RemovedMake alts and assign professions to them.That's about it. There is no other way you cannot prepare for the next expansion in regards to professions , because literally no mats from this one will be ever used in the next one.
Cutting the price of mounts in half after you doubled the price for the people that got there quicker? Why not just put tokens in and let people buy their way to everything. Why do they even have classic if they are just going to make everything uber easy for the ridiculously lazy generation?
2 things to keep in mind for next xpac:1) Unless they changed it, the only thing not available is the weekly knowledge. The weekly quest + weekly drops. Everything else will be up. Gathering, skill ups, knowledge from 1st crafts, etc.2) At this point, the Early Access is considered the official launch since your competition and the majority of the "rest" of the playerbase will get the EA edition (2 toys + pet + EA + Beta is enough to entice most players). So the "advantage" will be basically none (you'll only beat the few who will not buy the Early Access and probably won't care about professions/making gold anyway).The deal with DF that some players didn't like is that they were able to make a stupid amount of gold (by any means, including exploiting prof cds, etc.), but others were also able to do some gold even without actually making professions a priority. And because of that, many players will be able to pay some (or all) of the next xpac cost with gold.So with those two points in mind, how do you prep for next xpac? Buy the edition with EA, get the characters you'll be using ready at 70 to start the xpac and hold as much gold as you can now (because that's part of making gold that some people omit when marketing those "how to make millions from nothing!", kek).Then wait for all the info from alpha/beta.
How to make gold, summarized in three words: "Level your alts."
Im willing to bet that the next expansion again is all about professions and "playing" the auction house 24/7 when it comes to gold making. Would be great if gold making would become more diverse again. But no high hopes here. Actually no hope at all.
Racials used to be important, now they're rather meaningless. Hilariously nerfed 1 day before DF patch when someone phoned it in that 10-15skill is somehow game breaking.You'll make a few coppers from alchemy but nothing major, you can guarantee some 486 crafts as jc and bs(if unembelished), but this is only because the devs abandoned the crafting system and "forgot" to add epic tools for more than just Tailoring and BS(the BS one adding no skill benefit for a very high cost relative to the tailoring one)Gathering skill +5 is worthless, there is exactly zero benefit to being a Blood Elf or a Nightborne and Kul'Tiran is the most worthless racial of all.
Usually I start preparing my alts during the prepatch phase for the next expansion. First I define an order which I want to level up the characters in the next expac, and which professions they will use to cover all important stuff.Then
My 2 cents... get your alts and professions set now and then level their professions for every expac. Set up TSM properly and your groups. See what sells well (I aim for a sale rate of 0.1 at a minimum) and then farm or buy the recipes/patterns to build up 66-70% of the available patterns. Using something like https://warcraft-recipes.com/ helps a ton to see what is available for your profession that you don't have, how to get it, and what to farm for it.This WILL take a gold input but it's a one-time entrance fee for the old world market. If you want to only focus on one profession, Tailoring is your best bet. It has a lot of mog that people like even if it doesnt sell for hundreds of gold like shirts but it all adds up. You also get the Flying Carpet (300ish gold on my server) and bags - which people always need. From there you can spread out to other things like Engineering (I advise Gnomish spec here first and Goblin later to get an extra craftable mount and pet - but this does take 2 alts with Engineering but you don't have to level all expacs for Goblin just Pandaria, Cata, Classic and if you want all the available Goblin stuff even though its not relevent for gold making just to be a completionist, TBC and WotLK but you only need to learn WotLK because Goblin stuff is level 1)Jewelcrafting doesn't have a great deal of stuff that sells from old world except the crown from SL for example but you do get the panther mounts from MoP.You also want to do the discovery stuff for MoP for your Leatherworker, Tailor, and Blacksmith because it takes over a month to get all those discovery recipes/patterns.Pets, toys and mounts are almost always going to sell so even thouogh stuff like the Kyparium Rocket or Geosynchronous Rocket or the Panthers cost an arm and a leg you do generally get a great return on the cost and deposit fees are low. For instance Kyparium Rocket costs me around 65-70k to craft but sells for double. It's a high upfront fee and generally takes a week to a month to sell since I don't cancel scan but when it does I only lost maybe a gold or two in deposit fees and I make ~70k profit (current price is 140k).Once you get your crafted mog set up and restock it regularly you can add in things like crafting reagents. I started doing this on my blacksmith and I'm getting about an extra 400-1k gold a day with stuff like shield spikes. You just have to pay attention to sale rate and for those I picked ones that usually say the avg daily sold is around 100 so it doesnt sit around too long.A good day I can collect 50k in tmog, reagents and mounts and averaging about 35k. Easily pays for sub time.One caveat, I tend to slow down the gold making during expansion since there is so much to do with story, leveling dungeons etc. so only my miner/blacksmith main is maxed out and the rest are somewhere around 100 knowledge and 50/100 leveled.
Interesting that you can make a sizable chunk of gold with SL tables...
Ive said in the past that i am never coing back but came back. This time i am pretty sure i am not coming back. DF did not interest me with all its changes. and i barely lasted a month. The doubling up on RNG and time gates really put me off. As did the quests now. It went from kill 10 boars to kill 10 boars and then go here and there and pick this or that up and then combine with item you get from killing mobs over here. I dont care that blizzard all of a sudden feels like "respcting" the players' time. They did not for the last 18 years or whatever so they can shove it. ALl of a sudden they develope feelings for their players base and how much time it takes to do anything in thsi game? They can shoveoff. To me it appears they developed a conscience because sub numbers are dropping off of a cliff and people are playing games that do not take the mickey with their time.Proffs mostl likely will remain the same. Meaning full of RNG events now to make up for the time lost for "respecting" the players' time. I bet they will add a huge amount of street furniture isid the game to get hung up on to help the MAU's and further waste your time without it seeming likeit is a time waste. No doubt pathfinder will be earned again. Fun detected, you are not flying anymore mate.que downvotes...like a give a hoot. Go and farm your mount by standing under a bridge for a week. That is being productive in the game.
Mission tables are just joyless chores that play like an extremely crappy phone game and I remember this being a dreadful obligatory 30 minutes of my time a day for "free" gold when i actually bothered in WoD. The only reason anyone likes them is because they give you very low effort rewards for logging in and out of a bunch of alts camped at the table. It's such a pointless waste of time and good riddance. Putting the rewards in other places for actually playing the game is better. I'd rather get gold for playing warcraft rumble on my phone than ever having to touch a mission table again and even that is a horrible idea.
Why on gods green earth does this get posted to WOTLK section of WoWhead? If i wanted retail news I'd visit, you know, the retail section.