I would appreciate a system in which jewelcrafting bop gems only activate on characters with 350 JC (similar to bloodvine set bonus).
Same thing for ring enchants, they should only work if you currently have 350 enchanting.
Why? Players will constantly level enchanting to obtain the ring enchants, and then will switch back to other professions. This is a huge PITA for try-hards, and it’s not how the profession was intended to function. Similarly players will level JC, craft all the BOP gems they need, then drop it. Again: defeats the purpose of profession- specific bonuses.
If blizzard doesn’t make the change, it’s fine. We’ll adjust to the meta. It would be nice if they made this change for QoL. Makes professions more of a choice, less of a grind/drop/regrind.
In principle, I agree with this suggestion as it seems an oversight that this was not the case back in TBC.
However, in practice, I agree with Orukmeta – if players seriously want to (re)level Jewelcrafting/Enchanting every time they get an upgrade because they’re a slave to the max-iest of min-maxing, that’s their prerogative. Plus, it makes lower-level materials more valuable.
They’re not going to change something like that I certainly wouldn’t want them to if I’m being honest it’s just going to add more annoyance the leather working thing.
Yeah I completely agree I say just get rid of the requirement for drums you don’t have real leather worker for drums I am completely fine with that.
As far is the jewel crafting and in chant thing I get what you’re saying but the thing with gems that’s can help people make their money to my remembrance.
So you take some those things away a Canon makes the profession not worthless but you know Badd.
I me if you want my personal opinion on the matter I would be happy if All the blacksmith the night um’s were boe.
And blacksmith thirds could upgrade those weapons if you were that particular Smith for example.
Technically you could get storm Herald if you weren’t a blacksmith or but you can only upgrade it to storm Herald if you are.
And the same thing for the sword and the chess piece maybe that would give people more of a reason the play blacksmith ers and it would make it a little bit weird cause technically you could really if you wanted to.
Make yourself an armor Smith get the last version of that chest piece and then go right back to macer sword but it’s.
That would take a lot of time and effort to do that so I may have so and really wants to spend the time to do that more power to them.
Grinds are kind of what separates classic from retail though? The idea that you can just invest some more time, for more power. Tedious extra steps that allow you to be stronger without needing to complete some arbitrarily hard thing (mythic raiding/high keys).
True lol. I don’t think that’s a good thing though. Grinding is part of the game, but the game is better when you have to make decisions and play with skill.
Case and point: Arena is far better than the old honor system.
It was likely a technical limitation. When you have a spell strike piece you can’t equip it if you are not a tailor but if you made the epic spell thread and put it on your pants and dropped tailoring it would still work because it just gets added to the stats of a piece that you can equip. To make that piece unable to be equipped would be wrong. I suppose it would work for spell threads and gems since you could replace those with something else but there is no way to replace a ring enchant…
They would have add something to the table that says “enchant is profession bound” and strip the enchant when the profession is dropped. I bet they don’t…
But yeah… you got lots of profession leveling to do lol… I am hording low level enchanting mats and leatherworking mats to get loooooaaaaaaddddddeeeeeedddddd
Just because somebody wants to do something doesn’t mean they should be able to. You’re going to have to dig deeper if you want to make an convincing argument.
There is no universal law that says people should be able to swap professions to get all the best profession bonuses. It’s completely blizzards prerogative whether that’s possible or not. If blizzard decided that it’s outside of the scope of how professions work, they should absolutely change it. Which is something they did do in expansions after TBC.
The vast majority of people aren’t going to be releveling professions for the profession-specific boons, it’s not going to be anywhere near as prevalent as getting world buffs. People might start out trying to do that nonsense but once they realize how singularly unsustainable that is, they’ll stop. Only people who nolife the game or buy gold will keep doing that.
I would just make it like they did for the ZG enchants. You can have a warlock piece with a mage enchant (people tried it because spell hit is amazing for locks), but blizzard caught on, and hot fixed it. The piece was still equippable for warlocks, but the enchant had no effect unless you were a mage. Something like that would be fair.
You can still equip an enchanted ring, the enchant just doesn’t apply any benefits without the profession.
As stupid and as wasteful as the min/max crap is, it’ll keep folks who have gathering skills in business. If someone wants to keep swapping trades for +3 DPS, that’s on them.
Man, I bet their employers (if they’re even employed) would really like it if they worked that hard IRL!