The profession levels 1-50 is simple enough, you go and farm some materials and make things to put on the AH or just outright vendor them. Cool easy we can do that solo.
50-100 is impossible now.
You need Sparks and BOP items for any recipes for level 50+, which sounds fine until you realise that people are after the highest ilevel they can get so this naturally means they want the highest level leatherworker.
No-one wants a leatherworker that is still trying to level, if you are not at least level 90 people won’t look at you twice, which means you can’t level, and in turn never get chosen to make anything which means you don’t get knowledge and without knowledge you don’t get high level recipes and thus can’t even attempt to make any of the high level items or add on any high level embellishments etc.
I understand that we can wait weeks to get the weekly knowledge to unlock things, but that doesn’t fix the issue of not being chosen to make anything and basically capping us to whatever level we are now.
If you’re not max level now, you’re now stuck.
Please someone explain to me how we’re supposed to level leatherworking now that there are max level leatherworkers constantly in Trade-Chat offering every specialization recipe at max level with all the bell and whistles when we can’t even add a bell ?
What are we supposed to do?
Edit:
Should we just give up on the actual crafting profession and get two gathering professions that compliment what we would need crafting for us and sell the excess on the AH?
Even though that’s broke too because of exploiters and everything being cheap. Professions just feel like a let down compared to how hyped they were.
Im in a similar position with blacksmithing, I can make 405 Weapons but no one is buying them, 392 guaranteed as well.
Im content waiting for mythic and raid release when it will be more in demand and people get a new spark and hopefully it picks up but if it doesnt i’ll be pretty disappointed.
It won’t though, people are not going to spend their next spark on lesser level crafters since they now know how the professions work.
Everyone now knows that the higher level the crafter the better the item you get, so we’re just screwed. This isn’t even counting the knowledge difference that comes with being a higher level crafter.
There needs to be a catch up mechanic, or a recipe that always has a chance to let you skill up, or something.
I myself will never use a lower level crafter because it’s a lower ilevel item. So i know that i’ll never max leatherworking without some additional mechanic.
The only problem is that Sparks of Ingenuity are not renewable, just wait, c’mon. If you want to level up professions late you’ll have to invest much more, that’s default rule for every patch.
I’m game for investing more into a profession because I didn’t utilize it correctly in the first week.
The problem is that there is no way to invest more to skill it up, it’s dependant on other people who will never use me because they want max ilevel items from max level crafters.
The fact that, the only way to up the profession is by high level craft mean u cant reach the 100/100 and learn the last spe.
Have build on darkmoon card, make some gold ect but people dont want to upgrade card atm.
So i got nothing to up my proffession .
If only reputation give us some craft which can upgrade prof, i wont complain. Not the case atm
What I wanted to say, just wait until Sparks become renewable and make unprofitable staff. I was in the same situation when SL started, so now I know some things.
Now you have two options: give up on LW specifically or spend lots of gold when ppl will start to make more orders. There’s much casual players who want easy gear for their characters without completing high keys. And idk why, they’re pretty rich.
So wait potentially several months of doing nothing with the profession just for the spark to become renewable meaning the profession is useless and pointless until then.
Great system that.
Spend gold on what? There is nothing I can throw gold at to get any skill points other than bribing people by giving them money to basically buy their spark.
In what universe is that fair when people will give money to the max level crafters to get them to craft using their spark?
I said: spend gold WHEN Sparks become renewable. Even alchemy kinda poor rn, before Mythic+ week. Why panic? I guess, Sparks will become accessible as M+ starts, cause the whole gear crafting builds around M+ and raid reagent increasing ilvl. This is when you would start investing.
I still don’t see spark being that available even after season start that I will be chosen to craft anything over people who have max level professions.
It still feels like having to wait several months before I can have any chance at skilling up my profession to the point that I’ll be high enough level to be chosen to craft anything.
Ppl will literally start getting Sparks from any content after reaching first 5, if it’ll work like in beta. When I crafted my equipment I didn’t really care about 1 tier difference, so you still have good chances. And yeah, saying “invest” I do mean fulfilling orders for no fee or even paying people. But I don’t think you will have to do so, there’s many lazy ppl who’ll not spend time looking for a perfect master.