Profession Updates and New Profession Items in Phase 3 - Season of Discovery
Season of Discovery Phase 3 is bringing more updates to Professions, adding new quest chains, uncapping the Skill levels, and adding brand-new gear and reusable flasks to the game. Players will be able to fully experience the Profession leveling process with uncapped Skill levels, and Blizzard has added some new surprises into the traditional professions as well!
SoD Phase 3 Launches April 4
In their announcement video for Phase 3, Blizzard announced that Professions would be once again updated to provide new content for the Phase.
Quests will be added to bring players into the Sunken Temple, the newest Season of Discovery raid, to discover the crafting recipes for powerful Nightmare Armaments — the newest additions to the Season of Discovery crafted epics. While many of these epics function while players are under the influence of the Nightmare, not all do — and not all gear was shown, even though Blizzard teased things like reuseable flasks for Alchemists as well.
Additionally, Blizzard discussed the changes they are making to gold sinks related to Professions.
While they believe that gold sinks are important and want to continue exploring them in the future, they don't want to do that in a way that will directly harm the gearing pipeline, and as a result the cost of new recipes added in Phase 3 will be «essentially free» in terms of raw gold. Along with that, Gnomeregan recipes will be reduced in cost as well — a great move for players looking to pick up those recipes!
That's not all Blizzard has done — Professions will finally be able to select Specializations, and those Specializations have some surprises in store.
