You have more faith than I do, friend.
So far, Blizzard’s actions this expansion/season feel more like Shadowlands than Dragonflight, and I’d be quite surprised to do something that doesn’t actively harm the players’ enjoyment of the game.
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use the green equipment instead. no acuity needed.
Why do you want WoW to be worse than it needs to be? Do you hate the game?
I did run the numbers, and I didn’t miss any part of what you mentioned. I have been going slowly, one goal at a time.
12 weeks…would be slowly and a rational end goal for a season’s progression.
But it isn’t 12 weeks.
It’s much closer to 12 months. If you miss a week, get unlucky with patron orders and can’t get all of the acuity available to you that week, or if you just take a break from grinding it for a week now and then…realistically, it will take a year for us to “finish” leveling and skilling up our professions.
That is not a reasonable progression schedule for any activity in the game, much less professions.
To be clear, I really, REALLY like the new profession system.
I think the quality levels on reagents made the whole thing too bulky (no need for three different levels of quality on herbs, skins, and ore, for example). It’s a layer that isn’t needed for the flow of the new knowledge, spec, and finished item quality systems.
Sure, have the 5-star system for finished items, but the mats themselves ALSO being tiered has turned people away.
Same with the severe tight-gate on acuity. I’m not saying I need all of it right now or all of it at once. I’m saying the trickle they’re giving us is not enough for the profession system to feel good or operate well, and the only people who benefit from it are those who make the AH their entire game.
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It’s nowhere near that because you aren’t buying all that on one character. You also get AA back from all those books you buy.
Yes. I am. You cannot buy BoP items on other characters, and you cannot take acuity from an alt. I’ve tried. The blue profession items are not warbound, they’re BoP.
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Yes but you can buy it on one character and craft it for another.
To promote token sales by those that feel they need crafted items but don’t want to deal with the gates and time sinks and crazy shenanigans like profession shuffling.
Not without that character’s acuity. I cannot order a blue fishing cap from my tailor alt and use her acuity. I have to use my main’s acuity.
The one who orders it is the one who spends the acuity.
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Yes but you are counting buying it and crafting it on the same character when you know most of the time this won’t be the case. You are purposely making the calculation worse that it really is. Plus you forgot to add all the AA you get from books.
I don’t get the time gate-keeping in this game. What’s their goal? Why is it even possible to use an exploit to get more AA? Why is AA not hard capped like every other reason? Why is the worst way to get moderate amounts of it through wasting expensive resources?
Seriously Blizz, what the heck are you doing?
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I promise that I’m not.
I counted the recipes I need to buy for inscription.
I counted only the acuity I need to purchase the ITEMS for the profession tools.
To get that hat on my main costs 300 of my main’s acuity…to have the cap crafted.
My tailor makes the hats. The only acuity I calculated in those numbers is the acuity my main must spend to acquire the hat, not to acquire the tailoring necessary to make the hat (bad example as learning to make the fishing cap didn’t cost my tailor any acuity, but I’m trying to stay consistent to make my meaning clear).
No, I did not. I wouldn’t do that because if the numbers weren’t this bad, I wouldn’t be frustrated.
Yes. I did forget this bit. I’m not sure how much we get from each book, but there are three levels of each purchased with acuity. I will look that up. Thank you for the reminder.
Edited to add: Okay, so you get 50 acuity from the books as a refund.
You spend a total of 900 on the three books from the Dornegal NPC and receive back 150 for EACH profession.
So 1800 total spent on six books for two professions, receiving 300 back, so that brings it to 1500 for the skill books in Dornegal.
You spend 50 per book with the reputation-based knowledge books in Hallowfall, Dornegal, and Assembly of the Deeps at renown 12 or 14, depending on faction.
So that’s 100 spent on those two books (only one book per profession out of those), and I cannot find data on how much you get back.
Still. It’s a very small refund given we need more than 7000 to get the gear and all of the available knowledge. I also only calculated buying two pieces of endgame “spark” gear, which also cost 300 per. Many players will want more than that.
The numbers are horrid. They pulled the strings too tight. I’m just saying they need to loosen them a little bit. It’s not a good enough flow.
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I think it’s 50 AA you get from each book. I have bought every one but the most expensive one on a few characters plus I have one blue profession tool.
You get two books that aren’t on the Crafter’s Enclave Vendor. One for Kej and then there is the rep one when you hit 12 or 14 renown depending on the faction/profession. The faction one pays for itself, since it costs 50 and you get 50 back.
If you don’t already have it, you can grab the Weekly Knowledge Addon. It tracks all the Weekly KP, plus it has a list of KP and tracks your total KP.
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Awesome advice. Thank you.
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At the very least I am happy with how professions are now viable throughout an expansion’s life rather than only during the first patch like in the pre-Dragonflight days. The time-gating is the only sore spot. (Though Concentration is definitely better than the RNG dependent Inspiration stat).
I started playing Dragonflight at the start of Season 3 after a five year hiatus and was pretty much playing catch-up with my professions for the rest of the expac. Early adopters will always have a clear advantage over those starting late.
To keep consumables costing a lot to get raiders to buy tokens…
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Due to not realizing how rare it was I spent way to much on items I wouldn’t have in the first couple of days.
At this point I decided to just opt out of the system. I’ll farm herbs like normal and I have enough invested in alch to get longer flask times but I’m not going to do this grind. It was already bad enough in DF.
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Quite frankly i don’t even understand the concept of obtaining acuity outside of first time crafts? Where else does it come from?
How do i get acuity as a gatherer? I didn’t play during DF until the last month, so I was never acquainted with the new system.
I just want my blue gathering tools so i can get better stuff to help out my guildies lol. The whole new system is a mess if you weren’t there for DF when it was introduced.
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I think this is really because you can’t specify a minimum quality, why they won’t implement it is beyond me. Is anyone going to spend 30-40k on materials plus a tip, only to post it to public and possibly receive a Q1 or Q2 item? You can do it for personal orders, why not public? It’s stupid that they haven’t imo, and the reason why there are so few public orders for anything.
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That’d be great actually, since they hit enemies too.
Good usage of sporebits make a run much easier, and it’s one of the least annoying mechanics is delves.