Just make it so you have to use max quality materials with a minimum 5k tip to request max quality. Looking for a crafter at this stage in the season on low pop servers is nearly impossible. Please just let us do this.
Really they just need to find a way to open up cross server crafting options.
I really enjoy the concept, but low pop servers really show how short sighted the design was.
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I know this isn’t an ideal solution but you can join guilds on other servers and get orders made through the guild order system.
I am sure plenty of people on here can give you names of active guilds. Bonus is you generally don’t even have to pay that much.
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there already is one - you can join guilds on other servers and put in guild orders with min quality
Yeah…but that’s not really user friendly and is more of a work around than anything.
Cross server personal work orders should be standard a part of the system.
But I guess the current system opens up a market for cross server guilds to sell their services for a markup on low pop servers
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or they can just make it simple and change the public order to match. not everyone’s guild has people who farm all the recipes or crafting skills.
I don’t think anyone uses public orders that care about quality…
I only hear about crests and raw pvp gear being put up. The idea is people speced to proc mats or need the xp grab them.
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the public orders with a minimum quality would just ruin the entire system - there would be no social component and no guild component - both those would just disappear because it would always be easier to just put the order up as public.
Plus OP still might not get it made - if no one in trade will answer their call what makes anyone think anyone would be watching those work orders enough to do so.
Anyway, I moved all my characters from other servers into my mains guild just so I can make stuff for them and it works just fine imo.
You don’t use public orders if you care about the quality of the item.
Public work orders do have a minimum: 1 star.
If you want your BIS I think encouraging people to find a crafter is a good thing.
I don’t see why the materials requirement is necessary. If they add a minimum quality button, everything else is negotiable.
If they give crappy materials, no crafter will be ABLE to fill the order, so they’ll learn to put in higher quality mats.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment here, OP. I just think it’s an extra added complication that would be rendered entirely unnecessary if public orders had a minimum quality tickbox.
I don’t disagree here, either. I have done the trade chat, “Can anyone make X” and then put in personal orders several times. It works really well.
no it wouldnt lmao it would make people actually use the public system more.
yes the social component of people using add ons to instantly whisper you when you post in trade chat… as for guild nothing would stop people from still using that if their guild is more reliable. me personally im in two different guilds, one of my guilds has a few designated crafters since we are a mythic raiding guild. my other guild is a casual guild who mostly just dont care about crafting. i could put in a guild order in that one and it will never be fulfilled.
this is just a non argument.
I don’t think this is necessarily true. I always ask in my guild chat or guild discord before looking elsewhere for things like this. That wouldn’t change if they made public orders a safe and reliable tool.
exactly - that is the only system people would use because it is easier
never used those and I guess most people don’t. I would be okay if blizzard broke those.
reality is a non argument - ok. 
I think something to bring in more of the community feel they were going for with this would be a crafters forum. Players and crafters can make lf craft or lf work posts and segment it per profession.
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Come on now, there isn’t a social component to it now. It’s people spamming trade chat with can craft messages, and people using add-ons to pseudo automate whispers to people who say WTB (craft) in trade chat.
The only ones opposed to public orders not being intentionally broken are the people spamming trade chat every day. Even better, it would improve margins for people dramatically.
Instead of one semi-bot soaking all of the crafts, most people would use public orders, which would hard gate crafters to 1 craft per day unless they could get people to bother with private orders.
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Or just let people tip whatever they want without forcing a number.
It’ll either sit there and no one will craft it because they don’t want to waste one of their 4 public crafts on a low tip or someone won’t care and they’ll craft it.
No, that’s not all they need to do. PWOs need min quality. They also should open it up to all servers like trade goods at the AH, but the first need is minimum quality on public orders.
Leaving that out (because it does exist for private orders, where it’s so much less needed) seems like a deliberate choice to frustrate the player base.
Yeah, as they focus on social systems…there is no way they are going to take the socialization out of high-quality gear crafting.
You will talk to crafters and you will like it!
This fits.