Ohhh excellent point, I just assumed that famine just happened cause it's a story, but that would be a very neat detail to tie in. Even if they didn't intend it, it definitely provides a clean explanation for it, especially with Neferess having dreams of Xal'atath for some time.

Yes! I was just looking at Engineering again recently, I'm really happy with the changes they've made, especially to how prototypes and recipe acquisition works. The change to pilfer through parts being basically baseline is 100% the best part. Thank you for the numbers on that, I've been meaning to look into it myself but didn't get around to it. The world treasures have also been giving a pretty decent number of parts(~20 each, 8 treasures total), so that might be the go-to way to kick off with it right at the start.

I really appreciate the enthusiasm, that's the plan! Same re:Harronir. There's already so much to be excited about with even just the Arathi, but then there's just this giant unknown!

Is she? She was established for a very specific priest spec and then she was a random quest in the next expansion. That is totally fine but I wouldn't say she's established amazingly. Iridikron is established in a better way. I wouldn't mind her being a mastermind manipulator behind the scenes but once again, it concerns past events before she was introduced in any shape or form. I'm just waiting to find out she was manipulating Jailer. The only reason why people say otherwise is because they sexualised her. She's as bad as Jailer when it comes to writing.

@@krzysztofczajka6752 Cynicism has its place, but I think you're being disingenuous here. If we condemn flavor added in one-off books as something that can't be drawn into something bigger, I think the lore would lose a lot of depth. Her quest in BfA was anything but random, it was the introductory quest for an entire raid and set up plot elements for the final boss of the expansion. And if we say that every new villain or aspect of lore must exist as an independent entity and not concern events established prior to their introduction, then every future expansion and addition to the story will look like Shadowlands. Remember, all of the Primal Incarnates were asspulled at the start of Dragonflight, and Iridikron's development as a future villain is deeply linked to Xal'atath. Also, she isn't sexualized by Blizzard. The community's perception of her has nothing to do with how Blizzard writes her.

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Yes!

Absolutely understand. I do indulge in speculation, but I much prefer to keep it grounded in established lore!

Nope, each expansion has its own leveling bar. You'd be fine to not pick up any professions at all till TWW drops.

Excellent points! I was testing the proffs one at a time so I didn't get a chance to run with the camo phial, those numbers are super useful to know. And yeah, I'm having a lot of thoughts about how to spec for live, definitely looking at the skill tree as a priority. I didn't notice till way late that the vigor tree gives finesse, but I think they might've rebalanced the skill breakpoints, that or there was an issue with the UI. I'll have to check it out again. So glad for MoP remix though, already got a HMT druid ready since I want to focus on mining.

I'm glad it was helpful! I have my personal discord(Surtruk), but I don't have a server set up yet. Seeing interest in one is encouraging though!

IMO the gem spec system is perfect for your situation. Very easy to target exactly which crafts you need, when you need them!

Absolutely valid. Very early in Dragonflight I had someone trying to strongarm me into price fixing, but I got lucky and could get away with telling them to pound sand. On larger servers there were cartels mass-reporting crafters that didn't play by the rules. At least there's less time gating now with knowledge catch-up, but if you do come back I'd definitely look at playing at a slightly less high pop server if people were demanding tips :/ Hope you enjoy what you're playing instead, though!

My discord tag is Surtruk, feel free to add me and I'll get back to you when I can.

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It really is just a lot to dive into! I'm glad they're moving forward with NPC orders for that reason, it gives a low stress environment to figure things out with trial and error.

@@LycrusWoW Yes that I'm pretty excited for! It's the only reason I'm even considering trying to go for professions again, honestly.

It probably will early on until more people have time to swing their alt armies at it. Tailoring will definitely be worth it in the same period of time, especially if you can get the knowledge to make r3 bolts early on. The skill component is the big deciding factor, and there's a pretty hefty Acuity(new Mettle) investment to get that skill early on. Bags don't seem to have a CD, their mats also look relatively low investment, but the recipes themselves will be expensive to collect time-wise.

Enchanting was ROUGH for Dragonflight, I couldn't get mine capped till crafted crests got added. Just not enough recipes to level with, but it sounds like it'll be easier for War Within!

Exactly the same for me.

Glad to hear it! I keep finding new details to work around for it, very excited to make the video for it.

Yeah, it's been great just on beta! Feels like a solid evolution of everything Dragonflight did right imo

I was resistant to it just cause I was uncertain, but that's what I'm going to call him till it's confirmed otherwise tbh!

110%, especially with double overload charges. Really hoping they just disable proffs completely for early access so I can focus on leveling, that's not even worrying about the AH issues

​@@LycrusWoW i was thinking about gathering during level in every character just to get artesain mattle cause i dont think we will have enough early on to craft profession gear, all 6 slots of gear = 1800 mattle

It seems like it'll be worthwhile to do a full rotation for first time crafts even if you can't abuse Consortium rep, but apparently there's a weekly cap on knowledge similar to Crests? I'll have to see how that plays out with the world treasures + the bonus knowledge tokens that gathering gets after it's weekly purple token.

Are you a gatherer?

Make a character on "These Go To Eleven", it'll automatically be level 80. Professor Instructaur sells material bags per profession as well as books that give 1000 knowledge points.