Comments on: Professions = 99.5% awesome

By: Ærynn Lómëhtar

Ærynn Lómëhtar — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:49:52 +0000

I like Lisa Marie’s idea very much (that of crafted Sashimono banners, like they already have in arenas). It will provide a way to show your guild tabard design while still championing a faction. I want.

By: Ærynn Lómëhtar

Ærynn Lómëhtar — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:21:37 +0000

I like the fact that in the expansion, the Swiftarrow shoulders and the ones sold by the Kirin Tor are exactly the same in stats but look different. I made a Swiftarrow set sans the shoulders, and I am much happier. There are a number of other “stat-equivalent” items in the game as well.

For a lot of us, looks is just as important as stats… and with this I have a hope. I hope that someday a leatherworking pattern will drop that is equivalent in terms of stats to the ones acquired in the usual way… but will look different. And it will be also still be BoE. It may have a glow effect. It may be a bit more revealing, or have a bit more detail. In terms of raid viability, one can still craft and get the epic whose pattern is easier to obtain (with the consequence of looking like most everyone else)… or go the extra mile to get the other one. As you have mentioned, it can be applied to every profession. Imagine getting a +85 AP enchant to 2H weapons (like is currently available in-game), but with a pretty glow, and only needing one hard-to-find reagent than anyone can farm? Imagine a flask that not only gives you your raid bonuses, but also turns you into a Tuskarr for the raid, but whose recipe requires a search for a rare spawn? Or a set of blue armor that looks exactly like the old T-whatever epics for those who want to wear modern armor but misses their old glories?

Like non-combat pets and mounts, the only difference will just be aesthetics. And the possibilities are endless.

I can hope, and I hope that it is not in vain. Blizzard, after all, started doing that already.

By: Lisa Marie

Lisa Marie — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:41:31 +0000

One last Tailoring idea from me… war banners. War banners in the style of Japanese Samurai frmo some of my favorite movies, that would be mounted on a pole rising from the character’s back, proudly displaying the tabard colors of the player’s guild waving over his head.

By: plainsrunner

plainsrunner — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:20:05 +0000

Right on! My guild and I talk about it all the time on SoE. What about awesome dual prof mounts, like needing skinning and leather working to make an obomination/flesh golem to ride on top of….mining and JC to make a huge jeweled tiger mount, herbalism and alchemy get to ride on a treant etc etc.

Blizz did help out quite a few of the more dead profs, like giving LWs the bracer enchants and things, but more would be awesome. Dyes would be huge… pets awesome as well…like a homonculi for each prof depending on what you craft…mini golems the same way. The other one that could happen is classes being able to make a whole rp set each, with the differnt recipe drops spread out, that had special attributes (think of midsummers gear dancing in flames)

It would definitely ramp up the fun collection hunting, like fishing for all the rare pets and the dalaraan coin

By: Opalassa

Opalassa — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:20:28 +0000

Hear hear! on the vanity recipe drop idea. How about drops to change a Hunter’s pet’s look or a druid’s form look? More than just the polar bear one they’re already talking about. I for one would kill to have my kitty form look like Har’koa.

By: gesslar

gesslar — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:12:54 +0000

I, for one, was in glee when leveling up my Northrend leatherworking to find that the stuff I was leveling up with SOLD IN AH. I’m now only at 425, but I could make full sets of mail for use by people level 70+. I was like..wut? People want! Ok! I make! You buy!

By: Solidstate

Solidstate — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:57:09 +0000

Chocolate Cake recipe… my mage yearns for that… :)

By: Nefernet

Nefernet — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:03:35 +0000

I love this idea !
As a leatherworker, I only have one vanity recipe : the heavy leather ball. Tailors can craft RP clothes, I’m jalous… I’d love to be able do make funny saddles for the mounts or for pets. Something funny could be some kind of soft leather you use on your weapons, making them shinny because you removed all the rust.

Or to keep the idea of the leather ball, I’d love to craft a basket or goal to throw it in, like some sort of Wow sport.

Or maybe we could craft leather training dummies…

Ohh yes I love this idea of new vanity recipes, that you will need a little bit of effort and time to get…

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:48:58 +0000

I really like the idea of vanity drops. There is a lot to play with there. You could even combine that idea with the aim of revitalizing the old world by having location-based vanity drops. Say, a Gnomeregan Engineering minipet, or a Blackrock aura. Tangentially, I've also written about dyes over on my blog.

By: Beathooven

Beathooven — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:10:25 +0000

Warbanners. Y’mean like in Arena or the Undercity phased event?

My 0.5% is the Jewelcrafting dailies. I hate having to prioritise cuts, juggling between normal cuts, meta cuts, BoP cuts and trinkets, while fore-going the reasonable profit I could have made in Dragon’s Eyes (5-10k gold by now).