New 9.2 Zone feature : Protoform Synthesis

[Sholah-hyjal]

Wowhead datamined something very interesting : A new feature which allows you to craft up to 23 mounts and a ton of pets.

This is PTR datamining, keep in mind that every detail may change before release.

Protoform Synthesis Patch 9.2 System - Craft Mounts and Battle Pets in Zereth...

TLDR :

• A sub-profession feature just like the 8.2 Junkyard Tinkering
• 100% of the mats currently on the PTR are either BOA or tradable
• How the features or the recipes are unlocked is still unknown, the PTR is not yet testable.
• Currently crafts at least 23 mounts and 28 pets

This seems very interesting and honestly a breath of fresh air after years of random drops or currency/rep grinds.

And if the mats are still tradable at launch then you’ll have a lot of opportunities to earn gold from the open world, just like how the Korthia crystals could earn you in the thousands a day around launch.

[Tunso-tarren-mill]

Honestly it looks really good. And this might be a big test for future outdoor content. I think this can only be seen as a good thing. As of what we know now, and my opinion can change trough the PTR cycle. But very promising.

[Twiggz-bloodhoof]

sounds like the old stables from garrison ?

EDIT: depends on that the mounts look like tbh…

cause i dont see anyone running around on the garrison mounts as their main mount these days…

they were pretty bland

[Daestra-turalyon]

Thank for the post an interesting read and i like the idea

[Sholah-hyjal]

@Twiggz-bloodhoof

sounds like the old stables from garrison ?

Correct me if I’m wrong but weren’t the stables about capturing beasts in the open world and get them as basic mounts with no Armor ?

I’m not even sure if the mounts actually have a mob model, let alone how the mount specific parts of the recipe are obtained.

As for the models a few of them are recolours of the previous shop mount, so the overall quality is fairly decent imo (we have a few recolours for spider, talbuk, snail, frog and the eagle shop mount models iirc, on top of a unique jellyfish)

@Tunso-tarren-mill

As of what we know now, and my opinion can change trough the PTR cycle. But very promising.

Indeed, I hope the items stay tradable tho.

We already were baited by the anniversary akama tmog which was listed as BOE yet was actually soulbound…

@Daestra-turalyon

Thank for the post an interesting read and i like the idea

You’re welcome

[Sungyun-the-shatar]

Wow just becomeing worse and worse i am not going to play 9.2.0 …

[Tunso-tarren-mill]

True, But i found collecting them fun enough to do them.

[Gram-ghostlands (Gram)]

Interesting. A system that isn’t about gearing or power.
The mats being BOA is a good move, the Mechagon scraps were soulbound which I think was a mistake, I would have preferred doing the Mechagon tinkering on my dwarf engineer but he didn’t have many part but my main had loads of parts.

So they’ve learnt an Alt-Friendliness lesson (or so it seems).
Have they learnt a progreesion speed lesson? Korthia Codex was way too slow. Hopefully this new system will be more fun and less grind.