After reading this article http://projectlore.com/blog/the-next-expansion-future-tradeskill-design/comment-page-1/#comment-38962 I got to thinking about the new profession for the expansion…
A new expansion will ofcourse mean a new profession, lots of speculation is pointing in the woodworking direction. Woodworking, however, has been rumored with for years now and it doesn’t seem like Blizzard will be implementing one soon for numerous reasons.
Would woodworking be a crafting or a gathering profession, or maybe both? Either way it will cause a lot of problems. If it would be a crafting profession there is the question of what mats will you use? If it’s a gathering profession there will be the problem of having to reseed every zone in the game with trees to harvest, and there will have to be added recipes for various existing crafting professions to use the wood. If they’d combine it, it wouldn’t be balanced with other professions, unless they would let it take up 2 profession slots. Also, one very important reason why woodworking just won’t be a new profession is that it just wouldn’t fit into the theme of a water-based expansion.
Chances are higher that there will be yet another crafting profession, this time one using mainly enchanting or leatherworking mats, since there are already three professions which use ore, two that use herbs, and one that uses leather, and one that uses disenchanted stuffs. As you can see, disenchanting and skinning are a bit underrepresented.
The question remains, what will we be crafting? It would be silly of Blizzard to let us craft more extra buff-items for our characters since we already have enchants, glyphs, scrolls and gems. So again, what shall we be crafting in the next expansion? I really have no idea yet…
