Professions System Overview: Crafting Orders, Crafting Specializations, Reagents

Di Jezartroz Aggiornato: 31/07/2025

All Crafting and Gathering Professions in World of WarcraftCrafting Professions

Alchemy

Focused on creating potions, flasks, phials, and concoctions of all kinds, Alchimia primarily creates consumables to enhance player capabilities. While some traditional gear such as Trinkets can be created, Alchemists primarily focus on crafting items to buff themselves and party members. Alchemy is one of the most chosen Professions due to its inherent ability to extend the duration of Flasks, saving players time and gold in the long run.

The War Within Alchemy Overview

Blacksmithing

Blacksmiths utilize the heat of a forge to bend various metals to their will. Primarily focused on crafting high-quality Weapons and Plate Armor, Forgiatura additionally creates many Profession Tools and Accessories for other Professions, allowing them to increase their own Crafting and Gathering capabilities. While by no means the focus of the Profession, some consumables can also be created.

The War Within Blacksmithing Overview

Cooking

While not a traditional Crafting Profession, the Secondary Profession Cucina functions in almost an identical way, minus the inclusion of Profession Specializations. Using meat, fish, and cooking materials found on both vendors and enemies in the world, Cooks create bountiful feasts that can feed both entire raid groups as well as individuals looking to fill their bellies. This food serves as a valuable buff - and can be the key to finding secrets in Azeroth.

The War Within Cooking Overview

Enchanting

Incantamento allows players to create powerful Enchantments for all types of weapons, armor, and Profession Tools. A fantastic utility Profession, Enchanters can additionally Disincantamento armor, weapons, and gear into valuable Reagents that can be sold on the Auction House for extra profit. With a flair for the dramatic, Enchanting also provides glamours and other fun temporary cosmetic items for players to play with - it is all fun and games!

The War Within Enchanting Overview

Engineering

Looking to tinker? Look no further - Ingegneria has the widest variety of things to create in any Crafting Profession. Whether you want to dabble in armor and weapons, or want to make bombs to throw in a DPS rotation in a pinch, Engineers have something to pull out of their bag of tricks. This doesn't even consider the reason that many players prefer Engineering - mounts, battle pets, and fun utility like rocket boots!

The War Within Engineering Overview

Inscription

A good Scribe commands both mastery of the arcane and a near-infinite pool of knowledge, and can impart both to other players. While Runografia can create some weapons and Profession Equipment, it's not the focus of the Profession - contracts, cosmetic customizations, and powerful buffs are the bread and butter of what you'll create. Expect a particular focus on the ever-popular Darkmoon Deck trinkets as well.

The War Within Inscription Overview

Jewelcrafting

Oreficeria can create the finest jewelry and cut gems in all of Azeroth - for the right price. Jewelcrafters are primarily focused on creating cut gems at high quality to sell as socket-fillers for armor, but can also create ring and neck jewelry with powerful effects. Add in fun toys, pets, and the occasional mount craft, and players can find a well-balanced and lucrative profession hidden among the many ores that Azeroth has to offer.

The War Within Jewelcrafting Overview

Leatherworking

The only Profession that allows for the crafting of two different types of armor, Conciatura utilizes the hides and scales of your most fearsome foes to protect you while heading into battle. Leatherworkers can create Leather and Mail armor, as well as consumables such as Drums and Armor Kits to improve offensive and defensive capabilities. With a few Profession Accessories to round out its offerings, Leatherworking is a well-balanced Profession.

The War Within Leatherworking Overview

Tailoring

Whether you're looking to create the finest Cloth Armor or the largest bags in the Auction House, Sartoria has something that's likely to appeal to your tastes. Utilizing various types of cloth or fur found on enemies in the world, Tailors can create powerful magical gear and threads to wear or imbue your armor with. Consumables or bags, gear or spellthread, a great Tailor is always in demand - and on occasion, can create a flying carpet or two.

The War Within Tailoring Overview

Gathering Professions

Fishing

Like Cooking, Pesca is a Secondary Profession, meaning every character can use it. A Gathering Profession at heart, Fishing doesn't make use of a traditional Specialization tree, but it does exactly what you think - catches fish, and lots of them. With your trusty fishing pole (or even without!), you'll find fish throughout Azeroth, in its oceans, streams, raging rivers, and still ponds. With a little bit of luck, you might even fish up something more valuable as well - mounts.

The War Within Fishing Overview

Herbalism

Erbalismo is a gathering profession that concentrates on gathering valuable Herbs used primarily by Alchemy and Inscription. Using Finesse and Deftness to pluck the best herbs from a plant, Herbalists form a key link in the Profession supply chain, and this Gathering Profession is an excellent way to earn more passive gold income. Even if you're not picking the highest quality herbs, don't worry - you can refine them to make them even better!

The War Within Herbalism Overview

Mining

Rock and stone - literally. Estrazione harvests ore deposits across Azeroth to gather metals, gems, and stone for Blacksmithing, Engineering, and Jewelcrafting. Another passive gold earner similar to Herbalism, Miners can gather as they naturally roam Azeroth completing daily quests and leveling alike, all while stockpiling valuable reagents for refinement or wholesale. Another key link in the Profession pipeline, you can't go wrong with Mining.

The War Within Mining Overview

Skinning

The only Gathering Profession that inherently requires some level of combat, Scuoiatura is best suited for those that don't like to leave anything behind while they quest. By gathering reagents from the slain bodies of their foes, Skinners provide valuable leather, hides, and scales for Leatherworkers to ply their craft with. You don't have to search out these beasts, though - with lures and bait, you can make your foes come to you for easy pickings.

The War Within Skinning Overview

Crafting and Gathering Profession MechanicsCrafting and Gathering Profession SpecializationsProfession Knowledge PointsKnowledge Points can only be refunded once!Darla FluxyProfession Crafting Work OrdersIntuito dell'ArtigianoProfession Item RecraftingEarning Experience with Gathering and Crafting Professions30 First Craft BonusesCrafting-Specific Secondary Stats

Ingenuity: You have a x% chance to have an ingenious breakthrough when you Concentrate on a craft, refunding 50% of Concentration spent.

Ingenuity is a method to refill your Concentration quickly, allowing for a proc on crafts to refund a portion spent.

Resourcefulness

A pretty straightforward stat, Resourcefulness allows for a chance of using fewer materials when crafting.

Multicraft

Multicraft has been a powerful proc in some shape or form for many expansions, such as the Maestria nelle Pozioni specialization from Burning Crusade or Pozione della Prosperità di Silas from Battle for Azeroth. Granting a chance to craft extra items is a great way to increase profits!

Crafting Speed

This stat allows for faster crafting, great for mass-producing items for the Auction House or just to save some time.

Gathering-Specific Secondary Stats

Finesse: You have a x% chance to gather more of the primary reagent found here.

Similar to the Rank system from Legion and Battle for Azeroth, higher levels of Finesse allow you to gather more of the reagent from whatever node you are gathering. For instance, while a player may only gather 1-2 herbs from a node originally, with higher Finesse you might gather 4-5 herbs instead. 10 points of Finesse gives +1%.

Deftness:

A fairly self-explanatory stat, this is similar to the old Racial bonuses to gathering speed. The more, the better- especially for long farming sessions! 3 points of Deftness gives +1%.

Perception:

This increases your chance of finding rare side gathers when mining, herbing, or skinning. This includes not only rare reagents but also valuable Knowledge-enhancing items. 10 points of Perception gives +1%.

Profession Reagents in The War WithinHow to Obtain and Use Artisan's AcuityProva dell'ArtigianoIntuito dell'ArtigianoIntuito dell'ArtigianoRoldiraOrdinare per l'artigianatoIntuito dell'ArtigianoIntuito dell'ArtigianoLyrendalCrafting Embellishments in The War WithinUnique-Equipped: Embellished (2)

Item

Slot

Baluardo di Beledar

Shield

Passi Santificati

Plate Boots

Stiletto Aspirante

One-Hand Dagger

Item

Slot

Modulo Caotico Nascosto

Optional Reagent

Segnalatore di Redistribuzione Energetica

Optional Reagent

Borsello di Granate Tascabili

Optional Reagent

Item

Slot

Sigillo di Lunacupa: Vivacità

Optional Reagent

Sigillo di Lunacupa: Radiosità

Optional Reagent

Sigillo di Lunacupa: Simbiosi

Optional Reagent

Sigillo di Lunacupa: Ascensione

Optional Reagent

Item

Slot

Luce Stellare Catturata

Optional Reagent

Lenti del Focus Elementali

Optional Reagent

Pietra del Nulla Prismatica

Optional Reagent

Vera del Vincolo

Finger

Medaglione con Gemma Infranta

Neck

Item

Slot

Impugnatura dell'Arma Benedetta

Optional Reagent

Legatura d'Armatura Informe

Optional Reagent

Paramani del Portatore della Torcia Benedetto

Mail Hands

Stivaloni della Fiamma Unificatrice

Leather Boots

Fibbia dell'Impeto Adrenalinico

Leather Belt

Avambracci dell'Oscurità Crescente

Mail Wrist

Fibbia dell'Ape Operosa

Mail Belt

Stivali Volanti Rinforzati

Mail Boots

Usbergo del Polline Infuocato

Mail Chest

Artigli del Tuonassalto Roboante

Leather Hands

Bracciali Leggeri di Piume di Corvo

Leather Wrist

Veste Logora del Fronte Tempestoso

Leather Chest

Item

Slot

Imbottitura di Filodalba

Optional Reagent

Imbottitura di Fildivespro

Optional Reagent

Paramani dell'Alba Intrecciata

Cloth Hands

Stivaletti dell'Alba Intrecciata

Cloth Boots

Guanti del Vespro Intrecciato

Cloth Hands

Pianelle del Vespro Intrecciato

Cloth Boots

Enchanted Crests and Sparks in The War Within

Reagent

Item Level Range

Season

Emblema dell'Aralda Logoro Incantato

577 - 590

The War Within Season 1

Emblema dell'Aralda Runico Incantato

606 - 619

The War Within Season 1

Emblema dell'Aralda Dorato Incantato

623 - 636

The War Within Season 1

Scintilla dei Presagi

584 - 597

The War Within Season 1

Emblema di Cavafonda Logoro Incantato

616 - 629

The War Within Season 2

Emblema di Cavafonda Runico Incantato

645 - 658

The War Within Season 2

Emblema di Cavafonda Dorato Incantato

662 - 675

The War Within Season 2

Scintilla della Fortuna

632 - 645

The War Within Season 2

Emblema Etereo Logoro Incantato

662 - 675

The War Within Season 3

Emblema Etereo Runico Incantato

691 - 704

The War Within Season 3

Emblema Etereo Dorato Incantato

707 - 720

The War Within Season 3

Scintilla di Luce Stellare

678 - 691

The War Within Season 3

Profession Crafting Tables in The War WithinAdjusting Profession Equipment Transmog in The War WithinMahra Piegalberi

Commenti

Commento di orca2017

Ok why are they focusing on blacksmithing and engineering..can you please show all the other professions,leather working ,enchanting,etc ..I'm not going to be a blacksmith nor an engineer..

Commento di PapaBeard888

Are there level requirements for the entry level green crafted gear yet? I liked crafting gear for unleveled alts that sit at the previous level cap. Crafters Marks are being replaced by quality levels but there's nothing that works like a Novice Crafters Mark making something a lower ilvl but also letting you equip the item at an earlier level.

Commento di SwapZE

is there any news on whether crafting orders will be available to alts? Like say I have one character that's a blacksmith, will it be able to fulfill crafting orders for one of my alts. If so, I think this will be a very valuable asset to alts and having specific characters for specific reasons

Commento di Eluaria

Admittedly, I want to mainly know if Inscription will actually have any value this time around? Ever since Glyphs were removed, the profession was lackluster at best, even with Missives and the other things which popped up in Shadowlands making it a very powerful profession. It would be nice to actually see its value finally return in Dragonflight.

Commento di Miga85

In the end, the Crafting Skill accumulated is compared to the Recipe Difficulty - If your Crafting Skill is higher than the Recipe Difficulty of the item you're trying to craft, the item is crafted at maximum Quality.

I'm not sure if it's a bug, but I'm finding that this statement isn't true, especially of Inscription. My Skill exceeds the Recipe Difficulty (and even has ~32% Inspiration), all of my Inscription Accessories and Tools are maxed out, and I'm still crafting items at a lower Quality than expected.

Commento di Razesop

Profession gear...well, that's one way to rip off FFXIV.

Commento di noDefect

So I noticed today, when trying to fish - I right-clicked my Underlight Angler and it disappeared out of my bags... apparently this action is now equipping these tools to the new equipment tab for professions. Cool. The issue is that now my Underlight Angler is no longer an item I can physically equip. If I remove it from the fishing equipment tab, it just turns into a "tool" in my bags. Also, I can no longer attach certain lures to it. When I find a lure I can use with it, it no longer displays a buff like it used to. So in order to see how long I have left on my lure, I have to open the fishing equipment tab and hover over the fishing pole...

Commento di Hermmes

Hey guys !
I am quite lost to be fair and some help from you would mean a lot for me !
I decided to prepare with professions for Dragonflight, got myself to 300 classics skill of leatherworking. Do i need anything else to be able to start Dragonflight leatherworking as it drops?
Same goes for other professions, as i am considering preparing tailoring on my alt as well.

Thank you !

Simeon

Commento di Axxislex

I posted this under herbalism guide and how i see this page. OMG!

Did they make proffesions a little bit too complicated or is just my lazyness to read this guide in detail? And if you are an altoholic and end up doing all proffesions in the game all this reading to do before you even start its like you are in college again and you have a ton of homework.
I mean i wanted some changes, like personal beneffits. Once upon a time it meant something when you had a proffesion: a buff or an extra enchant etc. Its too much now!

I was so happy that they gave up on borrowed powers and systems ovver systems on top of "hero azeroth needs you,, she bleeds and..."
So they went off and made other systems to deal with. The amount of work for this is worth at leat 2-3 new dungeons and a raid or so.
When Blizzard will understand that players what content not idiotic puzzles the you need a manual to learn to use them.

Commento di Zosoled

The NPC for hiding profession gear is Mahra Piegalberi.

Commento di FaeDyne

is it a spoiler to tell us whether we can start using professions BEFORE we arrive, or if we have to wait until we reach a new profession trainer ON the isle?

Commento di EleriaSam

This seems like alot of work to have it all end in the next xpac. I hope they figure out a way to make it last.

Commento di KenWD0ELQ

I don't see anything here about Archaeology. Will that continue to be a secondary profession?

Commento di alpanhell

I have looked everywhere for this information with no luck and thought I'd try here.

You have 3 categories of quests listed in Dragonflight, "Campaign", "Quests" and "Profession".

These "Profession" quests seem to change all the time and if I do them there seems to be absolutely zero response. The quest doesn't go away, I get nothing from it, etc.

What are these quests for? I must be missing something pretty basic.

Edit: I finally got an answer for this. It's a way to track things you're making. For some reason it was turning on for me, it seems to have been fixed.

Commento di Shazypants

Does anyone know if professional secondary stats effect old world (previous expansions) gathering? In particular I'm curious about if perception helps out with fishing in old expansions for things like mounts, lunkers, or lunarfall carp.

Commento di DohlajaSova

Crafters will have a new daily limit of only 4 Public Work Orders that do not continue to stack. This is a huge decrease from the current max of 20.

Seems to be wrong. I completed 4 orders, next day when it says 2 orders available I completed one more—and it is 0 again. Repeated on 2 characters.

Commento di Zarilla

Dragonflight 9.0.5 - Go Back In Time!

I am not sure if this happens in ALL the professions but I am going to tell you what happened in Engineering. I had leveled my night elf warrior from 1-60 over a period of three years - most of it during the end days of Shadowlands. I actually started her back in BfA but never paid much attention to her. Especially when it came to her professions - Mining & Engineering. I had mostly used the mining as a way to get extra experience points in the beginning and later kept it up because I could supply ore to main toon for jewel crafting. Even that was half-hearted because it was easier to just buy ore from the auction house. I had learned maybe 1-30 points in all the expansions with the exception of Cataclysm and Outlands. Those three I had not even bothered with engineering.

I get to Dragonsflight and saw "upgraded" versions of several items that we did not have in Shadowlands but I missed - Neural Silencer MK3 - The original worked well even through a good portion of Shadowlands. I bought two from the auction and they were back to working the way they used to, sometimes even in dungeons. (BONUS!).

I decided I had to get my engineering up. I set a whole day aside. To make things easier I moved gold from all my characters to my engineer so I could just buy all the supplies for it. Thank you, WoW-Professions for the handy guide on leveling up!

My skill number was improving and then with one quest (engineers will know which one!) I found I had to go back to Draenor to get one specific part, one I had only done ONCE. Something I forgot was also on a cooldown schedule. I didn't even have the tool required to do that one particular part. I go looking EVERYWHERE for the tool (bank, toons) because I need to continue. Somewhere, somehow I had gotten rid of the tool. To get the tool, I had to go all the way back to Vanilla. The first time, I only made it as far as "15" when I first started way back when I just decided on the profession but had only gone back to get the exact same tool. I remembered I had noticed the tool on the auction and it was easier to go that way. I paid two gold in 2020. Checking the auction really fast, it was now 80 gold and I could not find one of the Engineering or even the trade goods vendors selling the tool. Went all the way to Gadgetzan. It's like the game knew I needed it and was making me work for it.

I decided I'd put it off for too long. I bought the stuff I needed to level my Vanilla engineer. I know for a fact, I had allocated all my points in Dragonflight. I started doing the back and forth between trainer and anvil. What I didn't expect was by the time I got to 190 in Vanilla engineering, the ever-annoying "You have unspent ....." in the bottom right of my screen. (Using the same cadence as "You've got Mail" - Now I have to go watch the movie!) I have 5 unallocated points. Okay, I'll take it. By the time I'm at 250, I've got 7 points.

Summary: If you haven't completed/done previous expansions, especially if it's time to do some spring cleaning of your bank, bank toons, etc... you may want to try it. You will get the achievement but then you may get a small number of points to use in Dragonflight. That specialization may not be as far away as you thought. It's worth a shot. I'm almost to 300, pulling all 17 schematics I've collected in three years out of my bank finally! I currently have 9 pts to allocate. Not a lot but it will help me get a little further down the line with what I want.

Happy questing, Everyone!

Commento di JamJam69

Have blizzard managed to screw up ONCE AGAIN with this whole "Crafting order bull!@#$s"
u get to sin half a day looking in trade for a crafter u ask for a craft in a specific item in a specific rank (5) someone says they can do it at a reasonable price (5k)

then after u send it they scam you and only give u a rank (3) item then they want MORE mats and money for recrafts

wasn't this new system to get rid of scamming ?

would be sooo much better if we could get to SEE before hand that the crafter actually CAN make it before you send it "in hopes" that you get it

Commento di Hakkal

This comment has all the weekly Knowledge Points (KPs) you can farm for every Profession: https://www.wowhead.com/guide/professions/knowledge-points#comments:id=5554549

Commento di ugluk440

Am I the only one who thinks this is way over complicated? Crafted a leg armor kit, three diamonds, next five kits i made were two diamonds and no skill improvement? it sucks

Commento di onefishbluefish

Can you downrank the materials from rank 3 to rank 2?

Commento di FLambda

players will primarily gather this valuable resource via First Craft bonuses

This is no longer the case, Artisan's Acuity from first craft/gather bonuses has been moved to the reward of Ordinare per l'artigianato

Commento di orca2017

well I did the dual gathering thingy, but my main got to 100 minning,, now I concetrating on jewl crafting getting the neck and the rings..

the knowladge are a pain in the back.... there gated..and a time sink.. so yes it will prob take me until end of season 1 to get what I want.. but hopefull since this is a saga our gear will progress thru to midnight and the last titan and our gear will come with us this time.. and now start over.

Commento di superbondez

Just wondering why cloth, leather, and mail get full sets of embellished gear options, and plate gets only boots...

Commento di Rossit

To get 10 points or possibly 13 points (10 for about 565 Kej) then -

Umbral Bazaar
Leather and Skinning /way #2213 43.03, 20.30
Enchanting in small building /way #2213 46.75, 33.67
Cooking /way #2213 48.06, 24.73
Mining & Blacksmith / way #2213 46.64, 22.44
Pet battle master /way #2213 44.77, 17.97
Alchemy /way #2213 45.68, 13.34
Silks Tailoring /way #2213 51.33, 12.35
Tailoring /way 49.82, 17.29
Inscription /way #2213 51.52, 13.97 also check /way #2213 54.21, 16.20
Herbalism /way #2213 47.06, 16.31
Jewelcrafting /way #2213 47.75, 18.99
Engineering /way #2213 57.64, 31.78

Commento di Vraeya

The new system is trash. Materials shouldn't have ranks. Knowledge points should be increased.

Professions System Overview: Crafting Orders, Crafting Specializations, Reagents

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