Professions

WoW Professions - Recipes, Materials and Profit

Professions are how you make gear, consumables, enchantments, and transmogs in World of Warcraft. Whether you want to craft your own equipment, make gold on the auction house, or gear up raid-ready enchants, you need to pick the right professions for your goals. Every character can learn two primary professions and as many secondary ones as they want, and the choice shapes what you can do in the game.

The site's professions hub shows you every recipe, every material tier, the cost to craft each item, and the profit you can make. This guide explains how professions work, how to pick them, and how to use the site to find recipes and materials that matter for your playstyle.

Understanding the Two Main Types

Professions split into two categories: crafting and gathering.

Gathering professions bring raw materials into the game. Herbalism collects plants. Mining pulls ore and stone. Skinning turns killed beasts into leather and hides. Fishing catches food and special items from water. These four gather the materials that crafters and raiders need, and they feed the auction house with supply. Gathering professions are entirely passive; you collect what you find and sell it, or feed it to an alt who crafts.

Crafting professions turn raw materials into finished items. Alchemy brews potions and flasks. Blacksmithing forges mail and plate armor and weapons. Enchanting imbues gear with power. Engineering builds gadgets and goggles. Inscription creates glyphs and vellum. Jewelcrafting cuts gems and crafts jewelry. Leatherworking makes leather and mail armor. Tailoring sews cloth armor and bags. All eight of these take materials and create something players want.

Cooking is a secondary crafting profession. You can learn it alongside your two primaries, and it makes food that heals and buffs you. Fishing is also secondary, though it doubles as gathering since you're collecting food and reagents from water. In older WoW expansions, first aid was a secondary profession that let you bandage wounds; it's gone from retail. Archaeology, a secondary profession added in Cataclysm, lets you dig up rare transmog and companion pets.

The Two-Primary Rule and Smart Pairing

Each character can learn exactly two primary professions. You can unlearn and relearn them, but switching costs time and, in some expansions, gold. This limit forces you to decide: do you want to be self-sufficient, do you want to fill a group role, or do you want to make gold?

The most common pairings pair a gatherer with a crafter who uses what you gather. A miner who picks ore all day pairs well with Blacksmithing or Jewelcrafting, both of which consume huge amounts of metal. A skinner harvesting leather from every beast you kill naturally feeds into Leatherworking. An herbalist gathering plants pairs with Alchemy, which turns herbs into potions, or with Inscription, which turns herbs into inks and glyphs. These pairings let you feed your own profession with your own materials, reducing your auction house costs.

You can also pair two gatherers (for instance, Herbalism and Mining) and sell everything you collect, letting your gold come from raw materials. This is simple and profitable for players who like to roam and collect rather than spend time at a crafting station.

Some players pair a crafter with a non-feeder profession for other reasons. An engineer might take Herbalism or Mining to fund their expensive tinkering hobby. A tailor who already has cloth from looting might take Enchanting to disenchant vendor gear and feed their own threads. A character designed to support a raid team might take Alchemy and Enchanting to keep potions and flasks flowing and enchant gear for teammates.

The specific pairing depends on your playstyle. If you want to be self-sufficient and crafting-focused, pick a gatherer that feeds your crafter. If you want gold, pick gatherers or pick crafters whose items sell well on your server. If you want to support your guild or raid group, pick professions that make things other players need.

Some players build entire accounts around profession chains. For instance, a player might have one alt focused on Herbalism and Mining, feeding multiple crafting characters. The gatherer character roams, collects everything, and walls the materials in guild bank tabs or trades them to alts. The crafter characters specialize in one profession each, turning cheap raw materials into valuable finished goods. This setup requires patience and account coordination, but it maximizes gold flow per hour invested because the gatherer feeds multiple revenue streams.

Other players focus on just one character but pick professions that minimize auction house dependency. A player who raids with a melee group might pick Blacksmithing and Leatherworking (no pairing makes logical sense, but both produce armor their class-adjacent friends might need). A priest might pair Tailoring (cloth armor) with Enchanting (needed for finishing gear), creating a service that other cloth wearers value. These builds are less efficient at self-sufficiency but create reputation and ongoing business within a social circle.

The Profession Economy - How Materials Flow

Understanding how professions drive the economy helps you decide what to make and why it sells. The profession economy has two layers: the gatherers who bring raw materials in, and the crafters who turn them into finished goods.

Gatherers create supply. Every herb in the world that an herbalist picks is potential supply for alchemy or inscription. Every ore mined feeds blacksmithing or jewelcrafting. Gathering professions are limited by time and respawn rates; a gatherer can only pick so many nodes before they've cleared the zone, then they wait for respawns. This natural limit on supply keeps raw materials valuable. When gathering is rare and demand is high (like at the start of a new expansion), raw materials command prices that rival finished goods. As more people level gathering, supply increases and prices fall.

Crafters create demand. When a new expansion launches, every raid character needs new gear, potions, flasks, enchants, and gems. Crafters fill that demand by consuming materials and producing finished items. If alchemy prices are high and potion demand is strong, more people level alchemy to capitalize on the gold. If too many alchemists level at once, potion supply exceeds demand and prices crash.

This cycle explains how profession economics evolve over the lifespan of an expansion: high demand drives prices up, high prices attract new crafters, new crafters increase supply, supply crashes prices, low prices discourage crafters. Early expansion, a gatherer or crafter can make significant gold because either raw material prices are high (if supply is scarce) or finished goods prices are high (if crafters are rare). Mid-expansion, the market equilibrates as prices stabilize at a level where casual players still craft for profit, but the easy money is gone. Late expansion, prices often fall to maintenance levels as content nears the end and demand drops.

Strategic profession choices ride this wave. If you pick a profession early and level it before the market saturates, you capture the high-price window. If you pick a saturated profession late, you're competing with established players who have specializations and knowledge unlocked. Neither choice is wrong, but the timing and server population shape your gold income.

The profession economy also varies by server type and population. High-population servers with thousands of crafters and gatherers see prices stabilize quickly but offer consistent demand. Low-population servers see more price volatility because one player gathering aggressively can crash herb prices, and one crafter undercutting can flood the market. A small server offers lower absolute gold numbers but sometimes higher profit margins because competition is lighter.

The site's cost and profit data lets you see this economy directly. If a recipe's profit is consistently negative or near zero, the market has saturated. If profit is consistently high, the market has room for more supply. Checking these numbers before committing to a profession or deciding what to craft separates informed decisions from guesses.

Gathering Professions - The Foundation

Every crafting profession depends on materials gathered by someone. Whether you want to fund your own crafting or make gold selling raw materials, you need to understand what gatherers do.

Herbalism requires you to roam zones and pick plants from herb nodes. Nodes give you herbs, and different expansion tiers have different plants. Alchemy consumes most of the herbs in the game, so if you have an alchemist, an herbalist alt feeding your main makes sense. Inscription also uses herbs, turning them into inks and pigments. The site shows you which herbs exist in which expansion.

Mining sends you to caves, mountains, and ore deposits hunting metal and stone. Blacksmithing is the biggest consumer, needing metal for armor and weapons. Jewelcrafting also needs plenty of ore for gems and jewelry. Engineers consume less ore but need specialized components like gears and springs. If you're mining, check what ore your expansion tier includes and decide if you'll craft with it or sell it raw.

Skinning is the simplest to learn but easy to forget: every time you kill a beast, you can skin it for leather. Different creatures drop different leather types. Leatherworking consumes leather by the stack. Shamans and hunters using mail gear often pair Skinning with Leatherworking to keep themselves geared. Skinning doesn't require traveling to specific nodes; you just kill and loot.

Fishing is unusual because it's a secondary profession, so you can learn it on top of your two primaries. You stand at water and cast a line. Most fish go to cooking, but some fishing catches feed inscription, alchemy, or cooking-related vendor quests. Fishing rewards patience more than skill; you catch things based on the water you're fishing in, not your fishing level.

Gathering is a slower, steadier path to gold than crafting. A crafter can make a large profit per item but requires both materials and time at the crafting station. A gatherer makes less profit per unit but requires no crafting time; you collect, sell, repeat. If you have limited playtime or prefer not to sit at a crafting station, gathering lets you stay mobile and productive.

One advanced gathering strategy is playing the daily reset. Different zones have different respawn times, and a farmer who knows the reset schedule can plan routes to hit the most productive zones at the right time. Another strategy is watching for market dips; if herb prices are artificially low on a given day, an herbalist might gather more aggressively to sell when prices recover. This requires server knowledge and market awareness, but it's available to any player willing to think about the economy rather than just grinding.

Gathering also serves a social role. In guilds and raid groups, the member with Mining and Herbalism becomes a valued supplier. They can provide cheap materials to guild members, strengthen bonds, and earn reputation as a generous contributor. Some players specifically choose gathering professions to fill this role rather than maximize individual gold.

Crafting Professions - How to Build What You Need

The eight primary crafting professions and cooking cover every type of item a player might want to make. Understanding what each one does helps you decide which one fits your goals.

Alchemy turns herbs into potions, flasks, and alchemical reagents. Potions provide temporary buffs (mana, health, stats). Flasks last hours and work in raids. Alchemical stones create trinket-like effects. Raiding guilds always need alchemists. If you raid or do high-end content, having alchemy available (either on your main or an alt) is valuable.

Blacksmithing forges plate and mail armor, weapons, and shields. Tanking and melee DPS classes want fresh blacksmithed gear every tier. Warriors, paladins, and death knights especially benefit from having a blacksmith around. Plates and mail pieces are also good transmog items for sale.

Enchanting takes materials from disenchanting gear and puts those materials into enchantments that boost armor and weapons. Enchants are mandatory for raiding and necessary for any serious character. Nearly every player needs enchanting services. Making gold with enchanting depends on selling individual enchants or enchanted items.

Engineering builds goggles, guns, tinkers (belt items), and gadgets (mail, plate, and mail helms with special effects). Gnomes and goblins get engineering bonuses. Engineers can also engineer their own items at a discount, making it good for anyone who loves gadgets and doesn't mind the crafting cost.

Inscription creates glyphs, cosmetic ink, and buff items like weapons coatings. In retail and newer expansions, glyphs customize how your abilities work. Inscription also produces specialty paper used by other professions. Every caster wants glyphs, making inscription consistently profitable.

Jewelcrafting cuts gems and crafts jewelry (rings, amulets, and stat-boosting gems). Every character needs gems for their sockets. Jewelcrafting is one of the most consistently profitable professions because demand never stops.

Leatherworking stitches leather and mail armor. Hunters, rogues, shamans, and monks wear leather and mail. Leatherworkers can make their own armor or sell pieces. Leather transmog items are also popular.

Tailoring sews cloth armor for mages, warlocks, and priests. Cloth gear is wanted by casters every expansion. Tailors can also make bags, a perennial gold maker since every player wants bigger bags.

Cooking creates food that heals and buffs you. Every player benefits from cooked food. High-level cooking produces raid food worth selling or crafting for yourself. Unlike other professions, cooking doesn't require rare materials (mostly cooking ingredients like meat and fish).

Crafting professions divide into two archetypes: the raiders' professions and the transmog professions.

Raiders' professions (Alchemy, Enchanting, and Jewelcrafting) produce consumables and enhancements that every active player wants. An alchemist's potions and flasks are used in every raid, sometimes consumed per pull. An enchanter's services are mandatory for any serious player optimizing gear. A jewelcrafter's gems are socketed into every piece of raid gear. These professions have reliable demand because raiding is a core activity and gear optimization never stops. The gold flow from these professions is consistent month to month, assuming the raiders on your server are active.

Transmog professions (Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, and Tailoring) produce armor and weapons that sell primarily to collectors and casual players. A transmog item might sit on the auction house for weeks before selling, but its material cost is low and the profit, when it sells, can be substantial. Transmog is the long tail of gold-making: many low-value sales that add up over time. Leatherworking and Tailoring especially thrive here because they produce cosmetic armor that players want purely for appearance. These professions suit players who are patient, log in regularly to manage auctions, and don't mind slow-moving inventory.

Engineering stands apart. It produces both consumable items (gadgets, goggles) and transmog (goggles, unique appearances). Engineering also produces convenience items that casual players buy for fun. An engineer's income is more volatile than alchemy or enchanting but can spike when new content launches and players want gear advantages. Engineering is best for players who enjoy tinkering and can use specialization bonuses to stay profitable in a changing market.

Inscription is mid-spectrum. Glyphs are mandatory in retail, so glyph sales are reliable. Ink production (turning herbs into pigments and inks) provides a secondary income stream; other crafters buy ink for vellum and specialty items. An inscriber who maxes professions and knowledge can control a significant portion of the ink market if few others are competing. On crowded servers, many inscribers means lower margins, but on quiet servers, an inscriber can capture most of the market and dictate prices.

Picking a crafting profession means deciding between stability (raiders' professions) and patience (transmog). Or you can pick a hybrid like Inscription, which has both reliable demand and multiple revenue streams, but requires more active management to stay profitable.

How Professions Work Across WoW Versions

Not every profession has existed since the game launched, and older versions of the game lack some professions entirely.

In retail World of Warcraft, all thirteen professions exist, and newer expansion tiers continue to add new recipes and specializations for existing professions.

In World of Warcraft Classic Era, the original release professions are all present. Jewelcrafting was added in The Burning Crusade, so Classic Era characters cannot learn it. Inscription was added in Wrath of the Lich King, so neither Classic Era nor Burning Crusade characters can learn it. Every expansion since then has added new recipes to existing professions but rarely added new professions.

The Burning Crusade added Jewelcrafting, dramatically changing the gold economy and making gems essential for raid gear. Wrath of the Lich King added Inscription, which created a new service (glyphs) that every player needed. No major profession has been added since then; retail just keeps adding recipes and specialization options to existing ones.

Some players prefer the simpler profession landscape of older versions. If you're in retail, you have the full thirteen to choose from.

Leveling a Profession from Start to Cap

Every profession has a maximum level. In retail, professions level independently from your character level, letting you level a profession alongside a low-level character if you want. In older expansions, professions often leveled alongside your character.

To level, you craft recipes. Most recipes give you experience when you craft them, and recipes with orange difficulty give the most experience. Some recipes are green (little or no experience) because they're easy, and some are gray because you've leveled past them. Efficiently leveling means crafting recipes that still give experience without wasting materials.

The site shows you leveling guides for many professions. These guides show the cheapest or most efficient path from novice to cap by listing recipes in each tier that still give experience. Following a guide saves you from guessing and wastes less material.

You can also level by crafting for the auction house. Pick recipes you think will sell, craft a batch, and put them on the market. You level while building an inventory to sell. This is slower than following a guide but generates revenue while you level.

Some players level secondaries like cooking and fishing by doing them passively (fishing while watching TV, or cooking when you have spare mats). Since there's no limit to how many secondaries you learn, you can level multiple at once without pressure.

Specializations (retail only) let you focus a profession in a specific direction. An alchemist might specialize in potions or flasks. An enchanter might focus on weapons or armor. Specializations unlock better recipes but require choosing a focus. You can level and eventually reset specializations if you change your mind.

Making Gold with Professions

The auction house is the most direct path to gold from professions. If you have a crafting profession, you make items and sell them. If you gather, you sell raw materials. The profit on any item depends on your realm's economy, but the site shows you cost and profit for every recipe so you can decide what's worth making.

Raw materials (herbs, ore, leather, cloth) sell more consistently than finished goods because crafters buy them constantly. If you gather and don't want to wait, selling raw materials to the market is simple. The site shows you material categories like herbs, metal and stone, and leather, with prices so you can see what's worth farming.

Finished goods often sell for more but require crafting time and risk; you might make something that doesn't sell. Smart crafters check the auction prices for items before crafting. If alchemy potions sell for only slightly more than their herb cost, it's not worth your time. If crafted gear sells for triple its material cost, you might have a winner.

Specializations in retail let you unlock better profit margins. An alchemist who specializes in potions gets access to better recipes and lower material waste. This advantage compounds over time, you make better pots more cheaply, which lets you undercut competitors and still make more gold.

Transmog is gold made through the long tail. Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, and Tailoring all produce transmog armor that players want for appearances. Many of these recipes don't sell weekly, but some items sell eventually, and the material cost is low after you've learned the recipe. Crafting a few transmog pieces and listing them on the market for weeks can eventually return gold with minimal effort.

Services generate gold differently. An enchanter offers to enchant your items for a fee. A blacksmith makes you a custom piece of armor. These trades happen in chat or on realms with a strong trade community. If you're on a social realm with an active economy, services can be more profitable than auction house sales.

Never assume a profession will make gold just because you level it. Check your realm's market first. Gardener on a low-population server might find herbs worthless. On a high-population PvE server with active raiding, alchemy and enchanting sell constantly. The market you're on matters more than the profession you picked.

Using the Professions Hub to Find What You Need

Every profession has its own page on the site. The Alchemy page, for example, shows every recipe alchemy teaches, split by expansion tier. You can see what materials each recipe needs and what it produces.

The Recipes section shows recipes sorted by expansion. If you're leveling alchemy and you're in the Wrath tier, you can jump to Wrath recipes and see what's worth crafting for experience and profit.

Material categories like herbs show you every herb in the game and which expansion it came from. If you're an herbalist thinking about farming, you can see what types of herbs exist and where your specialization fits.

The cost and profit boards show material costs at current auction house prices and calculate profit automatically. If a crafted item's profit is negative or near-zero, the site shows you that too. This transparency lets you make informed decisions about what's worth crafting instead of guessing.

Leveling guides exist for alchemy, blacksmithing, cooking, enchanting, engineering, inscription, jewelcrafting, leatherworking, and tailoring. These guides show you the path from 1 to cap, listing recipes that still give experience and the order to level them for speed or cheapest cost.

If you want to see everything a profession touches, every recipe, every material type, the profit on every item, the profession page is your destination. If you want the fastest way to cap, follow the leveling guide for your profession.

Here are practical scenarios that show how to use the site:

You're a new herbalist trying to decide if gathering is worth your time. Visit the Herbalism profession page, check what expansion tiers exist, and see which herbs are in the zones you actually frequent. Then check the cost and profit board to see how much herbs cost on your server right now. If prices are high, gathering is attractive. If prices are at the floor, you might want to wait for prices to recover or focus on a different expansion tier where prices are better.

You've leveled Inscription and you want to know what to craft for profit. The Inscription page shows every recipe by tier. The cost and profit board shows which recipes are most profitable. You also check the Ink category to see if ink prices are high (meaning other scribes are competing) or low (meaning you can buy cheap ink and turn it into glyphs for profit). This tells you whether to focus on raw ink sales or on crafting finished glyphs.

You're playing a gatherer-alt and you want to know which materials are most worth farming. Visit the material category pages like metals and stone, herbs, or leather to see current prices. If ore is expensive and cloth is cheap, you know focusing on mining zones will make more gold than focusing on leather. The site shows you which expansion tiers have the highest prices, so you can target the most valuable materials in the zones you run.

You want to level Tailoring but you're on a tight budget. Check the leveling guide to see the recommended path from 1 to cap. Then check the cost and profit board for each recipe the guide suggests. If a suggested recipe has negative profit, substitute it with a cheaper recipe that still gives experience. The guide tells you the optimal path; the cost data lets you tailor it to your budget.

You're curious how Enchanting works but you've never done it. Start at the Enchanting page to see how many recipes exist and which expansion tiers are available. Then check a leveling guide to understand how long it takes and what materials you need. The site answers "is this for me?" in minutes instead of requiring you to research in multiple places.

Specializations and Knowledge in Retail

Retail World of Warcraft changed how professions level and progress with the Dragonflight expansion, introducing specialization trees and profession knowledge.

Every profession now has a specialization tree. Instead of leveling a flat skill, you earn specialization points and choose which recipes and crafting bonuses to unlock. An alchemist can unlock cheaper herbs, faster crafting, better chances at double-craft procs, or access to rare recipes. This tree means no two alchemists level the exact same way, you customize based on what you want to make.

Profession knowledge is an account-wide resource that unlocks new recipes, usually one or a few at a time. You gain knowledge by completing profession quests, finding treasure chests, or crafting certain items. A knowledge point unlocks a specific recipe or specialization node. This system means every character doing that profession benefits from knowledge any character has earned, rewarding exploration and participation.

Mastery is the highest tier. Completing certain achievements or specialty quests in a profession unlocks mastery-level recipes that produce advanced versions of items with special effects. Mastery recipes require more materials and time but yield items worth more gold.

This specialization system lets players feel like they're progressing beyond just leveling a skill. You invest in a profession identity, and your choices matter. A legendary alchemist is different from a legendary blacksmith because they've specialized differently.

Choosing Professions for Your Goals

Different players want different things from professions, and there's no universally correct choice. Understanding what your goals are helps you pick professions that serve you.

If your goal is gold, focus on professions with reliable demand and good profit margins. Alchemy, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, and Inscription are gold-makers on most servers because every player needs their products. Pair a gatherer like Herbalism or Mining with one of these crafters to fund yourself with cheap materials. Alternatively, pair two gatherers and sell all raw materials without spending time at the crafting station. The gold flow is slower but more consistent than crafting.

If your goal is self-sufficiency, pair a gatherer with a crafter who uses that material. Herbalism with Alchemy means you're never buying potions. Mining with Jewelcrafting means your gems are always in stock. Skinning with Leatherworking means you're never waiting for armor. Self-sufficiency won't make you rich, but it means your character is never gated on consumables or gear quality by auction house prices or availability.

If your goal is raiding effectively, pick professions that enable raiding. Alchemy, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, and Cooking are the mandatory professions for raiders. You need potions and flasks for performance, enchants for gear optimization, gems for sockets, and food for buffs. Many raiders pair one of these (like Alchemy) with a gatherer (like Herbalism) to stay supplied. Some raiders pick two crafting professions that serve raid needs, sacrificing gathering income to specialize in raid support.

If your goal is helping your guild, become known for one service. An alchemist keeps the guild supplied with potions. An enchanter enchants guild members' gear. A blacksmith crafts custom armor. This role can be more rewarding socially than solo gold-making, even if it's less profitable. Many guilds value the player who sacrifices profit to support teammates.

If your goal is collecting and transmog, pick transmog-heavy professions like Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring, or Engineering. Learn hundreds of recipes, run old raids for pattern drops, and collect rare transmog pieces. This playstyle is slow and requires a patient personality, but it offers endless collecting goals and the satisfaction of assembling rare appearances.

What professions should a new player pick?

Pick what sounds fun to you first. If you like making gear for yourself, pick a gatherer paired with a crafter, Mining with Blacksmithing, Herbalism with Alchemy, Skinning with Leatherworking. If you like making gold, pair any gatherer with Cooking and Fishing as secondaries. If you're not sure yet, pick two gatherers on your main and save crafting for an alt, raw materials sell well and you won't regret farming.

Can I change professions after I learn them?

Yes. You can unlearn any profession and learn a different one. In retail, this is free. In older expansions or on a limited budget, it might cost gold. If you decide a profession isn't working for you, unlearning and switching is always an option. Your progress resets, but you can level a new profession from scratch.

Do I need to level a profession to cap immediately?

No. You can level slowly, craft for profit as you go, or focus only on recipes you want. Leveling caps are useful for endgame crafting, but casual crafters who just want a few recipes don't need to max anything. Level at your own pace.

Which professions make the most gold?

On most realms, Alchemy, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, and Tailoring consistently sell because every player needs them. However, your realm's economy is unique, check the auction house prices for each profession before committing. A profession is only profitable if items actually sell on your server.

Is it worth learning a profession if I don't have materials for it?

Absolutely. You can buy all your materials from the auction house and level while crafting for profit. It's slower than farming your own materials, but you build inventory as you level. This is especially true for Cooking, which uses farmed ingredients that are relatively cheap.

Do I need specialization to make gold with professions?

In retail, specialization helps, it lowers costs and unlocks better recipes. However, even without specializing deeply, you can make gold crafting and selling items. Specialization is an optimization, not a requirement.

What's the difference between primary and secondary professions?

You can learn two primary professions and unlimited secondaries. This limit forces choices with primaries, you need to decide which two matter most. Secondaries like Cooking and Fishing have no limit, so every character can learn every secondary without penalty.

Which professions were added in each expansion?

Jewelcrafting was added in The Burning Crusade. Inscription was added in Wrath of the Lich King. Every expansion since has added recipes to these professions but no new professions have been introduced. If you're playing an older version, check which professions were available in that era.

How do I know what materials a recipe needs?

Every recipe on the site shows its materials and the quantities. Before crafting, check the recipe to see if you have or can afford the materials. If the profit is low or negative, skip it and craft something more profitable instead.

Can I switch specializations if I change my mind?

In retail, yes. You can reset specializations and choose a different path. This costs a small amount of gold or resources. You're not locked into one specialization forever, experiment and change as your goals change.

Playing WoW Forever? Forever is Blizzard's Classic-based version and it is still in beta, so this guide does not make claims about how this system will work there. What the beta client actually contains is tracked on the WoW Forever hub, and anything you read about Forever before launch can change. Until it ships, the Classic Era notes in this guide are the closest reference for how a Classic ruleset treats this topic.