WoW Forever Legacy System

How the Legacy System works

You get the Legacy System as soon as you earn your first Legacy Point. For most players that happens when their first character reaches level 25, but reaching 150 skill in a crafting profession or exploring the entire world map unlocks it too. Open it from the Legacy icon (the shield on the menu) or with the default hotkey Y.

Legacy Challenges work like achievements focused on character progression. Each one adds a Legacy Point to your Battle.net account, available to all your non-Hardcore characters. Every character then spends up to 16 of them in its own Legacy trees, so an alt can take different perks from your main. Blizzard set the cap so new players can catch up, and low enough that one character reaches it alone: a single character can earn 29.

Blizzard's screenshot of a Legacy tree shows a right-click-to-unlearn hint, so spent points aren't locked in, and the beta client has a prompt to unlearn every Legacy perk at once. In the beta, since the October 8 build, the cheapest Legacy re-spec costs 1 silver and the price steps down by one re-spec per hour, much as it does for class talents; Blizzard says that only applies during the beta, and hasn't given the cost at launch. Also for the beta only, every tester was granted completion of the Legacy Challenge that day, which awards 16 Legacy Points to try the system with.

Spend per character

16

points at launch

Earnable at launch

65

challenges, 1 point each

One character alone

29

points without an alt

Perks

21

69 ranks in 3 trees

Legacy Challenges

Blizzard's Legacy System article lists 65 Legacy Challenges in six categories: Classes, Tradeskills, Player vs. Player, Adventure, Dungeons and Raids. They work like achievements but are only about character progression, and each one earns 1 Legacy Point.

How challenges count

• Per account. The class challenges repeat for every class and the tradeskill challenges for every crafting profession; the rest count once for your account.
• Crafting professions only. Tradeskill challenges are for primary professions that aren't gathering ones. Herbalism, Mining, Skinning and the secondary professions earn no Legacy Points.
• PvP adds up. Ranks, Battleground reputations and the Field of Honor season journey all give points, and none of them can be done on Hardcore. Blizzard's PvP article of October 7 adds that the season journey's point-giving tasks stay available in later seasons. WoW Forever PvP ranks
• More with every content release. Blizzard plans new challenges in each one, so the total will grow after launch.

Where Legacy Points come from

Blizzard's article lists every one of the 65 Legacy Challenges at launch, 1 point each. The bar splits them by category and the table shows each challenge.

The class and tradeskill challenges are where more characters help: each new class and crafting profession has three more to earn. One character alone can earn 29. Tick yours off in the Legacy Challenges tracker.

Legacy trees and every perk

Blizzard's Legacy System article lists all 21 perks across the three trees and says what each one does. It gives no ranks or numbers: those below are read from the beta client, build 1.60.1.70450, with every rank's value, the points a tree needs before a perk opens and the perk it hangs off. They can still change before launch.

Adventure

Leveling and getting around: more rested experience, earlier talent points, cheaper flights and faster recovery between pulls. Talented starts your talent points up to five levels earlier, which shifts leveling builds planned in the talent calculator.

Adventure perks: what Blizzard says each does, with ranks, values and requirements from the beta client

Perk	Ranks	What it does	Needs	Seen in
Well Rested	5 4 → 8 → 12 → 16 → 20	Raises the rested experience cap and makes rested experience build up faster. Your rested experience accumulates 4% faster and your rested experience cap is increased by 4%.	Nothing	Blizzard articleDeep Dive recapWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
Talented	5 9 → 8 → 7 → 6 → 5	Unlocks talent points up to 5 levels earlier than normal. You 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.	Needs 5 points in Adventure Needs Well Rested 5/5	Blizzard articleWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
Thrill of Adventure	5 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5	Restores a little health and mana after every non-trivial kill. You 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.	Nothing	Blizzard articleWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
High Alert	2 1 → 2	Better stealth detection outside battlegrounds. Increases your ability to detect nearby targets with Stealth as if your level were increased by 1. Ineffective in Battlegrounds.	Needs 5 points in Adventure	Blizzard articleWowheadBeta client
Frequent Flier	1	Cheaper and faster flights. You receive a 50% discount on all flight paths, and your flight path mount flies 20% faster.	Needs 10 points in Adventure Needs Field Guide 3/3	Blizzard articleDemo screenshotsBeta client
Field Guide	3 8 → 17 → 25	Shortens the 1-hour cooldown on placing camping features. Reduces your cooldown on adding Camp features by 8%	Needs 5 points in Adventure	Blizzard articleDemo screenshotsBeta client
Field Medicine	2 5 → 10	Shortens the Recently Bandaged debuff, except in dungeons, raids and battlegrounds. Reduces the duration of the Recently Bandaged effect by 5 sec when you use a bandage. Ineffective in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds.	Needs 5 points in Adventure	Blizzard articleDemo screenshotsBeta client

Resourcefulness

Upkeep: reagents, buff and food durations, reputation, honor and what dying costs you. Permanence and Reagent Economy also change camps: try them in the WoW Forever camping planner.

Resourcefulness perks: what Blizzard says each does, with ranks, values and requirements from the beta client

Perk	Ranks	What it does	Needs	Seen in
Reagent Economy	1	Class abilities stop needing purchasable reagents, and tier 1 camping features need no materials to craft. Your class abilities no longer require reagents purchaseable from vendors.	Needs 10 points in Resourcefulness Needs The Quick and the Dead 2/2	Blizzard articleDeep Dive recapDemo screenshotsBeta client
Permanence	2 50 → 100	Party, raid and camping buffs last longer. Your class abilities which grant long-duration stat or attribute benefits to all party or raid members last 50% longer, and the benefits you gain from resting at a camp last 50% longer.	Needs 5 points in Resourcefulness Needs Gourmand 3/3	Blizzard articleWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
Diplomat	5 2 → 4 → 6 → 8 → 10	Increases reputation gains. Increases your reputation gains by 2%.	Needs 5 points in Resourcefulness	Blizzard articleWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
Gourmand	3 33 → 67 → 100	Buffs from eating food last longer. Increases the duration of beneficial effects from eating food by 33%.	Nothing	Blizzard articleDemo screenshotsBeta client
The Quick and the Dead	2 5 → 10 1 → 2	Run back to your body faster while dead, and cast party and raid buffs for free after you are resurrected, for quicker wipe recovery. Increases movement speed while dead by 5% and your helpful spells and abilities cost no resources for 1 min after being resurrected or until you enter combat.	Nothing	Blizzard articleWowheadBeta client
Reinforce	5 8 → 16 → 24 → 32 → 40	Dying does less durability damage. You take 8% less durability loss when you die.	Nothing	Blizzard articleWowheadBeta client
For Great Honor	5 2 → 4 → 6 → 8 → 10	More Honor from PvP. Increases Honor Points gained by 2%.	Needs 5 points in Resourcefulness	Blizzard articleWowheadBeta client

Professions

Gathering, crafting, fishing and cooking, plus a daily cooldown for faster skill-ups. What each profession makes and how to level it is in WoW Forever professions.

Professions perks: what Blizzard says each does, with ranks, values and requirements from the beta client

Perk	Ranks	What it does	Needs	Seen in
Bountiful Harvest	5 20 → 40 → 60 → 80 → 100	Find more Scarce resources when mining, gathering herbs or skinning. You discover 20% more Scarce materials from Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning.	Nothing	Blizzard articleDeep Dive recapDemo screenshotsBeta client
Working Overtime	5 4 → 8 → 12 → 16 → 20	A better chance of a skill point in every tradeskill, class ones such as Lockpicking included. Increases your chance to gain a skill increase from using any primary, secondary, or class-based tradeskill by 4%.	Nothing	Blizzard articleWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
Dedicated Study	1	A daily cooldown that raises your tradeskills faster, or gives free Elemental Essences once they are all at 300. 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.	Needs 10 points in Professions Needs Bartering 2/2	Blizzard articleWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
Performance Bonus	3 5 → 10 → 15	Sometimes more Merchant's Favor from the Azeroth Commerce Authority or Durotar Supply and Logistics, the new Alliance and Horde factions behind many tradeskill activities. 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.	Needs 5 points in Professions Needs Bountiful Harvest 5/5	Blizzard articleWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
Luremaster	2 25 → 50	A chance to fish up extra fish. While fishing with a Lure active, you have a 25% chance to catch an extra fish.	Needs 5 points in Professions	Blizzard articleWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
Master Chef	5 10 → 20 → 30 → 40 → 50	A chance for cooking recipes to make extra food. Your cooking recipes have a 10% chance to create an extra result.	Needs 5 points in Professions	Blizzard articleWowheadDemo screenshotsBeta client
Bartering	2 5 → 10	Items bought from vendors cost less gold. Reduces the gold price of items from all vendors by 5%.	Needs 5 points in Professions	Blizzard articleDemo screenshotsBeta client

Under Ranks, the small line is the number that changes from rank to rank. Seen in: Blizzard article means Blizzard's Legacy System article lists the perk and what it does; Deep Dive recap means Blizzard's recap names or shows it; Wowhead means Wowhead's Legacy System article lists it; Demo screenshots means a tooltip players captured at BlizzCon; Beta client means the perk is in the tables of build 1.60.1.70450, where the ranks, numbers and requirements come from. Plan a character in the Legacy perk planner.

Legacy Reward Track

Every Legacy Point you earn moves the reward track, whether you spend it or not. There are 4 rewards at launch, all toys and cosmetics, at 15, 25, 40 and 55 points, and Blizzard plans new ones with each content update. The point thresholds are read off the reward track in Blizzard's Deep Dive recap; the reward track above shows how far your account is from each.

In the demo tooltips, the Replica Ironforge Air Rifle, the Spectral Bear Cub and the Spectral Bear Tabard are collected from Innkeeper Wiley in Ratchet.

Legacy Points across rulesets and Hardcore

Forever has no traditional realms; you pick a ruleset instead: Normal, PvP, Roleplaying, or Hardcore once it opens after launch. Legacy Points belong to your Battle.net account and are available to all your non-Hardcore characters. Hardcore works one way: challenges completed on the other rulesets don't show up there, but a challenge earned on Hardcore counts on every other ruleset too. PvP challenges can't be completed on Hardcore, so it opens with 12 Hardcore-only challenges.

What Blizzard plans to add

Blizzard says the Legacy System is only getting started. Its Legacy System article and Deep Dive recap list:

• New Legacy Challenges in every content release
• New perks, in the existing trees for now (the recap mentions new columns)
• New trees later on
• More Hardcore-only challenges and perks
• New rewards with each content update: more cosmetics and toys
• A higher spending cap and more ways to spend Legacy Points (Deep Dive recap)