please enlighten me how/why Engineering is supposed to still make any sense in TWW.
Now, before you get instantly mad at me. I do have Engineering as one of my main professions. I picked it, just like I did in the expansions before, because I play a class without a BRez and I thought it was still needed for the BRez Bracers. Unfortunately at a way too late moment I finally understood that everyone can just use the Jumper Cables now. So BRez is no longer why I would want Engineering.
Then I thought about getting the Health Injector but I learned that this isn’t a re-usable item in your bags which replaces Health Potions but needs to be socketed into a Tinker Socket. And while this sounds convinient at first it means that a) I waste a Tinker Socket for something a potion can do, b) I could use the Tinker Socket slot for something more useful and c) it costs 600 potions just to craft which sounds like the overall amount of potions I will need during this whole expansion anyway. So for me the Injector also doesn’t justify taking Engineering.
Then there’s the Crowd Pummeler mount but I’m not a mount collector plus I think it’s ugly af. I know that’s subjective but again, for me doesn’t justify taking Engineering.
This is not a complain but rather a post about being disappointed. To me it feels like there’s no longer a place for Engineering in WoW. Or is there something I miss?
Engineering is/has been mostly for making fun things/gizmos for yourself.
The most ‘profitable’ things imo are the profession tools.
And the Crowd Pummeler. If you got 1000k to spare.
And moreover, there is an exact copy (other colour) that drops in a dungeon/raid.
I make gold mostly from crafting guns and profession equipment.
Potion bombs, and reagents are profitable only if you concentrate to craft rank 3 with rank 2 mats, otherwise it a waste (even with resourcefulness and multicraft), but it’s fine. I can few thousands gold every few days crafting reagents and bombs.
My disappointment about engineering is the lack of tinkers. Only 2 are added in this expansion, one of them is only useable in unrated PVP. The refurbished tinkers, need a lot of scrap, and you end up getting a random one (I got only one and it was a rank 1 PVP tinker from dragon isles).
Convenience mostly. You still get the wormholes to travel around the world, goblin glider, nitro boost, jeeves, mail box etc. Personally I think its just the best profession for a main char. You can also make some gold with concentration and profession equipment.
However they shouldnt have made the change for the brezz. Now our armor crafts are just useless.
Wormholes, gliding, waist-mounted shield, repair bot, diver helmet. These, plus the ocasional extra gadjet, are what makes me keep it. Wormholes are a massive time saver, and I’ve lost count how many times the glider saved me. And now there’s an underwater delve I can do with the helmet, avoiding air issues.
