World of Warcraft: Forever is different from modern WoW, but also from Classic. With our tips, you'll embark on the new Azeroth adventure in the best possible way. This page is about professions and gold.
In classic WoW, professions play a tremendously important role, as they provide you with essential consumables and equipment, offer useful benefits, and serve as a reliable source of gold.
- You can only learn two primary professions. Choose two complementary professions for your first character, such as Herbalism and Alchemy, Skinning and Leatherworking, Mining and Blacksmithing, or Tailoring and Enchanting.
- Alternatively, learn two gathering professions like Skinning and Herbalism, to gather resources while leveling and turn them into gold at the auction house.
- What is not a good idea: Two crafting professions without a gathering skill in reserve. If you have to buy all resources, you’ll go broke faster than you can spell bankruptcy.
- Professions have different skill levels and if you want to become a master of your craft, you’ll also need a master as a teacher.
- Level professions alongside your leveling phase. This way, you farm all the resources you need for your guild’s progress. Otherwise, you’ll have to return to all the low-level zones later.
- Fishing, Cooking, and First Aid are secondary professions that you can learn and master alongside your primary ones. It’s worthwhile, as Cooking provides you with useful buff food and First Aid with bandages and healing potions.
- If you want to play efficiently for a long time, create bank and trade twinks early on and park them in a capital city. You can store your profession resources on them (which saves your bank) or check the auction house without your main character needing to travel there constantly.
- Whetstones gain in value, as they can now be used alongside poisons and weapon effects from, for example, totems.
- If you want to collect sufficient gold for your first mount while leveling, don’t leave any loot behind and avoid unnecessary purchases from NPC vendors or at the auction house. Postpone expensive investments until level 60 and start farming gold only then, as high-level dungeons, a mount, and sufficiently strong gear will be available to you.
WoW Forever and the differences to Classic that can cause frustration
In detail, so much changes with Forever in classic Azeroth that Vanilla and Classic veterans should not take anything for granted or known.
- Blizzard has adjusted and significantly enhanced many quest rewards. So don’t avoid a quest just because you have in mind that the reward was underwhelming back then. There is a good chance that Forever will surprise you positively here!
- Forever will focus even more on situationally useful items and equipment through its horizontal progression than it did in Vanilla and Classic. Additionally, many new recipes and items have landed in Azeroth. Our recommendation: Don’t sell any item unless you are sure what it is intended for or how much it could bring at the auction house.
- Forget the old BiS lists with the theoretically best pieces of gear for your class. Blizzard has not only brought new items and rewards to Azeroth, but also adjusted stats, talents, and racial skills. Hit rating and critical strike now automatically apply to spells and melee attacks. Many old weapon skill sources are gone.
- The old class meta is history. Paladins can reliably tank or deal damage, Survival Hunters are suddenly back at the front, and Warriors wanting to tank should also take a look at the later Protection talents.
What is WoW Forever? WoW Forever is intended to be a counterpart to both modern WoW and WoW Classic, fulfilling the community’s desire for a Classic Plus variant. You can expect the classic WoW with new content and sensible adjustments that are meant to build on the strengths of Classic. The maximum level will remain at 60. More info in the overview: Release, Roadmap, Beta – Everything important about WoW Forever
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