Don’t worry about it, it seems to be their thing.
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Going to furry even harder now.
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I suppose it depends on one’s goals.
I only play tanks so I don’t need to fully rank up everything. I won’t be making mail, cloth armour or weapons casters use.
I feel like I’m already closing in on being able to make everything I want. However if I also played Shaman or Hunter I’d still have a long way to go.
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Took me a long time to get all the KP farm done, looking through my twitter it was in 2025
I’m a long way off from achieving that any time soon in Midnight
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im back.. after a 5month break… what did i miss
also, im new to housing, but i think ive smashed it out the park with my house
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Been playing 20 years and I’ve never once made money from professions lol. I just don’t find the time or enthusiasm to do them with everything else - daily, weekly quests, dungeons, raids, transmog/mount collecting etc. You can sell a bog standard level 90 piece of BOE blue gear for like 10k+ gold.
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theres some tricks you can do to make gold
also, it becomes handy if you solo focus on disenchanting gear that you would of vendored.
that usually always makes more money that selling it to a vendor.
same goes for other professions they all have a “ Disenchant “ type of ability where you can find gems or cloth or items etc…
rather than focusing on selling crafts, focus on the utility of finding materials
alchemy for example, you can multicraft several procs sometimes 1 craft makes 20 potions / flasks
or transmute items to make more expensive items
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I hope you read this in good faith, I mean well.
Its normal to feel like Wow (Today) feels like an imposter that’s stolen you Old Lady WoW from yesteryear.
World of Warcraft has become inundated with areas that achieve a “net loss” of time. i.e. In the 30 minutes it takes to decorate a bedroom, you could have cleared a Heroic Dungeon, pushed a Mythic+ key, or finished a Delve for a guaranteed gear upgrade.
My advice is just don’t do the parts of the game you don’t like. Stick to the ones you do like.
Get your moneys from these enjoyable parts and walking away, you may find a way to like a particular part of it. Nowadays, in reality the gear, tokens and items become obsolete within a small Season.
Parts of game you speak of are still in there somewhere but it will never be what you want it to be, sadly its gone.
I completely understand and hear were your coming from the one I keep coming back hoping its going to be like it used to be. I used to love strategically dissecting a instance or raid, using icons for each group of mobs pulled daring not to pull a second pack, I have to except that games gone too.
Single button spamming… well yeah! Its good for when your drunk or on a controller, maybe a handheld grinding for some worth hat.
The biggest down side is you notice when you heal the single button bashing dps, they still don’t see the screens flashing because they are standing in fire, one would of thought they would be able to improve their gameplay now that the only use one button.
That being said, its evident by going down to your local supermarket and people watching that they offer the level of IQ generally gives you the answer, most people are barely functioning in real life, most of the time its like talking to a egg. Followed by thoughts of “I am amazed that blizzard is even able to make games having to cater for these lower common denominators of society”.
Maybe your Gen X and looking at everyone and thinking the same as all the other Gen X…wtf has happened to the world, nevermind WoW!
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I stopped having crafting professions since dragonflight, I said it back in dragonflight how it does not seem sensical that they have made everything else in the game more accessible for all but went backwards with professions and made the system too grindy and time consuming and Imo even too complex for everyone to bother fathom it. Professions have gone from something what everyone had as part of their characters into something what seemingly many people dont want to start anymore due the overwhelming grind and complexity of the system.
Even the gathering professions annoy me which I have both herb and mining the skill 100 but the game wishes me to have some knowledge points now to advance in the specializations and the game doesnt give me any information about how to obtain it so I would now need to start studying it from outside of the game where to obtain this knowledge. The change on professions were the worst change on retail they made while everything else in the game seems to have improved to be more accessible.
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Thanks for everyone’s replies I cannot reply to all but some great knowledgeable input,
“The biggest down side is you notice when you heal the single button bashing dps” 100% I had to pug healed every mythic first week as the super friendly guild I logged into are all close knit and you don’t want to waste a lockout on an unknown, one thing I am grateful off healing is still mentally stimulating, however it seems everyone wants to be a healer now all spots covered in the guild so will have to dps zzz.
The closest similarity I can think of Is myself when I first played wow after launch as a teenager I was a clicker I think most were in them days but you would lose 9/10 to those who bound in BG’s. I had to learn to type efficiently and bind muscle memory etc which greatly improved my skill and allowed me to have more situational awareness it Im forever grateful to WOW for giving me the urge to learn to type properly It helped in real life.
It’s similar to the stripping of the Dungeon master Ach’s this is how I greatly improved my situational awareness and skill apparently removed because casuals complained they were too hard… ouch. Some sort of socialism where everyone is punished from excelling because a few find it hard. I tend to find those that did not do them spend their time hunting rare mounts and toys etc for which I have zero Interest, I play to improve myself as a player If i get a mount on the way great but I would rather a tough ach than any mount. It’s the same with the rep factions I don’t buy the mounts I buy the tabards and whatever else I need then I’m done.
“Single button spamming… well yeah! Its good for when your drunk or on a controller, maybe a handheld grinding for some worth hat.” Agree heard rumours they were looking to make the game accesible to consoles which would explain it but when I google I find nothing.
“Maybe your Gen X and looking at everyone and thinking the same as all the other Gen X…wtf has happened to the world, nevermind WoW!” sort of But WoW and Immersive games are supposed to be break away from that not a mimic of social RL trends etc.
As to others grinding doesn’t bother me I will run the same dungeon 20 times just to to get the drop I want, made 100k last night on ah selling mats and fish ( the pond in The Bazaar printing money about 10k an hour fishing ) I’m not interested in having a Farmville of alts either. Didn’t we have heroes before I found some hero items in my bags where have they gone ? all this sim city stuff gets removed every xpac so that’s what i choose to not participate in all the shiny stuff round the edges and I know I am not the only one.
As for the professions I do to better my char not to make money that’s just a side hustle, you need a masters degree to fully grasp it. I do not disagree with everyone having a unique profession. Their is no warning or info in game that assists you when starting the professions for xpac how many have messed it up because of lack of info ? lucky I just put my first few points in the base talents before I tabbed out of wow to learn what to do. spending more time on Grok and Wowhead than playing the game.
Thank you all for the replies very informative posts. and happy hunting!
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You get weekly cap of knowledge (not counting catch-up) in ~1 hour for gathering professions. For crafting - it’s about 15-30 minutes of checking treasures (wax in tww) that could be combined with gathering profession progress and 5 minutes to check orders table. Yeah, so grindy and time consuming…
There is a clue in profession journal that tells about weekly knowledge source and how many you can get this week…
And you can’t get to 100 skill without getting some of them from hers/orbs.
It’s actually the best change. There are many more complex things in wow than professions system.
They made crafting for people who like to put time in it and have more of the same craft on different characters but with another knowledge point build. The crafting system is easy but requires time alot of time.
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