Blizzard Round XNUMX of Questions Answered: Professions

Quote from: Cerunya (Source)

Welcome to the response thread for our global World of Warcraft "Ask the Developers" thread. These answers answer the questions in round No. 7, which can be found here: http://eu.battle.net/wow/es/forum/topic/2037775400

If you want to ask a Firelands related question that you would like answered, visit the Question to Developers # 8 thread here: http://eu.battle.net/wow/es/forum/topic/2098122732

Will professions ever regain the ability to create upgradeable items, as was the case with the weapon smiths in The Burning Crusade? It was a very interesting concept, and it wouldn't be unfair if all crafting professions obtained at least one of those items. - Hydramith (Europe - English) and Auryon (Europe - German)

The concept of upgrading an equipment item is a very interesting idea that we would like to bring back, but not for the best item for a slot. A crafted item that is best for a slot eliminates that particular slot entirely in the face of interesting drop-down item options, largely forcing players to choose specific professions. For example, if there is a crafted weapon that is best for a slot, a large number of players will most likely be forced to choose the smithy, as happened in The Burning Crusade. Profession perks, which are fairly balanced, already add an incentive to choose professions.

Have you ever thought about creating daily quests for other professions besides jewelry? - Superpotion (NA / ANZ)

We have thought this especially for the secondary professions, since they are the most accessible for most players. When we add a bunch of recipes back, we'll take a look at all the professions to see if the daily ones would fit.

Will enchanters ever again have the option of crafting wands (maybe other caster items as well, as well as using a blank template weapon that blacksmiths could make), as they are usually extremely rare beyond a couple of locations and new loot tables from ZA / ZG? - Flayre (NA / ANZ)

In general, we want to add more fun recipes to the enchantment like magic lanterns. Regarding wands, we have discussed various options and most of what we could do is still on the table.

Is there a way to distinguish the profession points on the minimap for those with two gathering professions? - Discord (LA)

It is a good suggestion. We recently added the ability to see your target and select it on the minimap, but player feedback says it overloads the map too much. Getting different icons with just a few pixels might be difficult, but let's give it a try.

Are you planning to give us a way to speed up the acquisition of glyphs often obtained through research and glyph books? Glyph books (Glyph Mastery Book) are hard to come by and that means that people spend very little time on WotLK content. - Furlqt (NA / ANZ), ???????? (KR), Kånê (EU-ES)

Yes. We will change the discovery spells so that they can teach all possible glyphs and the books will simply provide a method to do the same with no cooldown.

Do you have plans to make archeology more related to other professions? For example, have the inscribers create night elf documents that would help with the fragments, or something like that. - ?????? (EU-UK)

We believe that we can better adjust and balance the archeology experience if we keep it within its limits. However, we have discussed additional methods of obtaining Shards through daily and perhaps as rewards for turning in artifacts. However, it is highly unlikely that another profession will create cornerstones or shards.

Are there any plans to make Chaos Orbs bind to the account or even bind when equipping them? - Mommycow (NA / ANZ)

Yes! They will be unbound in a future patch.

Do you have plans to make the gathering professions more attractive instead of making the skills you tend to use on your supporting characters? - Nanahuatzin (LA)

Yes, it is a goal we are working on. Specialized points and raid / dungeon loot for gatherers are a good start. As the gathering professions generally pull goods out of the ground, we believe they are a valid option for many players, especially those who want to be self-reliant.

Are there plans to change the profession skills of World of Warcraft y The Burning Crusade so that new players can level up their profession skills at a similar rate as character leveling up? The low-level trading skills materials in the auction house are generally expensive for new players and they may feel stuck leaving low-level zones to move up the profession when they actually want to go up both levels. at once. - Whitewnd (Korea), ??????? (EU-RU)

Yes, definitely. Moving forward, making sure old content is fluid is a priority. In fact, we have important people working on it. People. Important.

Do you have plans to somehow change archeology and fishing, which have become especially tedious? Are there plans to make archeology more attractive, with puzzles or something like that? - Boîndal (EU-AL), Kalani (NA / ANZ), Käworu (LA)

Yes. Journals help to level up fishing and we plan to do archeology journals as well. We have also talked about incentivizing more shoal fishing with greater skill gain.

We'd love to add a minigame to archeology, and we may one day, but we don't guarantee anything. There are other ideas about moving faster between digs, and we've put together ideas for rare random events for when you're fishing or working in archeology.

Our overall goal for these professions is that it shouldn't be difficult to reach the max skill level, but catching all the fish and finding all the artifacts should be another story.