Being done with the profession – in World of Warcraft Dragonflight it should take months. But one player has accomplished it already and grinded hard.
Professions in World of Warcraft Dragonflight finally have purpose again. However, it also takes a long time to max out your own profession and farm all the knowledge points – at least in theory. One player has proven endurance and is already the perfect engineer. He has learned everything there is to learn, many months before Blizzard intended.
What’s so special about that? The guaranteed knowledge points per week are actually strongly limited. For each profession, you can earn about 15 knowledge points per week through quests and other activities to unlock new recipes and bonuses in your profession.
Since you need a total of up to 630 knowledge points for crafting professions, it should actually take many months for players to reach the maximum here. At least that’s what Blizzard intended. But “Durtgod” showed on Reddit that you can be done already.
How did he do it? The trick here is the “Dragon Eggs of Knowledge.” These are items that can be earned in Dragonflight in most content. They can wait in a “Mythic+” chest, drop from defeating rare enemies or raid bosses, or be found in treasure chests. The chance for this is extremely low, though. The intent is that you “occasionally” get a dragon egg and thus receive at most a handful of points per week additionally.
Most players find at most one, two, or three eggs per week, some not finding any at all. Many even think that there is a weekly cap that limits the acquisition of these eggs.
Durtgod was not held back by this, however. Week after week, he farmed treasures for about 8 hours every day and did almost nothing else. He not only farmed the earth piles and the magical chests but also many of the chests that are not displayed on the mini-map – such as chests of the Djaradin or the Dracthyr. These are not marked on the map and therefore not often discovered by other players. However, those who know the locations of these chests can reliably “farm” them.
To be even more efficient, Durtgod continually engaged in “Shard Hopping.” He joined groups from other realms to scour the chests on those realms as well. He mostly did this in the area where the current world boss stands – as that is where groups can quickly be found to switch to another realm.
Thus, Durtgod was able to farm between 45 and 55 dragon eggs per week and collect significantly more knowledge points than his fellow craftsmen.
Is this how Blizzard intended it? Basically yes. The eggs were implemented as an additional reward, occasionally rewarding players with an extra knowledge point. The drop chance for these dragon eggs is so low that farming on a large scale is hardly worthwhile or – as in the case of Durtgod – takes an extremely long time.
Durtgod was able to significantly benefit from this lead. According to his own statements, he has made between 35 million and 40 million gold in the weeks since the release of Dragonflight – and probably could have made even more if he had focused on more profitable professions like Alchemy or Enchanting.
It will likely take several months before other players catch up.
How far are you with the professions in Dragonflight? Have you already “maxed out” almost everything? Or are you still miles away from that?
