More Rewarding professions
In the world of Azeroth, Blacksmiths, Miners, Tailors, Leatherworkers, Alchemists, Enchanters, Herbalists, and Engineers all play a vital role in crafting incredible items both for themselves and for others. On Ascension WoW, Professions are overhauled to be even better. When you decide to take up a Profession, it’s going to be rewarding at all stages of your adventure: while leveling and throughout the end-game:
- Gathering or Crafting an item grants you experience
- Upgrade Kits let you improve gear you’ve crafted
- Crafted Items have increased stats with Random Affixes
- New Crafted Items
- Discover New Recipes in the Open World
- New Professions to master
Overview
Crafting and Gathering Professions help you gather valuable resources, make money, and forge strong equipment, tools, and consumables for both yourself and others. You never know when a health potion will save you in a pinch, or when you’ll need to resurrect a dead ally with those Goblin Jumper Cables you crafted a week ago. Professions give you new ways to interact with Azeroth and with other players, making the game more diverse and immersive. On Ascension Professions are overhauled to be more immersive and more useful than ever.
New Crafting Upgrade Kits
Upgrade Kits let you improve the gear you’ve crafted with higher-level materials, bringing it up to a new level with better stats so you can keep using it. This makes it worth it to craft gear at any time because you can upgrade it and use it for longer.
- Make crafting kits for each profession to upgrade your crafted items
- You can now use base materials from that level range to upgrade your items
- There are currently two upgrades
- Refined
- Superior
Upgrade Kits available Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring, and Engineering
Crafted Item Affixes
Ascension’s Open World is a lot more vicious: the RPG Creature Overhaul makes Azeroth’s monsters deadly and more dangerous, and Hardcore Trials add even more difficulty to your adventure if you choose. With the world of Azeroth more threatening than ever, you’re going to need new ways to stand a chance. Crafted Item Affixes make the gear you craft stronger and more versatile so you can equip yourself for adventure.
Gear you craft on Ascension gets an additional random Affix, gaining additional stats beyond what the base weapon would have received:
This makes crafted items extremely valuable, and sometimes even more powerful than items you’ll find in Dungeons and Raids.
While the affix that appears on your crafted item is random, items will never roll affixes that don’t make sense: your Arcanite Reaper might roll ‘...of the Bear’, ‘...of Rending’, or ‘...of Expert Strikes’, but it will never roll ‘...of Spirit’ or ‘...of the Eagle’ because those affixes don’t make sense with a big bulky melee weapon.
All items roll from a RELEVANT POOL of random affixes:
- Affixes are categorized into Caster, Agility, and Strength affix pools
- The power scaling of affixes properly aligns with item level and quality
- Affix power is proportional to the item slot
- i.e. a Chest Piece can get more stats than a Bracer can
- All item types now have access to appropriate secondary stats and ratings
Crafting and Gathering now grant Experience
Every time you gather or craft an item, you’ll receive experience: the more difficult the craft, the more experience you get. Crafting a Blue item will give more EXP than crafting a Green item, and gathering Peacebloom may award the same amount of EXP as slaying a monster. This allows Professions to be a more integrated part of leveling, helping you progress on your adventure.
New Powerful Craftables
Additional powerful craftables such as new food items, new item enchants, (belt buckles, wrist wraps, necklace augments) and new items expand the ways you can craft and trade on Ascension. These make crafting a living, breathing part of the world and ensure the community can work together to strengthen themselves.
New Profession: Woodcutting
A new profession invites you to scour the forests of Azeroth: welcome to the World of Woodcutting! As a budding lumberjack, your mission is clear-cut: venture into the verdant forests and unleash your inner timber titan. Armed with an axe, you'll embark on a tree-mendous adventure, chopping down mighty oaks, towering pines, and gnarled elders. Harness the power of nature's bountiful resource and convert it into precious lumber, the lifeblood of craftsmen and builders alike. With every swing of your trusty tool, you'll harvest a treasure trove of wood, unlocking the potential for glorious rewards. So, prepare to branch out, embrace the call of the wild, and let the forest be your arboreal playground. It's time to leaf your mark on this arboreal escapade!