Subsidizing profession progress with guild funds
by Mike Schramm 
Apr 7th 2008 at 4:30PM
Lileah over on WoW LJ has an interesting idea that I've never thought of before. Well, her guild does -- she has a question about Illusion Dust, which yes, is hard to find. Usually your best bet is to run through the old level 55-60 instances, so Scholomance, Stratholme, and so on, but your best bet is probably the AH -- lots of people who can craft greens DE those and put the Dust up for sale there. Pricy but probably worth the time you'd spend grinding for them.But the reason she's looking for Illusion Dust is because her guild is paying out a 1,000g bounty to anyone who has two leveled professions by next week. That's a super interesting idea. I'm the kind of player who never seems to find time to level my professions -- I'm too busy killing stuff and leveling and gaining reputation to run around picking up herbs or mining nodes. But 1,000 is a nice prize, and definitely helps pay for not only my time running around, but also the extra costs associated with leveling a profession -- crafting mats and so on.
And considering how useful a 375 profession is to the guild, any guild that's raiding at a fairly high level should see benefits come out of having most of the guild crafting endgame items. Very cool idea -- if you have a guild that could use a few more crafters and some gold to spread around, subsidizing profession leveling might be just the ticket.
Filed under: Mining, Alchemy, Enchanting, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Guilds, Making money
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Coherent Apr 7th 2008 4:55PM
They must be desperate, or their members are _really_ being lazy about leveling their professions. I had a 380 JC & max mining skill before I ever joined a guild on my current main.
A moderate bounty for leveling skills is a cool idea though.
But the caveat is how to you assure that the bounty recipients are going to stick around? It's the worst feeling in the world to invest significant guild resources into a character only to have them leave and join a higher-progression guild the next day. It happens.
J Parris Apr 7th 2008 6:12PM
O.o For serious?
I have 4 70s, 3 of which have both professions at 375. Where's my 3k gold? LOL
audioSE Apr 7th 2008 6:15PM
Considering the high cost of mats for the upper levels of crafting, I'm not sure that 1000g is enough to offset the costs.
Abraxxis Apr 7th 2008 6:33PM
Our guild leader came up with the idea of a small jackpot for anyone to level fishing to 300+. I was one of two players in the raid able to fish up Lurker, and sometimes it took quite a few casts to make it happen. With the incentive, we would often have 5-6 able to fish up Lurker.
Coherent Apr 7th 2008 7:13PM
Ahh, the loot below... :)
Bootsanator Apr 8th 2008 4:02AM
There is a guild on Jaedenar, that will remain nameless in this post (but probably not the replies) that got to lurker, and everybody was ready to go, had read the strats....but no one had fishing. Not one lvl 70 in the guild had their fishing high enough. They were asking people from my guild and other guilds to go raid with them just to fish the bastard up.
Hilarious.
Fizzl Apr 8th 2008 5:00AM
Wow wish I'd get 1000g for it :O
I've been thinking of getting tailoring again for the robe (dropped it for herbing since the BT/MH patterns were rubbish.)
I'm the guild engineer and counted myself lucky that the guild covers the repair bot mats, i wouldn't expect anything beyond that!
hpavc Apr 8th 2008 8:56AM
mindless enchanting tailoring is pretty easy, two 70s can easily do zg/lbrs/brd/strat/ramps to get you to 375. likely you can do this all within a day of /played easily
Drew Apr 8th 2008 9:32AM
I'd do engineering. :)
Sarah Apr 10th 2008 12:27PM
Alchemy is supposed to be the cheapest to level. :)
Mike Apr 28th 2008 12:13PM
I wonder if this is on one of the newer servers with a low population? On my mains server Hellscream, (old & high pop) there are tons of people spamming with 375 skill looking to craft items for tips on both Horde and Alliance.