Upcoming Jewelcrafting Change (read nerf)

[Duese]

I like professons for the occasional gimmick.

No... NO ... NOOOOOOOOOO.

Professions should not be a gimmick. WoW makes a mockery of professions and it drives me nuts. Professions should be useful. What they did with professions in wrath was the first step in making crafting more useful and yes, a requirement. I see professions being a requirement as a good thing because it is effort being put into a character that gets completely wasted once billy, johny, sally and mikey, all have the same patterns as you. Why level up a profession when theirs 8 people within shouting distance that can do it for you. It should be advantageous for you to take up a profession, more than just making a few items for cheaper than market value, especially in a game where funds are so ridiculously easy to come by.

JC made sense with the prismatic gems. You are a master of gems, why can't you activate a stupid meta slot or gem bonus for an item easier than some joe that doesn't have a clue what they are?

[kadaan]

I'd call it a fix. The stat bonus you get from using DE's instead of rare gems was on-par with the other stat bonuses from other professions. The ability to stick "red" prismatics like spellpower into a blue socket to get the socket bonus AND meet meta requirements made JC easily twice as good as other professions.

[Marious]

What they should do instead is fix professions to where you can mix and match them, like a bonus for doing lets say JC and LW or JC and BS, that way people have to make an actual choice of what benefits what. Just something to think about. Make them more interesting than what they are now. Make some recepies that require you to have LW and JC at a certain level and if you can get the stuff to make it, well you get a point to both of them or if you are at max level you can get like the perfect gem but it goes towards what you made. Or something. As of now I do have JC on one of my guys but I don't see it as the must have profession to min/max stuff which most take it as such. I don't want to have to have a profession if I don't want to have it to make me a better player I should not need to have what everyone else has for a profession.

[kadaan]

It's also tough for people who have rare recipes. My mage has been enchanting+tailoring since classic, with some of the AQ20 enchants, bottomless bag, belt/boots of blasting, mongoose, crusader, etcetcetc. Having people bug you to reroll professions every time one is the "best" for PvE end-game raiding sucks. Feeling bad for not doing it while being in a progression guild is even worse. I really dislike these profession-only bonuses, they've taken the fun out of it for me.