World of Warcraft: Forever · crafting
WoW Forever professions: 11 of them, 2,407 recipes
Every recipe Forever teaches, by profession, with the reagents it consumes, the skill it needs, and what it makes. Each result links to its item page with its auction house price on every market players are scanning, so a recipe's margin is one click away. Which profession pays best this week is in the gold meta.
- 195
AlchemyPotions, elixirs, flasks, and transmutes. The consumables market. - 484
BlacksmithingMail and plate armor, weapons, and the keys and rods other trades need. - 130
CookingFood buffs that raids eat every night. - 262
EnchantingEnchants, wands, and oils, priced on the materials disenchanting yields. - 268
EngineeringGuns, scopes, explosives, goggles, and trinkets. - 31
First AidBandages, from linen to runecloth. - 3
HerbalismRecipes and reagents. - 559
LeatherworkingLeather and mail armor, armor kits, and bags. - 18
MiningRecipes and reagents. - 3
SkinningRecipes and reagents. - 454
TailoringCloth armor, bags, and the cloth that every other trade buys.
Which professions pay right now
Every profession, with how many of its recipes the market can price and how many of those pay at the median after the auction house cut, on Normal Horde US, from the scan . The best margin is the single recipe that earns the most per craft; click it for the reagents and the margin on every market.
| Profession | Recipes | Priced | Paying | Best margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leatherworking Gem-studded Leather Belt+5g 93s | 70 | Gem-studded Leather Belt+5g 93s a craft (357%) | ||
| Tailoring Earthen Silk Slippers+22g 13s | 60 | Earthen Silk Slippers+22g 13s a craft (3338%) | ||
| Blacksmithing Mithril Claws+3g 83s | 51 | Mithril Claws+3g 83s a craft (418%) | ||
| Alchemy | 46 | Limited Invulnerability Potion+7g 8s a craft (293%) | ||
| Engineering Green Lens+4g 93s | 42 | Green Lens+4g 93s a craft (108%) | ||
| Cooking Cookie's Feast+1g 5s | 35 | Cookie's Feast+1g 5s a craft (125%) | ||
| First Aid Potent Anti-Venom+2g 70s | 6 | Potent Anti-Venom+2g 70s a craft (1800%) | ||
| Enchanting Arcane Salvager+1g 70s | 5 | Arcane Salvager+1g 70s a craft (255%) | ||
| Mining No reagents: the sale is the margin | - | No reagents: the sale is the margin | ||
| Skinning No reagents: the sale is the margin | - | No reagents: the sale is the margin | ||
| Herbalism No reagents: the sale is the margin | - | No reagents: the sale is the margin |
Priced means the result and every reagent have a median from player scans. The crafting profit page has every recipe ranked, on any market.
Which professions pay in Forever
Right now on Normal Horde US, Leatherworking has 70 of 133 priced recipes paying at the median, Tailoring 60 of 123, Blacksmithing 51 of 113; the best single margin is Gem-studded Leather Belt at 5g 93s a craft.
One question decides most of it: is the thing you make used up, or kept? A player buys a chest piece once. The same player buys food, potions, bandages and ammunition for as long as they play, so a profession whose output is consumed sells to the same people every week, while a profession whose output is kept has to find a new buyer for every sale. Alchemy, Cooking, First Aid and the reagent side of Tailoring and Leatherworking earn steadily; Blacksmithing and the armour side of the others earn in bursts when a new tier of gear comes into reach.
Gathering has no reagent cost and no risk: ore, herbs and leather are the inputs everyone else needs, and with no realms a single market for each is deep enough to absorb what you bring. The recipe lists above show what each profession can make; the crafting profit page ranks every recipe by its margin on the latest scan, and which professions make money goes through the reasoning in full. Enchanting's enchantments, which make no item, are on their own page: every enchant by slot.
Common questions
- How many professions are there in WoW Forever?
- 11: Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Cooking, Enchanting, Engineering, First Aid, Herbalism, Leatherworking, Mining, Skinning, Tailoring, with 2,407 recipes between them in the current game build. Each has a page with every recipe, the cheapest craft per skill bracket, what it makes and what it buys most.
- Which profession makes the most gold in WoW Forever?
- Right now on Normal Horde US, Leatherworking has 70 of 133 priced recipes paying at the median, Tailoring 60 of 123, Blacksmithing 51 of 113; the best single margin is Gem-studded Leather Belt at 5g 93s a craft. The table above ranks all of them; the professions guide explains why consumed goods and gathering keep earning while crafted gear earns in bursts.
- Are gathering professions worth it?
- Yes, especially in the opening weeks: Herbalism, Mining and Skinning have no input cost, so whatever the market pays is the whole margin, and with no realms every market is deep enough to absorb what you bring. They scale with your time and nothing else, which is why they are the floor and not the ceiling.
- What is the cheapest way to level a profession?
- Each profession page names the cheapest craft in every skill bracket by reagent units, which holds on any market, and the crafting profit page ranks recipes by what they cost at the current medians. Materials that carry a bracket, like linen for Tailoring 1 to 75, say so on their item pages.
- Where do the margins come from?
- From players scanning the auction house with the addon. A margin is the result price at the median, less the auction house cut, less every reagent at its median; a recipe with an unpriced reagent is not ranked, so nothing is overstated.
Source: World of Warcraft: Forever game data. Recipes new in Forever are also listed under New in Forever.