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How do I get a Profession?
You have to find an NPC that can teach you their Profession. Ask other people where you can find certain trainers, or discover them on your own.
Using Professions
After you have trained or purchased a Profession, hit "P" to bring up your abilities book. Then, look for a new icon that has been placed in there for that skill. You can drag this icon over to your action bar to make it easier to find and use. If you can't fit it on the first row of your action bar, place it on a different row by left-clicking on the scroll arrows to the right of your action bar (it's ok if the icon is still selected on your cursor).
Profession Limit
You can learn all of the secondary skills, but can only choose two professions.
Character Level Limits
In order to prevent low level characters from mastering high level skills, a certain character level limit is required for each level of profession. You will need a minimum character level to learn a new level of professions. Apprentice requires level 5, Journeyman level 10, Expert level 20 and Artisan requires level 35.
Secondary Skill Training
Expert and above skill tiers for secondary skills require you to find the books to teach you them. Artisan level requires a quest to be completed.
Other Information
- Some Professions allow you to use the trade screen to interact with other people's items. For example, enchanters can enchant items directly in the trade screen. Lockpicking and some other Professions can also be used via the trade screen.
- If you attempt to learn a recipe you already know, you will now see a message that says you already know it.
- Some recipes are intended to increase your skills in that Profession rather than to create an item to sell to another player.
- Some Epic player crafted items can be created that require raiding.
- Generally, recipes with white names are store-bought and ones with green or blue (or purple) names are drops from monsters. So if you see some white recipes for sale, a person just bought the item from a vendor and is trying to re-sell it for a profit.
Creating Multiple Items In the bottom left corner of the trade interface, there is an area where you can select how many of a specific item you want to create. This is very helpful when you're creating the same item repeatedly. There is also a "Create All" button that will create as many copies of the item as you can. Tips
- Buy stacks of Profession components from other players. That is faster than collecting them on your own! Have your friends save up components too.
- Devote a certain bag to carrying your Profession items. You can even pick a different-colored bag if you have one, to make it easier to find.
- Know which classes will need the products that you can create with your Professions: Mail : Warriors, Paladins (Hunters and Shaman can start wearing mail at level 40)
Leather : Rogues, Hunters, Druids, Shamans
Cloth : Mages, Priests, Warlocks
W ant to forge a keen-edged sword that just screams "deadly"? What about brew an arcane potion? Or tailor a stylish outfit? All of these abilities fall under the heading of Professions in World of Warcraft, and specializing in certain disciplines by selecting and perfecting them could allow your character to seize an important role in the dynamic economy of the world. To find out what some of the skills in World of Warcraft currently are, and how these abilities are different from those in other MMORPGs, read on.
How do Professions work?
There are two types of skills in World of Warcraft: gathering skills, which allow you to collect the raw materials needed to make items, and Professions, which actually transform those materials into finished goods. Professions are generally paired with gathering skills in a relationship that makes each integral to the other. To make items with the blacksmithing ability, for example, players will need ingredients that are acquired by applying the mining skill. Players will not have to be equipped with both paired abilities to succeed, however. An alchemist working to create a potion can always purchase the necessary herbs from an herbalist.
How do players acquire new recipes?
Profession recipes are the blueprints for crafting an item, and they detail the raw components required to manufacture that item. Many recipes are available from the same in-game trainers who teach a specific Profession. Other recipes are found through various vendors around the world or on the corpses of slain monsters.
How are Professions in World of Warcraft different from those in other MMORPGs?
A great deal of effort has been made to make every item that is crafted useful so that players are not just creating items to increase their skills. Also, many of the raw materials needed will be found in dangerous locations throughout the world. Players are encouraged to adventure in order to gain ingredients, rather than just farm a distant, nondescript patch of land endlessly.
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