Profession Overview for The War Within

The War Within had many profession changes. These are the most impactful ones:

• Concentration is a new resource for crafters that refills automatically over time and allows you to guarantee hitting the next quality level of an item, for a scaling cost depending on how far you are from crafting it naturally;
• The Inspiration stat is gone, directly replaced by Ingenuity. Instead of randomly proccing a higher quality level, you will randomly not lose your Concentration (50% to 100% depending on your profession talents) when used;
• Most professions had their profession talents changed, but you will still have similar specializations to Dragonflight for each gear slot of each armor type across gear-crafting professions, talents for maximizing potion and flask (mostly replacing the old phials) production and quality, and so on;
• Crafting orders are mostly unchanged, but you will now periodically receive NPC personal crafting orders, which can be completed for profession knowledge, recipes, extra skill points, crafting materials, and so on. These mostly replace the mission tables and profession knowledge farming methods of old but will often require you to provide the materials and / or use Concentration to complete, making them potentially money-losing.

Look inside the guides for each Profession below in order to learn about profession-specific changes, tips, and tricks on how to spend your points or make gold with them.

Below, you will find links to our detailed Profession guides updated for the launch of The War Within:

The Professions UI is able to give you many details on what you are crafting:

• Crafting Reagents have their source indicated in the tooltip.
• Most reagents have a Quality attribute depicted by the number of diamonds below their tooltip. You can automatically select the best-quality reagents when crafting an item;
• The First Craft mechanic allows players to gain Artisan's Acuity, which can be used to buy recipes and to create the best profession gear, and also grants profession knowledge, which is needed to unlock the profession talent trees, thus incentivizing crafting all items at least once.

Crafters can specialize in primary crafting and gathering Professions in The War Within. Specialization Knowledge is earned through various activities such as First Crafts and Patron Work Orders and is spent on the many Profession talents available which improve areas of your Profession permanently.

Profession Specializations offer one of the main ways crafters can differentiate themselves from their peers, as there are many areas of each Profession to specialize in.

Crafting Orders lets you request other players to craft something for you even if you do not have the necessary skill or Profession to do it yourself.

As shown in the picture, you will also be able to perform orders for Patron NPCs in order to get special rewards in your mailbox, which often include Artisan's Acuity, new recipes, skill-increasing optional reagents, miscellaneous profession materials, and even Knowledge Points!

Crafting Orders can be opened to the public for anyone to pick up; your guild only, Patron NPC orders, and also private orders which are sent to a specific character on your server.

You can also recraft items to improve them and take Recrafting Orders, which are similar to Crafting Orders but use fewer materials and some Artisan's Acuity.

We have a dedicated guide for Crafting Orders and Recrafting that you can find below.

Quality is an attribute of most crafted items and gathered reagents. If you craft something of higher quality, the piece of gear will be better. Pieces of gear will have a higher item level; potions will have a more powerful effect, and so forth.

Crafted equipment has five levels of possible quality, while other crafted and gathered items, such as potions and ores, will have three levels of quality.

Crafting stations for all Professions can be found in Dornogal, providing a great way for crafters to meet up in the city or for other players to find a crafter if they want to meet face-to-face.

There are multiple secondary Profession stats with various effects such as faster crafting and gathering, more gathering of basic or rare materials, a chance at recuperating reagents used for the craft, a chance at having more items crafted, and a chance at recovering some Concentration when used. These stats can be found on Profession-specific pieces of gear.

For more information about profession stats and gear, please refer to our dedicated guide.

New reagent bags are available for everyone in The War Within. Reagent bags can only hold profession reagents and follow the same rules as the reagent bank. The bag exists in a dedicated bag slot, saving up inventory space.

The maximum stack size for most crafted and gathered items is 1,000, and most consumables stack to 200.