WoW: Forever professions, in one place

What's new for every profession in Forever

WoW: Forever keeps all 12 Classic professions: Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, and Tailoring as crafting skills; Herbalism, Mining, and Skinning as gathering skills; and Cooking, Fishing, and First Aid as secondary skills. No profession was added or removed. Mages also get a Research system that works like a profession and sits in the same panel, but it is unique to that class, not a thirteenth profession anyone else can learn.

A character can run up to five professions at once: two primary picks plus all three secondary skills. Each profession now trains through four named tiers instead of one long bar, and unlearning a primary still wipes its skill and recipes back to zero, so switching back later means starting over at skill 1.

1. Apprentice opens at character level 5 and trains skill up to 75.
2. Journeyman needs level 10 and 50 skill already banked; it raises the cap to 150.
3. Expert needs level 20 and 125 skill; the cap moves to 225.
4. Artisan needs level 35 and 200 skill; the cap reaches 300.

Camping adds an object to every profession

Every profession now has three campsite objects. The first needs skill 20 and comes from a camping NPC or the regular trainer; the other two come from Blueprint recipes that drop off specific dungeon bosses, so crafters have a reason to run dungeons too. A Basic Campfire holds three objects at a time, one per player, and every object shares a one-hour cooldown. Cooks can craft upgraded fires that raise that limit to five, then ten.

The named official examples are a Blacksmith's Sharpening Wheel, a Tailor's Faction Banner, a Herbalist's Incense Candle, and an Alchemist's Lab, each a variant of a class buff that will not stack with it. Beta data compiled by Mobalytics and Conquest Capped fills in the structure behind those first examples: every object keeps its buff through all three tiers, and for most crafting professions, including Blacksmithing, only the third tier turns into a usable crafting station, so a Sharpening Wheel becomes an Anvil, then a Master Forge that other recipes can call for. Herbalism's chain works differently: an Incense Candle becomes a Greenhouse that grows planted seeds over time, then a Seed Hybridizer that combines seeds into rarer ones, neither one a crafting station. Blizzard's own panel recap names Leatherworking's Tanning Rack, not a later tier, as the object some advanced recipes require.

Where the 600-plus new recipes land

The 600-plus new recipes are not spread evenly. Beta datamining credited by Zockify puts Leatherworking at 289 new recipes, Blacksmithing at 203, Tailoring at 186, Engineering at 80, Alchemy at 72, Enchanting at 63, and Cooking at 44. Herbalism (3), Mining (5), and Skinning (3) sit in the single digits instead because the three gathering skills get a flat passive bonus rather than a recipe list; First Aid (17) and Fishing (3) are light on recipes too, just with naturally shorter lists of bandages, curatives, lures, and bait. The same beta data shows Herbalism adding magic resistance that scales with skill, Mining adding extra health, and Skinning adding bonus damage against Beasts and Dragonkin.

The Deep Dive panel's own slide examples show the range on the crafting side. A Blacksmithing plan at skill 85 makes Crusader's Boots for a level 17 character, one at skill 210 makes Officer's Pauldrons for level 42, and one at skill 300 makes an Enriched Thorium Breastplate for level 57, with two of the three adding spell damage and healing to mail or plate for hybrid specs. Cooking recipes on the same slide grant a Well Fed buff worth stats plus 5% more experience from kills for 15 minutes, as long as you sit down to eat for at least 10 seconds first.

Are the profession bonuses confirmed yet?

Partly. Blizzard's Legacy system post names seven Professions perks, Working Overtime, Bountiful Harvest, Bartering, Performance Bonus, Master Chef, Luremaster, and Dedicated Study, without ranks or percentages. Beta guides such as Conquest Capped and Mobalytics report specific numbers instead, Working Overtime starting at 4% per rank and Bountiful Harvest starting at 20% more scarce materials at its first rank among them, but Blizzard has not confirmed those figures directly. Conquest Capped's read of the panel slide also shows two more Professions nodes still marked "to be added in a future update."

A separate claim is less settled. Mobalytics' profession guide names this Mixology, Alchemy's flasks and elixirs hitting 25% harder and lasting twice as long, and players repeated the same numbers in a 30 September 2026 beta thread. Zockify's own profession guide, current as of this writing, says it could not confirm any per-profession passive bonus like that in the beta data it checked. The two guides disagree and Blizzard has not named the bonus directly, so treat it as an unconfirmed beta build detail, not a feature.

The Wowdee add-on will keep one checklist of what is confirmed for your professions, camp object, recipe count, and Legacy perk together, instead of four separate guides.