I LOVE the crafting system. I don’t intend to make money off of it, I do leatherworking purely for myself with the goal being to craft non-tier slt items that are useful to me.
I understand the crafting order system is there as part of the crafting system, not as an addon, but I think it’s been established that it’s poorly thought out.
My very real issue is this: I am stuck at skill level 70.
Crafting gear gives 3 points, but requires sparks.
Crafting profession equipement gives 1 point, but requires mettle.
Everything else doesn’t give any points anymore (or is green and will become irrelevant for me soon).
I understand the INTENTION here - use the crafting order system to craft items for other players and cap your skill. But here’s the catch 22:
- Without max skill I cannot guarantee minimum quality for embelished + missived items.
- Customers only want guaranteed qualities, so they won’t turn to me.
- Without customers, I cannot craft anything, thus I cannot max out my skill.
And don’t get me started on public orders because those don’t exist, even with the new 4-per-week limit, the list is empty.
I heard all the suggestions, like the ridiculous “make an alt, level it to max, get all the sparks, get enough mettle and commision 5 items” which I don’t want to do, I am not interested in an alt, I don’t want to spend time NOT playing my character to play another character I don’t want just to play the system.
I want this system in place to be good, is what I want. Even if I try spamming trade-chat (which is not my goal or desire) I’m lucky to get one response every not-so-often, and I haven’t crafted a single thing that way because, like I said, people only want 418 rank 5 items, and nothing less, which is absolutely their right! I want that too! But there is currently no realistic way for me to get to max skill in order to allow myself to do that.
Thanks for listening.