Blizzard on Crafting Mythic Item Level Gear Using Professions in Dragonflight

Dragonflight Posted 2022/09/22 at 3:21 PM by Squishei

Quality 4Quality 5

Hi,

As you suspected / hoped, this is just a bit of item level shifting across the board, with this particular change going in earlier than others. In the end, the epic crafted gear item level will not be changing relative to other gear.

Currently the intention is quality 4 mythic upgraded profession gear will be equivalent to the early bosses in mythic raids, with quality 5 being 3 item levels above that.

You should see these new item levels reflected in the next patch on Beta.

I will note that because this is Beta, we will be continuing to evaluate the specific role crafted gear takes in the overall gearing ecosystem, but our intention is absolutely to keep crafted gear as an important contributor to your gearing journey.

Sorry for the confusion.

-Drough

To answer a few questions:

With Mythic ilvl ranging from 424-434 in incremental steps, can you clarify if “the early bosses” means the first 2 or second 2 bosses?

Just for some extra clarification, crafting these quality 4 and 5 items won’t be possible till later on in the tier correct? It’s not supposed to be something doable within the first 2-3 weeks of the tier, but rather something that happens later on.

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Comment by ScurrburrDo we know if you can convert the crafted gear to tier pieces with the creation catalyst? May be OP considering you could just buy tier at that point...Comment by FunkheadPay to win crafted gear confirmed.

Now all they have to do is purposely make the actual gear from the raids horribly itemized so you will want to spend wow tokens and buy perfectly stated crafted gear.Comment by SeniaaJust use the BFA model without the random stats. 2 "guaranteed" slots after a few weeks with BiS stats is more than fine especially when one was also a fairly high stat weight (pants).Comment by wowmanheadpay 2 win inc!Comment by FunkheadDo we know if you can convert the crafted gear to tier pieces with the creation catalyst? May be OP considering you could just buy tier at that point...Comment by jrubimfpay 2 win inc!Comment by Nova5269Interesting but it depends on where your BiS comes from. If your BiS weapo. Comes from anything higher than 3 ilvls above the early bosses this may be wasted gold if you're trying to min/max.Comment by Makz42Pointlessly convoluted system if the best crafted gear can only be crafted by raiding. If you raid, you already get the highest ilevel gear - instead, they could have opened the door to entirely new avenue of gameplay.Comment by IronNightI find this to be interesting as for while I always want craft gear be able stand up with raid gear as feel currently if you do something like blacksmithing you just do it for that one piece of gear otherwise you kind of don't use it really. Also while it is pay to win its coming from community not just the server also stupid say pay to win because yes you can buy wow token but you can grind it as easily more or less if you have the time to set it up. Honestly going enjoy this part about my crafting professions as going be new way of gold making and gearing up :PComment by ArexianaJust one item, or you can go full gear with these things?Comment by eKatherineyes you can buy wow token but you can grind it as easily more or less if you have the time to set it up.Comment by JohnnyMaverikI know it's not the popular opinion but I really don't think this is the way to make professions more relevant and will end up with some tears. That being said I'd rather this than the old profession locked bonuses that lead to having a BIS profession as per classic wow, especially TBC and Wrath and I still think there was a fairly strong element of that in Cata.

I just want to see what they do with fishing, if they indeed do anything of course.Comment by apedosmilPay to win crafted gear confirmed.

Now all they have to do is purposely make the actual gear from the raids horribly itemized so you will want to spend wow tokens and buy perfectly stated crafted gear.Comment by mychoeveryone saying pay2win has no idea how the new professions work, obtaining the highest quality/ilvl of gear is going to take an insane amount of work and grinding on the crafters part. its very unlikely this gear will be a viable option early on in seasons as its gonna take a while for crafters to level up, think of it more of a mid-end season option to fill out slots.Comment by ErKo95Do we know if you can convert the crafted gear to tier pieces with the creation catalyst? May be OP considering you could just buy tier at that point...Comment by keratheenPay to win crafted gear confirmed.

Now all they have to do is purposely make the actual gear from the raids horribly itemized so you will want to spend wow tokens and buy perfectly stated crafted gear.Comment by ToranchUgh all the pay to win nay-sayers. Guys, if it takes an incredible amount of work for a coordinated raid team to craft these items early in a tier, what do you think that means for their value on the AH? They’re going to be astronomical. In that list of reagents are also BoP items the crafter must supply, that will drive the price of a mythic piece even higher.

Guaranteed these items will be multiple millions of gold, per. The player with that much gold isn’t buying the items, they’re buying the run so they get their achieves and mount.Comment by Ryecoke"Anything that can be bought with gold is p2w." - Random guyComment by NevcairielPay to win crafted gear confirmed.

Now all they have to do is purposely make the actual gear from the raids horribly itemized so you will want to spend wow tokens and buy perfectly stated crafted gear.Comment by Nevcairielwhat do you think that means for their value on the AH?

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