Why Engineering?

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I picked up Engineering on this toon when I first made it, and I haven’t dropped it since.

And yet, expansion after expansion, I keep asking myself why I even bothered in the first place.

In Shadowlands, it seems like everyone is in a good place. Alchemists can make oils again, Enchanting still remains useful, Inscriptors get to improve crafted armor, and Tailoring, Leatherworking, Jewelcrafting, and Blacksmithing will be vital in making Legendary items, among the other new things they get to do.

But Engineers? We get a couple of gadgets (that still require Engineering to use, so useless for making money even if they are supposedly bind on use), goggles that will be useless when compared to Legendary helmets and still useless even when not, a Wormhole generator (what’s the point if we’re teleporting zone to zone anyway), and a couple bombs that will be useless 30 minutes into the expansion.

Oh yeah, and apparently the battle rez is gone too.

I just don’t get it. Engineering’s thing has always been utility, but I’m definitely not feeling like I’m going to be utilizing it much.

The engineering Auction House will still be a thing, yea, but with the nature of how the world is in the Shadowlands, I don’t see it being too much of a hassle to just walk through the portal in the hub city and use the ones on Azeroth.

Someone from the beta who has had experience messing with professions, please answer me: What reason do I have to keep Engineering through this xpac?

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Time to flip to something you can make your legendary base pieces with!

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Yeah, that’s the huge problem I can see. There’s probably going to be a huge weight into those 4 professions that can make Legendary pieces… The others have no hand in the system, it seems like.

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I’d just like to save the outrageous price I’m sure they will be. Hopefully a someone in my guild can hook it up so I don’t have to level BS.

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okshin house up ther 4 free lotta place

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… what the hell did you just try to say?

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Mostly I just use it for the teleports. Super useful when doing a round of mount/transmog farming.

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when u sell stuff okshin house , lotta extra 1s theyre , like u get extra 1 in borlas or z

uldalor

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I dont know about you, but the way I play those wormholes are a godsend. But I farm all over the game so they save me a ton of travel time.
Ive made probably going on a million gold with Eng since I started the one main character a few months ago just making crap with Eng and listing it. Way more than paid for itself.

Making the repair bots …well, the 74A model anyway…means I have a portable vendor too when I need to clear my bags inside a raid thats dropping tons of grey crap.

Obviously you need to take the prof thats best for your game…but personally I wouldnt go deleting the hard work you put into Eng unless you literally had to.
make alts to put other professions on if you need them.

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Oooooh, yes. I had a hard time translating that but the extra auction houses are a nice QoL upgrade.

EDIT: Also, looterang.

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omg…and That lol.
Even if it were ONLY the rang Id keep Eng

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The other professions create items that upgrade the legendary pieces, so all professions are involved.

an example from the wowhead article:

“Inscription has new Optional Reagents, one a powerful addition to all crafted armor made with Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, and Tailoring, and another that gives the ability to create targeted Darkmoon Cards for specific decks.”

“Alchemy Optional Reagents can be added to armor pieces with effects such as increased durations on Flask and Food effects, and chance on hit to increase your Primary Stats for a few seconds.”

“Engineering Optional Reagents add useful effects, like increasing swim speed or increasing your primary stat for completing World Quests.”

Jewel crafting can make legendary rings/trinkets. And most slots can be enchanted now.

So they have tried to make all professions relevant.

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Dude. Learn to spell and communicate.

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no dont care

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Looterang and AH in Oribos.

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You don’t have to just level bs, you have to level the recipe too.

It’s looking like reaching max of a single legendary precursor item is hundreds of thousands of gold in vendor mats.

The base price of a max level legendary precursor will be in the 5 digits.

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I’m not above trading hoof pics for a discount.

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Well, aren’t they also going to have a way to upgrade lower level legendaries?

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I’ve not seen any solid answer on that. I’d almost guarantee it will be possible to upgrade(if nothing else, to prevent degenerative gameplay, in the form of saving dust until you can make the highest ilvl legendary), but no information of what that would take.

My guess, is that you’ll just be able to shove a new crafted precursor item, and the difference in soul dust cost, into your existing legendary.

Doubt you’ll be able to get past the AH barons demanding 6 figures for the crafted item.

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The nitro boots are still good to use.

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