Professions,
formerly known as
Trade Skills are
non-combat jobs that
your character can
take on which lets
them craft weapons
and items, or
improve them. Your
character may have
up to 2 professions,
and any number of
secondary skills
(lesser
professions).
Complete and updates
profession guides
can be found at
Skryer.
Professions have
different level
requirements which
require you to be
higher in level to
advance, so that you
can't just craft all
day along to become
good. There are 3
types of
professions:
Gathering
Professions - These
are the raw material
skills that are
needed in order to
craft items, some
may find these
useful just to
trading, and some
may use these to
gather resources for
their own crafting.
Herbalism
Mining
Skinning
Production
Professions - These
jobs enable you to
create and enhance
items which are
cheaper and more
powerful than the
ones sold at
vendors. A lot of
good items can be
bought and sold from
crafters.
Alchemy
Blacksmithing
Enchanting
Engineering
Leatherworking
Tailoring
Secondary Skills -
Anyone can learn all
of these as these
only allow minor
enhancements which
benefit players in
small ways.
With the release of
World of Warcraft:
The Burning Crusade,
many core aspects of
the game will be
improved, expanding
the choices
available to players
and streamlining
some gameplay
elements. For
example, new raid
encounters are being
designed for a
maximum of 25
players, and the PvP
system will change
how honor works in
the game. Following
this general
strategy of making
gameplay even more
rewarding and
expanding the
playing experience
with new,
interesting content,
the professions of
World of Warcraft
are also set to
receive major
updates to ensure
that they remain a
fun and worthwhile
part of your
adventures in
Azeroth and beyond.
When the time came
to begin the
professions update
for the expansion,
the dev team took a
very close look at
all the work that
had gone into the
profession system so
far. There were some
things the team felt
could be improved in
World of Warcraft's
professions to make
them more
interesting, more
valid, and most
importantly, even
more fun. The
expansion will allow
the dev team to
upgrade the
profession system,
and to provide
players with cool
new gadgets,
equipment, and
consumables that
will help them brave
the many challenges
of Outland.
On the following
pages, you'll find a
brief summary of
what changes you can
expect to see in
World of Warcraft:
The Burning Crusade
for each profession.
Keep in mind that
there is always a
chance that these
plans may change,
but this is what's
on the drawing board
at the moment. . .
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