The Blizzard developers want to give the professions with WoW: Dragonflight a lot of love. There should be new features, but also many improvements. There have been many new details over the past few days in the Community Council of the WoW Forums!
Already at the Announcing WoW: Dragonflight in April 2022 Blizzard developers emphasized that the revision of professions will be an important cornerstone of the upcoming expansion. New features are coming, but also tools for more comfort, crafting orders created by players, profession equipment and what was formerly removed from crafting: specializations!
The future of jobs
To ensure that crafting improvements are pointing in the right direction, Blizzard involves the community early in the feedback process. Specifically, Community Manager Kaivax already had a thread for the future of the professions 21 days ago in the forums section of the Community Council opened. Since then, there has been a lot of posting and discussion there, and Blizzard managers are also always speaking up.
A few days ago we already published a message about the first developer statements. It was about leveling the professions, here are the most important findings again:
- You won’t automatically get better at your job by crafting an item multiple times, as was previously the case. Instead, there should be various other ways to improve a profession and produce higher quality items.
- Gold should play a less important role in professions in the future: You can still buy resources and issue crafting orders with gold, but gold will no longer be important for improving your profession.
- Crafted items are said to be competitive with other endgame gear (and sometimes even “Best in Slot”).
- Those looking to craft raid gear can also get the resources they need from other sources such as Mythic+, PvP, and open-world activities.
The new insights
Below you will find all the new insights from the developer posts of the last few days:
- When it comes to recipes and crafting materials, the developers will also keep the World PvP realm in mind. In addition, the developers do not want to force players into dungeons and raids. You should be able to master every profession without doing even one group content. And if you’re keen on a recipe from a dungeon or raid, you should be able to bargain for it.
- In Dragonflight, it should be possible to craft already crafted gear with lower resource costs, but (if you want) with other optional reagents (to change secondary stats, for example) and – if your skill has improved since the original build – with a better one quality level. This ability to upgrade should make it feel worthwhile to craft items that may not yet be of the best possible quality.
- It should also be possible for non-crafters to issue orders for such item creations.
- Engineers should be able to create some exciting new gimmicks.
- Quality of crafted items / progression in professions is affected by: leveling up professions, better profession equipment, specialization, use of high-quality materials, use of special “finishing” reagents that increase character’s inspiration, use of optional reagents.
- You increase your specialization with points. These are in turn for using a recipe for the first time, for finds in the world (e.g. an old book on alchemy), special quests, career achievements, the production of items with maximum quality, the processing of production orders from other players and more.
- The more Inspiration your character has, the greater the chance that you will be inspired when crafting, increasing the quality of the item being crafted – sort of a crafting critical hit. However, inspiration is not necessary to craft a maximum quality item. You can do this without inspiration.
- Profession equipment is made across professions. For example, blacksmiths build pickaxes for mountain farmers and needles for tailors.
- The profession equipment will be an important source for you to increase profession-related values. Your profession specialization should also give you access to value increases, the developers even say that you can choose between several options within a specialization. Other sources include enchantments and consumables.
- Dragonflight will not increase the number of professions you can learn on a character.
- It is still unclear whether players will also be able to issue crafting orders for recipes from previous expansions.
- The developers are working on providing players with even more storage space.
- Not only the manufacturing, but also the collecting professions should gain in depth and complexity. There are no details on this yet.
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