Do you use the public order system and for what items?
There’s been some discussion that the main problem with public orders is you can’t guarantee 5T on weaps, gear, or profession tools. But public orders have other uses:
–pvp gear where level technically doesn’t matter in battlegrounds.
–specialty items like ‘undeath metal’ that one could spend hours spamming trade chat for
–previous expac pots. Surprisingly this comes up occasionally with the Phial of Finesse etc. from DF. As we go further into future expacs, items from previous expacs might be requested.
–leveling blues. These occasionally appear in public orders, placed by someone who is leveling and can’t find their item in the AH. Happens sometimes.
–inscriptionists treatise for profs–these have no level quality.
–bags and toys. Very occasionally a specialty bag or toy will pop up on public orders.
–the new housing coming in Midnight may require blueprints and other items. Public orders could be a place to get them.
–lastly someone like me who doesn’t care aboout quality too much for profession tools, especially later in the expac.
So I hope the public order system is here to stay, with the caveat that ordering 5T gear, weaps, or tools might be possible in the future.
My warrior is running around with one 2T pickaxe equipped for mining and nothing else lol. Because she’s a late starter and also doing blacksmithing, she will only get greens for mining, as saving acuity for blacksmithing tools that matter more.
I just kind of wanted to remind players of the usefulness of public orders, because I know there’s dissatisfaction with the system because you can’t place quailty lvls on weaps or tools (for now). But it does have other uses.
I think public orders are fine as-is. I’m not strongly opposed to adding the ability to require max quality, but it would just shift complaints from “why can’t I require 5 star quality?” to “it takes too long to fill my order!”
My character is an engineer. I have only ever seen one public order for a fishing pole back in DF. I haven’t seen a single item requested from an engineer this entire expansion.
Whenever I see engineering orders, they are usually for pvp goggles. Then I run to the pvp vendor, buy the recipe for the goggles, and the order is gone when I get back. Or they have an embellishment that I didn’t put points into. Happened to me three times now. Sometimes I’ve filled a POW gun order, but earlier in expac.
Engineering public orders are a bit of a unicorn. Only on that alt maybe once a week, so doesn’t help.
The public order system is there for those who want items that don’t have quality levels, as well as those who don’t want to socialize.
I live at my crafting bench, and my blacksmithing directly benefits me, so if I need something made, I do it myself or hit up a guildie to do the crafts I cannot.
Issue is if public orders worked and had ranks crafting would become valueless again with everything being crafted for 50-100g ( barring first few weeks of a new expansion).
The only way crafting is profitable is to have a bot be afk spamming trade requests in town all day ( though some methods of farming greatly out earn it later in the expansion).
Given the idea of crafting is to push wow tokens on players with limited time who want to do harder content they cant just fix the system or it wont achieve its goal.
Blizzard should fix public orders to allow adding a min quality.
Also for crafters there should be an option to filter public orders with incomplete mats. I had to put a lot of people onto my ignore list, because when Blizzard does not add the filter, I use my own filter to deal with scam orders…
the public system should have much better parameters to control what quality item is requested and which is made.
it is very frustrating to put up 658 mats and get a 654 item.
and if we could control the ilevel output, then the system could work for recrafts too.
if the crafter can’t make the requested ilevel, then they wouldn’t see the order. but you, as the buyer, could post the order and come back later when it was done rather than spamming trade chat.
You just say in trade “looking for max craft [Item]” and then you get 10 automated responses. You pick a name, put the order in, and then say “order is in.”
And that’s the end of it. That really shouldn’t be too much for anyone.
People aren’t going to make you come to their keg party in order to get a craft.
I’m pretty good with it. I don’t use it because I only really craft for myself but it makes getting a craft I can’t do myself fast and easy and removes the barrier of needing to socialize to do so.
Sometimes I’ve filled a POW gun order, but earlier in expac.