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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Platform:
- pc
- Developer:
- snow storm
- Publisher:
- Activity
- Genre:
- MMORPG
- Multiplayer:
- Online Multiplayer
- ESRB:
- Teen
- Original release date:
- 2022-09-26
Introduction
Occupations in World of Warcraft have been an integral system in improving a player’s gaming performance since the game’s original release in 2006. With each new expansion, each profession gets an update that typically adds new recipes and associated materials. In WoW WotLK Classic a new profession has been added: Inscription. Using herbs collected from herbal medicineplayers can create glyphs that increase the abilities of each class.
With the release of World of Warcraft Classic: Wrath of the Lich King professions are getting another critical update, making them one of the most important tools in your character kit. Every profession has its uses and ways of making gold. Here we give a brief overview of all professions and highlight the changes that Wrath of the Lich King will bring.
All professions
There are two different types of occupations in World of Warcraft, primary and subordinate professions. Players can learn two primary occupations per character and also all three Secondary professions on each character.
The Primary occupations to be:
The Secondary professions to be:
- Fishing
- To cook
- FIRST AID
All professions are further classified separately: Meeting or To build. Meeting professions allow you to acquire materials from all over the world. While To build Professions allow you to further refine those materials to craft a wide variety of different items such as armor, weapons, accessories, consumables, etc.
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Best professions for every class
All professions offer a bonus to stats in one way or another, but some are more powerful than others. Here are the top three professions that all classes can benefit from.
#1: Technique
In general, almost all classes can take advantage of the many useful tools and improvements that Engineering offers. Not only are there some useful tools, but there are also plenty of items and enchantments that increase a player’s effectiveness in both PvE and PvP environments.
Tools:
Equipment:
Enchantments:
explosives:
#2: Making jewelry
Jewelcrafting is a close second profession for the sole reason that every class benefits from the items made with it. It’s a good source of gear such as necklaces, rings, and trinkets, and the 3 Jewelers Jewels offer the same stat bonuses as other professions. It is also a great source of gold from the Daily Jewelcrafting Quest, prospectingselling or cutting gemstones.
#3: Customization
Dressmaking is a nice second profession, especially for clothes wearers. It offers the best back enchantment for many classes, and they are exclusive to Tailors:
It’s also a great option to simply collect Frostweave Cloth with the A Guide to Northern Cloth Scavenging for sale or use in bandages, bags, and other equipment.
Skill Brackets and Level Limit
Whether players return to Wrath of the Lich King as their first interaction with Classic or as they continue their journey across Azeroth, they will find that professions will be more important than ever.
The level limit for professions is increased from 375 to 450. The items players can craft become stronger as they level up. Around level 400, players begin to see very powerful recipes. These can be used for their own characters, but they can generally also be sold to other players for a profit. We go into this in more detail in the profession-specific guides.
Whether you want to switch professions or start from scratch with a new character, some professions need more time and gold is invested in them. Here are the leveling brackets and new level limit for Wotlk:
Classic: Azeroth (1 – 300)
Offers items for Characters Level 1 – 60 and has several level brackets:
- Apprentice (1 – 75): Required level 5
- Journeyman (50 – 150): Required level 10
- Expert (125 – 225): Required level 20
- Artisan (200 – 300): Requires level 35
The Burning Crusade: Outland (275 – 375)
Provides items for Characters Level 58 – 70 and has one level bracket:
- Master (275 – 375): Requires level 45
Wrath of the Lich King: Northrend (350 – 450)
Provides items for Characters Level 68 – 80 and also has one level bracket:
- Grandmaster (350 – 450): Required level 55
The level brackets overlap so that you can start making certain materials needed for the next bracket, as these are often components used in the next bracket.
Common professional combinations
Because players are limited to only two primary professions per character, players will often associate one profession with another profession that complements it. Many craft professions require materials that are generally obtained from a specific collecting profession. The table below indicates the professions, their type (Crafting or Collecting), and which are complementary to each other.
| Primary profession | Type | Additional profession(s) | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alchemy | To build | herbal medicine | Herb Nodes collected through Herbalism provide most of the materials. Pisces also supplies different ingredients for a number of recipes. |
| forging | To build | Mining | Ore Nodes collected through Mining provide many of the required materials. |
| enchanting | Crafting and collecting | customization | Enchantment and Tailoring both need no other profession to collect their materials. Therefore, many players disenchant Tailoring’s crafted items to provide materials for Enchanting. |
| Engineering | To build | Mining | Ore nodes collected through mining provide many of the required ores, stones, and gems. |
| herbal medicine | Meeting | Alchemy, Inscription | Provides herbs for alchemy potions and inscription pigments |
| inscription | To build | herbal medicine | Mills seasoning in pigments for inks. |
| Making jewelry | To build | Mining | The gems required for Jewelcrafting are only delivered through Mining Ore Nodes or as loot. |
| leatherworking | To build | skin | Leatherworking relies almost entirely on Skinning to provide scraps used in most recipes. |
| Mining | Meeting | Forging, technique, making jewelry | Mining Ore Nodes supplies the majority of these professions and sometimes others as well. |
| customization | To build | enchanting | Tailoring receives most of its supplies from marauding humanoids. Disappointing items offer a good opportunity to save gold for some materials. |
| skin | Meeting | leatherworking | Skinning beasts provides leather and scraps, mostly for leatherworking and sometimes for other professions. |
Skill Leveling Success Rates
The odds of success reaching a skill level in a profession, also known as “skill-up,” depend on the recipe you’re making and your current level.
| Orange | 100% |
|---|---|
| Yellow | 99%-50% |
| Vegetable | 49%-1% |
| Gray | 0% |
The exact percentage chance of a skill-up for a given recipe is as follows:
- (Gray Level – Your current skill level) / (Gray Level – Yellow Level)
For example, a recipe has the following skill thresholds: 1 25 37 50. If you were trying to determine the probability of success at level 39, the calculation would be as follows:
Also remember that each attempt is independent of the previous attempt. Therefore, it is impossible to calculate exactly how many crafting attempts and materials you will need to practice. The exception is if you would only tinker if a recipe is still Orange. However, if a recipe has just turned yellow and the next recipe requires more materials, it might be wise to make the previous recipe a few more times as the skill success rate is likely to be very high.
For this reason, you will see the “about” symbol (~) used in recipes where there is a chance of things going wrong and therefore difficult to determine exact amounts.
Change profession
It is generally not recommended to change professions as you will have to completely unlearn the profession as well as any recipes you may have learned. If you decide to re-learn it, you’ll have to start all over from level 1. However, players will often initially level complementary professions together, but upon reaching the maximum level, they will only keep one craft profession to refine materials into goods that are for sale. The second profession is then switched to another craft profession for various items for personal use or as another method of making gold. This can often be very expensive as you now only have to rely on buying materials from other players or the Auction House to tinker. The other option is to also add a second character a . to let become Only for meetings character (usually a druid; for better movement speed), with two Collecting professions, providing the necessary resources for the crafting professions of the other characters.
Another reason to relearn a profession is in the case of specializations, such as: goblin and Gnomish Technique. Many of the items from one’s recipes can still be used even if you no longer have that specialization. This leads some players to create everything they can with one specialization first and then switch to the other once they’ve made those items.
Additional Skill Level Resources
There are three different ways in which a player can raise their professional skill level beyond their basic skill level which they have achieved through crafting or collecting. Racial Traits, Enchantments and Gear. With these bonuses you will learn recipes faster and the skill-up will increase. For example, for a Gnome with Engineering making a recipe that turns yellow at 125, it would stay orange until 140.
Racial Traits
Some races have a passive racial trait that increases their proficiency in a specific profession, the races that have bonuses are as follows:
Enchantments that offer an occupational bonus
Enchantments are applied to gloves and only take effect when worn. they offer either +2 or +5 to the respective skill.
There is also another unique enchantment that gives +5 to all collecting abilities, Herbalism, Mining and Skinning. This is useful for players who have 2 collectible professions to keep an inventory slot!
Equipment that provides a job skills bonus
| Profession | Item | Source | Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| skin | Pip’s Skinner | The Beast – Upper Blackrock Spire |
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| Zulian Slicer | High Priest Thekal – Zul’Gurub |
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| Mining | Goblin Mine Helmet | Technique – 205 |
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| herbal medicine | herbal gloves | Leather processing – 135 | |
| Fishing | There are many items such as rods, lines, lures and consumables that increase the fishing level. | ||
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