My wife works from home and shes salivating over the idea of working on one monitor and fulfilling work orders on the other one all day as they post. She’s toyed with the AH before but the constant looking for deals, posting, taking down etc just got tedious.
What do you think work orders will do vs the AH goblins in wow? Think it will help keep prices lower, because instead of the seller setting the price it will be the buyer?
Think about it, if you are sitting at the AH and you see a job pop for 2k tip on something that you would have been posting in SL for 100k, but its just sitting there waiting for the first person to snatch it, would you refuse to make the 1 click because you dont want to devalue your services? Will everyone? How fast will someone just snatch that 2k gold for a couple clicks?
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I think if anything the loss of craftable leggos will do away with this massive profit sales. I suspect AH goblins will go back to strictly selling mass quantity items (flasks, food, potions, transmogs, etc) again and the work orders will be nice for crafters but not making anyone a millionaire so not a priority for goblins.
Nope.
Profit margins for crafting are already pretty slim once you account for material cost. The only way they could get much lower is if someone is using their own mats for less than what they are worth.
That depends, can they make more than 2k just selling the mats? If so then I fully expect them to blow off said “purchase order”.
I think said goblins will figure a way to make a ton of gold off work orders as well.
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If Work Orders opens up professions like Blizzard want them too, and I’m personally taking that optimisim with a grain of salt, then yeah, there’s no reason that Work Orders won’t be a solid way of making gold.
But like anything gold-related in WoW, it all boils down to profit margins.
Yeah this is wack
I’m not interested in crafting work orders I’m interested in gathering work orders for outside of current content mats 
Say you want silk cloth, I’ll go farm you silk cloth, but I don’t want to farm something that’s not going to sell, which is why I don’t just farm it now.
I think that the Work Orders will be a fun thing to try and I think that the buy/sell interface is not the AH interface? I hope so.
The key to make it work, in my opinion, is releasing new recipes. For example, I spent a ton of gold on my first legendary; then replaced it with my covenant legendary with a ton of gold, then had to change slots for the tier system for a ton of gold. So, if they have maybe four “drops” of new updated and more powerful recipes or attributes or flavor; then the system can be sustained over an expansion.
The biggest selling point of the Work Order system is that you can craft BoP gear for other people.
Which, if Blizzard are brave enough to reintroduce crafted gear as strong as some of the BoP crafted gear has been in the path, with stuff like TBC Tailoring and Engineering goggles being the first things to come to mind, then yeah, I can see the Work Orders being a solid system.
So it really depends on how ambitious Blizzard are with their profession reworks.
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