Pugnacious Priest's Warcraft Blog

I gave up on the crafting order system early on. I was slow at getting the in demand enchanting and tailoring orders and when I could craft them I didn’t have on hand all the rarer mats needed.

I picked up all the new green pvp crafted gear just to add to my collection and get the first craft bonuses and while I was at the loom checked on the tailoring public orders and someone had posted what could be called as dummy orders for multiple items, stuff I had materials for with a minimal tip. Reading the crafting note the instructions included “crafting request for your weekly quest”It was a public order and I got to actually craft my first public order.

What a great idea to help people meet the weekly quest requirements/ monthly quest requirement. Inspired I posted a number of basic bolt/thread items that didn’t need any special or rare items.

In my excitement I forgot to untick the provide materials boxes so not only did I lose my mats ( not a great impact) but I still tipped 10 gold, AND paid the crafters fee. The person who picked those up actually got a pretty good deal out of it. Hopefully it was someone who needed it.

I got some of my value back when I got the items and was able to Disenchant them for shards which will help after that nasty Loamm Niffen quest that wanted 75 silver level Vibrant Wildercloth which required both shards and bolts to make.

My next set of orders I wasn’t so generous with my own mats, but I wish more people did this to help people out, and liked that someone out there did it for a stranger ( me) and also inspired this post. I feel the crafting order system needs further work, while it does make it easier to connect to people who have the recipes you need/want or even a skill level you need. It also assists to co-ordinate with guildies who have mats, and doesn’t require you to spam or sit in trade chat, its still highly competitive and the weekly trade orders, or even the achievements of 500 and 1000 orders just seem a long way off obtaining without having an exclusive recipe or really helpful friends.