Is It Too Late to Get Started With Professions? Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 297

Live Posted 2023/10/01 at 1:29 PM by SamadanPlaysWoW

SamadanToo Late Getting Started on Professions?Hey i just came back to the game, started df expansion, made a few deck but my levl is 72 ish, is it worth it to stay with inscription or should i change it before 10.2 if so, which profession should i take?The best way to make plenty with any profession is to keep leveling it. You're going to be far behind other crafters no matter what profession you switch to. So just keep skilling it up and getting knowledge points and it's the knowledge points that are most important. And there's unfortunately a weekly cap on how many you can find minus the dragon shards of knowledge. So catching up will really be based on luck/activity.Honestly, download craft sim addon and auctionator or tsm or both (craft sim relies on auctionator or TSM for pricing info). Craft sim will tell you what is profitable. You won’t make a ton of gold but there are quite a few crafts that are profitable in inscription.10.2 Engineering Wyrmhole Generatoru/JagWyrmhole GeneratorThought it would since the others did. Went on and checked. Sends you to a random spot, like the others.

Had not seen it confirmed yet."Was so much better in SL when it was not random.Stock up on Artisan's Mettle Before 10.2The Lazy GoldmakerArtisan's MettleThe main reason Artisan’s mettle is incredibly value for 10.2, is that it allows you to guarantee quality 3 for a bunch of different crafts by using Illustrious Insight. This can dramatically increase the expected profit. Couple this with the chance that a lot of items go up in price with the increase in demand that happens around patch launches and you are in position.

If you have enchanting you want to be able to absolutely crank out max quality devotion enchants, and with insight you can!How to Gain 300k Gold per Week (without Dragonflight)u/VardamTO understand the question, let me introduce myself i been Playing wow since the last week of the burning crusade and that moment I didn't stop because I was enjoying so much the game with friends, during the last patch of shadowlands i was having the biggest burn up about this game and I decide to take a rest for more of 1 year.

When I come back I see a lot of changes 1 for example the price of the wow token, I remember back in shadowlands was cost only 180k now today is more than 300k and the many knowledge about farming it's became obsolete

For example:

in draenor I was farming so much about cloth and leather in the garrison, today the bood are not give you the gold and the price of the mats are not very good.

in legion i was selling more of 20 vial of sand with cost of 90-100k on my server every month, today is not profitable.

most of the old raid running is not profitable because of the nerf in each new expasion and most of the trasmutation of old expansion like living steel or trugold are not worthy to made.

Now today, I'm strugger to find what is good to farm ,evertime I make an hour farming I can't get more of 15k gold in the past in shadowlands was good but today is not so much.

and this is getting worst because my account are not having dragonflight enter the actual content is limited to me.
now my question is how i can i do to earn 200-300k per week, so I can reach the gold to buy the expansion?

THank you if you answer me and have a good day
Farming is sadly pretty dead. I used to love doing a mix of AH stuff and farm but due to the region wide AH for crafting material a lot of markets have become non-profitable.

To add, now isn’t an amazing time (IMO) for gold making as we’re at a standstill for the current patching easing into a new patch.

With all the above, my best advice is just your standard transmog crafting. Or find a niche no one is using, a great example is engineering materials. There are some decent flips to be made just buying cheap material and putting it into bolts / other items used for advanced engineering recipes similar to how smelting ores to bars for profit used to work.

All the best!
last weeks blogtalked about open world farms and their GPH
I made 300k in a day flipping speed items

This is how you set tsm up to find speed stat items

Go into the tsm groups, select base group only, to the right where it says “show ungrouped items” select specific item and in the search bar above it enter “/i376/i376”. The list will populate all Armor, weapons that are ilvl376. Go through the list and check all the speed stat items and put them in a new group. Now you can do a shopping scan for that group and be rich forever.

I haven’t updated tsm in a long time so hopefully this still works.

You said you played in legion , if you have a fully completed questline/upgraded order hall then you can get the bos missions , with less than 2 hours per week doing the missions+some wq you can get enough bos to craft the bs mount , about 2-3 per week. It sells very well and has about 20k profit sometimes , the recipe its easy to get you can get crafting in less than an hour , this will depend on realm. Another crafted mount that sells well and for good profit its the bfa engi mount but the recipe its very very hard to get so if you dont have it already its not worth it.
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Comment by novadudein short form: yes because crafting in retail now is tedious at best and for little to no reward or profit. and if any profit then has to be near the beginning of the xpac before there's 1000's of everything available and its worth nothing. especially miningComment by dokeefe1986two words: nax xmog. its really boring and tedious though. glComment by MyFingerIsOnCDProfessions reward degeneracy.

I would still almost forgive that if they would remove the god awful work order system.Comment by novadudeProfessions reward degeneracy.

I would still almost forgive that if they would remove the god awful work order system.Comment by Civil4794this bro answered the question by saying he made millions but can't buy dragonflight with gold lmao why would anyone follows that dudes advice?Comment by Rainy89The DF wormhole is anazing, I use it all the time. Press one button woosh youre in Zaralek Caverns. It’s also a 15 min cd.Comment by thoms689Professions is honestly one of the best things they've done with DF, it feels complicated to start with, but when you gotten into it and can craft stuff you can make a ton of gold with it.Comment by KerathrasIt was already too late 2 weeks into the expansion because of how the system was designed, lol.Comment by jpurebalanceThe whole "behind on crafting" is a big myth. The BIGGEST gate to crafting is rare patterns like lariat, raid patterns, and the decay ones. My brand new alts have enough to be profitable.Comment by thoms689The whole "behind on crafting" is a big myth. The BIGGEST gate to crafting is rare patterns like lariat, raid patterns, and the decay ones. My brand new alts have enough to be profitable.Comment by thoms689It was already too late 2 weeks into the expansion because of how the system was designed, lol.Comment by DindongIf all mats continue to be tradeable and AH-able yes. I hate just having a spreadsheet setup for marginal profits at max efficacy of any given profession. There's no point in gathering anything yourself. You cant specialize in anything when you have everything.

It honestly just feels like there's not a thing that is even a bit skill adjecent when it comes to selling any profession goods atm. Gathering is also done by people who do not value their time at all (bots) and you cannot be good at it either. Making money feels like a tedious spam of addon updates ran through spreadsheets and that is it.Comment by lovelywazSince almost EVERY Blizzcon they stand on that little stage and say something along these lines, "We learnt from our mistakes and will do better." This time around it's Professions turn to have that repeated lines for sure!

"Is it too late?" is one of those things that can be true for certain Crafting professions for one simple reason. Leveling those up beyond 50 / 60 / 70 alone can get harder and harder as the time passes. Yes, you will have some re-rollers with each season or people start doing things on alts half way through but most of the high end crafting gear happens at the start and then it's just "Re-crafting" the same gear with each season.

If I remember correctly, and I could be somewhat wrong on this, Blizz said their goal for Crafting was to be a proper "character progressing" system just like you would do for Dungeons or Raids. You spend lots of time and investment to improve at a Profession and you "could be" able to do it while sitting in the town and being "The Best Blacksmith in the Town".

And then they followed it up with important and high quality gear recipes locked behind the usual BS that is Raids. In other words, to be the "Best Blacksmith in the Town" you MUST also Raid. That same decades old BS carried through this huge mess of a "overhaul" for Professions. The end result? Rich got richer by spending tons of gold (and time) early and leveling up professions, specially those who also raid. The rest? Yeah, you keep dreaming to be "The Best Blacksmith in the Town" since that's never gonna happen if you just "keep smithing" unless you are a raider and/or rich to begin with.

Next expansion will surely have big changes to Professions, the question however is, how much will they "learn from their mistakes" and do it right.Comment by ZenrilSoMeconomy ruined by capitalism, wow token great price very nice recent yes?Comment by BifflinThe DF wormhole is anazing, I use it all the time. Press one button woosh youre in Zaralek Caverns. It’s also a 15 min cd.Comment by dabone1337Was so much better in SL when it was not randomComment by jeykamaWas so much better in SL when it was not randomComment by jpurebalanceIt was already too late 2 weeks into the expansion because of how the system was designed, lol.Comment by dabone1337It was already too late 2 weeks into the expansion because of how the system was designed, lol.Comment by ApollomantisYet AH prices on crafted mats (What I mean by this are materials that require other materials to be made) and normal materials, are slowly but surely inflating, like for instance dracothyst dropped to 2k, now their at 4.5k and the spores are at an INSANELY high price. For perspective, it costs 300 more gold to make the dracothyst yourself over buying them off the AH, meaning that the literal only way to profit is to get multicraft procs. Meaning that raw mats currently are not being sold well either due to some group of botters or TSM cancel scanners trying to turn their inventories over before the launch of the next tier. Making it even harder than before to profit from the AH in any sort of fashion currently as you would be crafting at a loss, and mats are moving slowly due to the current issue of items being crafted at a net loss over gain.

The AH is just a mess currently, and if I'm being blunt all the botters and TSM AH cancel scanners are to blame for this honestly. From the amount of posts that seem to be done by a single player, it seems like their methods of obtaining those items simply are far from legitiamate, and is hurting the economy of the game badly with how unchecked its become.

The point of globalizing the AH was to try and curb the influence these ill intended players have, yet it seems to have amplified the problem as they have so much gold now they can still buy everything out and reset it at a higher than usual price. I simply think AH addons need to be kicked to the curb, or have their power reduced significantly, given they are a big component as to why these AH bots and cancel scanners are able to do what their doing, and with the updated AH, it wouldn't be a horrible transition if the addons were cut from the game.