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WoW Forever Alt Guide

WoW Forever rewards alts: Legacy Points are earned by the whole account and each character spends up to 16 of them on its own perks. Plan the roster together and your characters cover every profession between them, gear each other, and level faster each time.

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Plan the professions of your alts

Each character gets the crafting profession for its own armor, because the gear it makes is Bind on Pickup. The second slot goes to whatever feeds that crafting, or to a profession nobody else on the roster has yet. Nine primary professions and two slots each: five characters is the minimum to cover them all.

Add the classes you plan to level, main first. Up to 8 characters.

  1. 1.Warrior(main)Blacksmithing for plate gear + Mining (supplies its own crafting)
  2. 2.MageTailoring for cloth gear + Enchanting (supplies its own crafting)
  3. 3.RogueLeatherworking for leather gear + Skinning (supplies its own crafting)
  4. 4.PriestTailoring for cloth gear + Herbalism (nobody else on the roster has it)
  5. 5.ShamanLeatherworking for mail gear + Alchemy (nobody else on the roster has it)

8 of 9 primary professions covered; missing Engineering.

  • Alchemy
  • Blacksmithing
  • Enchanting
  • Engineering
  • Herbalism
  • Leatherworking
  • Mining
  • Skinning
  • Tailoring

Everyone also takes Cooking and First Aid: they are secondary professions and do not use a primary slot.

Legacy perks that pay off on every alt

Unconfirmed

Your account earns up to 65 Legacy Points and each character spends up to 16. These perks help a character you are about to level, so they are worth picking again on every alt. Values are from the beta Legacy data and can change. How Legacy Points are earned · Legacy Planner

Level every alt faster

  • Talented · 5 ranksYou gain talent points every level starting at level 9 instead of starting at level 10, but you still may not have more than 51 total talent points.
  • Well Rested · 5 ranksYour rested experience accumulates 4% faster and your rested experience cap is increased by 4%.
  • Thrill of Adventure · 5 ranksYou gain 1% of your maximum Health and Mana over 10 sec each time you deliver the killing blow to a non-trivial enemy. Ineffective in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds.
  • Frequent Flier · 1 rankYou receive a 50% discount on all flight paths, and your flight path mount flies 20% faster.

Skill up professions on every alt

  • Working Overtime · 5 ranksIncreases your chance to gain a skill increase from using any primary, secondary, or class-based tradeskill by 4%.
  • Dedicated Study · 1 rankIncreases your skill by 1 in your lowest tradeskill among your Primary and Secondary tradeskills. If you have already reached 300 skill in your two current Primary Tradeskills and all three Secondary Tradeskills, you will gain 2 to 4 of a random Elemental Essence.
  • Bountiful Harvest · 5 ranksYou discover 20% more Scarce materials from Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning.
  • Performance Bonus · 3 ranksYou have a 5% chance to receive 100% increased Merchant's Favor when you turn in a crate to the Azeroth Commerce Authority or Durotar Supply and Logistics.
  • Master Chef · 5 ranksYour cooking recipes have a 10% chance to create an extra result.

Spend less gold per alt

  • Bartering · 2 ranksReduces the gold price of items from all vendors by 5%.
  • Reagent Economy · 1 rankYour class abilities no longer require reagents purchaseable from vendors, and your Tier 1 camping features cost no reagents to craft.

What helps an alt level

  • Crafted gear for its own armor. Testers report that the recipes bought with Merchant's Favor make strong Bind on Pickup blues, so the character that wears them has to craft them itself. Merchant's Favor guide · tester feedback, Sep 20, 2026
  • Cooking on everyone. Crafted food can grant a small experience bonus next to its stat buff, and the Cooking Fire is what starts a campsite. Blizzard
  • Gathering from the starting zone. A new starting-zone quest reportedly rewards a choice of Mining, Skinning or Herbalism manuals, so a gatherer alt can start before leaving home. Unconfirmed Icy Veins
  • A leveling partner. An alt leveled with a friend's alt shares kills and quests; the combos boardranks duo pairings by player votes, and the best leveling class page covers solo speed.

Profession bonuses while you level

Every primary profession in the WoW Forever talent data carries three bonuses. Several help while leveling (extra health from Mining, beast damage from Skinning, mount speed from Leatherworking), which is worth weighing when two options fill the same gap. Unconfirmed community data

Alchemy

  • Mixology: Elixirs and flasks last longer and provide stronger effects.
  • Philosopher's Stone: Craft an upgradable trinket that grows with your Alchemy skill.
  • New Recipes: Access Forever alchemy recipes beyond Classic.

Blacksmithing

  • Repair All: Repair all of your equipment at once.
  • Belt Buckles: Craft belt buckles that add socketed stats to waist armor.
  • New Recipes: Access Forever blacksmithing recipes beyond Classic.

Enchanting

  • Ring Enchants: Enchant rings with permanent combat bonuses.
  • Shard Transmutes: Transmute enchanting shards into higher grades.
  • Stave Crafting... and More!: Craft staves and additional Forever enchanting recipes.

Engineering

  • Powerful Profession: Engineering remains one of the most powerful combat professions.
  • But Wait... There's More!: Additional gadgets, bombs, and trinkets beyond Classic.
  • Goblin or Gnome?: Specialize into Goblin or Gnomish Engineering for unique recipes.

Herbalism

  • Natural Talent: Resistance to all schools of magic increased.
  • Lotus Affinity: Improved chance to find rare lotus herbs.
  • Brutal Pickings: Gather more herbs from nodes while Herbalism is trained.

Leatherworking

  • Armor Kits: Craft armor kits that improve leather and mail gear.
  • Must Go Faster...: Mounted speed increased while Leatherworking is trained.
  • Dragons and Elements: Craft dragonscale and elemental leather sets.

Mining

  • Made of Metal: All your hard work spent mining has made you exceptionally tough, increasing your total health by 5%.
  • A Lode of Ore: Gather additional ore from mineral nodes.
  • Malicious Mining: Mining nodes may yield rare or combat-oriented materials.

Skinning

  • Beasts of the Wild: Damage to Beasts and Dragonkin increased by 5%.
  • Rare Hides: Improved chance to skin rare and specialty hides.
  • A Classic Starter Profession: Skinning remains an easy pairing with Leatherworking.

Tailoring

  • Embroider Your Work: Embroider cloth gear with profession-only bonuses.
  • Cloth Scavenging: Chance to find extra cloth from humanoid enemies.
  • New and Reworked Recipes: Forever cloth sets and recipes beyond Classic.

Campsite buffs your professions bring

Official

Every profession learns campsite objects, the first at skill 20. Each gives a one-hour buff that does not stack with the matching class buff. A campfire holds objects from nearby players, so when two of your characters play with friends, pick professions that bring different buffs.

  • AlchemyAlchemists can learn to place an Alchemy Lab at a campsite.
  • BlacksmithingBlacksmiths can place a Sharpening Wheel at a campsite that increases Attack Power.
  • HerbalismHerbalists can place an Incense Candle at a campsite that increases Intellect.
  • LeatherworkingLeatherworkers can place a Tanning Rack at a campsite, and it is required for more advanced Leatherworking recipes.
  • TailoringTailors can place a Faction Banner at a campsite that increases Spirit.
  • CookingThe Cooking Fire becomes a Basic Campfire that creates a campsite with rest, vendors, repairs, profession workspaces and one-hour buffs.
  • CookingA Basic Campfire holds up to three crafted objects from nearby players; cooks can learn upgraded Campfires that hold five or 10 objects.

Roster rules of thumb

  1. Main first, armor first. Your main takes the crafting profession of its armor type and the gatherer that feeds it.
  2. One gatherer per crafting chain. Mining feeds Blacksmithing and Engineering, Skinning feeds Leatherworking, Herbalism feeds Alchemy. Cloth drops from humanoids, so Tailors can pair with Enchanting and disenchant what they outgrow.
  3. Fill the gaps with the next alt. Two cloth wearers do not both need Enchanting: the second can take Herbalism or Alchemy for the roster instead. The planner above does this automatically.
  4. Keep crate materials. Waylaid Crates ask for bars, bolts, herbs, ore and dust. A roster with a gatherer on each material fills them without buying, which is where Merchant's Favor comes from. See every crate.
  5. Give every new alt the leveling perks. Talented, Well Rested and Thrill of Adventure only help before level 60, so they matter most on the characters that still have to level.

Alt planning FAQ

Are Legacy Points shared between alts in WoW Forever?

Earning is account-wide: every character adds to the same pool. Spending is per character, up to the spend cap, so each alt picks its own Legacy perks. That is why leveling perks such as Talented and Well Rested pay off again on every alt you make.

Which professions should my alts take?

Give every character the crafting profession for its own armor type (Blacksmithing for plate, Leatherworking for mail and leather, Tailoring for cloth), because testers report the strong Merchant's Favor recipes are Bind on Pickup. Then use the second slot to cover what the rest of your roster lacks: the planner on this page does that for you.

How many alts do I need to cover every profession?

There are nine primary professions and two slots per character, so five characters is the minimum. With one crafting profession per armor type, five or six characters usually cover all nine; the planner shows which ones are still missing.

What should every alt learn regardless of class?

Cooking and First Aid. They are secondary professions, so they do not use a primary slot. In WoW Forever cooked food can also give a small experience bonus, and the Cooking Fire becomes the campfire that starts a campsite.

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