Yeah.
Pretty smart, huh?
BS - 2-hand weapons, accent plate gear, prof tools.
EN - cuffs and prof tools
LW - mail primary slots and prof tools
You would believe me if I told you how much gold was made from those and other professions.
May I ask how in the world did we expect from the same dev team that brought us an unbalanced m+ season, they could figure out a perfectly balanced economy on professions?
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yeah they straight up kneecaped professions.
in past expansions I could make bank selling alchemy junk after Tuesday reset to raiders.
Now nothing’s worth anything and the only people that made profit were the ones that got way out ahead with cheesing reputation in the first weeks of the expansion
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I wonder if server population isn’t playing a role here too. On my server, I have, as of now, only ever seen BS crafting orders for some alloy and the alvin the anvil pet. Never for a 2H weapon… Not that I blame people with the questionable quality procs you’d get from a public order…!
Absolutely, I’m medium pop on both servers where I play.
I’ve do pubic orders, but most contact me based on reputation and product availability.
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Weird I’ve made millions of gold off my professions and continue to profit
Sounds like a skill issue
It’s an effort issue, if anything.
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Lol! That reminds me of the profession questline where they talk about building a reputation based on quality work and at the time I thouht to myself, “It is so not going to work that way for anyone…”
Guess I was wrong. 
It certainly doesn’t work for everyone and the specializations are such that you can’t be a master of all anymore. It also takes some front-running for higher end crafts, but after that, it’s player word of mouth.
The rebellion against this is playing out on the forums daily.
Reputation is something that kinda shocked me and was so great to see.
When I went to get my 418 lariat recraft a guild member wasn’t online so I just asked in trade (I’m on a low/med pop server) and had 3 people respond all recommending the same person.
Got in contact with them, got the recraft made, and done. It was cool to see.
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Indeed. While I have a lot of areas covered with alts, I have a short list of players who are high levels in areas I am not. We have a rapport and trade skills when possible. I make recommendations based on that and they do the same.
That’s why should of just put no effort in professions saved the gold you spent and just let someone make it . professions fail like everything new they put in game last 3 expansions way over annoying massive sub losses only for them to lighten the annoyances to late.
This must be your first time playing an expansion out the gate. Things start expensive, then get really cheap. Like clockwork.
That’s funny, because through professions I made close to 1 mil gold and I wasn’t even trying to really spec into the big gold making professions.
Sounds like you didn’t know what you were doing and lost gold.
Right now all these topics are just trolling … serious or not.
Because as the saying goes:
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
So shame on you OP.
It wasn’t on purpose though… Blizzard doesn’t benefit from people selling gold, so let’s not insinuate that they did it on purpose.
Nope. Played since start just about Every Exp… Spend some gold to level Proffs while making things and selling them on the AH to make the gold back. If anything i broke even in the end and had ALL Proffs @ Max. This way I was able to help Alts/Friends/Guildmates. In Proffs current state, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone anymore as it’s much easier and cheaper to farm some gold and buy off the AH. I really don’t even care about owning every Recipe or making the best of everything. It’s just Sad that for more casual players Proffs have become just one more chore when so many other things are still a chore.
dragonflight professions are one of the biggest if not biggest failures to ever grace the in game presence of world of warcraft.
never in my life of this game, (and i have been here since beta) have i personally ever been so upset or disappointed with a feature. i loved professions. every single xpac since release, i would level my main, get the odds and ends done, do what i could gear wise and then in my down time level all my alts and sit for a few days leveling up every profession so that they were all there and ready for when i needed them.
now, here in dragonflight i am sitting on 5-10+ of every profession spread across my army of alts but yet for what ever crazy reason i still need “other” players to get what i need with the same profession. mind you i did nothing to advance these professions because they are so horribly designed and i just cant stomach the thought of having to spend millions of gold to level them or depend on work orders which could take months upon months to gain levels.
then sending out public orders with 10s upon thousands of gold worth in mats all for some random to use your mats, take your thousands of gold tip and return you the item you wanted 10-20 ilvls lower than you needed. the whole system is a mess.
dragonflight professions are a failure on every level. all these specialization points and so on. great on paper. in game? not so much. dragonflight professions are the perfect example of what not to do when trying to make something better.
as for dragonflight, i like it. so far so good. with that being said, i was a heavily devoted profession player. it was my go to down time hobby. now that has been destroyed with this mess.
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deck out your char and sell boosts. whatever trivial gold required for professions wont be an issue.