They really don't! I have always wanted the achievement for 600 in each profession but I can't bring myself to finish a few. Painful stuff. I'm also a bit burned out with wow. Diablo is much more enjoyable for me these days.
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They're fine once you get up to the higher levels. They really streamlined it. The problem is that, outside of fishing, they've left the legacy crafting recipes as is and they require a ton of stuff that you have to do a bunch of backtracking for. It wasn't so bad in the past because you were spending significant amounts of time in the areas where you could get the materials as you levelled up.
The problem is you want crafting to be fun. WoW crafting is terrible and boring and outdated. If you want fun crafting, you want to play FFXIV.
I recently leveled engineering alongside a brand new character, and I actually found it to be a lot of fun. Much easier to level than I remember (I had tried engineers in the past and gave up) and having a goblin glider in Panderia before I could actually fly was a lot of fun.
I wouldn't really call crafting in that game necessarily fun, but it's certainly better than WoW crafting. I do like that a profession is it's own class.[DOUBLEPOST=1409774885,1409774782][/DOUBLEPOST]
My Blacksmith is still stuck at the Outland level stuff because none of my recipes will level up well without a ton of grinding.
I don't remember blacksmithing too well, but doesn't outland level just require a bunch of fel iron and adamantite? That shit's everywhere.
Buying these recipes should help:
http://www.wowhead.com/item=23591
http://www.wowhead.com/item=23638
I've been doing engineering on my Goblin Hunter. Can I level it up easily enough? Sure. But I can't do anything FUN with it, like build guns or goggles, without going to the auction house for certain mats, which suddenly turns a project I can do for free into a 20+ gold upgrade that I'll be replacing in a few hours anyway. It's just not worth the investment.
I do enjoy archeology though. Spend 5-10 minutes in a zone and get 1g? I could do that all day.
I do enjoy archeology though. Spend 5-10 minutes in a zone and get 1g? I could do that all day.
The funny thing is Smithing got that trainer in the Shrines that teaches you the shortcut recipes, but they're insanely expensive material-wise (some are 100+ Ghost Iron for like, 5 points in smithing).
Cooking is really well-done (HAH) in terms of catch-up (ketchup?) recipes, though. They all use vendor or easily-fished materials, and once you're at the Ways sets all you have to do is keep up with your farm plot. I'm hoping Garrisons do something similar for professions so it won't feel like such a chore to slog something up to at least the MoP cap (I'm looking at you, LW/Skinning).[DOUBLEPOST=1409777429,1409777363][/DOUBLEPOST]
Cooking is really well-done (HAH) in terms of catch-up (ketchup?) recipes, though. They all use vendor or easily-fished materials, and once you're at the Ways sets all you have to do is keep up with your farm plot. I'm hoping Garrisons do something similar for professions so it won't feel like such a chore to slog something up to at least the MoP cap (I'm looking at you, LW/Skinning).[DOUBLEPOST=1409777429,1409777363][/DOUBLEPOST]
It's definitely not for everyone, I didn't do a whole lot of it. But if you enjoy the strategy behind using your cooldowns effectively in order to produce the best-quality items, it can be interesting.
There's been a new addition added to Warlords of Draenor: a tribute to Robin Williams.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/4/6106299/robin-williams-world-of-warcraft-warlords-of-draenor-genie
In the beta, they have found an item known as The Ever-Burning Lamp. If you interact with it, it summons a genie who says, "INFINITE COSMIC POWER! Itty-bitty living space."
There are also a few objects scattered around the Lamp that reference other Robin Williams roles, such as a broken egg shell reminiscent of Mork's ship.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/4/6106299/robin-williams-world-of-warcraft-warlords-of-draenor-genie
In the beta, they have found an item known as The Ever-Burning Lamp. If you interact with it, it summons a genie who says, "INFINITE COSMIC POWER! Itty-bitty living space."
There are also a few objects scattered around the Lamp that reference other Robin Williams roles, such as a broken egg shell reminiscent of Mork's ship.
I just started playing with my step-son again last week.
I quit playing (level 54 dwarf hunter) back when level 60 was the cap. I don't know how many years ago that was, but it was so long ago, I couldn't recover my character to the new battle.net systems.
So I started over, with my step-son doing the recruit-a-friend thing. 3X experience is freaking ridiculous. Level 35 in 2 play sessions. They really want people to be able to rush to the end-game raids and crap I guess.
I feel a bit like a fish out of of water--so many areas have changed considerably since I last played.
Thankfully, my good friend, the Auctioneer mod, looks and works the same. Silks and cloth go for buckets of cash these days, it seems.
I quit playing (level 54 dwarf hunter) back when level 60 was the cap. I don't know how many years ago that was, but it was so long ago, I couldn't recover my character to the new battle.net systems.
So I started over, with my step-son doing the recruit-a-friend thing. 3X experience is freaking ridiculous. Level 35 in 2 play sessions. They really want people to be able to rush to the end-game raids and crap I guess.
I feel a bit like a fish out of of water--so many areas have changed considerably since I last played.
Thankfully, my good friend, the Auctioneer mod, looks and works the same. Silks and cloth go for buckets of cash these days, it seems.
I made like 150 gold off of silk cloth alone. A stack of silver ore went for 35. I couldn't believe it.
Yeah, Azeroth is a completely different place than the last time you played. Every single system has been changed.
Except professions.
I figured. You have to grind so much to get anything in classic content.
If @Tinwhistler hasn't played since vanilla, then he'll be able to enjoy the suck of Outworld with fresh new eyes.
Though, Nagrand is pretty cool.
And then you get to go to Northrend, which is pretty baller, and was my favorite expansion.
And then cataclysm content, which sucks again.
And then Panderia, which is fun again.
Basically, it's like Star Trek movies. Every other continent is shit.
Though, Nagrand is pretty cool.
And then you get to go to Northrend, which is pretty baller, and was my favorite expansion.
And then cataclysm content, which sucks again.
And then Panderia, which is fun again.
Basically, it's like Star Trek movies. Every other continent is shit.
The story, if you were Horde. It was a good bit of fun with PvP mixed in to questing. Also, some good group quests when they were actually group quests.
That seems to be the way all cataclysm content and on has felt for me. The first time is great, but that's it.
Pandaria to me is the expansion I enjoyed leveling through once and only once. I usually have bad altitis but Pandaria pretty much cured me of that lol. I still got enjoyment out of Cataclysm content, though Wrath was my favourite, for each character; I avoided Uldum on the alts when possible.
The main reason I like Nagrand is it had some of the best quest-grouping of any zone. I would almost always have 5-10 quests that were all done in a relatively small area each trip out of town.
As someone who hasn't done most of this content, I'm still enjoying it. Just did Northern Stranglethorn (Baby Raptor stuff was cool) and Cape of Stranglethorn (I legitimately thought I'd fucked up the Priest fights until Sassy showed up to save my ass). A lot of this classic content is tons of fun, but I can imagine it getting tiresome if you've done it before.
Those are all new events/quests, so really a majority of old players probably haven't seen them all. Cata massively overhauled 90% of Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor, and for the most part the old questlines are changed or just plain gone.
That being said, at least for me, I did send a couple characters through most of it already, so if I had to level again it'd be much the same as Bowie described. Thankfully I have every class to 90 now save for an 87 Pally.
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Blizzard offered me a free 10-day and a free upgrade to MoP. I took them. It's hard to describe my reaction. WoW used to feel like a world you stepped into. Now it just feels like a game. I know I've said it before, but I really think that's because of the de-emphasis of the low-levels. Back in the day, there were tons of people in the start areas. On Emerald Dream I saw maybe 1 in the Panda start zone, and not a single one in other race start zones. That's kind of sad to me.