Profession Basic

 

How do I get a Profession?
You have to find an NPC that can teach you their Profession. Ask other people where you can find certain trainers, or discover them on your own.

Using Professions
After you have trained or purchased a Profession, hit "P" to bring up your abilities book. Then, look for a new icon that has been placed in there for that skill. You can drag this icon over to your action bar to make it easier to find and use. If you can't fit it on the first row of your action bar, place it on a different row by left-clicking on the scroll arrows to the right of your action bar (it's ok if the icon is still selected on your cursor).

Profession Limit
You can learn all of the secondary skills, but can only choose two professions.

Character Level Limits
In order to prevent low level characters from mastering high level skills, a certain character level limit is required for each level of profession. You will need a minimum character level to learn a new level of professions. Apprentice requires level 5, Journeyman level 10, Expert level 20 and Artisan requires level 35.

Secondary Skill Training
Expert and above skill tiers for secondary skills require you to find the books to teach you them. Artisan level requires a quest to be completed.

Other Information

  • Some Professions allow you to use the trade screen to interact with other people's items. For example, enchanters can enchant items directly in the trade screen. Lockpicking and some other Professions can also be used via the trade screen.
  • If you attempt to learn a recipe you already know, you will now see a message that says you already know it.
  • Some recipes are intended to increase your skills in that Profession rather than to create an item to sell to another player.
  • Some Epic player crafted items can be created that require raiding.
  • Generally, recipes with white names are store-bought and ones with green or blue (or purple) names are drops from monsters. So if you see some white recipes for sale, a person just bought the item from a vendor and is trying to re-sell it for a profit.

Creating Multiple Items In the bottom left corner of the trade interface, there is an area where you can select how many of a specific item you want to create. This is very helpful when you're creating the same item repeatedly. There is also a "Create All" button that will create as many copies of the item as you can.