How do crafting orders supposed to work?

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After playing so much in DF and having mats and the recipes to take on Crafting orders, they seem to have no incentive for the Crafter to make anything…

What i mean is that every order i see from public is trying to get something with an extremely low amount of gold, leveraging any weekly, adventure guide ( Trading post ) or renown progress needs of a Crafter. Just now the highest reward for Inscription is 250g for an item that would need mats in excess of 3kg to make…

There is something clearly broken in the premise, and i guess it is that the auction house is actively driving the economy too much in order to make any competition work in the work order system.

I suspect that if the crafting order system got connected to the auction house prices, or warned the requester about them ( or even make it able to buy mats on the spot to contribute to the order ), it would help the vision Blizz had when they revamped professions.

Overall, DF brought a ton of needed changes on the Professions aspect, and even though i agree with the mentality of them, the execution of some parts, like how punishing it became to switch a profession, how there is no such thing as the renown “catch up” mechanism for people that didnt have the time to level the skill up or how the work orders that were supposed to make crafting async from two people having to be online clash too much with Auction house, make the experience suffer.

Maybe it is only me though, maybe i am using it wrong, ideally i would like to spend time to learn a good recipe, skill it up, and then check the work order table for anyone needed it in a price that would make sense ( maybe a 5-10% more than mats or something like that ).

What are other people think on this ? i Search the forum and didn’t see anyone particularly mentioning this point of view on work orders.

Edit: Typos

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See too many muppets on it only providing the cheap basic mats, but not the most expensive mats… and their payment is far less than said mat’s cost. :expressionless:

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They ruined public orders when they stopped making the order require all the materials. Now it’s mostly just scam requests that would leave the crafter out of pocket.

The few genuine public orders are quickly picked up and crafted.

Personal or Guild orders are what I do most.

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They don’t work well. Its a terrible system wich never should have been added

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So craft orders work as intended.
Guild and personal ones are mostly used.
Public with mats are filled quickly.
Public without mats are seen hanging there.
Where is the problem?

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If you can’t see the problem as it was explained then there is no explaining it.

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I probably cant see the problem since there is no problem, for me at least.
I guess it is all in the eye of the beholder.

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As with everything :dracthyr_hehe_animated:

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Happy for those of you who are able to pick up public orders. This doesn’t happen on small realms … my 2 main characters cover tailoring, jewelcrafting and leatherworking between them and there has never yet been a public work order for any of those 3 professions, and I’ve been checking most days since it started.
Another reason why I think professions should be revamped.

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That is mostly problem with small realms, there is shortage of everything there, orders as well (boe armor, tools, guilds, crafters, people in general)
There are not much more public orders on high pop servers, people switched to guild and personal orders, as intended.
Btw, do you make public orders yourself for others to fulfill them? I dont, no reason to use them really

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I haven’t done so up until now as my characters (as well as the 2 above) tend to cover all the professions needed. So I guess that partly explains it.

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This might explain why there is no public orders - noone makes them since people use alts, friends, guilds etc.

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