Season 1 Sockets Removed When Recrafting Gear to Season 2 Item Levels

PTR Posted 2023/04/12 at 6:44 PM by Archimtiros

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To support the new Spark of Shadowflame, recipes that require a Spark now let you choose which Spark to use in the required reagents section.

Sockets added through the Season 1 Great Vault will be removed when recrafting an item to Season 2 levels (with a warning prompt).

To make it clear who is providing which materials, crafting orders now show icons representing the crafter and customer next to each reagent. A message also appears above the Start Order button if the customer didn’t provide some or all reagents.

Player Name column widened to make more room for realm names in the crafting orders list.

The undo button for adding optional reagents moved inside the optional reagent flyout.

Adjusted the alignment of prices in the Crafting Orders UI.

Comment by TOMRUSBlizzard should be ashamed of this change!

They always do their best to invalidate player progress, thus undermining whole point of gearing process, which is a core part of MMO...Comment by JanDeGroteBlizzard should be ashamed of this change!Comment by reboundWeird but understandable. Theres definitely going to be a season 2 socket to add, and the gems themselves are cheap anyway so /shrugComment by vakemanUnless they are gonna compensate me with the token that I can trade for gold this is horrible. I earned those sockets and this feels bad. Engaging with the game to min-max and have that undone.

Would be less of an issue if we knew this ahead of time. Not weeks before the patch...Comment by mikeyrandelltbf, this kind of spares people from having to farm sockets right now, so... eh, it's all rightComment by tronklesUnless they are gonna compensate me with the token that I can trade for gold this is horrible. I earned those sockets and this feels bad. Engaging with the game to min-max and have that undone.

Would be less of an issue if we knew this ahead of time. Not weeks before the patch...Comment by agentrockUnless they are gonna compensate me with the token that I can trade for gold this is horrible. I earned those sockets and this feels bad. Engaging with the game to min-max and have that undone.

Would be less of an issue if we knew this ahead of time. Not weeks before the patch...Comment by SchattensangUnless they are gonna compensate me with the token that I can trade for gold this is horrible. I earned those sockets and this feels bad. Engaging with the game to min-max and have that undone.

Would be less of an issue if we knew this ahead of time. Not weeks before the patch...Comment by JMercado0331Unless they are gonna compensate me with the token that I can trade for gold this is horrible. I earned those sockets and this feels bad. Engaging with the game to min-max and have that undone.

Would be less of an issue if we knew this ahead of time. Not weeks before the patch...Comment by KalcifurThis is something they should have explained at the start of the season, not at the end. Crafting is now an integral part of the gearing process with many players plannint out their crafting and valor upgrades weeks in advance. There's no valid excuse for this, they just should do better next time.Comment by wtfmangnot a great change. considering half the time my vault is bad and i have to take tokens, and as such added sockets to a slew of crafted gear across my toons.Comment by exled104Can we get an option to add extra materials when sending a crafting order, so that they can recraft if needed instead of having to go through that process over and over and over againComment by Luck4I was hoping they wouldn't notice it. XD

At least my gold was saved, I was waiting to get closer to launch before crafting the pieces that needed a socket.Comment by vakemanThey faced the same decision with SL Legos and instead they made new crafts of the item just get a socket. They should do the same here. This r crafting each season is no different than upgrading SL Legos.

No, 3 weeks before the change happens is not ahead of time when people have worked towards their gear. Sure it means you don't have to do it now but then that's your choice. It doesn't invalidate mine to do it.

If you don't wanna farm a socket then that's fine. Those that did it to improve their character shouldn't be punished for it out of the blue when there was no indication this would happen UNTIL NOW. People crafted items knowing they would continue forward.

Feel free to disagree with me but this disrespects the time players put in to getting items made and tailored to their needs for crafted items specifically. Items meant to continue on patch to patch.Comment by IhebBlizzard should be ashamed of this change!

They always do their best to invalidate player progress, thus undermining whole point of gearing process, which is a core part of MMO...Comment by elicieWeird but understandable. Theres definitely going to be a season 2 socket to add, and the gems themselves are cheap anyway so /shrugComment by vakemantbf, this kind of spares people from having to farm sockets right now, so... eh, it's all rightThat's called... ahead of time.

Would you prefer they require you to obtain all new gear instead of upgrading?
I mean, even just thinking for a little moment about the whole thing: You crafted a piece for every socketable equipment, just to carry over that socket from season to season. Now you already have 6 slots completely set with what you had in the last season.

This leads to two interesting questions: What do you do with the extra vault-tokens you get from already having equipment that you aren't going to change, but that you exclusively got in the vault, so the only thing to take are the tokens? And will you complain about having the same equipment for the whole addon as well?
I highly doubt that this is a horrible idea.. Im pretty sure the whole concept of losing the slot when recrafting is to even the playing field out. leaving the socket in place after recraft would give a huge advantage at the start of season two which is what they are trying to eliminate. besides, Its a season 1 thing and season 2 will have their own thing going....Comment by ftwbot“No reason to just invalidate the work of people that have put in the time.” No that was work for this season. You get that reward of using it this season.Comment by BwgmonNo reason to just invalidate the work of people that have put in the time.Comment by vakeman“No reason to just invalidate the work of people that have put in the time.” No that was work for this season. You get that reward of using it this season.