So apologies if this was common knowledge, I’m a casual and aren’t always up to date on everything wow
But about 10 minutes ago i wasted 70k gold and a spark crafting an embellished leg piece to be told i can only wear 2 at a time …
I dont recall ever reading or seeing this so i now ive put myself behind.
I believe they are meant to say ‘Unique-Equipped: Embellished (2)’ on them.
If it’s any consolation I didn’t know either until it was pointed out to me.
It’s literally mentioned on the item preview “Embellished: 2 (limited)” or so.
The good news is that not all is lost. You can still use your new item. You remove the embellishment and equip the item.
All you have to do is recraft the item with this embellishment instead:
You can also have double duration food buff bonus (which persist through death), this doesn’t count towards your 2 embellishment limit by using this embellishment instead:
So if you recraft your item using either of the above items as a replacement for your embellishment, you will be able to use your item.
This unfortunately isnt the case, all 3 of my crafted armor pieces have their embellishments built into the item so it cannot be removed already tried 
They do enjoy waffle-blocking players with a ridiculous limitations like that.
Here’s a load of fun new toys, but you can’t have all of them.
A simple solution would be to allow us to equip the items, but have their embelishments disabled. I think they copied this model from legendary items, however the difference was that legendaries were higher item level, so wearing more of them would mean higher ilvl, this isn’t the case with the crafted gear.
That sucks, but the information is definitely out here and ingame.
Sorry, but this mistake is on yourself.
I too got trapped like this. It set me back 2 weeks after investing 200 gold.
It was around that time I started to get more and more disappointed in this game.
How are people supposed to know/understand this if they’re not mindlessly reading every guide out there?
Blizz is just giving the common player less and less content. They dont even care to explain anything anymore.
Yes, but what is Embellished? I never even heard the word before, even less seen any explanations to why and how it actually works ingame.
What is the point of having an evolved profession system if it can only take you two items on the way? It is insulting to the system itself, and even more insulting to the players that keep on losing money due to this system.
Max 2: Noticed this when I made my third embellished item. Lost around 70k on that.
Made my 4th. With another embellisment to upgrade my 2nd item slot.
Cant have different embellishments. Like wtf? Lost another 70k on that.
The 2 Embellished items are items with active/passive skills/perks.
Similar to how Legendaries were in Shadowlands. You can chose from a selection of abilities/features for those items (iirc the slot even doesn’t matter) and you can empower your playstyle with 2 benefits from 2 items, one for each.
It is basically meant like a Masterworking-system that gives you a little extra power for your build-crafting.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love have more embellished items in general, but think about it this way. This crafting rework is new. We, the players, are the live-testers atm. If it works out well enough and doesn’t break the sandbox of the game, Blizzard would probably consider removing or increasing the limit of embellished items if player ask for it.
yes, rather…
blizzard are famous for really listening to their fans!
pfft! they do whatever they want and never listened to anyone but the market department
Recent big changes does confirm that tho.
All of those were requested by players. Just because something doesn’t happen immediately doesn’t mean they are not listening, taking notes and making those changes.
Now if only that crucial and easy to overlook bit of information was written in green MVP text or such. (Yellow would probably be ideal.)
There’s also a related thing now, again, with he Storm’s Fury rings that say unique-equipped. But unique what? That one ring type or any one of the two? - Well, I cam only assume/trust that if it was any of the two, it would say unique storm’s fury ring or such.
This limitation is really easy to overlook and of such great frustrating consequence to do so. It is unintuitive, easily catches you by surprise, especially if you are not hardcore-devoted to studying all the game’s intricacies, which change a lot anyway. Casuals aren’t working WoW as a job.
yep
the same happened to me and i’m in fact aware of the ‘unique embellished (2) rule’
my boots on my rogue were kinda a little behind on ilvl
so i crafted the infurious boots with a primal infusion thinking i can hit 2 birds with 1 stone
same item can be used for both pvp and pve
but nope it turns out i couldn’t equip
the unique embellished rule on those items can be easily missed.
now thinking of getting rid of a fang adornments since it’s kinda useless and use the boots as my second embellishment instead.
You can use the boots for PvP i suppose as you said you wanted to.
For PvE however the boots are bad. Really bad.
Why is that ?
I also got messed up by this system because I had not noticed that Elemental Lariat counted as Embelished.
I had assumed that embellishments were things you add in a craftable and not any unique effect a gear piece may have.
So I became a patron of Griftah and asked nicely the one who made my bracers to recraft them with Griftah powder
Game: says a thing right in the tooltip of the item just as it has done for the past 18 years
Players: “rEe hOw wAs i sUpPoSeD To kNoW”