Time for secondary professions to be at the account level?

[muto]

With Blizzard stating that they have the intention of allowing most mounts, pets, and achievements to be shared across all characters of someones account, do you think they should do the same with the secondary professions? First Aid, Archaeology, Cooking, and Fishing.


I personally think it would be an awesome idea, of course, you would still have the opportunity to unlearn the secondary professions, and re-level them if you wanted to.

I just think it would be a really convenient thing to have happen, especially with cooking, and fishing.


What do you guys think?

[Nzx]

Well... No. Acheivements are different in that their only rewards are cosmetic. Fishing is extremely profitable, cooking is fairly useful, first aid is a goldsink. Professions shouldn't be account-level.

[Boogums]

While fishing is profitable, and cooking is useful, it would be nice if the secondary skills were account wide so that you don't have to constantly log onto "that alt (or main" to continue fishing or drop a feast.

[muto]

Well... No. Acheivements are different in that their only rewards are cosmetic. Fishing is extremely profitable, cooking is fairly useful, first aid is a goldsink. Professions shouldn't be account-level.

If you have maxed fishing on one character what's the harm? It's not like you're increasing the amount of fish being brought into the game since you can only fish on one character at a time anyways. your statement is null. It would just be more convenient, like Broloth said.

[Serissa]

If your mother can cook doesn't mean you can :P
If your father pro-physicaian doesn't mean you can apply bandage

Mounts and pets makes sense - you can "lend" father's car or lil'sister goldfish and enjoy it. But professions makes 0 sense

[Kyulan]

I voted no though I dont mean "it wouldnt work", it's just something I dont think is needed. They give no advantage to player performance nor they have anything that another character couldnt just level up. The accound wide mounts and pets are there because a lot of them are from prestigous achievements or places that are no longer available. Achievements are something you want to show off to other people or gain by your own and they're accountbound on most games.

[Santti]

I could live with them being account bound, yes.

Fish and Meat prices would drop, though, and cloth prices would be affected as well.

Alternatively, they could try and make fishing a little more engaging, so it wouldn't be so god damn boring. You already get the most important stuff from Archeology in MoP already, pets and mounts (and titles?).

(Hurray, 1000th post!)

[smokii]

Archaeology and fishing are incredibly tedious time sinks, they will become the bane of any re-roller, having levelled both to 525 twice in cata, i have no desire to level them again but to 600 on a new monk main in MoP.

my biggest issue is, the older i get, the less time i have for this kind of time sink and this will start to ring true for more and more players as expansions continue to be released.

[rayvio]

no, but I do think things like fish feasts should be BoA rather than BoP, and perhaps a few of the fun archy items (rather than just the epics) as well

as for first aid, that needs some work as it's barely even worth levelling on one character right now, especially with how rare embersilk was compared to cloth from previous expansions

[Hakto]

I want to vote no but your poll has secondary statements I don't necessarily agree with.

It is unnecessary.

[Deleted]

With Blizzard stating that they have the intention of allowing most mounts, pets, and achievements to be shared across all characters of someones account, do you think they should do the same with the secondary professions? First Aid, Archaeology, Cooking, and Fishing.


I personally think it would be an awesome idea, of course, you would still have the opportunity to unlearn the secondary professions, and re-level them if you wanted to.

I just think it would be a really convenient thing to have happen, especially with cooking, and fishing.


What do you guys think?

instead of that you could make an insta kill button so the game becomes easier then it already is. so you can rule the content while you have no more skill!

[thefixed]

Personally, I enjoy having to level my secondary professions on all characters. It adds to the feel of my characters being separate entities. However, I wouldn't really mind if secondary professions were account-wide or not.

[Hakto]

Archaeology and fishing are incredibly tedious time sinks, they will become the bane of any re-roller, having levelled both to 525 twice in cata, i have no desire to level them again but to 600 on a new monk main in MoP.

my biggest issue is, the older i get, the less time i have for this kind of time sink and this will start to ring true for more and more players as expansions continue to be released.

You dont need to.

You do not need these professions on your main.

[Deleted]

If your mother can cook doesn't mean you can :P
If your father pro-physicaian doesn't mean you can apply bandage

Mounts and pets makes sense - you can "lend" father's car or lil'sister goldfish and enjoy it. But professions makes 0 sense

Your whole statement makes 0 sense. This thread is about a quality of life change in the game.

Lol at people trying to apply real life logic (if you even could call it like this) to games. -_-

[bufferunderrun]

honestly the more blizzard make easy to play alts or switch main the more i'm happy.

[Deleted]

If your mother can cook doesn't mean you can :P
If your father pro-physicaian doesn't mean you can apply bandage

Mounts and pets makes sense - you can "lend" father's car or lil'sister goldfish and enjoy it. But professions makes 0 sense

With that logic, there shouldn't be any account-wide achievements either. Just Sayin'.

OT: I like the idea. As some other people have stated this far: It's all about convenient accessability(spelling?). I'd like it alot since when i rerolled to my rogue in 4.3, i had to re-level cooking and fishing for the 5th time. It's not as fun as it might sound!

[lanerios]

Hell no. If you're to lazy to level your secondary professions, you don't deserve e'm. It's that simple for me.
What's next? Calling them hard to level? They've been dumbed down time after time, even the only fun timesink (for me) has been dumbed down so much that you can level it to max in a day (fishing). if you can't be bothered to level it, you don't deserve it.

[roflpot]

I agree with this regarding Archaeology. It's an absolute bitch to level and I have no desire to repeat it on any other chars but as I only PVP with the char I levelled it on now it's totally wasted.

[muto]

no, but I do think things like fish feasts should be BoA rather than BoP, and perhaps a few of the fun archy items (rather than just the epics) as well

as for first aid, that needs some work as it's barely even worth levelling on one character right now, especially with how rare embersilk was compared to cloth from previous expansions

Embersilk farming is the fastest right there with Mageweave (Zul'Farrak whole instance pull, then AoE). Frostweave was the worst.


To effectively farm Embersilk go to the place in Deepholm where the Dwarves are fighting the Stone Troggs, and just AoE right in the middle of the clustered mobs. I'm a Tailor so I get an added benefit on cloth, and I also use a potion of treasure finding. I get over 500 Embersilk per hour along with quite a few random volatiles, ores, and BoE greens.

[leaks]

Hell no. If you're to lazy to level your secondary professions, you don't deserve e'm. It's that simple for me.
What's next? Calling them hard to level? They've been dumbed down time after time, even the only fun timesink (for me) has been dumbed down so much that you can level it to max in a day (fishing). if you can't be bothered to level it, you don't deserve it.

Too true, I remember when fishing took real skill. Sitting there staring at the bobber, then clicking. Now these kids don't even have to try. When they stare at their bobbers and click they see a number go up slightly more often. Makes me sick just thinking about it.