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WoW Forever Professions
WoW Forever reworks professions around camping, new recipes and Blueprint drops, but most per-profession details are not announced yet. This page separates what Blizzard and the WoW press have actually said from the Classic 1.12 rules that are the best guide until launch.
1-300 leveling guides
Crafting guides carry a recipe path calculated from the beta skill colours with total materials; gathering guides carry a route by skill and zone.
- Herbalism 1-300 guide Gathering
- Mining 1-300 guide Gathering
- Skinning 1-300 guide Gathering
- Alchemy 1-300 guide Crafting
- Blacksmithing 1-300 guide Crafting
- Enchanting 1-300 guide Crafting
- Engineering 1-300 guide Crafting
- Leatherworking 1-300 guide Crafting
- Tailoring 1-300 guide Crafting
- Cooking 1-300 guide Secondary
- First Aid 1-300 guide Secondary
- Fishing 1-300 guide Secondary
What we know for WoW Forever
- Official Professions get over 600 new recipes across professions and level ranges, plus advanced Blueprint recipes that drop from dungeon bosses. Blizzard Entertainment
- Official Every profession has three campsite objects learned at different skill levels. The first is learned at skill 20 from camping NPCs or profession trainers. Each object gives a one-hour buff that does not stack with the matching class buff. Blizzard Entertainment · Blizzard Watch
- Unconfirmed Characters are still limited to two primary (gathering or crafting) professions; Cooking stays a secondary profession. Blizzard Watch
Profession-specific details so far
- Official Alchemy: Alchemists can learn to place an Alchemy Lab at a campsite. Blizzard Entertainment
- Official Blacksmithing: Blacksmiths can place a Sharpening Wheel at a campsite that increases Attack Power. Blizzard Entertainment
- Official Herbalism: Herbalists can place an Incense Candle at a campsite that increases Intellect. Blizzard Entertainment
- Unconfirmed Herbalism, Mining, Skinning: A new starting-zone quest rewards a choice of profession manuals for Mining, Skinning or Herbalism. Icy Veins
- Official Leatherworking: Leatherworkers can place a Tanning Rack at a campsite, and it is required for more advanced Leatherworking recipes. Blizzard Entertainment
- Official Tailoring: Tailors can place a Faction Banner at a campsite that increases Spirit. Blizzard Entertainment
- Official Cooking: The Cooking Fire becomes a Basic Campfire that creates a campsite with rest, vendors, repairs, profession workspaces and one-hour buffs. Blizzard Entertainment
- Official Cooking: A Basic Campfire holds up to three crafted objects from nearby players; cooks can learn upgraded Campfires that hold five or 10 objects. Blizzard Entertainment
- Official Cooking: Crafted food is adjusted and can grant a small experience bonus alongside stat boosts. Blizzard Entertainment
- Unconfirmed Fishing: Fishing gets two camp features in the beta client. The Fishing Rack at 140 skill lets you catch uncommon fish for 60 minutes, and the Fishing Hut at 300 skill does the same for rare fish. Both also give Fishing Skill lures and everything a Fish Bowl provides. Forever beta datamine
- Unconfirmed Fishing: Both need a campfire nearby, can be placed over a Fish Bowl to replace it, and share the one-hour cooldown that covers all camping features. The Fishing Hut is built from Simple Wood, Bolt of Runecloth and Seasonal Fish Steaks. Forever beta datamine
- Unconfirmed Fishing: A Wide-Brimmed Fishing Hat in the files attaches a lure to your equipped pole for +25 Fishing for 10 minutes, so a hat can stand in for a lure. Forever beta datamine
- Unconfirmed Fishing: A Chef's Knife is used on unique fish to prepare them in a special way, which ties Fishing to the reworked Cooking recipes rather than leaving it a standalone secondary. Forever beta datamine
Not announced yet: campsite objects for Enchanting, Engineering, Mining and Skinning, all recipe lists, and any First Aid or Fishing changes.
Professions Legacy Tree
Account-wide Legacy Points can be spent on these perks. Bountiful Harvest is named by Blizzard; values come from BlizzCon demo transcriptions.Full tree with sources.
| Perk | Max rank | Rank 1 effect | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master Chef | 5 | Your cooking recipes have a 10% chance to create an extra result. | Unconfirmed |
| Working Overtime | 5 | Increases your chance to gain a skill increase from using any primary, secondary, or class-based tradeskill by 4%. | Unconfirmed |
| Bartering | 2 | Reduces the gold price of items from all vendors by 5%. | Unconfirmed |
| Dedicated Study | 1 | Increases 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. | Unconfirmed |
| Bountiful Harvest | 5 | You are 20% more likely to discover Scarce materials from Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning. | Unconfirmed |
| Performance Bonus | 3 | You 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. | Unconfirmed |
| Luremaster | 2 | While fishing with a Lure active, you have a 25% chance to catch an extra fish. | Unconfirmed |
All professions
Each primary profession also has three perks listed by a community talent calculator from tooltip screenshots Unconfirmed; they are shown on each profession page.
| Profession | Type | What it does | Forever details | Pairs with (Classic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Herbalism | Gathering | Gather herbs for Alchemy | 1 official · 3 community-listed perks | Alchemy |
 Mining | Gathering | Ore, stone and gems for smiths and engineers | Not announced yet · 3 community-listed perks | Blacksmithing, Engineering |
 Skinning | Gathering | Leather, hides and scales for Leatherworking | Not announced yet · 3 community-listed perks | Leatherworking |
 Alchemy | Crafting | Potions, elixirs, flasks and transmutes | 1 official · 3 community-listed perks | Herbalism |
 Blacksmithing | Crafting | Plate, mail, weapons and weightstones | 1 official · 3 community-listed perks | Mining |
 Enchanting | Crafting | Disenchanting and permanent gear enchants | Not announced yet · 3 community-listed perks | Tailoring |
 Engineering | Crafting | Explosives, scopes, gadgets and PvP trinkets | Not announced yet · 3 community-listed perks | Mining |
 Leatherworking | Crafting | Leather and mail armor, armor kits | 1 official · 3 community-listed perks | Skinning |
 Tailoring | Crafting | Cloth armor, bags and Mooncloth | 1 official · 3 community-listed perks | Enchanting |
| Cooking | Secondary | Buff food and the Basic Campfire | 3 official | Fishing |
| First Aid | Secondary | Bandages from cloth | Not announced yet | Tailoring |
| Fishing | Secondary | Fish for Cooking and Alchemy reagents | Not announced yet | Cooking |
Classic reference: brackets, pairings and classes
UnconfirmedClassic 1.12 reference — may change in WoW Forever.
Skill brackets
| Stage | Skill range | Character level | Skill to train |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apprentice | 1–75 | 5 | — |
| Journeyman | 75–150 | 10 | 50 |
| Expert | 150–225 | 20 | 125 |
| Artisan | 225–300 | 35 | 200 |
Characters could hold two primary professions plus the secondary ones. Warcraft Wiki · Warcraft Wiki
Best profession pairings
- Herbalism + Alchemy: Self-supplied potions, elixirs and flasks.
- Mining + Blacksmithing: Bars straight into armor, weapons and stones.
- Mining + Engineering: Bars and stone for gadgets and explosives.
- Skinning + Leatherworking: Leather straight into armor and kits.
- Tailoring + Enchanting: Cloth drops become greens, greens become enchanting materials.
- Herbalism + Mining: Two gathering professions: the fastest gold while leveling.
Best professions by class
| Class | First pick | Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| Warrior | PvP & raidingEngineering + MiningExplosives add AoE and stuns to a melee kit; Mining pays for the bars. | GearMining + BlacksmithingArmorsmith and Weaponsmith recipes were built for plate wearers. |
| Paladin | PvPEngineering + MiningGadgets give a Paladin the ranged control and burst it otherwise lacks. | Healing raiderHerbalism + AlchemyMana potions and flasks are the biggest consumable cost for healers. |
| Hunter | Leveling & goldSkinning + LeatherworkingYou kill beasts all day; Dragonscale mail suits Hunters. | PvP & raidingEngineering + MiningEngineers craft their own scopes and PvP gadgets. |
| Rogue | PvPEngineering + MiningBombs and nets extend a Rogue's stun-lock and escape tools. | Leveling & gearSkinning + LeatherworkingElemental Leatherworking focused on Agility leather. |
| Priest | Gear & raidingTailoring + EnchantingCloth armor for yourself, and every green you sew can be disenchanted. | ConsumablesHerbalism + AlchemyHealers go through mana potions faster than anyone. |
| Shaman | Leveling & gearSkinning + LeatherworkingDragonscale Leatherworking made mail suited to Shamans. | Healing raiderHerbalism + AlchemySelf-made mana potions and flasks cut raid costs. |
| Mage | Gear & raidingTailoring + EnchantingCloth wearers get their own armor and bags and enchant it too. | PvPEngineering + MiningEngineering trinkets and bombs add burst and control in battlegrounds. |
| Warlock | Gear & raidingTailoring + EnchantingCloth armor plus disenchanting keeps a caster self-sufficient. | PvPEngineering + MiningGadgets add stuns and burst that pair with fears and DoTs. |
| Druid | Leveling & gearSkinning + LeatherworkingTribal suits casting Druids and Elemental suits Ferals. | Healing raiderHerbalism + AlchemyRestoration Druids save the most by making their own potions. |
These picks follow how professions worked in Classic. We will revisit them once launch confirms the WoW Forever perks and recipes.
Related: Professions Legacy Tree · Plan your Legacy perks ·Talent calculator · How to make gold in WoW Forever