you do profession wise is just for you because unless you are the only person on the server with some hard to get recipe - pretty implausible for a casual player - nobody has ever or will ever want anything you can make.
And not taking that into account when designing is a flaw.
I get that they’d rather every single player was a hardcore raider and played on a high pop server because it would make their lives much easier. But as long as they allow people on tiny pop servers who play at their own pace to be Blacksmiths, they really should make sure there is a path for those people to progress.
And if the only path is “well there’s always the Darkmoon Faire” then it is pretty garbage of them to nerf it to 2 points a month at the same time.
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The whole system needs to cater to the one person that won’t transfer to a living server from the rotting corpse they are on?
both servers I have been on have an active trade chat of people selling their goods.
Having a smaller server should make it MORE in demand, there are less people to compete against.
To get any blue profession equipment, it needs to be a crafting order.
Any epic gear that is crafted, crafting order.
Those all require rank 3 mats for best crafts. So there is an economy for that.
the days of just doing it all on your own are gone. Professions are back to being part of the MMO aspect of the game. But they are also not required. Just pick up two gathering professions if the system is not for you and then you will become a consumer and keep help the current crafters support their crafts.
Tailoring Mastery is such a trap of a specialization and honestly shouldn’t exist (or at least should have been folded into Textiles). All it gives you is more cloth than you know what to do with and absolutely nothing to actually do with it.
I mean, I for one am not willing to fork over the cost of an entire expansion to Blizzard because they decided to try to make more money off the problem of declining server populations than do anything to fix it.
No, it’s not possible. You’re not supposed to rush to 100. And you’re actually supposed to craft stuff for other people.
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craft 1 item that requires a spark and gives a profession level increase and then recraft it ( change stats etc not create a second one) you gain the extra lvls each time
i was at 69 and got enough kp to finish large plate chest armor and got the master hammer recipe which of you got the mats will take you to 100 so now u just need kp lots of kp
The point of this thread is that you can take a spec that doesn’t have any Spark recipes in it and so that isn’t a solution.
Check the AH - I think the cloths can be sold so if you can’t make them, maybe you can buy them? May not be cheap but possible?
I haven’t seen 1 crafting order for blacksmithing since the expansion began.
There’s a serious disconnect between the opinions of many who reply like this and the reality on the majority of realms. For many, the crafting order experience is DOA, with nothing being posted leading to no work to do. On a handful of realms this may not be the case, but I’ll bet it’s the way the majority are experiencing the new crafting system.
I’ve got characters on Illidan (a “full” server) and Medivh (a high pop server), and there’s a huge difference between them when it comes to trade and crafting. While Public orders are pretty much dead on both realms, on Illidan there’s a constant stream of Trade chat where people are looking for and advertising services which results in a healthy Personal order business (for some anyway). Medivh on the other hand has zero public orders the majority of the time and barely has any Trade chat to the point where if you use it to look for work you’ll more than likely get asked to be quiet because you’re bothering people who can’t learn to turn off channels they aren’t interested in.
So yeah, all these people replying about how you just need to go do some work orders are probably on servers where that’s actually possible, and they have no idea what it’s like to be on a server where it isn’t.
…you realize you can buy Azureweave/Chronocloth bolts, right? Not every recipe that requires Azureweave/Chronocloth is locked behind Azureweave/Chronocloth specialization.