First off, that’s how professions have always been.
Second, you can still make money via professions, we’re still not at the point price-wise where the casual profession crowd would be showing up in most expacs, which means there is still money to be made. More importantly, it means we aren’t at the point of professions scraps yet, which is when the group you’re referring to typically gets into it.
You’re also operating under a lens that there’s no value in subsequent patches, which is really where the meat and potatoes lies for those in your position; you have plenty of time to catch up by the time it actually would have mattered for you.
There should be a catch up of some kind. We know knowledge is finite each week. Therefore we know how much knowledge was available since DF released.
New characters and alts should be able to earn that all the way up to that sum of knowledge, provided they haven’t spent any DF profession knowledge yet (to stop people from swapping professions and quickly earning knowledge in a different profession)
I dunno, maybe my idea is bad and/or needs work, but there should be some sort of catch up for new players and alts, because it really isn’t fair for someone starting blacksmithing now, compared to someone who started on release day. And this gap will get worse as time goes on.
There’s only so much time in the day to design, develop, and test. If they had created a reset ability, something else would have been cut. Have faith that one will come.
In case it hasn’t been answered yet, if you had a profession from day 1 there’s a group of three NPCs next to the crafting order platform. If you were there since day 1, doing every single thing, you would get… 1 quest from each of your profession trainers, 1 crafting order quest for each crafting profession, from the two NPC’s to the right, and 1 quest from the 3npcs on the left. If you are behind… You get two quests from the NPC’s on the left.
Additionally, the random profession knowledge point drops are limited by the week, but if it’s week 6, and you change professions, you can get all 6 drops in one day.
You’ll still be behind, but that will always be the case in an MMO if you start late or took a break.
to be honest, the new profession is very poor design, basically a few who got there fastest will make tons of gold, but the rest majority will lose gold for nothing, this is terrible design
It’s not a gold mine to me. I became self-sufficient with consumable buffs. Instead of wasting gold buying consumables, I make them for myself. I am 24/7 flasked (phialed) complete with all the potions plus food buffs (from my own cooking and fishing).
Oh I got extra Witherbark for AH which I use the earned gold for those high level enchants and paying commissions to get my gear crafted.
All I can say is that… I am just playing the game. It’s a nightmare for tourists for sure. It’s for people who play this game long-term.
BTW, I love herbing without dismounting. It’s on Mastery. You have to read what Mastery could give you. You just dont spend points without thinking. You wont lose what you learned anyway until you spend it.
I just play classic era. Theres a new wave of people flooding into whitemane on classic realm server. Back when proffessions mattered, and when playing the game was more than a rat race to the finish line. In retail absolutely nothing matters from 1-59 and it barley matters at 60. Unless you can play 9hrs a day, min max everything to the point where its a job, and zerg everything then you will always be behind them. Also most people are friendly in classic, we help each other, TALK to eachother unlike retail where the only time someone’s says anything its to complain about something or they say nothing at all. Retail is for speed runners and copium junkies. Gl keeping up cause people with fulltime jobs and a life cannont even comprehend these no lifers that blizzard caters too.
I think whats really depressing is just how quickly markets for items like enchanting mats or cloth completely bottomed out. I specced into the extra deing tree, maxed out insight of the blue and extra mats and am working on the elemental thing and i dont really see the point. Ive been vendoring all the greens i get because dust is even for the cheaper ones always a massive loss. This eventually happens in every expansion but its usually 8-10 months in, and even then cheaper greens are still break even/profitable. Were a whole 2 months into df and prices are at final patch waiting for new expansion tier of low.
@Zerezend Then don’t do them. Nobody’s holding a gun to your head, you don’t need to waste your life earning sub-minimum wage in WoW gold at the auction house. WoW gold is a WASTE PRODUCT FROM HAVING FUN. That’s why 1000 gold trades for 6.3 cents (now, it will get cheaper later).
Professions in WoW are no different from Pet Battles: They’re a side progression offered to players who find the system engrossing. If that isn’t you, then don’t waste your time.
How late? I got an alt that’s two weeks behind my main and it doesn’t get the bonus mission either, but I have an alt that hit 70 last week, dropped the gathering professions this week, I had and I got 3 quests from them on Tues.
No different than complaining that someone got a reputation pattern before you. If you do the weekly quests, you’ll catch up.
Honestly server/cluster size makes a bigger difference on the gold you can potentially make than 30 KP. Smaller servers have fewer people dedicated to goldfarming/crafting so finding a niche market to take over is way easier.
I have an alt that hit 70 last week as well, and got the same one quest from the group of three npcs that you’re referring to. I will say that I didn’t drop any professions or learn new ones, as I don’t flop around on professions like that; all of my alts have the professions they’ve always had.
The only alt of mine that’s getting two quests there is one that’s a tailor/enchanter, so that makes sense, since that’s one for each crafting profession.
And really, IDC about the catch up regardless, and I certainly wasn’t complaining about it. I don’t think there is a catch up at all, which is why I questioned someone referring to the KP items from Rabul as a “catch up.” Those items aren’t a catch up, since everyone can get them once, and they are only available to purchase once you have the rep to do so, just like every other player.
Another member of wows largest fanbase, the world of whiners. If it involves working for it, they are ready to whine about it.
Admittedly, there should be a way to reset the profession points but at a big cost or quest perhaps. Otherwise I love this new system.
