[BETA] Mists of Pandaria Professions Overview (Updated 4th May)

[Hoticehunter]

No Endless Master Mana Potion? Nooooo! Please tell me that's a mistake! Someone from the future, please tell me there's an Endless Master Mana Potion!

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No Endless Master Mana Potion? Nooooo! Please tell me that's a mistake! Someone from the future, please tell me there's an Endless Master Mana Potion!

I did think that was weird!

---------- Post added 2012-03-28 at 09:36 AM ----------

Very minor update this morning (updated text in red).

In Mists of Pandaria, it is confirmed that all professions will go to a max of 600 skill and the Skill name is "Zen Master". There are unconfirmed comments that say level 80 is required to train this skill. Click for the full list of Zen Master Skills.

[Mascotte]

I can confirm its a lvl80 requirement for learning Zen Master.
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9643/miningj.png

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I can confirm its a lvl80 requirement for learning Zen Master.
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9643/miningj.png

Nice, thanks!

[Mascotte]

Since there really isnt a whole lot to do right now in the beta (apart from playing the panda starting zone) i figured i might as well gather the alchemy stats since they currently aren't listed due to the items not actually existing on the servers just yet.

500/525/550 recipes: http://imageshack.us/f/851/alch500525550.png/
575/600 recipes: http://imageshack.us/f/401/alch575600.png/

[Tomana]

Interesting... Blue gems only need 1 green gem to be transmuted.

[Urza29]

in regards to the belt buckle, remember that ebonsteel one we got in cata goes up to ilvl 500 for belt, so maybe they planned ahead on that one, the tooltip reads "doesnt work on items above 500 item level" atm, so with normal dungeons gear starting at 423, and some of those epics currently in this thread at 472, unless we start seeing raid gear past 500, maybe they will hold off on a belt buckle at least till very close to release, seeing as how ebonsteel one would cover the current gear at start of expansion

Although, they will def release a new one, to use new mats found in mists, be kinda odd to have to farm mats from cata to make a ebonsteel to use on mists belts.

[Hoticehunter]

Interesting... Blue gems only need 1 green gem to be transmuted.

That's probably a very bad sign that means that they'll be on the transmute cooldown instead of freely available like they are now.

---------- Post added 2012-03-29 at 03:22 AM ----------

I did think that was weird!

It unfortunately makes a lot of sense because having an (updated) endless mana potion would make alchemy too desirable for healers. It may not be anything but a gold saver in raids, but in 5 man randoms? You aren't chugging mana pots on cooldown unless you either have a million+ gold and even then it's not likely because the gain is so small, or if your mana potion is reusable, so it ends up being a huge mp5 gain to take alchemy in addition to the normal intellect gain. It's not really noticeable right now though because the endless potion we have is the use-up-able one from two expansions ago.

[Tomana]

That's probably a very bad sign that means that they'll be on the transmute cooldown instead of freely available like they are now.

It's definitely possible, but for the moment, I'm going for the hypothesis that the "Spirit of Harmony" is a transmutation and has a CD instead (like Primal Might in BC).

[Hoticehunter]

It's definitely possible, but for the moment, I'm going for the hypothesis that the "Spirit of Harmony" is a transmutation and has a CD instead (like Primal Might in BC).

True, I wasn't paying much attention to the Spirit of Harmony part of the recipe, more the 1 green = 1 blue part. There's an interesting hypothesis that the Spirit of Harmony is MoP's Frozen/Chaos Orb/Primal Nether. I think that makes more sense to me since it just has a "Reagent for" and not a "created from". It seems to be something you find whole, at least as far as is currently determinable.

If it's just the new expansion's orb, then ya, I can see the gem transmute not having a cooldown in that case. Probably wouldn't be worth using as a gem transmute for the first month or three though if that's the case.

[Mascotte]

Well ladies and gentleman, im here to throw some fuel on the fire.
Its neither.

Its a world drop.
Just logged on to the beta servers to try out the starting zone, and after killing a random quest Beast mob i found one.
http://imageshack.us/f/690/spiritrb.png/
Since imageshack seems to scale pictures a bit weird this is the item text:

Spirit of Harmony
"Revered by craftsman throughout Pandaria, this spirit is used in countless recipes"

It MIGHT just only drop for people that have a craft profession like we know in current wow.
There is no real way to tell right now, i asked in general chat and no-one there found one atleast.
So while thats a rather small sample size it does seem to be somewhat rare.
The account that found the drop has Enchanting 525/525 and Jewelcrafting 525/600, only learned Zen Jewelcrafting since Zen Enchanting currently has Blacksmithing as a requirement.
So there are alot of possible variables to consider still but it is a worlddrop in either case.

[Deleted]

Well ladies and gentleman, im here to throw some fuel on the fire.
Its neither.

Its a world drop.
Just logged on to the beta servers to try out the starting zone, and after killing a random quest Beast mob i found one.
http://imageshack.us/f/690/spiritrb.png/
Since imageshack seems to scale pictures a bit weird this is the item text:



It MIGHT just only drop for people that have a craft profession like we know in current wow.
There is no real way to tell right now, i asked in general chat and no-one there found one atleast.
So while thats a rather small sample size it does seem to be somewhat rare.
The account that found the drop has Enchanting 525/525 and Jewelcrafting 525/600, only learned Zen Jewelcrafting since Zen Enchanting currently has Blacksmithing as a requirement.
So there are alot of possible variables to consider still but it is a worlddrop in either case.

I did some questing for an hour and I already found two of them, but maybe I was just extremly lucky.

[Mascotte]

Did you have any craft profs on that char?
Still trying to figure out if its one of those prof only drops or just really random.

[Deleted]

Did you have any craft profs on that char?
Still trying to figure out if its one of those prof only drops or just really random.

I had JC/Enchanting.

[Deleted]

Just added this blue post as a snippet of information about the cooking specialisations - this blue post and the other news on the news page here.

Cooking Changes
So you might have heard for Cooking in Mists of Pandaria we will have specializations. At the moment we're looking at around 5 branches of cooking, for example: broiling, steaming...etc.

Each of these specializations will focus on a particular stat. So let's say the Steaming specialization allows you to create Agility food. A rogue would find that very interesting, and would probably want to max that one out first. At which point, said rogue would be able to create Agility buff feasts for groups. Cool, huh? But worry not, once you max out in one specialization, you can then work on the other specializations.

Maybe they're gonna make it take ages to fully train all of them.
Well, maybe not ages. But it does mean that until enough time passes for you to train all specializations, you need to—er—specialize. Actually it's the way for other crafting professions too. For example, my jewelcrafter specialized in spell related stat recipes first, since of all my multitude of alts, I prefer my casters. Eventually, of course, she learned many more recipes and of course so did other crafters, so the market changed. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

[Coalex]

Wow those scopes are like shit lol. I hope they up them to everyone else's enchants...

[Zanon]

Any info if any of the professions will gain more props for maxing it out, like black smith getting another gemslot at 600. Currently you dont have to max blacksmithing to get the gem slots while some classes need to cap to get their benifits.

[escalle]

is it me or the green gems lower than cata gems? cant really tell yet for blue cuts

[Wylie]

They need to make inscription off hand items and staffs BoE

[aggixx]

They need to make inscription off hand items and staffs BoE

I'm leaning towards the intent being that the low item level version is BoE and the upgraded version is a scribe exclusive, something that will only be useful for the first tier (like a beefier form of engineer goggles).

That said, it does seem rather overpowered in it's current form. You'd be kind of silly not to run Inscription on a stave user if you're interested in min-maxing.