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Professions

Crafters who set out to master a profession discover skills every bit as valuable as swordplay or spellcraft. They can create weapons, tools and magic potions, bandage wounds, harvest precious materials, inscribe ancient runes of power, and more. Of course, truly canny professionals think bigger than outfitting themselves. When they’re not supplementing their own arsenal, they’ll be making a profit supplementing someone else’s.

Primary

Alchemy Alchemists use herbs to create strange, magical brews that heal, empower, and produce a variety of positive effects - invisibility, elemental resistance, mana restoration, and much, much more. Blacksmithing Blacksmiths utilize their expertise with hammer and anvil to craft deadly weapons, heavy suits of mail and plate armor, and other, more specialized items. Enchanting Enchanters disenchant surplus magical items - and use the residue to permanently augment equipment of their choosing. Engineering Engineers take advantage of their inventiveness to create an immense (and occasionally random) variety of helpful items. Herbalism Herbalists carefully harvest the helpful and potent herbs found throughout the world. Inscription Scribes weave words of power into glyphs that can improve heroes' skills and abilities, and add special effects not possible by normal means. Jewelcrafting Jewelcrafters unlock the surprising power in precious stones, creating potent jewelry and trinkets. Leatherworking Leatherworkers take the rough, spiny or sturdy hides of beasts everywhere and turn them into useful products. Mining Miners pursue valuable and useful ores, extracting them straight from the earth with their picks. Skinning Skinners ensure that nothing goes to waste by removing the hides of dead beasts and amassing piles of fur and leather. Tailoring Tailors take simple cloth and weave wonders out of it; cloth armor and robes, shirts, bags and other creations are the purview of the tailor.

Secondary

Archaeology Archaeologists search the world - and places beyond - for mysterious remnants of the past. Cooking Cooks experiment with strange and wondrous ingredients gathered from the far corners of Azeroth. First Aid Physicians save lives in the dangerous world of Azeroth by using bandages and antidotes to heal injuries and remove poisons. Fishing Fishers relax and feed themselves by catching the bounty of Azeroth's lakes and seas.