Something has to be done with professions

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We have 2 useful crafts this expac, not including cooking.

Bring back armor mods for professions, hell idc if you reuse the same model as the last ones we had and then just add 2.0 to the end of the name.

Blacksmiths had shield spikes, weapon chains which I don’t think any class has a disarm anymore? but more importantly, belt sockets.

Leatherworkers had leg enchants for melee dps and tanks

Tailors had leg enchants for caster dps and healers

Inscription had shoulder enchants for everyone and glyphs

Jewelcrafting had…well jewels

Enchanting used to have a plethora of enchants

Engineers…I got nothing for you guys, sorry.

Seriosuly why were those taken away? What was the point? In fact taking them out made it so it’s easier and makes it so I have less time played, so it would be in your best interest to add them back so I have to farm more, giving you more time played Blizz. Win win scenario.

Edit: I also feel like I’m missing a helm socket? Pretty sure a profession had helm sockets. Mini Edit: It was rep helm enchants I was thinking of.

Edit edit: I would’ve posted this in the professions forums, but we all know that it’s dead Jim.

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Blizzard made professions mostly homogenized and useless because too many people felt pigeonholed into specific professions vs. classes.

Personally, I think Blizzard should bring back depth to them. Double down on it and make them really deep and interesting… and then let players learn and level up all professions, not just 2.

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engineers had scopes for ranged weapons… and long ago they made the best ammo for them.

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That’s what I was missing. I forgot scopes and I haven’t heard the word Ammo used in WoW in a long long time. :frowning:

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Yeah, I love how much stuff they did with professions in legion. Adding quests and stuff was really cool.

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The changes to professions certainly made my unhappy as well. When they made crafted items relevant and useful that was terrific. The endless and uneven quests in Legion for professions were not as great. I would really enjoy seeing high end crafted gear be bind on equip.

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This is what baffles me, they were making them so much better then just took two steps back.

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I didn’t mind the quests so much, just not the ones that forced PvE players to go into the Underbelly.

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I don’t recall there ever being a helm socket from a profession, but I may be wrong. But back in older expansions when gear had specific colored gem sockets, the helms were usually prismatic, and JCs usually put their JC specific gem in it.

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It was enchants. Some factions had rep gated helm enchants. I had to look it up, it was bothering me.

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aaaah TIL /10char

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You’re not wrong, OP, and this subject has been approached here on GD quite a number of times. All of the best gear you can craft now is BoP and cannot be sold, and by the time you can actually acquire the material to make them, you’ve already picked up something better. If you aren’t an alchemist or an enchanter, you’re basically useless now. They killed JC by basically making sockets some sort of crazy RNG addition to loot. MOST of my loot doesn’t even have a socket on it. IIRC blacksmiths used to be able to add sockets to belts or something. Anyway, yeah, professions are in the toilet. The only reason I have a scribe is to make buff scrolls for M+ runs when all buffs aren’t available. It’s basically just a crappy waste of gold/time to do profs these days.

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Helms used to have Meta gems, made by Jewelcrafters and some rep vendors sold them as well (or did they sell the recipes? Can’t remember, been so long).

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It felt like that with a ton of things from Legion to BFA, honestly. Invasions? They finally added them, but they’re terrible in comparison.

Compelling story to unlock flying / allied race with tiered unlocked portions as you progress? Not even in the game.

They’ve added a lot that was taken out in Legion, but it was just like “Why would they even take it out” kind of deal…

Like overflow rep going towards random rewards. That’s a no dang brainer.

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This killed me the most. Like who thought that was a good idea?

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LW/BS/Tailoring should all be allowed to sell the raid armor they can make.

Engi should have better bombs that actually compete with potions.

Blacksmiths should have belt buckles again.

Jewelcrafters should have…literally anything. They need help.

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Honestly, as much as I lament how lobotomized a lot of the classes have since become, they’ve gotten off without so much as a smudge compared to how brainless and soulless professions have since become.

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Its bad enough the crafted gear has already rng stats. Atleast with boe our alts can benefit from the stats or you know we can sell it in the Ah . :+1:

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Not to mention that the engi helms this time around are reused models. You can’t put minimal effort in and then put even more minimal (minimaler, minimalerest?) effort in on that.

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Even if they’re running out of ideas for goggles, I’d be down for different looks, like a scouter or some crap.

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