In Vanilla, the best mana potion came from the Major Mana Potion – and my priest had a major habit! The recipe came from a vendor, who just happened to be a ghost in Caer Darrow.īut, you couldn’t see him until you’d obtained a Spectral Essence trinket after a long quest line. Some of the recipes could be tricky to get, but in a good way the following is a good example of the depth having professions can give. In my raid team we formed fishing groups, with different people fishing up different things – I spent many an hour fishing up Nightfins for mana regen food outside of Strat.

Often raid teams would have people dedicated to gathering the materials for raids. This meant alchemy could be a very profitable. And it was another way to improve your character – be it with crafted items, enchantments, potions or food.Īnd, once players on your server were raiding, it became a good way to make gold. When WoW was released professions made a lot of sense it added depth to the world. The changes professions saw in Legion haven’t helped, but that just crystalized my thinking.Īs I started to write this, a certain Monty Python sketch sprung to mind from Life of Brian And there if there was a way to remove professions from some of my alts? I’d jump at the chance. And alts would always have professions.īut now? New alts don’t have professions, not even gathering ones. This is possibly a surprise for some – I’m a professions packrat, trying to be a completionist with recipes and having every profession maxed out.

Of late I’ve been pondering if professions should be removed from WoW. Professions have been in WoW since the start of the game and the system which they’re based on – gather things to make an item, perhaps gaining a skill up in the process, thus being able to make more complex things – hasn’t really changed that much over WoW’s history.

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