Read things carefully and understand the wording before u make expensive mistakes.

I’m going to guess that you didn’t play before badge loot….. and that you’re not a tree, a moonkin, or a shaman (the LWing casting sets are pretty nice, especially for the broccoli stalks). I honestly don’t know much about its uses for hunters, the hunters in my guild were all LWers though. And I think the bear set was decent in early raiding.

BEFORE badge loot LWing was one of very few places to get a decent chest, it requires elem LWing. Swiftstrike shoulders are very nice, the pattern does drop in Hyjal/BT so depending on the server it might be hard to find on the AH (assumming that you weren’t raiding that content). The swiftstrike bracers aren’t too shabby either, they’re boe so, no you don’t have to be a LW to have them, but hey, someone has to be able to make them.

Don’t even compare drums to netherweave nets. Netherweave nets are almost completely useless. You might use them for shits and giggles in a bg if you’re goofing around. On vashj some guilds that had afflic locks kiting striders used them, but having an elem shaman kite is one thousand times easier and with them kiting they make the nets pointless. Drums are essential in Sunwell. You can not down Bruttalas without them.

In comparison tailoring’s benefits for casters does overwhelm the other professions’s BoP items imo.

/cast net at Gruul.

TAKE THAT!

As a warlock, you probably don’t see the value in mana regen since you can lifetap, but other mana users can see the benefit.

Currently on my casters, I have to give up some other stats to have enough mana for some fights. Extra mana regen means more of others things.

The reason why holy dmg was picked was because its the most penetrating school (you can’t get resist rating for it),
and the potential benifit to tankadins.

“damage enemy with a spell”

sounds good to me!

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It doesn’t say you have to do damage with a HOLY spell, just any spell. It will then proc holy damage, but that doesn’t mean my mage can’t cast a frostbolt, and proc a bonus 800+ holy damage.

I can only say this by the way the tooltips are worded, can anyone confirm?

Flying carpets look awesome lol, I especially like the part in the description where it says it’s a “very fast rug”

I was a bit surprised to see the new spellthreads being so close in damage potential to the current Primal Nether versions. There may be good money in running level 70 heroics for quick badges and nethers to use in crafting these and LW item enchants, if the level 80 versions are hard to get.

As for profitability? Well, honestly most professions struggle with that. Blizzard would apparently rather have a system that everyone uses (and thus spends time on) than a system that confers great wealth on the few who make it to the top. It does look like everyone is getting their own little piece of the item enhancement market (Blacksmiths get to add a socket to geat), which is bigger than the market for crafted gear, but the supply is probably always going to exceed demand.

We get leg enchants for tanks and melee, while tailor get spell thread for the caster. Those cancel out. We have drums, you have nets, those cancel out. You have the FSW and PMC BOP sets that last well into T5 content, LW, nope… nothing.

If a professions needs a buff to make it more viable past giving you items to wear while leveling, its Leatherworking. And what hasn’t blizzard released any information for yet… yep… Leatherworking… makes me a sad panda.