I was thinking about what to do next to continue leveling Kaelinda’s Dragonflight Tailoring when I suddenly got a bee in my bonnet that Battle for Azeroth would be the only expansion for which I hadn’t fully leveled Tailoring. During Battle for Azeroth itself, I’d done just enough Tailoring to craft the basic Tidespray Linen set. Then, having read on Wowhead and the Blizzard Watch Queue and Gnomecore and Coffee Cakes & Crits that leveling crafting Professions during that expansion required an absolutely absurd quantity of raw materials, I decided not to bother with trying to max it out. By now, though, I figured I had enough gold to buy Tidespray Linen off the AH by the freight car. So Kaelinda spent the weekend in Dazar’alor making piles and piles of Tidespray Linen stuff, then feeding it through the Scrapper until she’d gotten enough Expulsom to craft a few more of the items that would actually give her skill points…
Well, at least that’s done now.
Fortunately, I didn’t bother maxxing out Kamalia’s Leatherworking in Shadowlands, so I will feel no such compulsion to go back and cap out her Battle for Azeroth Leatherworking as well 😛
Scrapping was a great idea. Generating a reagent required for further crafting from it was not.
January 30, 2023 by kamaliaetalia
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So you no longer have to level Tailoring or Leatherworking through the previous expacs in order to level them in the current expac? Interesting.
Nope! Professions got subdivided to go along with Chromie Time leveling. Each expansion’s recipes are their own unit with 1-100ish skill points. You do have to open up the profession by learning the Classic unit — but you don’t have to skill it up at all. Once you’ve opened up the profession, you can learn the profession units for the expansions in whatever order you want. If you’re leveling in Pandaria, you can learn just the Pandaria units for your professions. If you’ve Boosted, you can just learn the current expansion units for your professions. For example, my Void Elf Mage leveled as dual gathering, then dropped Herbalism and picked up Tailoring when she was ready to start in Shadowlands. She has 1/300 points in Classic Tailoring, 100/100 points in Shadowlands Tailoring, and 25/100 points in Dragonflight Tailoring — and nothing at all trained in between Classic and Shadowlands. In Mining, she has 5/300 points in Classic, 3/75 points in Outland, 1/75 points in Northrend, 5/75 points in Cataclysm, 4/75 points in Pandaria, 9/100 points in Draenor, 12/100 points in Legion, 26/175 points in Battle for Azeroth, 150/150 points in Shadowlands, and 36/100 in Dragonflight.
For long time players that makes sense, but I wonder if this is easily understood by new players. I haven’t played FF XIV yet, but all of the other MMOs I’ve played have the traditional system of leveling professions in place.
I wonder, too. My 5-year-old has gotten expert at Exile’s Reach (the tutorial experience for New Players that was introduced an expac or two ago) — though he still needs help with the quest that’s a tutorial about the emote system; you have to /wave to an NPC — but as many times as I’ve watched him doing it in the past several weeks, I don’t remember there being any quests about the profession system as part of that tutorial experience.