Originally Posted by
Fhina
I'm talking about professions on alts (does no one read?), after they made this expansion a rep grind from hell in order to be able to use valor points to get anything, which keeps one busy on their main. I'm too busy on my main to have time to get my alts to 90, and you don't receive jack for motes until characters do hit 90. And you have to kill a lot of crap to get enough motes to make enough spirits to make stuff. Did you listen to YOURSELF? If you do ALL the dailies. How many characters am I supposed to have to do ALL the dailies on on a daily basis? Some of us have a life and can't level 10 different classes to 90 AND do rep grinds via dailies AND max all their professions AND have time to get them all spirits by doing all of those (optional) dailies every day. And you're an idiot if you just grind mobs to hope for motes without doing them in conjunction with dailies, because you need the rep from dailies to get anything, plus it pays you in gold and valor points.
Also, Spirits of Harmony are not a direct replacement for Chaos Orbs, etc., which were reserved for creating EPICS, and were not available except as a roll after completing a dungeon (not as an rng drop for mob kills) so what point do you have in bringing them up? It is NOT the same thing, and I'm sure THEIR equivalent is still coming. Never mind that you didn't need to gather TEN bits of one in order to create one. You didn't need chaos orbs for low level engineering greens (as seen in MoP), or for crafting entry level blue quality items (inscription staves in MoP...which you need, plus MORE spirits, in order to make the epic ones). Motes of Harmony correlate DIRECTLY to items such as Motes of Earth/Motes of Mana/Motes of Life and Spirits of Harmony correlate to Primal Earth/Primal Life/Primal Mana (which Blizzard declared in a blue post at one point), and which were neversoulbound, so it didn't matter which character you were on, and you could easily aquire them in droves via herbing or mining or engineering (which you can't now, another point you conveniently forgot). Finally, you could outright buy them if you wanted to.
People also keep forgetting that this was supposed to be the expansion where we could play the classes we enjoyed. It's why there are account wide mounts, pets and achievements. Making what was once a non-soulbound item soulbound goes completely against that concept.
And once again, I'm talking ALTS. You'd need to grind Tiller's rep on all of your alts to open up all the slots on their farms (oh, but wait, dailies are OPTIONAL...no one is MAKING me do them...) and you can only farm on so many characters and still be playing WoW instead of Farmville.