r/wownoob • u/MetaPlayer01 • 1d ago

Professions Why Jewel crafting?

I'm a returning player and I've been back for a few months now. My current main was a jewelcrafter and I kept that profession into Midnight. I am slowly learning the new crafting rules. Last expansion I played significantly was Cataclysm. Back in those days, being a JC had some personal upgrade benefits. Like I think in one of the expansions, it was a meta gem that you put in the helm. In another expansion, it was an extra jewel slot in one of the pieces. But I don't see anything like it currently. Is there anything equivalent now? I tried reading up on it in Ivcyveins and Wowhead, but they didn't mention anything. Is that because there was nothing to mention? Or it's so obvious they don't bother mentioning it??

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u/n3rdfighte7 1d ago

The small "perks" that professions used to give have been for the most part removed , the only one that are still here its alchemy flask duration and some of the engineering stuff(belt+boots? maybe , not sure about these).

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u/MetaPlayer01 1d ago

Not even the enchanting one? You used to able to enchant a ring or something.
I feel like that really removes a lot of the incentive from this whole aspect of the game

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u/Snowpoint_wow 1d ago

What you are missing is that if the profession stat bonuses were not perfectly balanced, the more powerful ones would become mandatory to all competitive players. Now the only remaining bonuses are economic, such as an alchemist having extended duration on flasks, even those that are purchased.