So I left the game for a few years and since being fully back and playing everyday, I got to say the grind for professions now is one of the worst changes I think you’ve ever made. The idea that you have to grind everyday to get skill ups, do orders each day, and put so much effort into getting a decent profession going is abysmal. The idea that if you make 1 wrong point investment while trying to figure out the spaghetti mess that is the profession options, whether to get ingenuity, multicraft, blah blah blah is just overanalyzed data engineered trash.
The solution: Make it so we can respec our professions whenever we want. It would at least make the process halfway enjoyable for someone who isn’t studying crafting 24/7 for their profession. Otherwise, you’re just making crafting a dead end for so many players.
You can use some online guides, wowhead, wow -professions.com, after some reading it becomes much more understandable.
In general, most basic thing is knowing what you want with professions, crafting gear or tools (make crafting orders) or just crafting materials and sell on AH.
You cant do everything at start, developing profession to do everything like before takes time.
When you know what you want to specialize in, everything will get more clear, it just takes reading. Oh, use Craftsim addon, it helps with points allocation in knowledge tree.
Do you have any specific question so forum can help you?
you literally end up maxing out everything. its not that big of a deal, as for the rest of your concerns idk if you dont want to do it then dont do it. crafting is the strongest its been in a long time and im cool with people having invested time into it making good amounts of gold from it.
You can make multiple max level items after one day. They give you enough points. Just press the orange concentration button and win. They even put the ability to do crests way earlier so it would be easier to get to.
Most recipes are fairly straightforward in terms of their path in the tree. You get the circles in a line to whatever you want.
The “grind” is only for people who are min/maxing stats or doing volume crafting. You don’t need to do it.
A tad dramatic, don’t you think? If someone enjoys the process, that doesn’t mean they are “sweats.” It’s just different than it used to be. It’s okay to like it and it’s okay to not like it.
I personally agree with you that you should be able to respec professions (maybe not all the time, but at least once). It’s not a friendly system to newer players, and it doesn’t feel good when you put knowledge into something that didn’t do what you thought it would (arbitrary stats like Ingenuity, Deftness, etc. don’t really explain what number you need to reach to make a noticeable change).
I also agree that it could be seen as unnecessary to allow players to respec their professions. I’ve already maxed my profession specializations within the first few weeks of the 2nd season. I don’t use profession addons or anything, just doing the patron orders and the weekly quests net you enough points a week to get through it.
Agreed. I absolutely hate the new way they handle professions. When I started mining, I had to find out you need to drink a potion that shows you HIDDEN mining nodes. Without that you cant get the right amount of ores to do your blacksmithing.
Which I would then do the daily work orders, which I believe they added in the NPC version because no one was placing work orders since its inception in Dragon Flight! Only to not get the RNG to get the extra materials I needed to continue working on BS. Its a mess, I hope they gut it and go back to the classic way of leveling professions.