WoW just played preview and not happy. So all my time and effort not counting money for leadership is totally gone as there is no more leadership in professions?
"What is the sense of living the life you're given if all you ever do is stand in one place?" Lord Huron
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As for the gathering part players that wanted to gather stuff already did those professions that required it.Players that did not want to be forced to waste play time did leadership. Some of us that are not glued to our computers and have limited playtime per day now have to waste that time trying to locate stuff instead of actully playing and enjoying the game.
So yeah, a big HAMSTER you.
Also having played this game since the beginning if I had wanted to do a profession that already required me to waste time trying to find the stuff I probbly would have,but no I have limited playtime so when I sit down to play that is what I want to do ,not have to do boring stuff like gathering.
1. Feed the vouchers to your guild's coffer for labor.
2. Exchange the vouchers at your workshop's retainer for a currency that is then used to buy new assets, including (if you have enough) new artisans instead of new tools.
3. Sell the vouchers.
4. Throw the vouchers away.
5. Keep the vouchers forever as a cherished memory of your nameless laborers.
You get these vouchers for all the laborers you have, whether they be heroes, smiths, alchemists, black ice craftsmen, etc. Their trade-in value (to your workshop's retainer) is based on the average AH buyout price at some point before the announcement of the crafting overhaul. So heroes are worth 80k of this new currency, while the rest of the epic laborers (grandmaster ) are worth 20k. Lower rarity laborers are individually worth less than these values.
As for them taking salvage away, instead of buying Company gear to then salvage, you'll be able to purchase rough astral diamonds directly. I'm not sure what guild-related currencies other than guild marks will be involved in this, as I haven't checked this out because I'm not currently interested. The same is true for all the campaigns: You'll be able to buy rough astral diamonds directly from the campaign store using campaign currency.
Having to do "boring stuff like gathering"? Really? Once again, you expose the shallow depths of your knowledge of the new system. You can tell your adventurers to go gather stuff, and you can tell them either to repeat the task until the delivery box is full or you can tell them to repeat it X number of times, where X is a whole number greater than zero. After that, you only need to collect from the delivery box periodically until you decide to change what your adventurers are gathering. Furthermore, once you get your workshop to level 3 (which isn't very hard), you don't even have to go to the workshop to collect the items from the delivery box.
I strongly suggest you either spend some time on Preview and learn about the changes first-hand or spend considerably more time on the Preview forums than you obviously currently are. There's little reason or need to sound sour notes over the upcoming changes based on nuggets of facts and mountains of incorrect assumptions.
Can it be kept in the shared bank? Right now, profession personnel and tool cannot be stored in shared bank.
I assume artisans and new tools are bound within the character. Is my assumption correct?
Thanks.
I already know that I'm going to have to plan which profession each of the characters on my and my wife's accounts chooses to start with. The goal being to make sure that I have each of the professions covered, preferably twice. I've got one character that has level 25 Leadership and should have level 25 Mailsmithing before the update comes out. She's got three characters that might have level 21 Leadership before then. Otherwise, the rest of our characters (13) have all professions leveled to 25. This way I can make sure that I have two characters able to craft something from each profession, which will help make filling commissions and leveling the workshops much easier. Her three that have only been leveling Leadership will probably just do Gathering. I'm not sure I'll want to invest the time, effort, and gold to level up any other professions on them after the update comes out.
If you did not level leadership but another profession then in the the new system, buy your resources until you raise gathering up. Put the effort and time into it like others did.
I don't know how other people set up their current profession.
I set it up in a way for a team of characters. Everyone has leadership.
Type 1: If I just wanted 8 slots for that character, he would also have a level 4 Alchemy for opening up slot. Basically, only level 25 leadership.
Type 2: If I wanted 9 slots for a character, that character would have level 25 leadership, Alchemy and one extra profession. That extra profession is different from character to character.
Type 3: For the character I played for real (I have 6), they would have level 25 leadership, Alchemy and Jewelcrafting (which was legacy reason for making personal jewels in the past). They might also have one extra level 25 profession after leadership, Alchemy and Jewelcrafting.
Since I don't have a toon that has two profession combined into one, I did not 'waste' for that.
Now, about leadership becomes gathering, it may not be a waste to me either if my assumption is correct (which I don't know). I assume my type 1, 2 and 3 have the ability to gather stuff for the profession they don't possess.
Regardless, IMO, having leadership is having an edge over those who did not. For me, it is not a waste at all but I also know you do think it is.
Unless you're actively sitting there and rushing your crafting projects, I really don't think there is going to be much of a time investment in actually doing crafting. There might be if you're only doing crafting on a couple of characters. Maybe. I've got 17 characters to manage crafting tasks for, and I'm not expecting to spend much time at all doing this. Whatever time I do spend on it will be dramatically less than the two to two and one-half hours I spend doing it every day already. There are definitely aspects to the new system that I am not excited about. However, the way you can set tasks up to repeat and log in periodically to collect them is definitely the feature I most anticipate and am most excited about in this new system.
But I also HATE!!!!!!!!!!!! the random hiring HAMSTER. Just give me a list of people at various skills I can hire up front! God damn Cyrptic, why do you think that aspect would be fun???? I mean why?
Now, I have a full set of Heroes, as I basically just run Leadership non-stop in 8-9 slots to create RPs (but I have 2-3 purple workers in every other profession too). For me, the loss of RP income is much more significant than the issue of not getting a fair compensation for my former Heroes.
New Leadership = useless trash for other professions.
90% of people ran leadership for RP.
those 90% of the people will not run Jewelcrafting at 1 gold per peridot for RP.
Crafting is useless to 90% of the playerbase more or less.
Its all but too late to get required levels and assets in place to recoup costing for masterwork items (as they will be profitable for a short time after mod, before new mod makes items outdated (as it always does) , even some who have alot of these assets and levels in place, will still have to pay out of pocket a significant amount to resume crafting at profitable levels.
My one and only concern is RP, how is it handled and will we get enough that it is not a bottle neck like it was before mod whatever fixed it by dropping RP+ Wanderers + QM.
That we need a mount + a enchant to get RP at any reasonable rate is still concerning, as new players cannot afford alot of this stuff to progress.
Still "trying " to figure out why it was "bad" that we saved our boxes to open during double events..
... or you could've just done what some of us suggested, make all RP out of boxes account bound I guess, would've been fine by me.
My purpose was to use it for my own toons, not sell them, I know others who did, and I was fine by that as well.
Not really sad to see leadership gone, I did it on 13 toons took up 20-30 mins of my morning, fine if you want to give that back to me. As long as RP is handled ok.