Best professions in WoW Forever for each of the 9 classes
Which two professions each WoW Forever class should take, read from the crafted pieces of our BiS lists: what binds on pickup, and what new raids unlock.
In WoW Forever, every character learns two primary professions: the trainers turn away a third with "You can only learn two primary professions", and Cooking, First Aid and Fishing come on top. The best pair for a class is the one that makes what it wears. In our best-in-slot lists (build 1.60.1.70888, launch phase), crafted pieces hold top-three places for every class, and many of them bind when picked up: only their crafter can wear them, so the profession is the only way to get them.
Our lists say which crafting profession; the second is usually the gathering profession that supplies it: Mining the ore of Blacksmithing, Skinning the leather of Leatherworking. Tailoring needs cloth, which humanoids drop to everyone, so its second place is free. Each profession also brings its own campsite object, whose buff the whole group gets at a campfire: the campfire buffs list them level by level.
Warrior
Protection is the profession's real reason: Sentinel's Waistguard, Sentinel's Wristguards and Sentinel's Gloves head its lists and bind when picked up, so a tank has to craft them with Blacksmithing. Arms and Fury can buy their Devilsaur Leggings and Warbear Woolies, which bind when equipped. With Mining beside it, the Lodestone at your campfire gives the group 90 melee attack power at level 60.
The specialization decides. A Protection Paladin crafts its Warder's Waistguard, Warder's Wristguards and Warder's Gloves with Blacksmithing, all bound when picked up. Holy wears cloth: Stormcloth Vest and Mooncloth Gloves bind when equipped and can be bought, but Gilded Sandals, first in its PvE and PvP lists, bind when picked up: only a Tailor wears them.
No crafted piece of a Hunter's lists binds when picked up today: Devilsaur Leggings and Devilsaur Gauntlets can be bought. Leatherworking with Skinning lets you make them and sell the rest. Engineering is the profession to watch: Swiftstrike Shot and Swiftfeather Arrow, its ammunition of skill 300, are "not available until raids unlock", Blizzard says, and since the hotfixes of November 10 they no longer bind when picked up, a change Blizzard flags because "it may influence profession choice".
Devilsaur Leggings and Devilsaur Gauntlets come first in every Rogue list, PvE and PvP, and bind when equipped: a Rogue can buy them. Skulker's Leather Waistguard is the one piece only a Leatherworker wears. Leatherworking with Skinning makes the whole set, and the Camp Chair of Skinning adds 2% critical strike chance to your group at a campfire.
Tailoring is the Priest's profession by a long way. Truefaith Vestments, first in every Discipline and Holy list, bind when picked up, as do Nethergeld Cuffs and the Black Waistcord of Shadow. Mooncloth Circlet, Mooncloth Shoulders and Mooncloth Gloves can be bought. Tailoring leaves the second profession free: the Incense Candle of Herbalism adds 25 Intellect to the group at level 60.
Restoration wears cloth from Tailoring at the top of its lists, Gilded Sandals among them, bound when picked up. Enhancement and Elemental lean on Leatherworking, whose pieces they can buy: Warbear Woolies, Girdle of Insight, Ironfeather Shoulders. A Restoration Shaman takes Tailoring; the others are free to choose.
A Mage's crafted pieces almost all bind when picked up: Golden Waistcord for Arcane, Fiery Waistcord for Fire, Frothing Sandals for Frost in PvP, with the gloves, sandals and cuffs of each school. Only a Tailor wears them. Gloves of Spell Mastery, first for Frost in PvE, bind when equipped.
Tailoring again: Black Waistcord (first for Affliction, and for Demonology in PvP), Black Sandals and Netherpearl Cuffs bind when picked up. Felcloth Hood, Felcloth Shoulders and Felcloth Robe can be bought.
Leatherworking serves Balance and Feral Combat: Girdle of Insight, Ironfeather Breastplate, Warbear Woolies and Devilsaur Gauntlets head their lists and bind when equipped, while Prowler's Leather Waistguard, Skulker's Leather Waistguard and Warden's Leather Gauntlets bind when picked up. Restoration wears Mooncloth Circlet, Mooncloth Shoulders and Stormcloth Vest from Tailoring, which can be bought. Choose by the specialization you play most.
The new raids, Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps, open on December 9. Their items are the only source of Malleable Essence of Nature, which the game describes as "Acquired from disenchanting items from Hyjal Summit or Barrow Deeps", and 97 recipes ask for it: 42 in Leatherworking, 27 in Blacksmithing, 21 in Tailoring, 6 in Enchanting and 1 in Engineering, the Hyper Deluxe Sniper Rifle Mk XVII. Another 49 recipes wait on raids that have no opening date yet: 30 ask for a material only Molten Core drops, 13 one from Naxxramas and 6 one from Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj or Ahn'Qiraj Temple. Our professions pages mark each recipe still waiting for its raid, and our best-in-slot lists leave them out until it opens. Whatever your class, an Enchanter in your group turns raid drops into that essence.
01What are the best professions for each class in WoW Forever?
From the crafted pieces of our best-in-slot lists. Warrior: Blacksmithing, above all in Protection. Paladin: Blacksmithing in Protection, Tailoring in Holy. Hunter and Rogue: Leatherworking. Priest, Mage and Warlock: Tailoring. Shaman: Tailoring in Restoration, Leatherworking otherwise. Druid: Leatherworking in Balance and Feral Combat, Tailoring in Restoration. The second profession is usually the gathering one that supplies the first: Mining for Blacksmithing, Skinning for Leatherworking.
02How many primary professions can you learn in WoW Forever?
Two. A trainer turns away a third with "You can only learn two primary professions", and Cooking, First Aid and Fishing are learned on top of them.
03Are Swiftstrike Shot and Swiftfeather Arrow bind on pickup in WoW Forever?
No longer: Blizzard’s hotfixes of November 10 removed it, a change Blizzard flags because it may influence profession choice. This Engineering ammunition of skill 300 is not available until raids unlock, Blizzard says.
04What does Malleable Essence of Nature unlock in WoW Forever?
97 recipes ask for it: 42 in Leatherworking, 27 in Blacksmithing, 21 in Tailoring, 6 in Enchanting and 1 in Engineering. It comes only from disenchanting items of Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps, the new raids that open on December 9.
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