I would’ve thought there would be a stat panel somewhere, kind of like the character sheet showing crit/haste/mast/vers/etc, that shows total Inspiration, Deftness, Multicraft for the profession, how much exactly each adds, and what each does.
But I cannot find anything like that. On each profession’s panel, on each recipe, there are a couple of the stats with mouseover tooltips explaining what they do, but not all. For example, “Multicraft”. I have no idea what that’s even supposed to mean so I cannot make an informed decision of whether I want that stat on a piece of profession gear that a quest reward is offering me.
The quests and NPC dialogs do a great job at explaining most things related to the professions but the stats are not really delved into much, other than a vague “profession gear helps professions.”
I don’t want to have to look at a fansite like wowhead to see what each stat does and how it all adds up; I want to see it in-game.
There can’t be just one place to see crafting stats, because they have different values depending on what you’re doing. For example, if I start putting points into the Harvesting specialty of Skinning that will add Deftness points but only when I’m skinning. If I have a second gathering profession, those Deftness points from Harvesting won’t get added to it. In Leatherworking, I can specialize in Mail or Leather armor & sub-specialize in individual armor slots, so the values can even vary from one recipe to the next.
The bonuses from the crafting tools also appear to be specific to their profession. The Multicraft bonus from my Leatherworking smock doesn’t get added to cooking recipes (which makes sense since the LW smock is only equipped while I’m leatherworking). So that’s another source of variation.
Not all stats apply to all recipes, so you’ll only see the stat if it affects the outcome of crafting that particular item. If you look through your recipes, you should be able to find one that includes Multicraft, which increases your chances of crafting multiple items instead of just one. Based on what I’m seeing in LW & Cooking, it appears to only apply when making reagents & consumables - I don’t see a multi craft bonus for making armor. So that’s probably of interest primarily for professions that make lots of those things like Alchemy & Cooking.
Kinda goes to show why these stats aren’t intuitive and unsatisfying. You can’t really tell the immediate effect of getting these stats because it’s determined on a craft by craft basis. No screens show you a summary. The stat names are so vague like “inspiration” and “deftness”.
Oooooh wow. If that’s the case, then it totally makes sense. I skimmed through a few crafting recipes, and I do have LW/Skinning also, and I didn’t see any LW recipes that showed other stats. Yet, a piece of LW profession-slot gear offered Multicraft. So it’s possible I did not look hard enough.
“you’ll only see the stat if it affects the outcome of crafting that particular item”
I think that’s the key point here that the Crafting UI failed to mention as far as I saw. Thank you so much for the detailed explanation!
The point was not me asking other people what it is; the point was that it was not conveyed to me through the game’s UI without having to do external research.
But apparently, according to the other poster above, I just have not found a recipe that benefits from Multicraft yet.