They could have instead made it so Patrons would provide all mats for these expensive crafts, that way we could get first time crafts done more easily without having to hunt down people with work orders that we still need
The changes are welcome, particularly the Quality reduction which consumed most of my weekly Concentration (when I could even do it). However I still think more is required to make it newer player and alt-friendly.I don't mind having the occasional Sparks order that gives me Skill points, with few of the other mats supplied, but some of the expensive ones are still there, as other posters have mentioned, e.g. those using Tinderboxes or other rare mats (that really ought to be more common). Tailors are stuffed by anything requiring Duskweave (a friend of mine is fully spec'd into this, as well as the extra cloth tree, and STILL rarely gets a drop).Honestly, like public orders, they should provide all the materials, except perhaps the cheapest ones (and for some crafts there still aren't any - looking at enchanting, for example). Even Millhouse.That or remove it as a way of obtaining Accuity and KP and replace it with world/dungeon/raid/PvP drops instead, with a fixed weekly cap. I'd quite happily sit down with a dev on a video call and take them through a typical week's crafting on my various alts to illustrate the issues if they really don't understand the problem all but the richest players have with this. Is there even a plan to integrate the Craft Order and Auction House, in a later expansion, just to remove one of the artificial barriers to using the system?Also +1 to the call to fix the Accuity shuffle loophole. This is really unfair to long-term players who don't want to drop 18-20 years worth of recipe collection, or swap their crafter characters just to exploit it.
I'm going to give up on all crafting professions. I can't take another expansion of this system. I bet it will be liberating.
And Blacksmith patron orders are still too expensive to fulfill. It is weird that they did not hotfix BS's most costly patron orders. I am not giving 50-100k gold for a knowledge point or two.