I don’t have copious amounts of time to roam a map for 30-60 mins looking for the 2 treasures so i can get more skill points in enchanting. The only crafting profession that needs to do this. I go entire weeks not being able to find them due to luck and lack of time
All professsions have to do this. But if you don’t want to hunt, there are plenty of guides around (youtube, wowhead etc) that tell you exactly where they are.
Every profession has the same number of 1 time world treasures out there to pick up.
And every profession has 2 weekly treasures to pick up.
Enchanting actually has the easiest knowledge point catchup system out of all of the professions.
This is literally a non-problem.
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You know I’ve also experienced this. I have all crafts and enchanting does always seem to take the longest.
But I think it’s more because most other professions I have are paired with a gatherer.
For enchanting I have it paired with tailoring. It has been that set up since I started in BC. So I’m looking for four treasures. The fourth one just seems to take forever… A couple of weeks I just gave up on it. 1 kp isn’t worth it and I couldn’t care less about “catching up”.
But probably it’s this: by the fourth one I’m already annoyed with finding “jump on the slime” (nope.) and “defend from kobolds” (nope nope nope) so it seems to take longer than it actually does but idk I’d have to time myself objectively to determine if that’s actually the case.
I mean the consolation is that when you cash in your wax, you can get a giant pile of free mats though?
Yeah that’s always been the general combo expected to be taken. If you take one, it’s expected you take the other. The two professions have been “softly” designed that way since Vanilla. It’s one of the reasons so many tailoring recipes from Vanilla up through current TWW require enchanting mats. The two are semi-intended to be taken together as both have their own internal gathering system and feed each other.
Though the changes to how cloth gathering works in TWW and likely moving forward will impact this longstanding symbiotic relationship somewhat. Thankfully Warbands solve the problem for folks like me who had their tailors take something other than enchanting and vice versa.
There’s really nothing special about tailoring that pairs it with enchanting except that tailoring mats have often been the cheapest of any profession. But it’s also not uncommon for leatherworking to have cheaper crafts than tailoring.
Tailoring has always been the cheapest and easiest means of obtaining things to disenchant because (before TWW) it required no additional professions in order to get cloth.
LW still required skinning to feed it. So even if you chose to use LW as the means to feed enchanting, you’d still have to have a skinner or budget buying leather into the equation.
I have no reason to pair the two. They are simply that way because I originally had it that way when I started my tailor in BC. I’m not giving up so many years of recipes just because one expansion decided to change things up a bit.
Preaching to the choir here. Been a Blacksmith + Enchanter on this character since Vanilla. I have so many smithing patterns that are literally no longer available in the game that it’s not even funny.
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Tell me you don’t have other crafting professions without telling me you don’t have other crafting professions.
Every crafting profession has two knowledge point treasure items to find per week.
If anything, Enchanting is the easiest crafting profession to gain knowledge points in cause they’re considered as both a gathering and a crafting profession for knowledge point purposes, since you get weekly knowledge points and catch-up points from disenchanting items.
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Enchanting is also the only profession that can be fully caught up in 20 mins or less after logging following weekly reset. Depends on the dirt piles, but 5-6 DEs, a weekly and its done. All the other crafting profs so far have never been consistently caught up since TWW started.
Most of you are missing the points or i didn’t state it correctly, prob cause i was drinking.
Lets try again. Chanting is the only profession that doesnt drop points from the table, that you have to go get the 2 treasures before you can DE items to get more points from Deing.
I have trouble flying around trying to find those treasues so im like 20 points behind
What if you just catch up when you do have time and not worry about it when you can’t?
Enchanting is very fast to catch up so if you don’t have time one week, the catch up mechanism has your back.
20 points behind…In enchanting. Don’t bother with the table. Go for the cheapest blues you craft in any profession and send them to the chanter for DE. The catch ups will pile up till you are caught up.
Just keep a bunch of drops and rewards somewhere and at each reset just DE till you got all the weekly KPs really. It’s super fast.
To start getting the catch up KP you have to have done the weekly things: 1 profession quest from the trainer + 2 treasures. The OP isn’t saying they can’t get the catch up because they don’t know how to, they’re saying they can’t do the weekly treasures cause they lack time. Which is fair. If you’ve only got an hour or so to play I don’t think I’d want to use up most of it treasure hunting either.
So I’m saying do other stuff, don’t worry about it. Just dedicate one week to catching up out of a month.
This is not true by any stretch of the imagination. You can get the normal weekly DE knowledge drops without even touching a single dirt pile/world treasure chest first.
Now if you are talking specifically about the catchup drops, then yes you do have to get the 2 treasure chest drops. This is mainly due to Enchanting being both a gathering AND crafting profession. I’m honestly surprised they didn’t go the same route with Tailoring given it is the only other crafting profession with a built-in internal gathering mechanic.
The good news is that Enchanting is still the easiest profession to catch up (for both the gathering and crafting professions). If your time is limited (which I more than understand), at any point you have an hour or 2 to play, go knock out the weekly pickups and then grab your tailor and mass produce the 71 blue bracers. Send them all to your enchanter (or if your enchanter is your tailor toss them in one of your banks). Then make yourself a nice beverage of your choice and mass DE until you get all of the catchup drops backlogged for you.
There’s a Weak Aura called Myu’s Knowledge Points Tracker which gives you a very simple window frame that shows what point sources you haven’t collected on any given character (gathering and crafting professions). It even has a color coded display that adjusts based on your activity to show when you’re actually eligible in any given week for gathering catchup drops to show up as well as how many the character has backlogged so you’ll know when you’re done with getting caught up.
Er. I think you are misunderstanding the OP. A quick glance at their profile shows they have algari master of many, enchantment IV, and disenchanting IV. Enchantment IV is held by less than 1% of the playerbase.
So, this is someone who has experience crafting and enchanting in particular. They know how to get the weekly KP. They’re specifically talking about catch-up. They know how to do the catch-up. The fact that they know they need to do the weekly tasks first is evidence of that.
I would also assume that they have an addon to track their catch up points because they know how many points they’re missing.
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Using mats you collected yourself is not “cheaper” than using mats you bought. Because you could have sold those mats. It’s the economic concept of opportunity cost.
The only relevant thing is the price of leather vs the price of cloth, and there have been many times historically when crafting leather items was cheaper than crafting cloth items.
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There is an area just south of the theatre troop where disturbed earth hyperspawns, you can get all the weekly treasure drops in 5 minutes. Use an inky black potion to see them easier.