Skill tiers
note: Classic Era 1.12 baseline; Forever has Legacy Challenges at 150/225/300 which matches these breakpoints, but Forever trainer level requirements are unpublished. tiers: rank: Apprentice; skill_range: 1-75; min_char_level: 5; rank: Journeyman; skill_range: 75-150; min_char_level: 10; rank: Expert; skill_range: 150-225; min_char_level: 20; rank: Artisan; skill_range: 225-300; min_char_level: 35 forever_legacy_challenges: Profession skill 150 / 225 / 300 each award 1 Legacy Point (Icy Veins names them Novice/Experienced/Master; fan sites say Journeyman/Expert/Artisan <Profession>) confidence: Classic-baseline (tiers); Reported (Forever Legacy milestones)
Forever changes
• Campsite object: Incense Candle - increases Intellect (Official); learned at skill 20 (Confirmed); other 2 objects unknown • Legacy perk Bountiful Harvest applies (+20% Scarce materials per rank, 5 ranks) (Official concept; Reported numbers) • Starting-zone profession manuals teach Herbalism/Mining/Skinning without a trainer, capped at skill 15 (Reported, Icy Veins, Human start zone) • Tauren racial Cultivation reworked: grow bonus herbs that don't require Herbalism to gather (Confirmed) • Community demo perk transcription (Reported): 'Natural Talent' - resistance to all schools of magic increased (scales with skill); 'Lotus Affinity' - improved chance of rare lotus herbs (e.g. Black Lotus); 'Brutal Pickings' - more herbs per node; Zockify also claims certain creatures can be herbed after death. Conflict: a GitHub sim PR describes the Herbalism passive as a heal-over-time. • New herb-like material 'Marefoil' seen in Engineering recipes (Reported) • [General] Part of 600+ new recipes across professions and level ranges (Official) • [General] 3 campsite objects per profession, first learnable at skill 20 from trainers or camping NPCs (Official for concept/skill 20) • [General] Advanced Blueprint recipes drop from specific dungeon bosses; boss-to-blueprint tables unpublished (Official) • [General] Profession Certification item requiring 300 skill grants a unique title; sold by Azeroth Commerce Authority (Alliance) / Durotar Supply and Logistics (Horde) vendors at Three Corners, Redridge (Reported, Warcraft Tavern from demo) • [General] Legacy Challenges: 1 Legacy Point each at skill 150/225/300 (Reported) • [Sept 28 research] Small recipe/utility additions (roughly 3-5 new items) reported by Zockify, unconfirmed in detail (Unverified). • [Sept 28 research] Grants an early-game 'Wild Harvest' manual choice at level 3-4 as one of three starter gathering professions offered via quest reward (Confirmed: Wowhead + Warcraft Tavern). • [Sept 28 research] New campsite object system: Incense Candle (skill 20) -> Greenhouse -> Seed Hybridizer, the profession's three-tier camp item line (Confirmed: Warcraft Tavern guide, corroborated by Blizzard Deep Dive recap for the Incense Candle specifically). • [Sept 28 research] Perk: Fan-transcribed Legacy/skill perk: +resist and/or HoT-related bonus tied to Herbalism (as already known from prior KB entry) — Unverified, no primary source located this session confirming exact wording. • [Sept 28 research] Perk: Legacy tree 'Bountiful Harvest' (5 ranks): 100% more Scarce materials from Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning combined — Confirmed (Warcraft Tavern legacy guide; matches Blizzard's own Deep Dive recap language about 'increased amounts of Scarce materials gathered by Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning'). • [Sept 28 research] Druid note: Tauren racial: can harvest herbs with no Herbalism skill at all, and gather double yield if they do have the skill — Confirmed (Warcraft Tavern). Irrelevant to a Horde Skyborne Druid specifically, but shows gathering-without-profession exists as a racial-gated mechanic, not a universal druid-form mechanic. • [Sept 28 research] Druid note: No source found (Icy Veins Druid overview, Mobalytics Skyborne guide) describing any ability to gather herbs while shapeshifted, or any Skyborne racial tied to Herbalism. • [Sept 28 research] Camp ladder Incense Candle (20, about 25 Intellect, not with Arcane Intellect) > Greenhouse (140, grows herbs from seeds) > Seed Hybridizer (300, combines seeds into rarer herbs) (Confirmed). • [Sept 28 research] Marefoil is a new herb (item level 60) used in Alchemy; skill and zones unpublished (Confirmed). • [Sept 28 research] No source confirms Druids can gather herbs while shapeshifted; treat Travel Form gathering as unconfirmed. • [Sept 28 research] Sept 24 patch: Tauren Cultivation now requires character level of at least the herb's skill / 5 (Official).
Key products
• Herbs for Alchemy (Classic: Black Lotus, Dreamfoil, Plaguebloom, Mountain Silversage, Golden Sansam) • Incense Candle campsite object (Official) • Incense Candle (Intellect buff camp object) • Greenhouse and Seed Hybridizer (higher camp tiers, effect described elsewhere as an Arcane Intellect-equivalent buff at max tier) — Reported, single source (Warcraft Tavern), not yet corroborated on exact buff magnitude.
Trainers
horde: Orgrimmar: Jandi; Thunder Bluff: Komin Winterhoof; Undercity: Martha Alliestar alliance: Stormwind: Tannysa; Ironforge: Reyna Stonebranch; Darnassus: Firodren Mooncaller artisan: Classic: capital-city herbalism trainers train Artisan (Wowhead SoD P3 note: 'multiple trainers in major cities') note: Classic-baseline names from memory of 1.12; verify on Wowhead Classic
Specializations
None in Classic; Forever perks list (Reported) not a specialization