Yes. That means the crafter has to pay to complete the order.
Why would they do it? To actually be able to level their proffession.
Another way of seeing it is “selling your sparks and primal chaos”.
I’ve got all my public work orders done by 1s and I don’t think the new 4 daily limit is gonna change anything.
My leatherworker, blacksmith and engineer are all stuck at skill level 65. Zero public orders. And blizzard, I am not standing on the crafting table for hours, doing nothing but hitting the refresh button hoping that some poor sap lists something and gets a subpar item from me so I can level my profession.
This also applies to going on trade chat and advertising my subpar skills for hours.
I want to play the game, not waiting for a work order. Professions were a fun side hobby up until dragonflight.
So, I am afraid my army of alts are going to sacrifice their sparks to level those professions. Which, I think, is bad, bad, bad.
The only character I have that has had any luck with public orders is my inscriptionist. The missives that give one knowledge point and that bop and only the inscription profession can produce. So when my crafter is making ink, she checks the public orders often and I was able to fulfill 7 orders in an hour of checking every 30 seconds. Those orders are filled almost instantly, that’s how my crafters and looking for work. Yeah, fun stuff. (NOT)
It will be interesting to see what the upcoming cap of 4 public crafting orders does. Best case scenario is it flips the dynamic upside down and submitters feel obligated to participate in a bidding war to have their submission taken, driving the price up.
I see too many crafting order submissions that are insultingly low, like 1 silver or 1 gold.
Having noted how dead the crafting order tables are on my server I fully expect that the lowering of the cap will make no practical difference to the availability of work for my server.
I did a test where I spammed refresh for 1/2 an hour and there was just NO work being posted and no-one standing at the table but me.
Hopefully this helps you out some:
For Blacksmithing, you should not get stuck. You don’t need crafting orders to get to 100. You level with Master’s Hammer, which comes from every armor and weapon spec. If you aren’t already spec’ed into those, then today you will be able to pick one because of the patch changes. Alternately you could level up the tool pattern you get from tool smithing tree (and you should have a ton of mettle if you have been without crafting orders for this long).
For engineering, definitely start working on explosives. It’s long term, but doesn’t require any crafting orders to get to 100. If anything it’s a good supplemental way to skill up.
I don’t know about leatherworker or blacksmith. But engineers have a portable tinker table that you can use away from the main city. Alchemists have one too.
It depends on the profession and server. There are rarely any BS or JC orders up on my realm when I check throughout the day, and the few that do pop up are generally sniped rather quickly anyway. I’m also on what Blizzard designates as high population, so it’s not a lack of people to submit orders.
they need to make it so you can access the crafting order page without being at the table. yea you cant craft anything till you go back but at least you would be able to look at orders etc and not have to hearth everytime you wanna check
Come to think of it I rarely see people tallking to NPC’s to place work orders either.
Blizzard should just make the game post public orders for players to fulfill. just like garrison missions, the game can place work orders. And they should merge work order and auction house, only then ill place work order. Only other scenario is it is not obtainable in any other way. Or it is too expensive on my server to buy on auction house. When you buy something game can tell this item can be obtained cheaper if you place work order
Only way my work order get done even after the new limit of 4 public is still alts send a order to me in the guild i’m in. once and only once have i seen a public work order. if i make 20 plus gold from the order great but nope back to alting to get the weekly done.
Blizzard unfortunatly lacks understanding of supply and demand.
There is a massive supply of crafters, ready to craft their items and your items.
There is not enough people wanting them.
A single BS that specializes in belts, can fulfil the order of every single person.
The answer to fix this is not reducing the number of crafts, no the answer to this is a hard answer and its one people dont wanna hear but its the truth.
The only way crafters will get money for their prof and crafting orders, is a daily crafting or weakly crafting limit of that item and or brining back the day long cooldown. At that point you are selling your time, not only your skill. It sucks, but that would fix the issue with commission prices.
Exactly, there is a 2 orders of magnitude (100x) missmatch between posted orders and the demand for work from crafters. Despite it being spark day there were no orders to fill yet again. I have been watching activity at Valdrakken and there are not people either at the consortium placing orders or at the work tables filling them.
A small Band-Aid fix would be to add skill ranks to the weekly profession quests like the Dark Moon Fair ones. This would allow people to max out their craft even if they cant find the orders.
I never see any orders on my blacksmith but we have to hyper focus on one thing just to get any form of results. So if you focus on weapons and nobody wants a weapon you’ll never see an order.
The biggest complaint I’ve seen is not that they cant get orders. It’s that people cant progress. Just add progression to the quests, lessens the complaints at least.