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has Legacy Challenges at 150/225/300 which matches these breakpoints, but Forever trainer level requirements are unpublished.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
• Includes Smelting (Classic-baseline; no Forever statement) • Legacy perk Bountiful Harvest (+20% Scarce materials per rank) (Official concept; Reported numbers) • Starting-zone manual 'Mining for Dummies' (from 'Nibbled On Book' quest item dropped by Kobold Vermin, Human start zone chapel librarian) teaches Mining without a trainer; +2 skill, cap 15 (Reported, Icy Veins 2026-09-15) • Community demo perk transcription (Reported): 'Made of Metal' - total health +5% (MMO-C thread said 5% stamina); 'A Lode of Ore' - extra ore per node; 'Malicious Mining' - nodes may yield rare or combat-oriented materials; Zockify additionally mentions experimental 'Arcanite Lodes' and mining creatures after death • New ores/bars seen in recipes: Azerothium Bar, Legionite Bar, Torbernite (Reported) • Campsite objects: none shown (Unknown) • [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concept/skill 20) • [General] Advanced Blueprint recipes drop from specific dungeon bosses; boss-to-blueprint tables unpublished (Official) • [General] Profession Certification item requiring 300 skill grants a unique title; sold by Azeroth Commerce Authority (Alliance) / Durotar Supply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 items per Zockify) — Unverified detail. • [Sept 28 research] One of the three starter gathering-profession manual choices ('Mining for Dummies') at level 3-4 (Confirmed). • [Sept 28 research] New Deadmines drop 'Rockslicer': a mining-axe weapon that lets a non-Miner mine Copper, Tin, Silver, and Iron nodes for 30 charges before the effect expires; Bind on Pickup, so can be farmed repeatedly but not traded (Confirmed/Reported: Wowhead News article dated approx. Sept 18 2026, corroborated by the PC Gamer story on the same discovery). • [Sept 28 research] Perk: KB-known fan-transcribed perk: +5% health (retained, not re-verified). • [Sept 28 research] Perk: Legacy tree 'Bountiful Harvest' applies to Mining as well (Confirmed). • [Sept 28 research] Druid note: Lower relevance for a Feral/Resto Druid specifically — Mining/Blacksmithing/Engineering are plate/metal-oriented professions with little direct class synergy for a leather-wearing caster/melee hybrid; mainly a gold-making or alt-crafting choice rather than a Druid-specific pick. • [Sept 28 research] Druid note: The Rockslicer item means even a Herbalism/Skinning Druid could occasionally mine nodes encountered while leveling without investing a profession slot in Mining.
Key products
• Ore/bars for Blacksmithing and Engineering (Classic: Thorium, Arcanite via transmute, Dark Iron smelting at Black Rock Depths) • Gems as node byproducts (Classic-baseline) • +5% health perk (Reported) • Rockslicer (gathering-enabling weapon drop). • Camp object line: Lodestone -> Rock Garden -> Molten Foundry, reported to grant a Might-equivalent buff (Reported, single source Warcraft Tavern table).
Trainers
horde: Orgrimmar: Makaru; Thunder Bluff: Brek Stonehoof; Undercity: Brom Killian alliance: Stormwind: Gelman Stonehand; Ironforge: Geofram Bouldertoe artisan: Classic: capital trainers (Wowhead: multiple trainers in major cities); Dark Iron smelting requires quest/Black Forge in BRD (Classic-baseline) note: Makaru/Brom Killian/Gelman Stonehand/Geofram Bouldertoe verified by ProGameGuides; others Classic-baseline memory
Specializations
None in Classic; Forever perks (Reported) are not a specialization