Everyone needs a job, even Starcallers, King Slayers and Saviors of Azeroth. That's right work is something you just can't avoid even in your game time. As of level five players can start learning professions. Their are eleven professions, and five secondary professions (I'm only going to count four of them, but more on that later ). Players can learn two professions and all five secondary professions. Over the next couple of posts I'm going to break these down for you into sections and then take them profession by profession. In this first post I'm going to go over all the basics of professions as a whole. Professions can be broken into two categories; gathering(3) and crafting(8). Gathering professions as the name implies are professions where the players gather things and
crafting professions are where you make things. Just like you measure your progression through the game with levels and experience points you will measure your progress through your professions in skill points. these skill points at current go from 1-600 (615 with racial leveling bonus) Their are several stop points along the way that speaks to where you are. Apprentice 1-75, Journeyman 50-150, Expert 125-225, Artisan 200-300, Master 275-375, Grand Master 350-450, Illustrious Grand Master 425-525, Zen Master 500-600. Your professions will be gated by your levels here's the breakdown; you need to be at least level 10 to level your profession skill past 75, you need to be at least level 20 to level your profession skill past 150, you need to be at least level 35 to level your profession skill past 225,you need to be at least level 50 to level your profession skill past 300, you need to be at least level 65 to level your profession skill past 375, you need to be at least level 80 to level your profession skill past 450. you need to be at least level 85 to level your profession skill past 500 and you need to be level 90 to get your skill points to get your skill points to 600 (or higher with racial profession bonuses). These are the skill
point guidelines for crafting professions, the requirements for gathering will be more lenient. I leave you these numbers instead of both because I don't want to provide confusing information, this game is confusing enough. Besides, if we set the bar high you'll still clear it in gathering with no complications. So keep an eye out for the next couple of posts and I'll let you know not only about the professions themselves but also Addons and web sites that will help you to simplify and get the most out of your professions.
Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag a little higher.
-Morison
