Dragonflight Professions Overview
The release of the Dragonflight expansion in World of Warcraft has brought significant changes, particularly in the profession system, which has been revamped to offer a more intricate and rewarding experience for players. Whether you are a seasoned crafter or new to professions, understanding these changes is crucial to making the most of your gameplay. Let's delve into the details of what's new in Dragonflight professions.
Crafting Orders
One of the most exciting additions in Dragonflight is the introduction of Crafting Orders. This new system allows players to place orders for items they need, even if they lack the required crafting skill or profession. Here's how it works:
Is Skill or Profession Necessary?
Players do not need to have the specific skill or profession to place a crafting order. This includes ordering Soulbound items, which traditionally required the player to have the necessary skills. However, the crafter you choose must possess the required expertise to fulfill the order.
Finding a Crafter
There are multiple ways to find a crafter:
Use the new interface provided by an assigned NPC.
Visit crafting tables in Valdrakken where crafters often gather.
Make your order available to your friends, guild members, specific individuals, or the general player base.
Ordering Process
The ordering process involves several steps:
Specify the order's details, including duration and commission.
Include a note for the crafter if needed.
A small commission fee is required upon placing the order.
Provide necessary crafting materials, including optional reagents for secondary stats.
For Soulbound items, provide the Soulbound reagents.
Once crafted, the item will be sent to your in-game mail. Additionally, players can choose to fulfill crafting orders themselves to earn gold and improve their skills, potentially starting a crafting business.
💡 Note: Crafting Orders can be a strategic way for guilds to equip members with high-quality items efficiently.
Recrafting Orders
Recrafting Orders offer players the ability to enhance crafted items by improving quality or modifying optional reagents. Here's what you need to know:
To recraft an item, you'll need:
Materials from the original recipe.
A special reagent called Artisan's Mettle, which is rare and Soulbound.
Either the person placing the recraft order or the crafter can provide Artisan's Mettle. The result depends on the current skill and materials used, offering an opportunity to improve item quality without having the craft skill yourself.
Quality of Crafted Items
Dragonflight introduces a significant change with the addition of a quality attribute for both reagents and crafted items. Higher quality directly translates to better performance and attributes in the resulting item.
Application of Quality
Quality affects both the material and the finalized item, influencing aspects such as item level for gear or the potency of potions. The use of higher quality materials, complex recipes, and finishing reagents boosts the item's overall quality.
Affecting Factors
Several factors influence the quality of crafted items:
Quality of materials used.
Difficulty of the recipe.
Use of finishing reagents that enhance crafting skills or stats.
Player's primary crafting skill and specialization.
Secondary crafting stats such as inspiration, speed, multicraft, and resourcefulness.
Higher quality items naturally command higher prices in the market.
💡 Tip: Leveraging finishing reagents can be a game-changer in achieving top-tier item quality, even with limited crafting skills.
Recipe Difficulty
Every recipe includes details such as:
Current crafting skill.
Skill requirements to use the recipe.
Crafting characteristics, including inspiration, multicraft, speed, and resourcefulness.
Conditions for crafting at desired quality levels.
Skill Requirements
To work with high-quality materials and challenging recipes, players must enhance their crafting skills. This can be achieved through bonus stats and finishing reagents, which can unlock difficult recipes and boost crafting performance.
Quality Tiers
Crafted equipment and materials have distinct quality tiers:
Equipment Quality Tiers
TierItem LevelTier 1ilvl 270Tier 2ilvl 272Tier 3ilvl 274Tier 4ilvl 277Tier 5ilvl 280
Material Quality Tiers
For consumables, quality affects aspects like duration, charges, or effect potency. Note that not all reagents have quality tiers; common items like meat, fish, and cloth do not possess this attribute.
Crafting Specializations
The return of crafting specializations in Dragonflight allows players to focus on specific areas within their profession, enhancing their ability to produce superior items. For instance, Blacksmiths can choose to specialize as Armorsmiths to craft stronger Plate armor.
Specialization Knowledge points are necessary to improve in these areas, acquired through exploration and interactions with NPCs or books. Diversifying specializations within a guild can lead to a diverse array of high-quality items.
Crafting Stats
Dragonflight introduces secondary crafting stats, which impact the quality and efficiency of crafted items related to the expansion:
Inspiration: Chance to be inspired, granting extra skill during crafting, potentially yielding higher quality results.
Resourcefulness: Chance to use fewer tradable reagents.
Multicraft: Chance to craft additional items, applicable to stackable items only.
Crafting Speed: Increases crafting speed.
New Profession Gear
Profession gear is a new type of equipment worn while performing profession tasks. It does not occupy inventory space but provides beneficial stats for crafting and gathering. Players switch to this gear automatically when engaging in profession-related activities.
💡 Note: While transmog options for profession gear are not yet available, developers plan to introduce them in the future, enhancing customization options.
Reagent Bags and Stacks
To accommodate the new quality system, special reagent bags and updated stack sizes have been introduced:
Reagent bags hold only reagents and occupy one inventory slot.
Stack sizes have increased for most crafted consumables (up to 200) and gathered reagents (up to 1000).
Prospecting and Milling
In Dragonflight, new Prospecting and Milling recipes are available for Jewelcrafting and Inscription. Rather than targeting a stack of reagents, players can now select specific herbs or ores to mill or prospect, also deciding the quantity to process at once.
FAQ
How do I place a crafting order in Dragonflight?
To place a crafting order, visit the crafting tables or use the NPC interface in Valdrakken. Specify your order details, commission, and provide necessary materials.
What are finishing reagents in Dragonflight?
Finishing reagents are a new type of reagent that can be used to enhance crafting skills or stats, influencing the quality of the crafted item.
How does the recrafting system work?
Recrafting allows players to improve the quality of an existing item by using Artisan's Mettle and materials from the original recipe. Either the order placer or the crafter must provide the Artisan's Mettle.
What are the benefits of crafting specializations?
Crafting specializations let players focus on specific areas within their profession, increasing their ability to produce high-quality items tailored to their specialization.
Can I transmog profession gear in Dragonflight?
Currently, transmog options are not available for profession gear, but developers have plans to introduce this feature in the future.
What are the new secondary crafting stats?
Dragonflight introduces Inspiration, Resourcefulness, Multicraft, and Crafting Speed, each affecting different aspects of the crafting process and item quality.
How do I find a crafter for my order?
You can find a crafter through the NPC interface, at crafting tables, or by making your order public to guild members, friends, or the general player base.
Why are reagent bags important?
Reagent bags help manage inventory space by holding only reagents, thereby freeing up slots for other items and materials.