[lilsparky]

it would be awesome if the tradeskill api was modified to allow spelllinks in the place of indices for all the tradeskill api calls that take an index. i mean really, the index is just a means for the server to figure out which spell you mean, so why not just let us tell it directly and avoid all the silly activation and filter issues?

pre trade links, the argument could be made that somehow allowing a person without jewelcrafting to access the entire jc skill list might be a strain on the server (somehow) or give them too much access to the mysteries of wow data... but since it's clear that each toon has complete access to the entire list of all trade skill spells, why not just let them short cut around the whole tradeskill indexing system? seems to me it would result in less server traffic. mods wouldn't have to request the whole skill list everytime they wanted to cast a single spell just to make sure the indices still matched up -- they could cache and be done with it. new recipes could simply be recorded as they occur (it would be helpful if the new recipe event then included the spell link).

please?