I really miss when professions actually mattered and could give you an advantage for for having put in the time and effort to farm mats instead of just being a gold generation method.

I just miss it all. The tailor-only spellthreads, the blacksmith wrist sockets, the jewelcrafter-only gems, scribe-only shoulder enchants, etc. It made it feel good and worthwhile to grind up a profession. It just feels like the only motivation now is to get it maxed to maybe make a little gold from selling a few items.I grind just to make money everyday in real life. I’d prefer my video game professions to be slightly more fulfilling. ¯_(ツ)_/¯/rant