Profession Overview for Midnight

Midnight had multiple profession changes. These are the most impactful ones:

• Consumable items now have only two possible qualities, down from three in The War Within, making it much easier to make the best items right away, provided you use a large amount of Concentration
• Artisan's Acuity has been replaced by profession-specific Artisan's Moxie, such as Artisan Leatherworker's Moxie, which is mainly used to buy new crafting recipes and no longer required for recrafting or when crafting rare or epic quality profession gear
• Most professions had their profession talents changed, but you will still have similar specializations to The War Within for each gear slot of each armor type across gear-crafting professions, talents for maximizing consumable item production and quality, and so on
• Crafting orders are unlocked at skill 15 and still reward knowledge and skill increasing optional reagent items and augment runes, but the Artisan's Consortium Payout bag can now contain other useful bind on pickup optional reagent such as Ingenious Identifier, which replace the stat increasing optional reagents that used to be profession crafted in The War Within

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 Midnight:

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 symbol on the top left of their tooltip. You can automatically select the best-quality reagents when crafting an item;
• The First Craft mechanic allows players to gain Artisan's Moxie of the profession they are crafting with, which is mostly used to buy recipes, 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 Midnight. 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 Moxie, 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.

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 two levels of quality.

Crafting stations for all Professions can be found in the main expansion hub, 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.

Reagent bags are available for everyone in Midnight. 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.