Ok, So GG on some profession updates that make professions profitable and useful. Serious kudos for this!
However I have to be I dunno the 15 millionth person to mention this and ask…WTF NO MASS PROSPECT STILL!!! What do JC’s have to do to get you to add this in? If you guys don’t get on the ball with this crap soon I am going to defect and start making blood offerings to G’huun. I am more than sure he will take an offering of my first born to hook it up.
Mass prospecting ore makes no sense when gem prices are complete crap due to lack of demand and a huge supply of raw materials.
However, what exact updates are you seeing that are making professions profitable? Wasn’t in the patch notes I read.
You can craft and sell 340s now. JC got a 340 staff so mass prospecting would help a bit, but I expect the market to be flooded shortly.
Exactly, it is still entry level gear and most players will likely farm the 2 warfronts for 340 gear, or continue to farm mythics, or farm LFR rather than paying a decent price for the new armor.
I’ve made 200k in the last 24 hours just off of 1 profession. If I had more time I could have doubled or tripled that easily off of a couple of more, but alas only so much time in one day. The secret to profit is not catching a whale (big ticket items for 100k). The trick is “eating a whale”, one bite at a time until you are done (500g - 1k profit per item x 200)
Why you think that a lack of mass prospect is warranted because “gem prices are complete crap” makes no sense to me. Having to sit and spam a macro over and over and over and over and over and over and over, in order to prospect ore is ridiculous. This makes even less sense when you consider that mass milling was in the game at BFA launch. Same basic mechanic, so why not have mass prospecting?
Entry level gear always sells at a decent profit if you monitor the market closely. Yeah sure people can go get 340’s out of warfronts for free, but they have to get to 320 first, and that’s even if they want to farm warfronts. Most players I know would rather toss 100k or so at some boe’s to get 340 ilvl and go straight to M+ or N Uldir than spend 3 or 4 hours (or even 1 hour for that matter) grinding warfronts. If they do want to grind warfront that means making some choices on getting to 320. Go to the AH and toss 20-30k at a few pieces to get your ilvl over 320, or just throw 5 or 10k at some boe’s to get over 305 grind some heroics and cherry pick WQs for gear to get over 320 or some combination of these methods. Entry level gear still sells and will continue to sell all until well into the expansion.
Good for you on your profits. Now how much would you have made if every player on your server had access to mass prospecting? Probably a lot more players picking up or using jewelcrafting, resulting in a lot more competition. Now your making what, 20k a day if you are lucky and constantly reposting auctions all day?
True, scribes got a mass mill at the start of BfA. Might be related to having a few more types of herbs to mill then you have ore. But we are still bottlenecked by having to purchase reagents in order to convert all of our pigments, one at a time, into inks for some stupid reason. Yes, we can hit craft all, but it still takes a few minutes to get enough ink for a glyph.
I have a scribe, and the 200k I made was from inscription. The ability to mass mill obviously does not effect profits as much as you think. Click create all, go put dinner in the oven, come back go to the vendor and buy 5k worth of distilled water and 1k or so of acacia powder, click create all on my crimson inks, go take a shower, come back check the progress, go do a G Rift or two in D3, alt tab, check progress, rinse repeat until done. All told about an hour or so, while I am afk 90% of the duration. Lack of mass prospect however means sitting there at keys, spamming one button over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over until you get through however much ore. Much different prospect than clicking create all and doing other stuff while it finishes.
I made my first million pre-mass prospecting ore for gems. I would rather sit at the computer prospecting then go AFK for a half hour and forget that I am “playing” the game.
I think converting pigments to ink is a bigger detriment then you think it is, but everyone plays differently and I am definitely doing a lot less inscription this expansion then I ever have.
I’ve spent countless hours milling and prospecting. Doesn’t make sense to me to have introduced it last xpac, continue to provide it for Scribes in the form of mass milling, but then not add in prospecting for JC. If you want to sit and spam a macro for countless hours go ahead and do that. I don’t as I am sure countless others don’t.
Don’t worry, although scribes can mass mill, then whoever was in charge of professions took a break and went to the bar. After that point, we have to go to the vender to buy mats and make every ink 1 at a time!
This point I usually set to auto craft while I do other stuff away from WoW.
Atleast the gem problem can be slightly alleviated by addons or macros.
You are right, it is stupid to introduce features only to remove them later, even if they did actually do it as a deterrent (which is somewhat questionable based on this expansion so far).