WoW Forever Professions

What changes for professions in WoW Forever

Retail WoW rebuilt professions from the ground up in Dragonflight. Forever does not: Wowhead’s roundup of Blizzard’s panels says the profession system is the same as in WoW Classic, with fixed material requirements and crafted items that always have the same stats. What Forever adds is volume and reasons to use professions while you level, rather than a new crafting minigame.

Blizzard’s Deep Dive recap puts the headline number at 600+ new recipes across professions and level ranges, and says many existing recipes were reworked as well.

Recipes

600+ new recipes

Spread across the professions and the whole way from skill 1 to 300, so profession choice is meant to matter while leveling and not only at 60.

Food

Crafted food gives experience

Blizzard reworked food: almost all crafted food gives stats, plus a small experience bonus. The example shown at BlizzCon gave Intellect and 5% more experience from kills, and eating for 10 seconds granted a 15-minute Well Fed buff — one example, not a rule for every dish.

Starter zone

A free gathering profession

A quest at about level 3–4 rewards a choice of three manuals: Herbalism, Mining or Skinning. Per Wowhead’s roundup, the manual teaches you the profession if you don’t have it already and aren’t at two professions.

Camping

Camping has its own page

Every profession makes objects for Forever’s new campfires: plan a camp for your party in our WoW Forever Camping Planner.

Profession window

Track, link and filter recipes

Per Wowhead’s beta tour: a Track box by Create All pins a recipe’s reagents to the side of the screen like a quest, a chat bubble links your whole profession book, and filters show only recipes that give a skill-up, ones you have the materials for, or a gear slot, with a search bar on top.

The twelve professions, page by page

Crafting a batch? The WoW Forever crafting planner adds up the materials of any recipes you pick and lists what you still need.

Looking for a potion, food or bomb for your level? The WoW Forever consumables finder lists every one in the game client, with the recipe that makes it.

Where to learn a profession and its next rank: WoW Forever trainers lists the Classic Era profession trainers by zone, with the skill range each one teaches.

Recipes sold for a reputation standing, faction by faction: WoW Forever reputations.

Each profession has its own page with its camp objects, its recipes in the game client and, for the ones that craft, a route from skill 1 to 300: Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring, Herbalism, Mining, Skinning, Cooking, First Aid, Fishing.

A community datamine of beta client build 1.60.1.69876 counts 12 primary and secondary professions, 961 recipe spell IDs that exist in neither Classic nor Season of Discovery, and 39 camping recipe variants. That counts spell records, not the recipes Blizzard counted, so it does not replace the 600+ figure.

Professions in the Legacy system

Forever’s account-wide progression rewards professions directly: you earn a Legacy point the first time you take each crafting profession to 150, 225 and 300. Gathering and secondary professions don’t count, Blizzard’s Legacy System article says. One of the three Legacy trees is Professions, and several perks across the trees change how camping and gathering feel.

• Professions tree: a higher chance of a skill-up, and more Scarce materials from Mining, Herbalism and Skinning.
• Supply crates: one Professions perk is about turning supply crates in to the Azeroth Commerce Authority or Durotar Supply and Logistics — the Season of Discovery factions, back under their own names.
• Camping perks: Field Guide shortens the cooldown on adding camp objects, Permanence makes what you gain by resting at a camp last longer, and Reagent Economy makes tier 1 camp objects cost no reagents at all. Switch them on in the WoW Forever Camping Planner.
• Every perk, its tree and what has actually been seen of it: WoW Forever Legacy system.