WoW: Professions in Harmony...?

While still far being being "wowed" by the news released on the newest WoW expansion, Mists of Pandaria, I will be purchasing the game and might even end up playing it some.

I came across this Blue post from Wowhead on Facebook (it was quite unintentional, I swear!  It shows up in my feed!)    http://www.wowhead.com/news=205515/professions-living-in-perfect-harmony

While not exactly what I would have had in mind had I thought about harmonizing professions, it still might be a step in the right direction.  I believe all professions should be able to work together, encouraging players to help each other out by crafting things needed by other professions.  For example, there are some Tailoring recipes that require potions made by Alchemists.  Most, if not all, professions have a "materials" tab which houses the things they can make that might be needed by others during crafting.

I hope they do not make these obsolete as the expansion progresses.  Updating profession rewards while still utilizing Chaos Orbs was a nice feature in Cataclysm, even if they did greatly devalue the orbs when they removed the binding property.  "Back in my day" I paid 1k gold per orb to have a weapon crafted by a Blacksmith... and I think that was actually considered a fair price at the time.  Last I checked Chaos Orbs were selling for about 30g each in the Auction House.

Professions in WoW are something that needs to be taken advantage of in a timely manner to actually profit from, and I always seem to fail in that department as I wait too long to max out my professions.

There is a note about Engineers in there and I hope they do what they have failed to do in previous expansions: update the Engineer profession-only rewards as the expansion progresses.  Engineers don't catch much of a break: they're not very profitable and they don't get a great bonus from their profession, with the exception of helms, so I hope they are updated as new tiers come out.