Engineering requirement need to go.
The main reason is it have too good utilities but is all locked behind (X) engineering required.
That should be for RP at first, but right now i have all my character engineer because it is too good.
The business could be funnier if that wasn’t locked behind a requirement and also being free to choose the profession of your choice, but wormhole / Mails / Jeeves / resurrection / Rocket belt is just too good and make everyone choose engineering.
If you want to be blacksmith today you have two alts :
Engineering / Blacksmith
Engineering / mining
For Leatherworking :
Engineering / Leatherworking
Engineering / Skinning
please remove the requirement for Engineering so we are not all bound to every character to Engineering.
By other words you want Engineering to become a “Secondary skill”-type of profession on level with Cooking and Archaeology. Given that Engineering mostly brings self-utility as it’s crafts requires the profession to use, it is anyway in a disadvantage as a commercial crafting profession, and moving it up so it no longer takes a profession slot certainly is an interesting suggestion.
However, if you find the Engineering utilities to be that powerful that you need to have Engineering on all your chars , that is a you-problem.
No, Blacksmiths today works fine with the traditional Blacksmith + Mining-combo. If you really want your Miner to have Engineering, then simply park your Blacksmith in Oribos and mail ores to that char.
Same as above, Leatherworking + Skinning works fine. Eventually combine Skinning with Engineering and park your Leatherworker in Oribos.
Learning Engineering on your crafter characters makes no sense at all unless you intend to have them as actively played alts doing Shadowlands content.
What i meant is engineering profession is still a primary profession, but everything is sellable.
It is not only self utility
You have the popular battle ressurection
You have the auto hammer
You have gear transmog
What i tell is there’s stuff that even you buy it once it still gold making like mount :
Wormhole Generator for each extension
Jeeves for repair and bank ( cost way highter than auto hammer but can be reused)
[Turbo-Charged Flying Machine] ( still need (25) as engineering to learn it
MOLL-E ( mailbox ) reusable
Movespeed rocket ( necessary when allowed to be used)
This stuff should be non bound by engineering, because they are not consummable so all it does is make character bound with engineering with enought profession and never touch again engineering.
It is almost as you said that mount is not necessary and it’s a person-problem.
The wormhole is a extremely gain time.
you can reach pandaria to Nagrand Draenor within seconds when you need without engineering between minutes and hours.
When you gold farming, there’s no denial you can’t bypass engineering.
When i farmed the brutosaur in BFA for AH , all my wormhole was on cooldown to optimise hearthstones.
Alt or without alts, you skip all the flying time,
I am PvP player and i don’t have teleport of M+ 20, technically engineering wormhole is always on cooldown.
New zone = wormhole.
Even when they backlash the time gained is valuable,
And time is money friends.
And that time while travelling used, you get into your fun instead.
I think that would be very bad for the game, let engineers feel special and engineers only, sorry but that doesn’t seem like a great idea in my opinion.
I’m not an engineer on this character, as I have portals - but I really like engineering on my Priest as I can use things such as the wormholes. I’ve never wanted to sell them, so I don’t know why you would. And things such as the rocket boots and the hang glider are toys that make the game more fun, not necessarily a need to make the game playable.