Profession system and Decorations

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I am generally unhappy with the entire picture of decorations in legacy crafting and posting my suggestions / reflections here

It’s against historical precedent and player behavior trends: For many expansions profession systems have been thrown away for the most part when it concludes. It is my understanding this is done partially to make the game more ‘New Player Friendly’. The system evolves and the cost of changing professions was nothing until now. As a result, very few % of players still have the same profession they did in BC. Now though, they regret that, and new players are just cooked. (why?)

As is, there’s already a supply issue. One item, called the Anima Secured Animacone from Shadowlands alchemy, is a good example. It requires 150 SL alchemy (max is 175). It’s literally the size of a peanut. Only 5 exist on the entire auction house, over a week after release, and they are about 20k each. They may as well not exist.

One solution would be for points to go retroactive. For example, if I have 100 in my current profession for the latest expansion, I am also 100 in every previous expansion for that profession. The only tedium would be legacy professions with higher caps would have to be adjusted. That seems entirely fine to me though, considering no one has cared about those items for 15 years.

I can’t help but be disappointed in general because any cleanup seems like more work than just making this an entirely new profession (like a crafting profession to go along with lumberjacking as a gathering one, Carpentry or something). Maybe this is just because the engineering junk system was considered a success, and this is their next test of the waters, I don’t know. Just feels like it was not thought out well enough because no reasonable person is going to be ok suddenly needing a northrend blacksmith in 2025.

My personal reaction is pretty much to just ignore all these items until something is done, which just seems like such a disappointment due to the % of decorations currently available tucked away behind this silliness.

Anyone else kind of frustrated? Have they said anything about this system (legacy professions) being tweaked on midnight release yet?

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The % of players with maxed SL profs who want to farm lumber and sell decor is going to be a lot lower than the % of players with maxed SL profs.

I’m not sure if you know, but you can put decor items up as a public order. If you want it, farm the mats and post it up - I can guarantee you someone like me with every prof maxed for every expansion will be happy for free gold for pressing 1 button. If you don’t want to farm the mats, then you are gonna be at the mercy of that vanishingly small % of players who want to farm decor for you.

Edit: also, use the undermine journal to shop around! decor is priced by server, like gear, but with warband access there’s no reason to buy from your server.

I can see there’s 5 veil-secured animacones on your realm for 14k (prices must have dropped when they couldn’t sell them at 20k), but if you’re willing to make an alt on wyrmrest accord and use your warbank to transfer funds, you can snap one up for 8k.

https://undermine.exchange/#us-stormrage/257050

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I did not in fact know that they put all those legacy recipes on the crafting order system. That makes it somewhat better I suppose, it’s still a little weird in that case that the whole of legacy professions aren’t also in the crafting order system. I suppose that’s a different topic. So would the matter of the slog of lumber farming.

A couple points I think stand:

The directional shift from trashing legacy crafting systems & new player friendly approach, the general shortage of people with these rando legacy professions leveled (why would they until this moment), and the shortage on the AH (though your point about it being more about lumber may be somewhat valid).

It brings up lots of new/old points that have been annoying for other reasons in other situations, like the server limitations on order placement and auction house pricing. Obviously it’s bad if I’m going to a third party website to shop on the auction house. But again, that’s a different topic.

I will likely try the public order system on my server for a few pieces, see what happens. Thanks for the info

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