WoW Forever Profession Leveling Calculator
The cheapest 1–300 route for every WoW Forever profession, priced at live auction house medians: Cooking 3g 75s, First Aid from 24g 72s, Alchemy from 41g 19s, Engineering from 109g, Enchanting from 136g, Leatherworking 209g, Blacksmithing from 267g, Tailoring from 642g with reagents and training on the US Alliance auction house (prices as of ). Pick a profession, type your skill and the gold in your bags, and the calculator shows what is left to craft, what to buy and how much gold you are short.
Crafting professions
Leatherworking1–300: 209g · 398 crafts28 trainers · 270 new recipes
Tailoring1–300: ≥ 642g · 425 crafts25 trainers · 180 new recipes
Blacksmithing1–300: ≥ 267g · 544 crafts26 trainers · 197 new recipes
Alchemy1–300: ≥ 41g 19s · 425 crafts31 trainers · 69 new recipes
Enchanting1–300: ≥ 136g · 466 crafts23 trainers · 69 new recipes
Engineering1–300: ≥ 109g · 528 crafts20 trainers · 76 new recipes
Cooking1–300: 3g 75s · 465 crafts22 trainers · 42 new recipes
First Aid1–300: ≥ 24g 72s · 457 crafts16 trainers · 17 new recipes
Gathering professions
MiningGathering · zones by skill22 trainers · 5 new recipes
HerbalismGathering · zones by skill31 trainers
SkinningGathering · zones by skill23 trainers
FishingGathering · zones by skill25 trainers
Make gold with professions
Cooldowns and the Dedicated Study perk pay every day on every character you level. Prices are the live auction house medians for the market you pick.
Daily profession cooldowns
| Cooldown | Reagents | Sells for | Profit / cast | Per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Essence of Waterfrom Essence of Undeath · Alchemy · every 23 h | Reagents2 gold | Sells for27 gold 61 silver4 listed | Profit / cast+25 gold 61 silver | Per week+188 gold |
| Essence of Waterfrom Essence of Earth · Alchemy · every 23 h | Reagents9 gold 7 silver | Sells for27 gold 61 silver4 listed | Profit / cast+18 gold 54 silver | Per week+136 gold |
 Essence of Earthfrom Living Essence · Alchemy · every 23 h | Reagents7 gold 99 silver | Sells for8 gold 61 silver1 listed | Profit / cast+61 silver 67 copper | Per week+4 gold 50 silver |
| Essence of Earthfrom Essence of Fire · Alchemy · every 23 h | Reagents9 gold 96 silver | Sells for8 gold 61 silver1 listed | Profit / castminus 1 gold 35 silver | Per weekminus 9 gold 88 silver |
 Living Essencefrom Essence of Earth · Alchemy · every 23 h | Reagents9 gold 7 silver | Sells for7 gold 59 silver | Profit / castminus 1 gold 47 silver | Per weekminus 10 gold 73 silver |
 Essence of Undeathfrom Essence of Water · Alchemy · every 23 h | Reagents29 gold 7 silver | Sells for1 gold 90 silver3 listed | Profit / castminus 27 gold 17 silver | Per weekminus 199 gold |
 Essence of Firefrom Essence of Air · Alchemy · every 23 h | ReagentsNot listed yet | Sells for9 gold 47 silver | Profit / cast— | Per week— |
 Arcanite Barfrom Thorium Bar + Arcane Crystal · Alchemy · every 47 h | Reagents28 gold 55 silver | Sells forNot listed yet | Profit / cast— | Per week— |
 Legionite Barfrom Heavy Thorium Bar + Fel Crystal · Alchemy · every 47 h | ReagentsNot listed yet | Sells forNot listed yet | Profit / cast— | Per week— |
 Essence of Airfrom Essence of Water · Alchemy · every 23 h | Reagents29 gold 7 silver | Sells forNot listed yet | Profit / cast— | Per week— |
 Moonclothfrom 2× Felcloth · Tailoring · every 4 days | Reagents9 gold 88 silver | Sells forNot listed yet | Profit / cast— | Per week— |
Dedicated Study: an alt army that pays in essences
- Days to 5 × 300
- 1495
- Then per day
- 45 gold 70 silver
- 17 gold 23 silver to 111 gold
One point a day goes to your lowest skill, so the days are the points missing to 300 across all five. After that each cast gives 2–4 random Elemental Essences; the estimate takes 3 per day at the average net price of Essence of Earth, Fire, Water and Air (3 of 4 listed now), since Blizzard does not list the pool. Some essences have fewer than 10 listed, so expect the price to move.
Best professions by class
Make your own armor: each class below wears the armor type its crafting profession produces, and WoW Forever added bind-on-pickup patterns you cannot buy on the auction house. Plate wearers use mail until 40, mail wearers leather. Engineering and Alchemy suit every class.
| Class | Armor at 60 | Professions | Bind-on-pickup crafts | Gear |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warrior | plate | Blacksmithing + Mining |    92 pieces, level 10–58 | Warrior leveling gear |
| Paladin | plate | Blacksmithing + Mining | 92 pieces, level 10–58 | Paladin leveling gear |
| Hunter | Leatherworking + Skinning |    126 pieces, level 10–50 | Hunter leveling gear | |
| Shaman | Leatherworking + Skinning | 126 pieces, level 10–50 | Shaman leveling gear | |
| Rogue | leather | Leatherworking + Skinning |  102 pieces, level 10–50 | Rogue leveling gear |
| Druid | leather | Leatherworking + Skinning | 102 pieces, level 10–50 | Druid leveling gear |
| Priest | cloth | Tailoring + Enchanting |    107 pieces, level 10–57 | Priest leveling gear |
| Mage | cloth | Tailoring + Enchanting | 107 pieces, level 10–57 | Mage leveling gear |
| Warlock | cloth | Tailoring + Enchanting | 107 pieces, level 10–57 | Warlock leveling gear |
How the route is priced
For every skill point the calculator picks the recipe with the lowest expected cost per skill-up: reagent cost divided by the chance to gain a point (certain while the recipe is orange, falling to zero as it turns grey), plus the cost of learning it once. By default that means trainer recipes and the patterns your faction can buy from a vendor, earn from a quest or buy on the auction house; switch it to trainer recipes only in the calculator. Training fees, pattern prices and profession ranks are part of the total. Reagents are priced at the median of every listing on the auction house you pick in the latest hourly scan shown above, or at the vendor price when a vendor sells it cheaper. A reagent or fee nobody has listed yet is shown as such and left out of the total, so early in WoW Forever some high-end totals are a lower bound.
Plan your gear with the WoW Forever leveling gear tool and the dungeon loot tables, and check the WoW Forever gold price or all WoW Forever prices. Today's material medians are on WoW Forever auction house prices.
Questions players ask
- Which WoW Forever profession is cheapest to level?
- On the US Alliance auction house (November 9, 2026) the cheapest crafting professions to take from 1 to 300 are Cooking 3g 75s, First Aid from 24g 72s, Alchemy from 41g 19s, reagents and training included. Gathering professions (Mining, Herbalism, Skinning, Fishing) cost nothing but trainer fees.
- Which WoW Forever profession is most expensive to level?
- Blacksmithing from 267g and Tailoring from 642g cost the most, reagents and training included; each profession page shows where the gold goes, bracket by bracket.
- What is the best profession for my class in WoW Forever?
- Pick the crafting profession that makes your armor: Blacksmithing (with Mining) for plate wearers, Leatherworking (with Skinning) for leather and mail, Tailoring (with Enchanting) for cloth. Engineering suits any class, and Alchemy with Herbalism makes potions for everyone. The class table above links each pairing.
- What changed for professions in WoW Forever?
- WoW Forever keeps the 1 to 300 skill range but adds new recipes for every crafting profession, a camp with profession objects (Camp Tent, Tanning Rack, Sewing Machine, Faction Banner and 34 more), Merchant's Favor patterns bought from profession quartermasters, and a Certification at 300 that unlocks a title. Classic profession guides miss all of these.
- Where do the prices come from?
- From Blizzard's own WoW Forever auction house data: the median price of each reagent on the US and EU Alliance and Horde auction houses, scanned November 9, 2026. Recipe skill levels, trainers and camp data come from wow.gg (CC BY 4.0), checked against Blizzard's game data.
- Which profession cooldowns make gold in WoW Forever?
- Alchemy has 8 essence transmutes on a 23 hours cooldown, Transmute: Arcanite and the new Transmute: Legionite run every 47 hours, and Tailoring makes Mooncloth every 4 days. Cured Rugged Hide has no cooldown in WoW Forever. On the US Alliance auction house (November 9, 2026) the best is Essence of Water at 188g a week per character. The table above prices each one live for your auction house and number of characters.
- What does the Dedicated Study Legacy perk do?
- Dedicated Study is a Legacy perk with a 23 hour cooldown that raises your lowest primary or secondary profession by 1. Once both primary professions and Cooking, First Aid and Fishing are at 300, it gives 2 to 4 random Elemental Essences instead, so every maxed character becomes a small daily essence income.
- Can buying WoW Forever gold or profession leveling get my account banned?
- Blizzard's Terms of Use forbid buying gold or paying someone to play your account, and Blizzard can act against accounts that do, and no seller can rule that out. Gold is handed over by face-to-face trade or mail with no account access. Read the details at timesaver.gg/account-safety#wow-forever.
- Where can I buy WoW Forever gold?
- Timesaver.gg sells WoW Forever gold for US and EU at timesaver.gg/products/wow-forever-gold. Pick any amount up to 900 gold, then choose face-to-face trade or mail delivery.
- How is WoW Forever gold delivered?
- A Timesaver.gg trader meets your character in game for a face-to-face trade, or sends the gold by in-game mail. You choose the method at checkout, and most orders are handled within a day.
- How much does WoW Forever gold cost?
- Prices are per 100 gold and change with the market; the current price for your region is shown on the WoW Forever gold page before you pay.