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WOW FOREVER · PROFESSION LEVELING · BETA DATA 2026-09-23

Every profession, 1-300. Built from Forever's own data.

Forever changed more about levelling professions than anyone expected. Bolts, stones and leather conversions stopped giving skill, most Tailoring, Leatherworking and Blacksmithing recipes go grey 25 points sooner, healing potions moved from Alchemy to First Aid, and Enchanting got cheaper. A Classic guide will waste your gold. These routes are worked out from the beta's skill-up colours and reagents, cheapest first, with every material you need listed before the first step.

CRAFTING

Routes and shopping lists.

GATHERING

Where to go.

SECONDARY

Everyone should have these.

CHEAPEST TO MOST EXPENSIVE

What each crafting route costs, relatively.

Ranked by the material bill of each optimised route, priced at rough early-Classic auction values, with the materials that make up most of it. Launch prices will be higher and messier; the order is the useful part. Gathering it yourself changes the picture: a skinner levelling Leatherworking pays for salt and thread.

  1. 1AlchemyMost of the bill:Crystal VialGromsbloodDreamfoil
  2. 2EngineeringMost of the bill:Mithril BarThorium BarSolid Stone
  3. 3EnchantingMost of the bill:Dream DustLarge Radiant ShardVision Dust
  4. 4BlacksmithingMost of the bill:Thorium BarMithril BarTruesilver Bar
  5. 5LeatherworkingMost of the bill:Rune ThreadThick LeatherRugged Leather
  6. 6TailoringMost of the bill:RuneclothRune ThreadHeavy Silken Thread
WHICH TWO

The efficient pairs.

HerbalismAlchemy

Herbalism + Alchemy

The cheapest pair to max. Every herb Alchemy needs is on the Herbalism route at the skill you need it, and nothing is bought but vials.

MiningEngineering

Mining + Engineering

Engineering is mostly stone and bars. Mine it yourself and the route costs you a few vendor parts.

SkinningLeatherworking

Skinning + Leatherworking

Leatherworking needs thousands of leathers. Skinning everything you kill while levelling covers most of it.

TailoringEnchanting

Tailoring + Enchanting

No gathering, but Tailoring greens disenchant into the dust Enchanting eats. Tailoring is the most expensive route in Forever, so plan for it.

MiningBlacksmithing

Mining + Blacksmithing

Only if you enjoy mining. Blacksmithing wants over a thousand Thorium Bars now that stones stop giving skill.

Cooking and Fishing go together on every character: the Cooking route is almost all fish. First Aid costs nothing but the cloth you loot. For what each profession gives you once trained, see the profession bonuses page.

How these were built

  • Every skill-up colour, reagent and recipe on these pages comes from Wowhead’s Forever database, which is mined from the beta client. Nothing is copied from a Classic guide.
  • A skill point is certain while a recipe is orange. From yellow to grey the chance falls in a straight line: (grey − skill) ÷ (grey − yellow). The craft counts are the expected number of crafts under that rule, rounded up, so real runs land a few either side.
  • The route is the cheapest expected path through all 300 points, costed with rough early-Classic auction and vendor prices, with a small cost for every recipe change so you are not buying a new pattern every three points. Recipes a trainer teaches win ties. Vendor patterns and quest rewards are allowed. Recipes that are new in Forever are only picked when they are clearly cheaper, and they are flagged, because Blizzard has not said how you learn them.
  • The shopping list expands anything you craft along the way (bolts, cured hides, grinding stones, blasting powder) into the raw goods, and counts crafted leftovers against later steps. Those intermediate crafts can give a few free points of their own, so you usually finish slightly early.
  • Beta is capped at level 20 and content above that is not playable yet. Colours for recipes above skill 225 are the most likely to move before launch on November 4.

Sources

Recipes, colours, reagents and node skills from Wowhead's Forever database, compared against its Classic database. Profession changes from Blizzard's Deep Dive recap and Wowhead's profession changes post.