Dragon Shard Farming & Future Speculation - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 265

Hello! Welcome to the 265th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up! This week, we discuss maxing out profession knowledge by farming Dragon Shards and making the most of Tailoring bolts. We also look at predicting future shortfalls and how people think about professions now we are further into the expansion. My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!

Maxing Engineering via Dragon Shards

Well, I'm not sure people expected it to happen this early, but yes, u/durtgod has maxed out a profession with all knowledge points. Quite an amazing feat of dedication!

I 100% maxed out the entire engineering profession by farming dragon shards Initially, I was doing this to get ahead on engineering and max out the skill for crafting bracers and tools. That legitimately made me a lot of gold and was worth it. However I just really began to enjoy shard farming, and I wanted to max out the profession for personal achievements This took probably like 8 hours a day for the past month and a half. idk exactly but rough estimate i think around 250 of knowledge was Dragon Shards*. I’ve recently been getting 45-55 a week in the last 4 weeks, I didn’t grind that hard week one since I wasn’t really aware of the implications of dragon shards or how to effectively farm I build my routes off of the chests that don’t appear on the mini map, like djaradin caches or clan chests. Those are frequently up because they don’t appear on the mini map, and I get the dirt in between them, and shard hop after each route I shard hop after i finish a route, then shard hop and do the same route. Which zone I do depends on the available quests / world boss that week. Basically whichever zone has the weekly world boss is the one Read more on wowhead.com