07-30-2008, 11:20 PM
Quote:Blizzard is decreasing the role of constant farming/spamming profession items for raids, while increasing the role of your own particular professions. They're giving main characters reasons to have gathering skills with their own special bonuses.The problem is they are fixing it at the wrong end. As Pete essentially said, they are "cater(ing) to the incomptent, ignorant, casual gamer." The more simple you make the game the less fun it is. Agree? Potions are broken for one reason and one reason only: The cost. The fix for this is stupidly obvious: Adjust supply.
You want Alchemy to be "worth it"? People will still be using elixirs or flasks on every encounter, and have potions as an "oh crap" button instead of a constant chugging. Don't complain at Blizzard for removing one of the more broken parts of the game. Take whats left and make sure it's still balanced in its own right, or look at what else their adding.
Right now I can fly around on an epic mount for 5 minutes and collect little more than 3 or 4 felweed if I have bad/average luck. THAT is where the problem comes from. If it took me 5 minutes to farm up the mats for something, I'm not going to put it on the auction house for 25 silver. Make it 100% of the time a herb contains a stack of 3 and that can look more like 9 to 12. Supply goes up, price goes down.
The auction house is a great facet of this game and controls these better than a direct nerf ever could. Plus it keeps the profession useful and the game interesting. People pick up a profession because they want to make useful things they can sell and use. Diminishing instead of fixing the game is not a change I welcome.