First Look at NPC Work Orders in The War Within - Earn Materials and Recipes

Posted 2024/06/27 at 10:25 AM by Jezartroz

introducing NPC Work Orders

NPC work orders are another system that will allow players to regularly fulfill orders and receive rewards for using their professions - unlike actual orders put in by players, they're not limited or on a first-come first-serve basis, so players shouldn't need to worry about sniping them.

On the left, an NPC order with fully provided Reagents (note the low quality) requires a Rank 3 outcome. On the right, that same order must use Concentration to complete at the required rank, as tested in the latest Beta build.

A Work Order offering a Recipe reward (left); Two versions of the NPC Work Order list, one with no extra rewards offered and one with two extra rewards offered (right)stated in their recent Blue Post

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Comment by unknowny33I sure hope these "comissions" are palceholders, because they make the "no mats" 200g "for your weekly :)" Andy's seem generous.
Originally was datamined 3-4-5k, which is fairly reasonable and lucrative.Comment by slemaireI sure hope these "comissions" are palceholders, because they make the "no mats" 200g "for your weekly :)" Andy's seem generous.
Originally was datamined 3-4-5k, which is fairly reasonable and lucrative.Comment by IncandioThe mission table returns... The profission table? The missession table?Comment by SchattensangI sure hope these "comissions" are palceholders, because they make the "no mats" 200g "for your weekly :)" Andy's seem generous.
Originally was datamined 3-4-5k, which is fairly reasonable and lucrative.Comment by 1910828I sure hope these "comissions" are palceholders, because they make the "no mats" 200g "for your weekly :)" Andy's seem generous.
Originally was datamined 3-4-5k, which is fairly reasonable and lucrative.Comment by TOMRUSGood idea and horrible implementation, just as with everything from Blizzard...Comment by katzloverThis 'seems' like a good system but I saw Manthieus's video on youtube (if i need to remove the youtubers name let me know) and he filtered it by recipes learned. Out of the 15 or so recipes only two were learned recipes. Out of those two, only one gave first craft bonus. As he pointed out it would be nice if they personalize it a bit more for said crafter. It will be very, very frustrating for people if they have to check in 2-3 times a week to see if they have even one work order that they can do. Especially if blizzard adds in a weekly to do 'x amount' of NPC work orders. I am certainly not saying they should make it easy but making it a 13 percent chance a week approx to get work orders you can do yourself especially early on is rough.Comment by DeVeteranThis 'seems' like a good system but I saw Manthieus's video on youtube (if i need to remove the youtubers name let me know) and he filtered it by recipes learned. Out of the 15 or so recipes only two were learned recipes. Out of those two, only one gave first craft bonus. As he pointed out it would be nice if they personalize it a bit more for said crafter. It will be very, very frustrating for people if they have to check in 2-3 times a week to see if they have even one work order that they can do. Especially if blizzard adds in a weekly to do 'x amount' of NPC work orders. I am certainly not saying they should make it easy but making it a 13 percent chance a week approx to get work orders you can do yourself especially early on is rough.Comment by pawpurr"the rewards are sent straight to your mailbox, meaning that while NPC Work Orders won't be as lucrative as Player Work Orders, they'll certainly help with Knowledge Point gain, recipe acquisition, and weekly Work Order quests."

How is being forced to go to the mailbox to pickup your 10 mettle any sort of improvement over having it just added to your inventory at the table, and why does the writer believe that 10 artisans acuity will result in knowledge points and recipes?

Nowhere in the blue post does it state the NPC orders reward knowledge points; they refer to the weekly quest which requires ANY crafting order to be done in order to get knowledge points (including player orders as normal.) They don't say WHAT the "Bonus reward" for NPC orders is.

Quite frankly, this system looks like it's got scope creep already. NPC orders should not be anything except a catch up for latecomers... But some of this blue post makes it sound like it will be your primary activity. That's a major fail on Blizzard's part, if that's the case.Comment by MeteorStormThis feels like the mission tables but for professions :shrug:Comment by Yortal Nowhere in the blue post does it state the NPC orders reward knowledge points; they refer to the weekly quest which requires ANY crafting order to be done in order to get knowledge points (including player orders as normal.) They don't say WHAT the "Bonus reward" for NPC orders is. . NPC Crafting Orders is the primary method for crafting professions to earn specialization knowledge and Artisan’s Acuity in The War Within for all crafting professions (except for Enchanting, which earns their weekly points via Disenchanting items). Don’t fret! Whether you join the expansion late or had a rough time with a few orders, you may begin seeing catch-up orders as early as the following week. The cadence and quantity of specialization catch-up orders increases as you fall further behind to allow for rapid catch-up especially later in the expansion’s lifecycle. These catch-up orders are also typically much easier to fulfill by requesting more common recipes and cheaper reagents overall.Comment by 1910828This 'seems' like a good system but I saw Manthieus's video on youtube (if i need to remove the youtubers name let me know) and he filtered it by recipes learned. Out of the 15 or so recipes only two were learned recipes. Out of those two, only one gave first craft bonus. As he pointed out it would be nice if they personalize it a bit more for said crafter. It will be very, very frustrating for people if they have to check in 2-3 times a week to see if they have even one work order that they can do. Especially if blizzard adds in a weekly to do 'x amount' of NPC work orders. I am certainly not saying they should make it easy but making it a 13 percent chance a week approx to get work orders you can do yourself especially early on is rough.Comment by 1910828This 'seems' like a good system but I saw Manthieus's video on youtube (if i need to remove the youtubers name let me know) and he filtered it by recipes learned. Out of the 15 or so recipes only two were learned recipes. Out of those two, only one gave first craft bonus. As he pointed out it would be nice if they personalize it a bit more for said crafter. It will be very, very frustrating for people if they have to check in 2-3 times a week to see if they have even one work order that they can do. Especially if blizzard adds in a weekly to do 'x amount' of NPC work orders. I am certainly not saying they should make it easy but making it a 13 percent chance a week approx to get work orders you can do yourself especially early on is rough.Comment by pathofcloudPeople complaining you can only do 2 or 3 of the 10 right away cause you don't know recipes... Obviously, that makes sense as you learn more recipes, increase your profession level, and skill you'll be able to do more. A profession system should be more rewarding for being a higher level crafter with more recipes without being completely unusable by lower leveled ones. I'd call this the right balance.Comment by stym(duplicate)Comment by stymI think this system might remove the dependency on other players for people trying to max out their professions, which is a good thing. In DF, unless you had a ton of friends or were in an active guild, finding work orders for a 1st craft bonus was very painful, especially since sparks were a limited resource. You could eventually get there and gather all of the useful recipes and grind knowledge a bit, but my hope is that this system will make that part significantly easier.

I don't think the monetary rewards is going to be the main attractor, because Blizzard doesn't like to gratuitously inject gold in the market. You'll be there for knowledge points and maxing out your professions. And later get good commissions from other playersComment by PandaabearI sure hope these "comissions" are palceholders, because they make the "no mats" 200g "for your weekly :)" Andy's seem generous.
Originally was datamined 3-4-5k, which is fairly reasonable and lucrative.Comment by DCCXVIIINobody is gonna use NPC work orders if they're too annoying to fulfill or don't provide enough gold rewards. Why on Azeroth would you bother when you can hop onto an alt and spam yourself the necessary work orders in a few seconds for no minimum quality, super basic and cheap to make work orders? Alt spamming will remain the superior method of completing the weekly quest.Comment by jacho981if they don't allow public orders to be max level gear, this crafting system will still be hot garbage.
also, "inspiration" and all that crap, makes people just SCAM other players by telling them to put the order at rank 4 instead of rank 5, and then just give them a rank 4 and disconnect.
HOT GARBAGE. thanks.Comment by dabone1337Good idea and horrible implementation, just as with everything from Blizzard...

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