As long as they cap both ends.
“Crafting this item will cost no less then … but no more than…”
Tho that would be kinda pointless if you are gonna fulfill your own work orders…
IDK pure speculation here.
I donʻt even mess with the WO system as I have no idea how it is supposed to work.
Probably do by mistake ,otherwise they would not keep posting it .
Which has been a thing from the start. Wowhead even had this in their “Dragonflight Launch meme collection”:
The whole “Blizz u need to make it so ppl can do WO and i give all mats so i can do quest” thing was idiotic.
A 400g tip is good, right?
Supplies no mats.
Item sells on the AH for several times the tip they are offering.
“Why, no, I don’t want to give you my money.”
Some people on my server have 30+ work orders up for each profession, no mats, and 10g commission. You can put them on ignore, but there’s usually a new group of players doing the same thing within a week or so. It’s straight up spam and there should be an option to report it.
And if Blizz doesn’t want to deal with the inevitable flood of spam reports, give us an option to filter out orders missing mats. It was stupid to even allow these kinds of orders in the first place.
I feel stupid for paying 40k for the expedition tent toy early on.
guess I should have waited and just ordered it for 500 gold lol
How about crafters demanding 5k commission for just hitting a button? Like you aren’t supplying anything but 1 minute of your time… not worth that either. crafters are ripping off people just as much as the people not supplying mats.
They are supplying the hours, if not weeks/months, of getting their profession not just maxxed out which cost them gold, time, and effort but also the knowledge points which don’t just flow like water. The time it takes to get rare recipes from raids or dungeons and such, etc.
You are paying for their skill/service and if you don’t like that then why aren’t you making a crafter alt?
Either pay them for their time and effort as well as your convenience or do it yourself.
This. I know quite a few friends and guildies that use them for skillups. May as well give someone something instead of crafting those items to just vendor them. The choice is up to the crafter, why take away choice?
I think the idea for a filter is valid, but in the meantime, there are weakauras and addons for that, I believe. Just don’t accept them if it’s not worth it to you. But let the crafter make the decision. If I have 5k of a particular mat sitting around (just a random # for a random unknown thing), it’s value to me is a lot less. I could sell it, but I’m a pack rat. For me it’s not about what it’s worth on the AH, it’s what it’s worth to me. Again, choice.
Players are always asking for choice. This provides that choice. Asking Bliz for fewer choices just adds to, well, fewer choices in the future.
They added more than 1 spot where it indicates you would be using your own mats. No one is being scammed.
People who charge commissions are usually using their Insights which is to guarantee max-rank on the 447 ilvl orders. By that method, they are supplying 1/3rd of their weekly mettle income of the week though players who don’t get a large number of orders are swimming in mettle, the ones who do aren’t.
Also the amount of profession knowledge it took to reach that point which meant putting in material investment and doing weekly quests since the start of the expansion to be able to guarantee such.
Oh yeah, I forgot all about that as well. Having to spend our Artisian Metals on max crafting and stuff in addition to everything else.
This. Funny how the “yOu JuSt PrEsS a BuTtON” people don’t just level up their own professions and craft the items themselves, seeing as how it’s such a trivial thing.
A potential loophole to abuse that the player base is abusing?
No…
I’ve been a parrot before and I’ll do it again… work orders are a stupid system
For Mining/Engineering, probably the easiest professions to max out on knowledge for, took 8 months for me to be able to max-rank everything, and didn’t get the gun recipe until Aberrus came out.
Think it takes a bit longer for professions like Blacksmithing.
I buy all mats (at highest quality available) off the Auction House so that way I don’t need to worry too much and just leave a tip of, like, 500 or so gold.
How about I just hit that button and give you a rank 3 instead of 5? sounds about fair.
You’ve obviously never leveled a profession in Dragonflight, LOL
Kinda proving you have not done so in Dragonflight with that one XD Sure, maxing it out is quick if you got the gold but the real grind starts after that.
Waitaminute,
Which is it? Am I maxing out professions for myself or because I want to make a profit?
If someone demands 5k for any craft, not worth it because unless you are on a dead server, there will be someone else who will do it for just the mats.
As for the second point, old professions were a bit more trivial because you didn’t have to go through the same knowledge grind and you mostly did them only for yourself because you couldn’t trade some of the higher crafted items. Old professions, getting to max rank was just a money sink. Now? If you want to max a profession, ‘trivial’ isn’t what I’d call a 6+ month grind.
Now? Professions are designed to be used for profit and making things for other people so crafters can make gold instead of only being something gatherers were able to do. Considering crafting is now linked to the gearing process (Guaranteed 447s with embellishments or stats you choose yourself) if you only do a crafting profession for yourself (besides maybe engineering) you are selling yourself short.