Rhodekylle wrote:
They let the people who are starting over on a new server find something that will sell on the AH. Leveling keeps speeding up, so many recipes have lost their former importance and utility. The people who have to get all of the recipes are paying for their collection as much as any utility the recipe might hold.
For me, it isn't so much the limited availability recipes that are an irritant as it is recipes that used to be at the upper end of the profession and now it really isn't worth farming 15,000 Primal Navel Lint to make. I leveled a toon with LW ahead of a druid and from time to time I will see a recipe on the AH. Then, I pass on it when I look at what it would take to make and think "easier to run instances and it will only be good for a few levels".
Yeah, I'm hoping that crafting professions will be updated in lieu of a new profession in MoP. I know, I'm not holding my breath.
That reminds me of something I read about gear in MoP. To avoid insane stat inflation (Tanks approaching 1 mil health, etc), they are going to go back and level the curve so the jump in stat level between expansions is mostly gone. There's the chance this will actually make some of the old crafted blues and epics useful, since they won't be trivialized by green quest gear right away.