The Many Professions in the World of Warcraft
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World of Warcraft Engineering
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Engineering is a primary crafting profession that can create as many useful and amazing items as it can create junk. Engineers can create helpful items for generally all classes to be used in PVE or PVP. To counterbalance this usefulness, most items...
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World of Warcraft Tailoring
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Tailoring allows players to cut and weave various pieces of cloth into armor, bags, shirts, and other cloth items. Tailors play an especially important role in guilds because they can create bags for the entire guild, provided the guild members gathe...
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World of Warcraft Enchanting
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Enchanting is a primary profession in which characters may enchant gear and craft a variety of items. The main use of enchants is to augment the stats of gear, such as more strength, intellect, etc.; resistance to a particular branch of magic; increa...
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World of Warcraft Leatherworking
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Leatherworking is one of the primary professions. Your character can only have 2 primary professions at any time. The Leatherworking profession allows players to utilize the Leather gathered through the Skinning profession to create a variety of ite...
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World of Warcraft Blacksmithing
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Blacksmithing is the art of forging items out of metals, minerals, and other trade goods. Blacksmiths utilize bars of metal unearthed and smelted by the mining profession along with various trade and magical goods to produce their wares. A blacksmit...
Primary Professions
Most Primary professions are considered to be either a gathering or a crafting profession, and several of them work great together. For example, Herbalism is a gathering profession. A character with this skill is able to see surrounding herbs and plants in their minimap, and can collect them. Another Primary profession is Alchemy, which uses herbs that are gathered by characters with the Herbalism profession. Therefore, Herbalism is handy to have if you'd like to take up Alchemy. The same can be said for many of the other professions. to find out how to become the best in any profession! The exceptions to this are Enchanting, which produces its own materials, and Tailoring, which uses cloth dropped from most enemies.Now if you are not leveling your proffesions as quickly as you'd like you should check out the Dugis Leveling Guide. This comes with a great profession leveling guide that actually runs as an add-on within the game and places a green arrow beneath your character. That green arrow then points you in the direction of what enemies to kill, what quest to obtain, where to turn them in and basically show you everything needed.
Here are all the current Primary professions: Click Profession Title For Detailed Information
Gathering Professions
* Herbalism - Gather herbs.
* Mining - Gather minerals and smelt to bars.
* Skinning - Skin the hides from beasts.
Crafting Professions
* Alchemy - Create potions and trade goods.
* Blacksmithing - Create Armor, Weapons and trade goods.
* Enchanting - Enchant items to apply magical bonuses.
* Engineering - Create technological widgets to help you out.
* Inscription - Enhance yours and others' spells and abilities by making Glyphs.
* Jewel crafting - Create necklaces, rings and trinkets as well as gems to put in some items.
* Leather working - Create armor out of leather from skinning.
* Tailoring - Create armor out of cloth.
Secondary Professions
These are skills that are very handy, and make life a lot easier for your characters. You may have all 4 of these professions, as well as 2 Primary ones.
The Secondary professions are:* Cooking - Learn to cook food that you pick up from enemies, or from Fishing. Cooked food can add temporary bonuses to a character.
* First Aid - A must. Create bandages and anti-venom potions to heal yourself before, after or mid-fight. Useful even for healers, to conserve mana!
* Fishing - Using a rod and bait, find a nice river, lake or sea shore and try your luck. As well as catching fish, which can be cooked, sold or fed to a Hunter's pet, you occasionally find treasure.
* Riding - You need this skill to be able to ride any mounts. The first skill proficiency in riding becomes available at level 30.
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Racial Profession Bonuses
Some classes have a natural affinity for certain professions.
They start off with a bonus in a particular profession that, which is handy, as they can learn recipes or gather items sooner than the races without the bonus. Another benefit is that although they may have had a head-start in a profession, the difficulty of gathering/crafting the item is calculated based on a character's skill before the racial bonus is taken into account. This means if a character has a racial bonus of 10 in a crafting profession for example, they could craft 10 more of an item that shows as "orange" before it goes yellow, than other classes without the racial bonus.Here are the classes with Racial bonuses in professions:
* Blood Elves +10 in Enchanting
* Draenei +5 in Jewelcrafting
* Gnomes +15 in Engineering
* Tauren +15 in Herbalism
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Trainers
All professions have trainers, and they can be found scattered across the Warcraft world. Some trainers are strictly Horde or Alliance, some are neutral. Each trainer can teach in one profession only. You won't find a Trainer who can train you in Alchemy and Tailoring and Engineering for example. They can't all teach to every level of expertise either. They themselves are different levels of expertise. As well as training you to higher ranks of a trade they'll also sell the appropriate recipes/plans/patterns. Improving Skill
The items for professions are colour-coded. Easy items to gather or make are green on your tooltip, rarely improving your skill. If the item is yellow, you usually improve by gathering/creating it, and orange items always improve your skill, whereas grey items never do.
Proficiency Levels
There are currently 6 levels of proficiency in professions: Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan, Master and Grand Master. Depending on the profession, sometimes you can pay the trainer to teach you the next level of proficiency, other times you may need to complete a quest or read a book. There are also level requirements for levels of proficiency on some professions, but not all; check the individual profession to find out.








