Profession Shuffling for Artisans Acuity - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 336

Hello! Welcome to the 336th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up!

This week we discuss how «Profession Shuffling» could be a thing with Artisan's Acuity and how best to make use of many Alts in The War Within. We also have a great guide for Inscription in Cataclysm Classic and talk about PVP Crafted gear in The War Within.

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Artisan's Acuity Shuffle & Alts

As we get closer to the release of The War Within, more people are testing out systems and planning their first moves. One of which is to maximize the gains of Artisan's Acuity the new resource similar to Artisan's Mettle from Dragonflight...

Ok, yes, cooldown crafts will probably also be good profit. If you have a bazillion alts (which is easy with remix) you might as well get a whole bunch setup for tailor/alch cooldowns and churn free gold every day. But I'm here to explain a few other reasons why alt armies are more important than ever, and how I plan (hope) to make millions of gold per week in the next expac.

1 — artisans acuity. For anyone unaware, artisans acuity is replacing artisans mettle. The primary purpose early on will be for buying profession equipment + knowledge points. The problem is that blizzard has heavily time gated the rate you can earn artisans acuity. Without some degenerate behavior, you'll get something like 300-400 acuity in the first week then have small amounts drip in per week. For context, you need 900 per profession just for profession gear, plus more for buying the 1 time knowledge points and recipes.

So what's the degenerate behavior? Well, for one, you can use the profession shuffle. This essentially means you pick 2 professions you don't care about, collect all treasures, do a couple easy first crafts, then repeat over and over for all professions you don't care about. Choose your 2 main professions as your last two, and you'll be left with something like 1300-1500. An INSANE head start Read more on wowhead.com