I just dropped Herbalism for a second crafting profession. I like gathering things when I’m out in the world, but for it to fill a profession slot it’s just not much of a money maker compared to crafting professions that make more money for less time invested. I think we could just package gathering professions into their respective crafting.
Basically:
Skinning comes from Leatherworking.
Mining comes from Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting.
Herbalism comes from Alchemy and Inscription.
Enchanting and Tailoring are already their own gathering professions, so they’re good as they are.
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Just gonna let engineering hang out to dry huh?
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Not gonna lie, Engineering has been so forgettable I forgot it existed.
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Gathering and crafting are merged for both tailoring and enchanting and it works beautifully. And the two skills work well together.
Not sure why everyone else needs a whole other skill with no purpose other than providing materials for another tangentially related skill
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I think any individual character should be able to learn all professions, but we should stay limited to the perks of our main ones just as it is now.
Gathering professions only benefit gathering bots.
It’s pretty much the primary profession I use on every character. There is so much self-sufficiency with it. I have a hard time doing anything that’s actual crafting. But if they made the system work like your idea, but tweak it so it’s actually better. I think it could be fun.
Whatever gathering skill is useful for that profession is baked in. so if I decided to use engineering and leather working, I would automatically get mining and skinning.
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Tailoring has a 30 point skill in Textile Treasures to help gather cloth more efficiently. While Enchanting mats are certainly needed, I find that cloth is the main and most abundant resource needed for Tailoring.
nope - we need more professions not less
Or we could have none. No more tedious clicking on nods or consumables to restock just content.
I like this idea, though i worry it would lead to ways to get herbs and ore “automatically” the way cloth and enchanting mats are gotten now. gathering is its own thing, and a relaxing way to spend time in game and - contrary to your assertion - extremely profitable
After all these years, my characters (well I through my characters) have become attached to their professions as part of their RP. Major structural tinkering with them is rather disruptive to that accumulated history and attachment.
(I’m not completely digging my heals in against the idea, just expressing some anxiety)
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Or we could also get rid of mythic raiding instead, if you think the game has too many players. That would get rid of just about the same number of players as getting rid of professions would.
Mythic raiding has actual content and gameplay to it. Crafting at most cannibalizes daily quests and is timegated not skill gated.
You are trying to compare apples to oranges. The truth is the average wow player would be better off without managing enchants, potions, and every other tedious aspect of it.
Think the game world already caters to the people that treat it like a pre-match lobby too much.
Don’t really need to purge absolutely every single thing that can incentivize leaving the capital city at all.
or, maybe instead of breaking every single profession by merging them, just make gathering professions secondary like fishing, which is ALSO a gathering profession
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I kinda disagree… im fine with transmog treasure hunts but its been proven again and again world content is toothless content.
I don’t think it should produce required items for instance content. Its parasitic more then complementary. I don’t know how you build interesting world content either. Each time its tried wow players drop raid groups on it.
Well, they did add ‘Pile of Rusted Scrap’ for engineers that drops off mobs like cloth does for tailors. They could simply make Engineering more like Tailoring with various scrapping components being our thing instead of needing ore.
Professions provide gameplay - that is almost all I do in the game. It is totally optional you don’t have to partake
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