Scribes to make boe shoulder enchants in mop

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Quote from Ghostcrawler

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/5149537803#9

Head enchants are gone.

We decided that putting head enchants on the various faction vendors wasn't working well with our design intent for the factions. There is a lot of max-level quest content in MoP, much of it focused around the reputation with the new factions. I think it's really cool stuff -- worlds away from the old Argent Crusade scourge stone days.

In previous expansions, the head enchants on the faction vendors served to force players into that content. You couldn't even choose which reputation to pursue -- you had to pursue the one with your specific head enchant. Our design intent for MoP is to give players options in how to play, and the head enchant design wasn't compatible with that.

Once we decided to no longer offer new head enchants, we made the older ones non-functional or else players would feel like they had to go back to older content or be missing out on power. This way, helmets are just no longer enchantable and you'll have one less required step to get a piece of loot ready to wear.

Shoulder enchants can now be provided by scribes, so those still exist, but they are also not part of the faction reputation system.

Bolded and underlined the important bit

Scribes will have a way of making some gold other than glyphs \o/

[Yuuki Asuna]

I'm not quite sure the shoulders will still be BoE though. GC didn't mention that part.

[Deleted]

I'm not quite sure the shoulders will still be BoE though. GC didn't mention that part.

Try reading his full reply, specifically the bit at the end

Shoulder enchants can now be provided by scribes

>_>

'Provided' being the important word, aka you can make them for other people

[xskarma]

I was just on my way to make this very same thread.

Seems that Scribblers get another push to have something lasting to sell, a constant revenue stream, even if it's probably like the leg enchants for Tailoring/LW that have high turnover, but low profit per item.

Much depends on what materials will be used, but I can see this being a very nice supplement early Mists to making Darkmoon cards and glyphs.

For now I'm on the bandwagon for this change, it's a good one.

[Deleted]

I'm not quite sure the shoulders will still be BoE though. GC didn't mention that part.

No one sells enchanted BoE anyaways. Enchant will be like a leg enchant provided by tailors.

[Deleted]

Rejoice fellow scribes, I was about to make this same thread .

Even more ways of making profit with Inscription, it's absurd. Most of all: Avenues for diversification. If only they'd reinstate the old Glyph system, not the one-time-purchase system we have now. Unless they allow us to be the only source of dust of disappearence. But that's something else.

Anyway, I'm glad. No longer faction-forced to farm a certain Head enchant.

[Deleted]

No one sells enchanted BoE anyaways. Enchant will be like a leg enchant provided by tailors.

I used the term BoE so that people wouldn't get confused , and think I was the one getting mixed up with the scribes proffesion bonus of self enchanting there own Shoulders >_>

/deep frustrated sigh

guess I didn't dumb it down enough :P

[DerSenf]

That's deffinetly better than grinding a Therazane-like faction with every toon again. Not that Thera was a hard grind, but if you happen to have lots of characters, it just gets tedious.

But I'm not sure if this will be such a good income for scribes to be honest. Like LW, BS and Tailoring, it's only for one specific piece of gear instead of almost every new piece like JC and Enchanting. And they will probably end up being very easy to make, like 5 uncommon Pandaria Inks or something. AH can end up flooded with shoulder inscriptions pretty fast, lowering the prices.

[kerfanna]

I am so tired of Therazane! This is going to be an excellent change. I like the part about not being able to grind the ones you want as one of the main reasons for the change, because in Cata I wanted to do Ramakhen for the Camels, but I was a Resto Shaman so I had to do Hyjal first. Luckily, I went through Hyjal instead of Vash'jir so it wasn't that bad for me, but I like that it's not going to be a problem in MoP. Also, not having to grind rep after rep on every alt will be nice too.

[xskarma]

That's deffinetly better than grinding a Therazane-like faction with every toon again. Not that Thera was a hard grind, but if you happen to have lots of characters, it just gets tedious.

But I'm not sure if this will be such a good income for scribes to be honest. Like LW, BS and Tailoring, it's only for one specific piece of gear instead of almost every new piece like JC and Enchanting. And they will probably end up being very easy to make, like 5 uncommon Pandaria Inks or something. AH can end up flooded with shoulder inscriptions pretty fast, lowering the prices.

My guess is it will be like the leg enchants. You have a common version, made by common materials, and an Epic version, made by expensive materials.

The Intellect leg enchants for instance were made by Tailors from a material that you could, realisticly in the beginning, only make 5 a week from, and even then at high costs. As the expansion progressed that got a bit easier, but not untill chaos orbs got unbound did it get possible to mass produce them as a single player.

It would not surprise me if the epic Scribe shoulder enchants get made from several of the expensive ink + maybe some item, to differentiate the INT version from the STR version. Kinda like you had different items for the relics we made in Cata.

[Sarella]

Hey, maybe it'll go further and wont have int/str/agi versions! We could see shoulder enchants providing mastery/dodge/expertise instead! You can always hope

[ralphie]

Just like the leg enchants, there won't be a lot of gold making here.

[kombucha]

I welcome this. I eventually grind out all my reps each expansion, but not having to wait 2-3 weeks for my max shoulder enchant will be nice.

[Hijiri]

The BOP Profession bonuses are around +300 in a stat, thought the shoulder enchants were posted last week.

Here's an example of the inscriptionist only one.

http://mop.wowhead.com/item=87584

vs the sellable boe

http://mop.wowhead.com/item=83007

[Deleted]

Yes why have reputation that is even remotely grindy for some small reward?

Im torn between thinking this is a good idéa and a bad idéa. Currently my opinion lies within the negative answer.
They want people to be occupied with something, They introduce Challenge mode, Pet battles, Raids, PvP, Wargames/Rated Battlegrounds and diffrent specializations and dailys everywhere, Removing the daily cap and so on. But they also reduce the effort needed on certain things. Not everything is necessarily bad however. But it feels so counter-productive~desu

~Desu

[Deleted]

yay! sounds good, will be nice to see what the mats will be, i am guessing it will be more than just 4inks.

[hagar4172]

intill i see for a fact that they change the shoulder inscripition from inscriptionist as boe in some form all i see in this change is they stop forcing poeple doing the faction change to forcing poeple to lvl inscription. in no way did g/c say they where changing it from "Own shoulders" to enchant players or scribe on a vellium. they can call it w/e they want but just more proof that blizzard is just getting lazier and lazier. so now no head enchant or shoulder enchant from faction QM's so what gonna be the point of any faction's QM

[meifumado]

this is crap, why do scribes get to make enchants? THEY ARE CALLED ENCHANTS SO ENCHANTERS SHOULD MAKE THEM
and while we are at it whats up with enchanters and making wands? why has all this been taken away?
scribes can make gold without STEALING enchanters abilities (bis trinks at start of exp)
GC, what the hell are you doing?

[tigojones]

this is crap, why do scribes get to make enchants? THEY ARE CALLED ENCHANTS SO ENCHANTERS SHOULD MAKE THEM
and while we are at it whats up with enchanters and making wands? why has all this been taken away?
scribes can make gold without STEALING enchanters abilities (bis trinks at start of exp)
GW, what the hell are you doing?

Leg enchants made by tailors? Belt "enchant" made by blacksmiths?

[meifumado]

Leg enchants made by tailors? Belt "enchant" made by blacksmiths?

belt is not a chant its a extra slot

also the leg threads are split between leather workers and tailors so its fair

also they are not called enchants

GC clearly calls the shoulder enchants enchants not shoulder inscriptions