PSSST. I have a request for a Cubic Blasphemia costing roughly 24k to make for 10 acuity with 0 materials provided. Thought we did away with this bull?
Yeah this still doesn't completely address everything wrong with patron orders, in all honesty blizzard needs to change it to where materials that require epic or rare level mats to be provided. BS is still horribly affected by this in that you have to spend a fortune to even get the knowledge points. In all honesty at this point I would rather go back to the DF scheme of having weekly quests to do. Over these patron orders that are making it so expensive in a lot of cases to even gain knowledge points once you buy all the books and etc., or just make the patron orders give at least a books worth of knowledge for one time expensive crafting orders to offset the cost.
These are FANTASTIC changes.. I am so glad blizzard addressed this garbage. Hopefully with this they continue to adjust and balance the patron orders because some are just asinine. I'd nut for blizzard to fix the pulling from warbank too.. Cripes that would be freaking great. Having to either write everything down, or get add ons to remind you is so stupid. Just fix the issue.
I agree as well with the cost to craft these orders for non-existent game characters. I'm a tailor and enchanter, and the costs of mats to make many of the patron orders are outrageous especially for those that do not give a KP.Any work order request that uses large amounts of mats, (meaning more than 10 as a good example, storm dust for enchanting say the "Enchanted Runed Harbinger Crest" while current AH prices at this posting for all the mays are just over 5k gold, it is not as much as any recipe that uses the Profaned Tinderbox, which has over the last week or so, fluctuated from just over 10k each down to 4k, now has risen back up to 8k. The reward for making this crest was not even a knowledge point, but a bag of mats and an augment rune. For me this is worthless and a waste. I have seen patron tailoring work orders that needed far more expensive mats to craft for a single KP and a bag of mats, again, not something I want to waste my effort on when I really need to keep my mats for enchanting my own gear or making it in the first place.I have already begun the slow process of bringing my alts over to place orders to myself, but honestly this takes away from my main's game time to explore, run delves for better gear and just enjoy this expansion. I cannot condone how Blizzard has put its player base who enjoy crafting at such a point that we don't want to craft. It discourages all of us except the deep pockets, from doing crafting. Something needs to be done to increase drop rates for extremely difficult to get mats and those that are also commonly used, for example, weavercloth, was at the beginning of the expansion going for 3-4 gold each, now it is floating about 55g each, you need 5 to unravel, that's 250g to get 10-19 spools of weaverthread of which 10 are needed to make 1 weavercloth bolt. The process gets more complicated to create 1 exquisite weavercloth bolt. Need I go on? Why has our artisan acuity (formerly mettle) become tied into the reward for a work order, this drags out the process of profession crafting as well. or is it that Blizzard entices this so called acuity profession shuffling? Gold costs quickly add up and while I admit I have wasted good dollars to buy wow tokens to sell for game gold, this is not how a subscription game should be played. This is slowly and surely becoming a "pay to play" and "pay to stay" here game. Like WTF?Do something to fix this situation please, Warcraft was never about making gold, it was about questing, adventuring and working as a team to accomplish difficult tasks in doing dungeons and raids. Now it seems to be a toxic and greedy environment that supports exploitation and numerous other untasteful qualities in human society.
A tip for those unaware:You can still do 3 cheap DF personal workorders to complete the TWW weekly KP crafting quest. Doing so actually completes both DF and TWW weekly, in case you also want DF KPs. You’re welcome:-)
still can't use my mat in my bank when accepting order !grrrrrrrreven worse with blacksmith and enginering in a house, can't use my longboy to buy mat (or sell some stuff)
The one change we really needed was the ability for these orders to draw from the warband bank.
No surprise, AT ALL, that Millhouse is a tight a$$ - he was never too enthusiastic back in TBC, either...
The improvements have helped. I'm usually able to complete most of the orders I know the recipes of and I'm usually able to do the weekly crafts using just the NPC orders. They need to do more work to identify recipes that use rare mats and either always provide that mat or even better, make that mat drop more often (looking at you tinderboxes and null stones) to reduce the price.
now fix that absurd mining weekly w/ 2 Null Stones worth 13K...
Unfortunately Blizzard doesn't control the price of components. They'd need to disable TSM to bring prices down. It's too easy to control the market and keep prices high. Sure, gatherers are making bank at the moment (which is nice) but anyone having to use those items is feeling the pinch.
Should probably remove the Earthen Master's Hammer from BS patron work orders. They want to remove an expensive recipe? This is one that should be removed. 80k average cost to make
They didn't fix ^&*!. I'm still getting work orders as a tailor for things that require 4 Sanctified Alloy. I can't even &*!@ing make that.