Before BFA changed things and separated profession skills by expansion, it used to just be a flat number that increased every expansion. You used to be able to use early stuff in the new expansion to finish off the points in the previous expansion. Unfortunately this is no longer possible, and it takes a lot of grinding to even max out, say, classic and BC mining these days. No more going to WOTLK and mining cobalt to finish those off. This is just one example.
What I recommend, when a new expansion comes out, to have the profession vendors in the new area sell an item that maxes out your skill in the previous expansion. Skill points only, no materials or recipes…if you want to learn recipes and create stuff you should still have to go back train the recipes and farm the materials. This would make it more like it used to be before BFA separated the skills.
Let’s keep the challenge of levelling profession skills to the current expansion.
There are nice websites that give you grocery list of mats to get and a step by step of items to craft to max out each professions by expansion. Otherwise, theres DMF that give out little tidbits of previous exp in reverse order.
For the gathering… Yeah you are gonna have to get that pick/sickle/knife out and boogie.
Yes, I know, it CAN be done. But it’s FAR FAR FAR more annoying than it used to be pre-BFA. They can just sell items that will max out skill points in old expansions. Noone is using the DMF to level old expansion professions, it’s almost always the current expansion. And the piddly 2-3 skill points/month it gives is not levelling anyone’s old expansion professions.
There’s just no reason to have that much annoyance for old expansion professions, when it used to be MUCH easier, going all the way back to BC. I’m not even suggesting giving rare recipes for free or anything. Skill points ONLY. Materials and recipes should have to be acquired the old fashioned way. The end result will be…just like it was all the way up to Legion.
Your arguments seem to counter each other. Do you want old expansion professions to be just handed to you completely or do you want to earn them like everyone did at the time?
I mean honestly, it takes very little time to crank out anything from Legion or earlier. The only thing that sucks is BFA crafting where you’re at the mercy of expulsom or whatever crap it was.
I want it to be like it was prior to BFA, when you could finish off the points in the previous expansion with stuff from the new one. So yes, I’m only asking for a way to easily get the skill points, not the recipes and such.
Oh you mean when I used one of my boosts and my new max lvl toon had to go though all past expansions to get to current exp’s profession? That was very annoying! Much prefer now. I jump in at current and can work on the past ones at my leisure.
No. I don’t mean like that.
The current method where you can jump right into the current expansion profession is fine.
What I want, is a skill point catch-up for all expansions but the current one. Let me give an example. When TBC was current, it was kinda difficult to get mining to 375. At some point, only khorium (rare spawn) gave any skill points. But when Wrath came out, and the cap went to 450, you could get those last few points with cobalt. You can’t do that anymore. Instead you’re stuck hunting for khorium.
My suggestion is NOT to “bring back the old system”, just to introduce a catch-up mehcanic (probably via a purchaseable item), that will max out the skill points of a previous expansion. Only the skill points, if you want recipes or materials you should still have to go back and farm those. I want to bring back the catch-up the old system provided, while still keeping the expansions separate profession-wise the way it is now. Make sense?
Or heck, we could even lean into playing in the current expansion to level the old ones. Let me say, in War Within, craft an item using Khaz Algar materials that will max out my skill points in Dragonflight (or any other old expansion I choose). Just as an example. Just SOME kind of catch up.