Professions Stats and Gear Guide for Midnight

Each crafting recipe in Midnight has a Recipe Difficulty, which influences how difficult it is to craft this recipe at its highest quality potential. The Expected Quality bar starts out low, from your baseline profession skill, and gives you an idea of the quality outcome of crafting the item under the current conditions.

The potential quality of the crafting item can be improved with profession gear, specialization bonuses, the quality of the materials used to craft, and other special items such as Artisan's Consortium Gold Star. You can also use some of your Concentration, as shown in the bottom of the picture above, to guarantee hitting the next rank of what you are crafting. This page will focus on profession stats and gear.

All crafting professions that use Quality (thus excluding Cooking) have a Concentration bar that goes up to 1000 and 1 Concentration is refilled every 6 minutes, leading to a gain of 10 per hour.

You can spend some of this bar to guarantee the next quality level of an item you are crafting, and will be refunded a % of the Concentration spent if you proc your Ingenuity stat.

Concentration is the main way to get top quality items when using cheap materials, or if you are not fully geared, specialized, and using maximum Rank materials for a given item.

You can also use items you get from Patron NPC work orders to get a lot of extra skill on a particular craft, which can help before you fully max out, at which point you will usually be able to hit the maximum rank without needing Concentration anymore.

There are four stats for crafting professions, which can show up on your crafting gear (which can be crafted; see the profession gear section below):

• Multicraft provides a baseline (increasable by talents) chance to craft 1 to 2.5 times more items than the usual items a craft produces. A Multicraft proc on a craft that produces 2 items will grant between 1 and 5 extra items, for example. This is the best stat for any craft it works on;
• Ingenuity replaced Inspiration and refunds a % (increasing with talents) of the Concentration spent to craft an item when it procs. When using Concentration to produce maximum Rank crafts with cheap materials this is the best stat after Multicraft, or straight best for Enchant crafting, as those cannot Multicraft;
• Resourcefulness provides a chance to use fewer tradeable crafting reagents when crafting, but will generally only save you a few materials which might not even be valuable to begin with. This makes it a low value stat, but it is the only one that will improve your profit on work orders;
• Crafting Speed increases your craft speed, allowing you to finish your crafts faster. You will generally never want to specifically gear for this, unless the other stats do not work on what you are crafting, but you will get a lot of it from profession talents and gear, regardless.

These stats, when activated, will show up on your Crafting Results panel, as displayed below:

Although some crafted items benefit from all 4 stats, most only benefit from some of them, which means you should avoid the unused stats when focusing on crafting those items. As a rule of thumb:

• Crafted gear and Enchants do not use Multicraft;
• Crafts you do not use Concentration on do not use Ingenuity;
• Resourcefulness and Crafting Speed can be used for almost all crafts available, but have a less powerful effect than either of the other stats when used optimally.

As an example of Resourcefulness's variability, here is a bad proc, followed by a good proc on the same item:

You can use the Alchemy-crafted Haranir Phial of Ingenuity to temporarily increase your Ingenuity and Crafting Speed.

Also, remember to enchant your crafting tool with your profession stat of choice, as there are options for all stats this time around!

There are three stats for gathering professions, which can show up on your gathering gear:

• Finesse provides a chance to get more of whatever you are gathering, fishing, or skinning;
• Perception increases your chance to find rare reagents when gathering;
• Deftness increases your gathering speed.

The amount of stats you have and their effects are displayed in your Gathering Journal, as displayed below:

Most activities you do as a gatherer can benefit from all three stats, but you should fine-tune the amount you aim for each depending on your goals, especially Finesse and Perception, which serve opposite goals in either giving you larger quantities of basic materials or rarer materials when gathering.

You can use Blacksmithing-crafted Refulgent Razorstone, Cooking-crafted Argentleaf Tea / Azeroot Tea / Sanguithorn Tea, and Alchemy-crafted Haranir Phial of Finesse or Haranir Phial of Perception to temporarily increase your gathering stats.

Also, remember to enchant your gathering tool with your choice of Enchant Tool - Haranir Finesse, Enchant Tool - Amani Perception, or Enchant Tool - Sin'dorei Deftness.

Most gear is divided between cheap, bind on equip green gear, bind on pickup blue gear, and also bind on pickup epic gear which can have a huge amount of stats at high Quality.

Getting a full green set will give you +18 skill with your profession, while a full blue or higher set will give you +40 skill, usually allowing you to craft / gather anything at maximum rank by default if you have all specialization points for it and 100/100 profession skill. +5 skill profession racials will generally allow you to hit the same result while using only one blue accessory.

Artisan's Moxie does not currently seem to be used for crafting profession tools, allowing you to get full epic gear as soon as you find the materials, a crafter with the recipe and fix a suitable price for the crafts!