Using that Myu's WA says I got a bunch of catch up for Alchemy off Patron Orders... but there's nothing off it outside the usual weekly ones handed out like the other weekly KP stuff.And for Herbalism are all those "Deepgroove Roots" a catch up drop? I've long done the weekly getting the Epic to start getting them roots after. Seem to get at least one every 10 minutes of farming
this profession shuffle just explose my brain... total messand still no rank allowed in public ordernot to mention all the PITA around craft (i feeel i spend more time flying from bank to mailbox to AH to profession desk (even greater for Forge and inge which is inside a building...)tinderbox rarery... com'on... is there really a grand plan behind it? if R3 dedicated to only a few, at least blizz should have implemeted an ilv bonus for all improvment (enchat&gem&...)on a personnal note, most of my alt have cheapest R1 stuff, running casual HC. quite enought
This existed in Dragonflight.
It's insane how there's an entire sub-game of WoW as it's economy. Happy for all the people that enjoy this but I also wish there was a quick and easy, noob friendly version of professions besides taking 2 gathering skills and selling everything.Some of us don't have hours and hours to farm materials and knowledge points - and no, selling a WoW token isn't an acceptable substitute.
There also seems to be a hidden currency tracking how many Treatises we've used versus how many we theoretically could have used, suggesting we'll be able to use multiple treatises in a week to catch up. However, last I heard this hasn't become active yet. The currency is just tracking in the background.
How accurate is this? The weakaura/macro say I have 5 catchup Engineering Points still, but have said that for 2 weeks now, and I haven't gotten any catchup patron orders.
This whole prof system is a total mess.
I've loved doing professions in the past, but my brain is too much of a butterfly ("ooh, Shiny quest!") to concentrate on one profession and 'toon (I have more than 50 of them, 8 of which I play regularly). I did try to concentrate on my Leatherworker, but failed completely having been stumped by the Gathering profession tool Schematics being locked behind RNG Engineering, which also requires you to do Group content to use up the Rez discovery (I solo play on one realm) or beg a guild mate to die so you can rez them (fortunately the promise of an achievement from the Stomper forge in Dornogal helps), before you can use another prototype. This is on 5 engineers that I'm using Invent on most days. I'm now putting all the KP into the 3rd tree in the hope of getting recipe scraps. By the time I've done the mats gathering, and all their patron orders, the evening is gone.I also prefer to be playing rather than sitting in Trade & even then, it's hard when you're only able to craft max rank once every few days as the Patron orders have used most of your Concentration (and your gold). The scarcity (and cost) of rare materials is only affordable due to the nest egg I built up in previous expansions.Looking at my profit... well there isn't one from the current expansion - I'm still running at a net loss due to the high price of mats and low interest in the sales hawking process. I have made some gold through selling half the materials I gather (and she's doing quite well, getting at least 1/5th to 1/10th - it's a bit random - R3 materials now), and a fair bit selling off old materials from the banks of characters I no longer play much and have them "just for selling the crafted tmogs" (which is pretty much a high-competition/low sale rate market, so I'm selling off the 100s of items slowly or straight out DE'ing them). I do have many have many rare recipes, the <1% ones like the Schematic: Felsteel Boomstick, Plans: Enchanted Thorium Breastplate, Dirge, Stormherald, Reborn, Notorious Combatant's Leather Leggings, Chimeric Gloves and Chestguard of Nature's Fury but rarely remember to gather/buy/extract from said banks the mats to craft them). All in all, I've lost my enthusiasm for crafting, and playing. I'll continue to (very slowly) gather the patterns, but that's about it for me. Something that was meant to be a fun activity, by adding complexity, has gone too far down the rabbit hole. Over the last few months, I've noticed I've been playing less than usual, preferring to watch videos, comment on Wowhead, or even doing chores & improvements around the house and garden (though I have a habit of leaving the app still logged in - I just get distracted), instead.
Despite the expensiveness I'm enjoying the dynamic of the economy this time, giving everything a bit more heft for the first few weeks. That said, the scarcity of acuity really feels like a big miss compared to DF. It's just not clear to me why it's necessary, and I'm hoping that some changes are coming in a future patch to make it flow a bit more freely.