The patron work orders are so random, that if you are not lucky, you cannot craft any of the knowledge giving orders. This happened with me on my Scribe character. But almost none of my toons was able to craft all of the work orders giving knowledge. This is very bad, as you should level your professions based on this. Sometimes the craft is bound to a recipe on a different talent tree, so you are out, as you don’t have the recipe. Sometimes the recipe is random drop, or purchased, which you don’t have, or don’t have yet the resources for. Sometimes the recipe requires irreasonable quality for a toon which has just started leveling their profession a few days ago. And don’t get me wrong their profession level aren’t even low (80+), just the requirements for the crafts are completely irreasonable.
Those patron work orders which give knowledge should be:
1 - recipes available for everyone having the profession without any talent blocked recipes, or purchasable/random drop recipes. So only the basics
2 - the required quality for the craft shouldn’t be higher than 2 stars.
Keep in mind, that you have to provide the reagents most of the cases also. The current prices are high, so it’s a great investment from the players just to be able to level up their profession knowledge.
The current version of the patron crafting system is very annoying and blocking players from their profession progress.
In my tailoring patron work orders, there is one I can’t complete because it requires “Ignition Satchel” recipe to be dropped from Awakening the Machine, and the patron order rewards 2 KP. So KP is now behind RNG gates? Is this for real?
Tailoring patron orders are busted. Literally 30g per craft of materials you have to use, Engi crafts you have to use 11k of materials pretty often. This is not balanced at all
I even have wormhole generator with minimum matts in orders
Yeah, this seems to be the case with the weekly quests as well. Essentially all of the “new ways to get knowledge” are just draining your crafting materials, making it impossible to increase your skills. With the AH completely unusable, you can’t even buy stuff - but in general, I don’t like this concept of “pay pay pay” to increase your knowledge. Crafting should be a skil, repeated use, rare recipes, etc. should level it up, not just how much gold you can pump into getting materials and exchanging them for knowledge…
Something is just completely wrong with both proffs, patron orders and the quests. I do wonder wtf blizzard thought. Doesnt help the aquity is so low too. Like it’s just facepalm.
Today I got with my Blacksmith a patron order (knowledge reward) to craft Siphoning Stiletto. It’s really a shame, that the recipe drops from Nerub-ar Palace raid, which isn’t yet open…
