Hi El !
Gratz for doing this worderful job in your site, I leveling up fishing in 4 chars with your guide and leveling up Inscription in another with your guide too. :)
Just to know, you have plans to make another guide for a profession in the future?
Ty so much and best regards
schattenz
el <Nat Pagle's Love Child>, 1 year ago:It depends! Inscription was an experiment, and I guess I didn't entirely like what I found. In summary:
By watching what pages were popular here, I discovered that the vast majority of people just want a profession leveling guide ("1-450"), and then lose interest. El's leveling guide is as good as any - especially if you like some explanation. But there are always different ways to level a profession, and any standard text is always a compromise. Optimizing the guide to the individual (and especially their realm) leads to it becoming an in-game addon. And the ultimate addon streamlines leveling so much that it breaks the game...
I'd always set out to write a complete guide - something which introduced and helped players through, rather than making some sort of tool to (potentially) take all the fun out of it.
But then, WoW's professions are still a grind, in the classic EverQuest sense: Lots of "boring" time spent gaining things that don't matter, in the hope of something amazing at the end. Perhaps if the professions moved away from that (like the rest of WoW has over the last few years), there would be more interest in the profession as a whole, and more interest in a broad guide, rather than just "the fastest way to get to 450"?
I guess I should throw the question back to you, and anyone else reading: What can I do that other texts or tools don't do?
Unfortunately True, I visit this site more for the fishing side then the Inscription.
Although I always keep an eye on the Inscription main page for the news, and keep an eye on the Scribe forums in case I can help someone.
You have done well in the Secondary Profession category, so I think Archeology would go well with this site when it is available.
As it is heavily lore based, and like fishing, optional, I suspect people will treat it somewhat similar to fishing, more about what you may find etc rather then just getting to 525 as fast as possible.
It's one of the main things from Cata that I'm looking forward to.
Your Inscription Guide is still the best I've found. I just used it to remind myself what my scribe was doing when I left nine months ago.
Sadly, most of the professions are "Solved" in that you can find the mathematically optimal way to "play" them and be done. Perhaps cooking would be interesting; but it's almost just a subset of fishing as it is.
Pipre <Member>, 1 year ago:el wrote:
Archeology might be interesting, but would only be possible to research with beta access, which I don't have...
There is definitely a place for an Archaeology site.
I have a feeling that Archaeology will be one of those professions that attracts people who want more than just a skeleton mount or an achievement. I'd love to see it's addition to elsprofessions.
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