NPCs Will Send Work Orders in The War Within

The War Within Posted 2024/04/21 at 2:05 AM by Jezartroz

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Comment by SchattensangCatch up isn't just the only or main issue
It's the bloat of the three rank system and the crafting order nonsense.

Gathering profs are now only good for the xp to level alts, or training bots.
As someone else has said, you can make more money farming old content in half the time it takes to make a profit from this Heart of Professionoth garbageComment by SantothanksyouNPC’s to run dungeons with, NPC’s to send me work orders, all I need now is to sign up a heap of NPC’s to my solo guild and I’ll be set 😁Comment by ShadowlootThe amount of work-orders that try to scam players is disgusting on my realm.
Perhaps there should be a mandatory minimum comission fee for each missing reagent of like 1000 gold.
Well, at least for public work-orders, not for guild or personal work-orders.Comment by JimmyJones030This just confirmed Khadgar isn't dead!Comment by PregnantOrcBut that has been a thing throughout all of WoW. Towards the end of the expansion, gathering professions always became a lot less lucrative.Comment by williamjI would like to see in the future that scammers or just people with no brains,can not place a order for 40 silver and no mats,when the mats alone cost the crafter like 2k or so.And dont give me that crap that well it helps the person raise their crafting level or quest,that is a lame excuse by scammers to rip people off.This is the biggest complaint I have seen this xpack,every time i check public orders it always has a list of peeps offering 40 silver for items that cost the crafter a hell of a lot more,so they can get it and sell on ah,mainly the pets like the blacksmithing pet and other stuff also.Make a option if you want crafter to provide the mats that the lowest they can place a bid is what those said mats are going for on the ah at the time.Comment by ClassyHoboUnless they make it to where each person gets their own npc orders, then these will go just as fast.LOL wow even khadgar is being skimpy with mats, can they not add the mats to the orders, like that was a common issue with public orders, was that they didn't add mats and placed orders that were too expensive to justify crafting.Comment by WikbikDalaranIt's that hard now for the weekly quests. Take engineering, just have an alt order bolts for 1s. The engineer makes the bolts and the orderer sends them back to the engineer to use in other recipes.Comment by OSDevonNow, will they tip fairly, or follow the majority of players in offering 1 silver and providing no materials?Comment by lovelywazI've been using alts to send POs since those were introduced. You can just send the cheapest gear option, or even use alts to make the SAME items also required for weekly profession quest, retrieve it from the mailbox on alt and send back to crafter to save mats for those weeklies. Kill two birds with one stone!

I normally check crafting weeklies on LW and BS only and if those aren't same that you can use WOs to make, then I send Wrists WOs. All the others, I just send regen mats WOs since you almost always need those for bunch of other crafts anyway.

Eng = Handful of Serevite Bolts
Tailor = Wildercloth Bolt
Scribe = Serene Ink (or one of the other cheaper ones)
And finally JC = Shimmering Clasp

Lets see what sort of WOs these NPCs send and how many mats are included. Also, would those work on a personal basis (ie quest objects that multiple players can use) or will it be as usual benefit those camping their crafting tables 24/7.Comment by QokoThey need to change the following for the public system to work:

Undo the change to not provide mats OR have the fee be at least the 'price of the mats - mats provided' as of posting.

In case of BoE items, add a commission up to the sell price of the item as of posting.

Add rank limitations, but only after finishing the order, not accepting it.

Comment by DeirdreSorrowsI came back after 3 years away from the game, took one look at all the bloat with materials, currencies, upgrade items, etc. in this game now and threw my hands up at it. I've decided I'm just not gonna waste my time on professions or anything to do with upgrading anything anymore.

I remember FFXIV having the same issue with mat bloat back in 2020ish when I played that. SquareEnix acknowledged there was just too many items in the game and stating they'd fix. IIRC, they did - so now here is Blizz, 4 years behind and backwards...idc if they borrow inspiration from another platform, but to borrow the most griped about and somehow manage to make *more* issues? bffr.

The whole profession overhaul is just over-engineering at its finest. As useless as a refrigerator with wifi.Comment by MeeboBlizzard looking to make the work order snipers richer.Comment by AlecgosDamn... Khadgar needs a S.A.V.I.O.R ASAP.
At least he is not dead as my beloved Dalaran.
We gotta hurry.Comment by SarthoriusOOf, recipe unlearned!

Sitting around in Valdrakken spamming trade chat or waiting for someone to request your services is not fun. I already spent a bunch of time leveling my professions, I want to also enjoy playing the actual game. Getting knowledge points for fulfilling crafting orders is a bad design. The incentive for crafting stuff for people is the gold. Just increase the amount of knowledge points given by the other quests/in chests. Require people to provide all tradable mats in crafting orders.

I think there should be a way to put in a public order with a minimum rank, but with a really high minimum commission fee based on the difficulty of making the item and if the recipe is rare or not. So people can pay extra to avoid sitting around and waiting in Valdrakken for someone to see their message, especially since trade chat is awful to read. If you have time and want so save money, you can find someone to do it for cheaper and send them a personal crafting order. We also need more crafting stations throughout the zones. Each zone needs at least two crafting stations. The current system incentivizes people to just sit around in Valdrakken and wait, while the zones are mostly empty.Work Order NPCsComment by barbasolI’d rather just use the Auction House. Not that it doesn’t have its problems, but work orders just duplicate the AH in a worse way.

I’m sorry they don’t seem to be changing professions much. The new system has so many drawbacks and rough edges and above all is unnecessarily complicated.Comment by ZigrifidAt least Khadgar didnt ask for an order with 0 mats provided and 10g payment ! like players doComment by zulefThis looks like a system perfect for bots to exploit. just making the problem for actual player the sameComment by agentrockLOL wow even khadgar is being skimpy with mats, can they not add the mats to the orders, like that was a common issue with public orders, was that they didn't add mats and placed orders that were too expensive to justify crafting.Comment by XaleaOOf, recipe unlearned!

Sitting around in Valdrakken spamming trade chat or waiting for someone to request your services is not fun. I already spent a bunch of time leveling my professions, I want to also enjoy playing the actual game. Getting knowledge points for fulfilling crafting orders is a bad design. The incentive for crafting stuff for people is the gold. Just increase the amount of knowledge points given by the other quests/in chests. Require people to provide all tradable mats in crafting orders.

I think there should be a way to put in a public order with a minimum rank, but with a really high minimum commission fee based on the difficulty of making the item and if the recipe is rare or not. So people can pay extra to avoid sitting around and waiting in Valdrakken for someone to see their message, especially since trade chat is awful to read. If you have time and want so save money, you can find someone to do it for cheaper and send them a personal crafting order. We also need more crafting stations throughout the zones. Each zone needs at least two crafting stations. The current system incentivizes people to just sit around in Valdrakken and wait, while the zones are mostly empty.

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