Would welcome thoughts / experiences of anyone who has done this. Basically I am a profession casual with a large roster of alts. Pre Dragonflight I would max out all the professions for each of my main alts, mainly just for chill / fun and for the Master of All achievement.
Professions now require a much greater investment of time and especially gold to max out. I really struggled to get Master of All in Dragonflight and I’m not sure it was worth the effort (at all). I don’t raid or do mythics so I’m not crafting for anyone, and I would rarely put stuff on the AH.
Is there really any point to this apart from the achievement? I’m beginning to get the sense that I’d be better to just ditch all the crafting professions and put all my toons on double gather. I’d certainly walk away from it with a lot more gold.
if you have many alts and dont want to invest time or gold in to crafting and stuff, just go mining and herbal. pick anything up on the way and make some money.
i for myself always have one toon and i always (comes close to face) aaaalways, choose ingi. its fun, thats it. the wormhole alone is reason enough for me
otherwise, you dont really need to craft anything. stuff drops for free and if you need anything you can just buy it in the AH cause u make money by farming.
I’m still keeping Engineering for all the wormholes and other goodies I get to use.
Don’t know if other crafting professions have such perks, since my main has always been an engineer. If you just want it to make gold: Yeah dump them and get 2 gathering professions.
As someone who originally made alts to get all professions to get all achivements: No, I don’t think professions are worth it at all for a casual player.
I will eventually get my crafting professions to 100, but if it’s anything like in DF it’ll happen the DMF before next expansion launches.
Now, am I going to unlearn my professions and go full gathering? No; but if I was starting from scratch I wouldn’t bother with crafting
Yeah, this is probably the only thing stopping me. I have several expansions worth of professions sitting there. If I could switch without altering previous professions, I’d switch. The new system is far too fussy with too many moving parts. Feels like I’m locked in though.
It’s a good question, but it’s basically the one I’m asking. EDIT: the system seems designed for people who want to spend a lot of time selling stuff. I’m not into that, so… what’s the point?
A new wormhole. Otherwise, imo, no not much.
But you also have access to all the prior wormholes and such. Plus several goggle transmogs. It’s still worth keeping it to me personally.
The answer depends on how much time you can devote exclusively to farming materials. But generally I’d suggest each character to have 1 production and its associated gathering profession even if that means having many alts with similar professions.
If you are not interested in crafting stuff, then go full gathering and empty everything at the Auction House.
Depends on what you’ve used them for but considering you can only play one char at a time idk what the point is of having lets say multiple miners so with an army of alts I would still try to cover as many bases, crafting included. Just mine on the char that has most knowledge points in mining (null slivers are frequent enough so itll likely just make your main miner even better at mining)
You could consider waiting before investing gold into it tho, only grabbing knowledge where you dont have to spend extra Gold on it cause you have the mats
Invested so much time in Inscription to get all the recipes from previous expansions, I feel locked to it now. No way I would gather them again or doing it again for the other profession.
I used to be LWer/JCer. I could self-sustain myself up to Dragonflight. I changed LW to Mining because the same hours of playing per week were no longer enough to sustain any of the 2 professions.
One of the reasons why I play only one character last two expansions.
When I play a character, I like to do everything with it, don’t want to feel like an alt or something I play on and off. I like to keep it active and beside end game content to collect stuff and work on them. But the new profession system just requires a lot of time investment which is very hard for me to commit and “share” my gaming time to two characters.
Use you alts and do a skinning leather farm build - get in some farm groups that skin the elites in Dornogal. Take mining and herbalism, fishing and cooking are also great. Be sure to do the quests that lead to being awarded
You can make a lot of gold from lazy people and it’s way less stressful than crafting.
Take it slow with the crafting professions. The prices will go down over time, though you can take advantage of the current market by focusing on gathering herbs, leather and/or ore. I devote anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour flying around gathering and it has proven very profitable.
Also make sure to grab any wax globs you see as well as the various treasure chests that pop up in each zone. They have a chance to drop profaned tinderboxes which sell for a lot of gold.
You are not locked in. I went Skinning > Tailoring > back to Skinning on this char. You keep all you previous progress if you pick the previous profession back up. Plus there is a catch up mechanic in place to get you to the level of all others that didn’t lose time with another profession. When I got Skinning back, I was looting those special skins that give +1KP for straight half an hour and I am back on track with everyone else.
