Hello there!
Are professions going to be separated in main and secondary trees like WoW profs or not? And will there be any class specified profs ? Or maybe all the professions will be class specified like witches making gems or enchantments warriors making hard armors assassins making all shiny daggers and potions/poisons and paladins making some healing med kits ?
Anyway what overall profs will we see in SoH ? Maybe limiting the profs to 4-5 wouldn't be that bad and making it possible for everyone to know everything. Or maybe the whole idea is to be able to have 1 profession per character that would make every character unique and will give it a 'name' among the community as "Shockmaker" is know for being a good blacksmith we should ask him to make us some good shiny armors and pay him some nice gold for it.
Maybe creating a thing for the most experienced craftsmen would be nice. Individual stores for every individual player where they can put their creations? Or a hall of the craftsmen where all the best craftsmen from different profs are shown and a normal player could chat with them about something he might want and they could create.
Regards,
Shock :)
I like the last part a lot and I think it would be a nice implementation or maybe a system similar to it.