Final nail in the crafting coffin

[Radium-dragonblight]

@Laeli-earthen-ring

You used to get a good pattern from a world elite, a caster in a tower, the floor of a dungeon, a dungeon boss, exalted reputation, mats from casting thrice in the moonlight on the 14th day of the 14th day, mining rocks and hoping for diamonds, talking to gnomes.

This is what i miss. It used to be adventure on it’s own.

[Kardiac-steamwheedle-cartel]

@Laeli-earthen-ring

talking to gnomes

Oh I never talked to gnomes, far too scary. I do remember trekking to the pool on a regular basis though. Painful once I realised I should have specialised in spellfire cloth on that char.

[Radium-dragonblight]

@Kardiac-steamwheedle-cartel

I do remember trekking to the pool on a regular basis though.

I did shadow one. But on same lock on vanilla i remember especially the tower part, talking about tower of althalaxx where i spent long times dying while hunting recipe (i think it was robes of arcana i needed for enchanted gold bloodrobe).

[Kardiac-steamwheedle-cartel]

@Radium-dragonblight

robes of arcana

That rang a familiar bell. Just logged my mage and yep, got that recipe. The same char has enchanting recipes like mongoose that made a small fortune back then.

[Laeli-earthen-ring (Laeli)]

They did like towers back then. Crusader was in a tower. Old patterns kept some relevance with twinking and level restrictions too ofc.

[Gráinne-earthen-ring]

@Sholah-hyjal

was that 400k concurrent player an average, minimum or Peak ?

Estimate. Approximation. The top 3 on Steam seem to vary 350K-600K.

[Baldeagle-bronzebeard (Baldeagle)]

@Tèsla-silvermoon

In tbc a tailor crafted raid like armor and noone complain . There was timegating but mooncloth and suncloth required effort and time.
Normally i crafted things for fun. For the sense of accomplishment. Fun you know? Effort and fun.
Now isnt fun anymore. I dont raid but i would like to craft all the things WITH EFFORT but without raiding.
For which purpose? Fun and sense of accomplishment.
Crafting and raiding should be totally divided.
You raid heroes could down azshara mythic for 10000 times and having ilvl 800 for me. I dont care.
But let me craft alone.

This.

I don’t raid or do dungeons anymore due to the go go go attitude that has build up since LFG and M+.

What I will say is that a non-raid runner used to be able to get recipes for gear that were under raid level, but still good gear.

Sadly that seems to have passed.

Another thing, I got my leather working to 150, now to max my prof I need to get to 175 and maybe above. Out of that upgrade I get zero stuff I can use or pass on to alts.

Activision/Blizzard really need to have a look at professions again.

I don’t expect to craft mythic raid level gear, especially when the pattern is behind a raid.

However, what I do expect, though, is to be able to max my profession, without suddenly finding that “max” is not “Max”.