60 points in Mastery and textiles unlocked looks like I have no way of getting past 65 Tailoring. no recipes give me XP and I cant seem to find a way to acquire new ones to get to 75 Garment Crafting. Hopefully I am missing something but IDK.
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Get to renown 15 with the Dragonscale Expedition (genuinely doesn’t take very long, especially if your main has made it to 20 and unlocked faster rep) and make the fishing hat to 100. Costs about 250g per hat.
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I was just about to make the same post as the OP. I’m at skill level 65 with no way to advance. My current plan is to grind Vandrakken Accord rep to 19 so I can learn some profession garments. But either way, there doesn’t seem to be a path without very high faction renown. Are the other armorcrafting professions that dependent on faction renown?
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cobalt assembly also has patterns that can get you as high as 85 and go yellow at 75, so you can unlock a diff spec if needed. It takes a few hours to grind out the rep, but very doable.
Blue profession tools can get you to 100. Most are locked behind some kind of rep grind though.
There are several BoE patterns you can pick up from the AH as well that you could use to get you the rest of the way.
Or yeah the fishing hat trick.
Yes, they are that reliant on renown. I would say every crafting profession is, not just armorcrafting.
Discovered today on my tailor the patterns available from Valdrakken Accord at renown 13 require a minimum level of 50 tailoring. Mine is at 60 with the only leveling patterns atm, requiring sparks and insane amounts farming or gold sinks for the other mats. Luckily, the patterns I got today are still orange and don’t require sparks, but farming/gold sink yes. The patterns available at renown 19 require a minimum level of 40 tailoring. What?! Why? So I will have to shelve tailoring until I reach renown 19 or those patterns will be mostly useless. They may already be useless for leveling tailoring.
In hindsight, don’t touch your crafting professions until you have reached at least renown 15 with everyone, get all the recipes/patterns you can at that renown, then only use your professions when you have Artisan’s Consortium quests until your renown is even higher with everyone. That’s what I am doing with any crafting alts I bring over henceforth.
My current strategy is two-fold:
- Save all of my knowledge points from now until 1/24, which is when Patch 10.0.5 is set to drop. Part of that patch has this change:
- All professions have had the requirements to unlock specializations reduced. Professions with 3 specialization trees have had their final unlock reduced from profession level 100 to 75. All professions with 4 specialization trees have had their final two unlocks reduced from profession level 75/100 to levels 60/75.
At that point I’ll spec into Draconic Needlework and learn to make Azureweave cloth - which is something I want to do anyway. I already for the patterns from Cobalt Assembly.
- Grind Valdrakken Accord from to 19, for the profession equipment patterns.
I guess I just need to accept that this isn’t something Blizzard intended for us to max out any time soon.