Which professions are particularly well suited to your class from WoW: Forever? MeinMMO answers this question for you here in the guide. We also take into account whether you focus more on PvP or PvE.
Through our table of contents, you can go directly to the overview and our recommendations:
What are professions in WoW Forever and what are they needed for?
Professions in World of Warcraft: Forever are the gatherers and manufacturers. Those who level up the jobs Mining, Herbalism, or Skinning gather resources like ores, plants, or leather. These can be further processed into in-game items by Blacksmiths, Alchemists, or Jewelers. You can then either use or sell these items yourself.
You can learn a maximum of two professions per character. It doesn’t matter whether you level two gathering professions or two crafting professions, or one of each. However, it makes sense to choose complementary gathering and crafting professions.
The secondary professions are not included, and you can freely level them as you wish.
If you come from Final Fantasy XIV: The professions in WoW are not as refined as the jobs from Eorzea. There is no distinction between combat and crafting classes. You can find an overview of the classes of WoW here.
All gathering professions
With these professions, you gather raw materials that can then be processed by someone with a corresponding crafting profession:
- Mining
- Herbalism
- Skinning
All crafting professions (crafting jobs)
With the crafting professions, the resources gathered by the gathering professions are further processed:
- Blacksmithing
- Tailoring
- Leatherworking
- Alchemy
- Engineering
- Enchanting
All secondary professions
The secondary professions can be learned independently of the gathering and crafting professions:
- Cooking
- Fishing
- First Aid
Update from 29.10.2026: We have structurally adjusted the article.
All professions of WoW: Forever at a glance
The following professions can be learned in WoW: Forever:
| Crafting Professions | Gathering Professions | Secondary Professions |
| Alchemy / Alchemie – Provides you with potions, flasks, elixirs, and transmutations | Mining – Important for mainly blacksmiths and engineers | Fishing – Important for cooking and alchemy |
| Leatherworking – Provides you with leather and heavy armor equipment, armor enhancements, and more | Herbalism – Important mainly for alchemy | First Aid – Provides you with bandages, healing potions, and antidotes for poisons, bleeding, and diseases |
| Engineering – Provides you with mechanical gadgets, ranged weapons, ammunition, scopes, and more | Skinning – Important mainly for leatherworking | Cooking – Provides you with buff food |
| Tailoring – Provides you with cloth equipment, bags, and more | ||
| Enchanting – Provides you with enchantments, wands, off-hand items, relics, oils, and special resources like enchanted leather | ||
| Blacksmithing – Provides you with plate equipment, weapons, sharpening stones, and lockpicks |
The best professions for your class – the overview
If you just want to quickly check which combinations we recommend for professions for PvP and PvE, you will find it here:
| Class | Profession 1 (PvE) | Profession 2 (PvE) | Profession 1 (PvP) | Profession 2 (PvP) |
| Warrior | For maximum DPS / Aggro: Engineering For gear: Blacksmithing | Mining | Engineering | Alchemy or Mining |
| Paladin | For maximum DPS / Aggro: Engineering For gear: Blacksmithing | Mining | Engineering | Alchemy or Mining |
| Hunter | For maximum DPS and gear: Engineering Alternative: Leatherworking | Mining or Skinning (depending on the first profession) | Engineering | Alchemy or Mining |
| Rogue | For maximum DPS: Engineering For gear: Leatherworking | Mining or Skinning (depending on the first profession) | Engineering | Alchemy or Mining |
| Priest | For gear: Tailoring | Enchanting | Engineering | Alchemy or Mining |
| Shaman | For maximum DPS: Engineering For gear: Leatherworking | Mining or Skinning (depending on the first profession) | Engineering | Alchemy or Mining |
| Mage | For gear: Tailoring | Enchanting | Engineering | Alchemy or Mining |
| Warlock | For gear: Tailoring | Enchanting | Engineering | Alchemy or Mining |
| Druid | For maximum DPS or Aggro: Engineering For gear: Leatherworking | Mining or Skinning (depending on the first profession) | Engineering | Alchemy or Mining |
In any case, read the notes on our recommendations in the next section. There you will learn what distinguishes engineering in PvE and PvP, why alchemy does not appear as a recommendation for PvE, and which professions we recommend for making a lot of gold. If you are looking for an overview of the game in general, check out this page: WoW Forever: Release, Roadmap, Name Reservation – Everything Important about the new Classic Plus of World of Warcraft
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