WoW Forever Craftsman's Writs Guide

If a Sealed Journeyman's Writ just dropped in your bags, you are holding the only repeatable way to raise reputation with the two WoW Forever supply factions, the Azeroth Commerce Authority and Durotar Supply and Logistics. Waylaid Crates pay Merchant's Favor, but the reputation that unlocks the better recipes and the Pack Kodo comes from these crafting orders: 75 for a Journeyman writ, 125 for Expert, 200 for Artisan. Each order is a daily quest, so the same order counts once a day, while different orders have no shared cap. ConquestCapped mapped all 44 Journeyman orders to their customers, so below you will find how to open and hand in a writ, which orders cluster at one NPC, how many writs each rank takes and when the Forger's Quill or a receipt beats another trip.

What Craftsman's Writs Are in WoW Forever

A Craftsman's Writ is a crafting order intercepted on its way to a customer. You bring the customer the item they asked for, and the supply faction of your side pays you in reputation. Writs are new to WoW Forever and work the same for both factions: every writ counts for the Azeroth Commerce Authority if you play Alliance and for Durotar Supply and Logistics if you play Horde.

Writs come in two forms. Every writ that drops in the world is sealed, and it turns into a named order when you open it:

Both forms need level 10, and both can be traded and sold on the Auction House. That matters because writs are rare: they drop from any mob in the world with a better chance from treasure chests, and since the November 9 hotfix they also drop inside dungeons. Players who level without a single writ for 30 levels are common, so most reputation grinds start at the Auction House, where a Sealed Journeyman's Writ sold for about 15 silver to 1 gold on November 12.

You do not need a profession to complete a writ. The order names a crafted item, and you can make it yourself or buy it. That makes writs a reputation tool for every character, while the crafting skill only decides whether you pay for materials or for the finished item.

For the Favor side of the system, the crates and what both camps sell, read our WoW Forever Merchant's Favor guide.

What to Do With a Sealed Journeyman's Writ

A sealed writ does nothing until you open it, and the order inside is random. Opening one is free and takes a second, so do it right away: the named order tells you whether the writ is worth keeping, selling or rerolling. The whole delivery takes five steps:

1. Right-click the Sealed Journeyman's Writ to tear open the envelope. You get one named order of the same tier, for example Craftsman's Writ: Heavy Quiver.
2. Right-click the named order to accept its quest. The customer now shows on your map, often far from the camp of your faction.
3. Craft the item the order asks for or buy it on the Auction House. Most orders want one item, but Craftsman's Writ: Crafted Solid Shot asks for 200.
4. Carry both the writ and the item to the customer. The writ has to be in your bags at the hand-in, and an item left in the bank blocks the turn-in.
5. Talk to the customer and hand over the item. Some customers show no question mark above their head: right-click them anyway and the turn-in window opens.

The reputation goes to the supply faction of your side, and a coin pouch lands in your bags. If you have not filled a Waylaid Crate yet, do that before your first writ: the one-time Shipping Label quest from your first crate adds 2,000 reputation, worth more than 26 Journeyman writs.

Craftsman's Writ Rewards and the Daily Limit

Writs pay reputation and a little coin, never Merchant's Favor. The tier of the sealed writ sets both the reputation and the level of the item the customer wants, so higher tiers pay more but cost more to fill:

Every named order is a daily quest. You can deliver each distinct order once per day, and after a delivery the order shows a timer that counts down to the next daily reset. Buying five copies of the same order does not let you hand in five: the other four wait for the following days, and they do not expire in your bags.

Different orders share no limit, not per customer, not per tier and not per day. One player delivered 35 different writs in a single day for more than 2,600 reputation. The real cap is how many different orders you can find and afford, which is why players who push reputation buy several writs at once and plan one trip around them.

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How Many Writs Each Reputation Rank Takes

The supply factions use the classic ranks: 3,000 reputation from Neutral to Friendly, 6,000 more to Honored, 12,000 to Revered and 21,000 to Exalted. The counts below assume you already have the 2,000 from the Shipping Label, so only 1,000 is left to Friendly. Each count is for one tier alone; in practice you mix tiers as they drop.

Friendly is a single evening. Honored is where the daily limit starts to bite: with about 30 different Journeyman orders a day it takes three days, and players who found 30 or more orders reached Honored in that time. Revered and Exalted are long projects, which is why the receipt column matters: past Honored, spare Favor turns into reputation without any travel.

The ranks unlock the recipes and rewards of each camp. What you can buy at each rank on your side is listed in our Azeroth Commerce Authority reputation guide and our Durotar Supply and Logistics reputation guide.

Best Journeyman Writs and Where to Turn Them In

The 44 Journeyman orders known so far go to customers in nine zones, and that map decides what a writ costs more than the item does. A customer who takes four or five orders is worth a dedicated trip, because one stop turns into 300 to 375 reputation a day. A lone customer at the far end of a zone is not, unless you are questing there anyway. Coordinates are given where they are confirmed; for the others, the quest marks the customer on your map once you accept the order.

Three stops stand out. Kzixx, on the road north of Darkshire in Duskwood, takes four orders, Ziz Fizziks in Stonetalon Mountains takes five, and five customers sit close together on the Shimmering Flats in Thousand Needles. Kixxle in the Wetlands also takes five orders, but one of them wants 200 Crafted Solid Shot. Two trips pair well: Arathi Highlands with Hillsbrad Foothills, and Duskwood with Stranglethorn Vale. Skip the Silver Skeleton Key unless you are nearby: its customer is a trunk inside a Duskwood crypt, a long detour for one order.

Ziz Fizziks in Stonetalon Mountains takes five Journeyman orders

Kixxle in the Wetlands takes five orders, one of them for 200 Crafted Solid Shot

Kzixx, north of Darkshire, takes four Journeyman orders

Muggol Breezebeard and Alyce take five Journeyman orders in Arathi Highlands

Which orders pay off depends on your realm prices, not on the order itself. A good rule for Journeyman writs is to buy only when the writ and the item together cost under about 50 silver, since the coin pouch returns most of that. At launch prices a 15-silver Phoenix Pants writ needed more than 3 gold of materials, while a pricier Shadow Goggles order came to about 1.5 gold all in. Check both prices before you buy, and leave an expensive order on the Auction House for a crafter of that profession.

Expert and Artisan Writs: Customers Known So Far

Expert writs pay 125 reputation and send you to level 40 to 50 zones, so they suit characters who already travel there. The items need skill 175 to 240, which makes them dearer to fill than Journeyman orders: plan on about 1 gold per Expert order and about 2 gold per Artisan order in goods. Customers for 28 of the Expert orders are known; the quest marks each one on your map:

The customers of the other Expert orders, such as Craftsman's Writ: Mechanical Dragonling and Craftsman's Writ: Heavy Mithril Axe, and of all 45 Artisan orders are not confirmed yet. Artisan orders ask for items around skill 245 to 315, from Dreamless Sleep Potion to Flask of Chromatic Resistance, so expect the customers in level 50 to 60 zones. We will add them as players report the turn-ins.

Forger's Quill, Forged Delivery Receipt and Diplomat

Three tools change the writ grind once you have some standing. Two are sold by the Uncertified Scribe of each camp, Dianne Softstep at Three Corners (9.1, 76.5) for the Alliance and Kurvelk Shadowhoof west of the Crossroads (49.8, 30.0) for the Horde. The third is a Legacy talent:

When to Use the Forger's Quill

The quill is a reroll, not an upgrade. Use it on an order whose item is expensive on your realm, or whose customer sits in a zone you will not visit, and you get a new random order of the same tier. The new order can be just as awkward, and the quill is used up either way, so it pays off mainly on Expert and Artisan writs, where one bad order costs a gold or more. It does not reset the daily limit of an order you already delivered.

Forged Delivery Receipts Instead of Writs

A receipt gives fewer points than a writ but never sends you anywhere. Buy the cheapest empty Waylaid Crate on the Auction House, use the receipt on it and hand the container to the crate clerk of your camp: 50 reputation and 1 silver, with no daily limit. At 15 Favor per receipt, Friendly to Honored costs 1,800 Favor this way and Friendly to Exalted 11,700. That is a good use for Favor you have no recipe to spend on, and a bad one while you still need patterns.

Is Diplomat Worth It for Writs

Diplomat at rank 5 adds 10% to every reputation gain, so a Journeyman writ gives about 82 instead of 75. Over the 40,000 points from the Shipping Label to Exalted that saves roughly 50 Journeyman writs. It is worth the points only if you are going for Exalted and the Pack Kodo; for the recipes at Friendly and Honored the gain is a handful of writs. Our WoW Forever Legacy Points guide shows how to earn the points and where Diplomat fits.

Craftsman's Writ Tips

Most of the cost of a writ is travel and overpriced goods, and both can be planned around. These habits come from the first week on live realms:

• Fill one Waylaid Crate first. The Shipping Label from your first crate is 2,000 reputation, two thirds of the way to Friendly, before you spend a single silver on writs.
• Price the order and the item together. A cheap envelope can hide an expensive craft. Look up the finished item on the Auction House before you buy a named order.
• Batch orders by zone. Collect several orders for one customer or one zone, then make one trip. Kzixx, Ziz Fizziks, Kixxle and the Shimmering Flats each take four or five.
• Keep a list of what you delivered today. The same order counts once a day, so a second copy bought in the morning waits until tomorrow.
• Carry everything in your bags. The writ and the item both have to be on you; an item left in the bank blocks the hand-in.
• Right-click customers without a question mark. Some of them show none, and the turn-in window still opens.
• Wait for flight paths or a mount before a big push. Customers are spread over both continents, and a low-level character on foot loses the whole evening to travel.
• Sell the orders you cannot use. Named orders and sealed writs are tradable, so an Engineering order you cannot fill cheaply is worth more to an engineer on the Auction House.

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More Guides on Supply Factions and Reputation

The Merchant's Favor guide covers crates, both camps and their rewards, and the two faction guides list every recipe and reputation gate on your side. Diplomat and Performance Bonus come from the Legacy system explained in our Legacy Points guide, and the gold guide shows how to pay for the writs you buy.

WoW Forever Craftsman's Writs FAQ

These are the questions players ask most about writs in the first week after launch.