Legion Professions felt better than Dragonflight Professions

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Recently been leveling an alt through Legion to experience that classes story and picked up a profession along the way and I was reminded of how much…better the Legion professions were done. Each profession, at least crafting to my knowledge, had a questline associated with it that had you exploring the various zones as well as teaching you new things for your profession.

The gather professions also felt good in that you actually felt like your character was becoming more proficent in gathering the materials. You had different ranks of the skills associated with the gathered reagent and it allowed you to gather more of the reagent or did something.

There was no “Oh you need rank 3 leather and bones to have a shot at making a rank 5 piece of gear” you just…went out and gathered and then made your stuff. I like the talent system in that you can specialize at first, but I also miss the questline that was associated with it and I hope they bring that back next expansion.

Surely theres some kind of middle ground but idk at this point.

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I HATED the Legion professions on my alts because the quests took forever and you had to do the dungeons.

There has never been an expansion that I did so little crafting on my alts as Legion.

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Uh… no they weren’t. They were a pain. You hit walls where you needed an RNG drop recipe to continue, etc. They weren’t engaging. They were annoying.

Now, DF professions need some tweaking, work orders, too. But Legion’s were not fun.

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I basically no-lifed legion and the toon that used to be my main at the time still never managed to get the rank 3 for starlight rose before Antorus

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People still don’t have some of the rank 3 gathering skills. The drop rate for those was insanity and a perfect example of the importance of bad luck protection.

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I also really enjoyed the profession quests they put in Legion and how much it used the old world which helps the game feel like a persistent world.

I also hate the mat/craft ranks of DF, but really like the specializing system and work orders.

A blend of the two would be awesome for me.

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Crafting is boring. And adds nothing substantial or impactful to the game.

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I’m down for adding more profession quests to what we have currently.

But I disagree that legion professions were better. I think DF professions are a huge upgrade.

Besides some of the best gear in the game?

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I do miss profession quests. I especially liked the dailies in cata, but really any sort of RP flavour is nice.

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I agree.

DF professions is one of the biggest fails in the history of this game in terms of a “revamp”.

:man_surfing: :surfing_woman:

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DF professions are overly complicated and frustrating. I stopped messing with anything but basic gathering early on.

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DF professions are trash. I truly hope it doesn’t continue with TWW.

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It is worse when you understand how it functions and it is putrid.

You have to be missing a few screws in the head to think DF is an improvement for professions. There isn’t a nice way to put it to be honest!

:surfing_woman: :man_surfing:

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DF professions were fine to get going, but some of the patterns had idiotic drop rates and locations like the Elemental Lariat for example. Randos got lucky pattern drops at the beginning of the expansion and made 100 million gold simply because by getting lucky.

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This 10000%!! Crafting professions succed donkey hindquarters in Legion, BfA and SL. Between my 10+ max level alts I think I made 5 gear items between all 3 of them. Bags, enchants, flasks and stirrups were all I think I bothered to make. Didn’t even level most of them beyond completing the darkmoon quests. I’ve interacted way more in DF, the rework was a great idea HORRIBLY implemented. :speak_no_evil::hear_no_evil::see_no_evil:

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I actually like the professions on DF, and I’m a person who typically hates crafting in all its forms, actively ignores crafting, and barely does gathering. I’ve been far more engaged with the Crafting systems in DF than I’ve ever been in any MMO. I’ve been anticipating getting enough recipes and profession levels to actually use the Work Order system, and if professions continue like this in TWW I am more likely to engage in them, rather than flat out ignore it as I usually do in MMORPGs.

the only thing I truly liked about the Legion Crafting is how you got little snippets of Lore when learning new crafting recipes.

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I disliked them both, Legion was a bout when i stopped pursuing them with any vigor.

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I think my favorite thing about Legion crafting was that Skinning flooded you with mats that were actually useless.

And I’m not talking the general “basic leather/scales sell for 5 silver apiece” level, you would get a bunch of claws and fangs that Leatherworking only needed for the Rank 1 or 2 versions of basic recipes, they weren’t needed at all for Rank 3 crafts beyond like, the “worse lust” drums (and they only needed 2). And you’d get hundreds from just looking at skinnable mobs.

I think I used like 30 and vendored about 10,000 of each before I dropped skinning entirely in favor of alchemy.

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Dragon fligt professions are the biggest pain in the butt. I completely tuned out. This game is going in the worng direction as no one has time for such oppressive system–YES DRAGONFLIGHT PROFESSIONS ARE OPPRESSIVE NOT FUN!!!.