I hadnt played this game for 11 years since panda expansion, I started playing it again now because of the new expansion Dragonflight. I like the game ive never got so addicted playing games like this one, but 1 thing that is dissappointing me alot, is the crafting system and the crafting order system is not what i expected it to be when i started leveling up my professions. First it got me excited but now after 2 months of leveling up profession im startng to find the whole concept.
Non profitable and useless.
I expected that i could craft highest item level weapons and armor like mythic quality 421-424 for my self and my alts easily and i expected that i could craft for other people and make a profit but now i can see that making profit from professions is very difficult atleast for the high item level items and you cant realy craft the highest item level gear. this public crafting order system and crafting system is not designed to make gold or benefit for the crafter them selfes. its to much designed to help other people get the best gear as fast as possible at crafters cost. you get 5 spark of ingenuanity by completing 5 quests and after that you can just get high quality items as easy as ordering a pizza. But leveling up a crafting profession and the cost and the time and work of leveling it up is nothing compared to that so basicly leveling up a crafting profession is just waste of gold and time because you can just go to crafting orders and send a order to a random person and get what you want asap.
You maby dont get the best quality unless you know a crafter but still you can get high level items like 1-2-3, maby not best but still good.
The cost of the mats and work and time of leveling up the profession is like 100x higher then ordering and get from the Public Crafting Order and make someone else craft it for you and even more time consuming then getting best gear in mythics and raids and also people who order they just put a small comission like 50-100-1000gold wich is nothing compared to how much time and work a crafter just spent on leveling up the profession and every crafter on the crafting order system just craft it for that people even the comission is low because they know that this order is not going to wait there and they know that if they dont craft asap someone else will. At the moment you actualy get more gold for crafting items that everyone can craft in beginning of leveling up a profession then you will ever get from crafting epic items.
We crafters need a advertising system, the ingame trade system is horrible its like looking on infinity spam by a robot and you have to look for exactly what you want in all that spam and i didnt even know this was the trade advertising until i played the game for 2 weeks i completely ignored this because my only thought was like wow players must be spamming here everydays in the city, there was nothing in the gameplay that told me about this system. its ridicilous to have it on the chat, people hate spam, people who spend time, work and gold on leveling up a profession should also be rewarded like the people who play mythics all day or raids, they should be able to craft things without spark of ingenuanity for themselves and alts but restricted on doing so for other players and it should only be available if a specific specilization has been maximized for an example lvl 30 on longblades in blacksmithing. Leveling up a profession and the time and cost of getting mats and all that its very time consuming and not worth it while people are buying mining pickaxes sometimes for 1000-5000 gold in auctionhouse while people get elemental lariat and epic items for 50-100 gold commision in the crafting order.
It makes no sense to be a crafter when things are like this. And also you get bonus skill knowledge points for crafting in the crafting order system i think its a cheat for some people to level up their profession because guys like me that have never seen a order in the crafting system they fall behind and need to waste time and mats on leveling it up by themselves.
If i make a Alt i can just level up to 70 and then finish 4-5 quests get all the spark of ingenuanity and then make people craft what i want and then just go to mythics and get some primal infusion and recraft basicly get all the best gear asap but crafters they need to wait every week for small knowledge points and gather and work alot for the mats and even make other characters to get spark of ingenunity only to waste in leveling up the main character profession because they are not lucky and getting orders in the Crafting order and getting free first time bonus and in the end they still need spark of ingenuanity and also need to farm primal infusion. Its unfair… Crafters are working so hard to get what they want for them selfes only to find out they couldve just made someone else craft for them and they also need to level up in mythics and top of that they also need spark of ingenuanity like non crafting players. thats why people should be able to craft epic items for them selfes without spark of ingenuanity.
This is probably going to make people want to quit playing the game, i my self have been thinking about quit playing because i wasted 2 months everyday playing to level up professions and reputations for knowledge points, leveling up professions is not easy and getting the knowledge points is difficult and ive been killing mobs and farming chests, scout bags and dirt for knowledge points while other people just had fun playing mythics and raids and have 421 ilvl gear and im not even ilvl 400 and ive just recently started playing mythics.
In real life i like making money and i like buissness. I thought i was going to get the best gear for all that work and i would be rich in gold in the game for future content by doing that and go into mythics with that best gear.
i just now recently started playing mythics and i just realized, what the hell was i doing wasting time on leveling up a profession and these reputations when i couldve just played mythics on many diffrent alts that time and get the best gear for them all there and from vault.
I like the crafting order system, i like the droprate and the difficulty of getting knowledge points and i like the idea but they are to focused on making other non crafting players happy and that is ruining the whole point and concept of wanting to be a crafter.
People dont want to waste time on leveling up crafting profession to make other people happy for 100gold 
i mean to craft a whole gear fully maximized in all specilizations to ilvl 418 its gona take a year to get all the knowledge points. Thats alot of time, Crafters should be getting payd high amounts of gold for their work there should be a stable price not random people making the prices and why cant we just craft the items without spark of ingenuanity for our selfes and our alts in this long commitment.
People should also have the option for minimum quality for public orders.
The profession system is very poorly thought out…
This is a review and ideas for the professions system and the developers.