WoW: Dragonflight: Artisans can craft items at Mythic level early
Crafting has been a construction site in WoW for what feels like forever. Sometimes it’s too strong, sometimes useless, but mostly boring. In WoW: Dragonflight that should finally change. For this, the Blizzard developers are turning the system upside down and also introducing various specializations. But everything stands and falls with whether the items that can be produced are good enough for the heroes to deal with their craft.
And that’s exactly what it looks like at the moment. Because not only engineers have some cool items up their sleeves, but also the other manufacturing professions have a lot to offer. However, there was some ambiguity regarding the strength of the armor produced. The developers have now taken care of that and reiterates that artisans can craft items at the level of the first mythical bosses. However, this requires a lot of effort.
5 tiers & lots of collaboration
The craftable armor will exist in five different tiers at launch. Rank 4 corresponds to the item level that the early Mythic bosses drop in the new raid. Rank 5 will be another three item levels higher. However, these items are not yet available in the beta.
In order to craft such high-quality items, however, it will NOT be enough to collect a few materials and stand at the crafting station. Multiple crafters will need to work together as the finished product requires a large amount of high-quality products from other professions. These, in turn, will not be particularly easy to produce. In addition, special specializations are needed for most high-quality items, which have to be laboriously upgraded.
So far, not all items and ranks have been added to the WoW: Dragonflight beta.
Source: wowhead
Theoretically, the developers confirmed, such items will be craftable very early on. If enough craftsmen join forces and work purposefully, items can be produced at the level of the first mythical bosses in the first few weeks. But that requires some effort.
Here is the official statement from the Blizzard developers regarding the profession items:
Hi,
As you suspected / hoped, this is just a bit of item level shifting across the board, with this particular change going in earlier than others. In the end, the epic crafted gear item level will not be changing relative to other gear.
Currently the intention is quality 4 mythic upgraded profession gear will be equivalent to the early bosses in mythic raids, with quality 5 being 3 item levels above that.
You should see these new item levels reflected in the next patch on Beta.
I will note that because this is Beta, we will be continuing to evaluate the specific role crafted gear takes in the overall gearing ecosystem, but our intention is absolutely to keep crafted gear as an important contributor to your gearing journey.
Sorry for the confusion.
-Drough
To answer a few questions:
- With Mythic ilvl ranging from 424-434 in incremental steps, can you clarify if “the early bosses” means the first 2 or second 2 bosses?
- Currently the first bosses.
- Just for some extra clarification, crafting these quality 4 and 5 items won’t be possible till later on in the tier correct? It’s not supposed to be something doable within the first 2-3 weeks of the animal, but rather something that happens later on.
- Crafting quality 4 or 5 items would be hypothetically possibly early in the tier. It would take the cooperation of multiple crafters to make the best profession gear, reagents, and someone specialized in the item being made, but it should be possible (although difficult) very early on with enough concerted effort!
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