New Recipes in WoW Forever

Blizzard promised "over 600 new recipes" for WoW Forever, and the live game delivered more: 938 recipes that never existed in Classic, spread across six crafting professions, Cooking, First Aid and the gathering skills. Leatherworking alone got 271 of them, Blacksmithing 197 and Tailoring 180. Almost a third, 304 recipes, are sold for Merchant's Favor by the Azeroth Commerce Authority and its Horde counterpart, so the fastest way to new recipes is a supply contract rather than a dungeon drop.

The new recipes are not filler. Crafted items take first place in a third of all gear slots at level 20 and stay competitive through level 50, six healing potions moved from Alchemy to First Aid, six mail recipes moved from Blacksmithing to Leatherworking, and Blacksmiths, Leatherworkers and Tailors can make tier set pieces once the new raids open on December 9. About 295 recipes still have no known source two days after launch.

Below you will find the full count by profession and source, every recipe vendor with prices and reputation, the highlights of each profession, the recipes that changed hands, and what is worth crafting at levels 20, 30, 40 and 50.

How Many New Recipes Are in WoW Forever

WoW Forever has 938 new profession recipes as of the live launch build. That is every recipe in the Forever game client that does not exist in the Classic Era client, without the hidden rank entries that only raise your skill cap.

The number you see depends on where you look. Blizzard announced "over 600 new recipes" at BlizzCon, months before the beta added more. Community databases list anywhere from 884 to 968, because some count the gathering skill books, some count old items that got a new recipe spell, and some still run on beta data.

The table below splits the 938 recipes by profession and by how you learn them. "Unknown" means the recipe exists in the game, but nobody has found its vendor, drop or quest yet.

A few recipes sit in two columns on Wowhead, for example a quest reward that a vendor also sells. Each one is counted once here, under the source most players will use.

Where to Get New Recipes in WoW Forever

New recipes come from five places: the Merchant's Favor vendors, a handful of reputation and gold vendors, mob and dungeon drops, a few quests, and the trainer. The Merchant's Favor vendors are the big one, so start there.

Merchant's Favor Recipe Vendors

The Azeroth Commerce Authority camp at Three Corners in Redridge Mountains serves the Alliance. The Horde version, Durotar Supply and Logistics, stands just west of the Crossroads in The Barrens. Both camps sell the same 304 new recipes for the same prices in Merchant's Favor.

You need two things to buy them. Merchant's Favor comes from filled Waylaid Crates, while reputation comes from Craftsman's Writs. The price tells you the reputation gate: recipes at 30 or 45 Favor need no reputation, most recipes at 60 or 120 Favor need Friendly, and most at 90, 180 and higher need Honored.

Each profession has one vendor per faction. The table shows who sells what and the price range.

Most of these recipes are cheap. 105 cost 30 Favor, 53 cost 60 and 52 cost 90, while only 22 recipes cost 240 or more. Almost everything crafted from them is Bind on Pickup, so these are recipes for your own gear rather than for the Auction House.

We list every recipe with its exact price and reputation, and the fastest way to earn both currencies, in our WoW Forever Azeroth Commerce Authority reputation guide. If you need the Favor faster than crates drop, you can also buy WoW Forever Merchant's Favor.

Reputation and Gold Recipe Vendors

Nine more vendors sell new recipes for gold or reputation tokens. Four of them stand in cities and leveling zones, five in Mount Hyjal and Silithus for level 60 crafters.

Two city vendors also got new stock. Mahu in Thunder Bluff and Saenorion in Darnassus sell the new Forceful and Mystic armor kits, and Mahu adds the Linen and Woolen Reagent Bags.

Recipe Drops and Camp Blueprints

84 new recipes drop from mobs, and most of them are rare. The potion recipes for early zones drop at 0.04% to 1.1%, for example Recipe: Minor Frenzy Potion from harpies in Teldrassil and Mulgore.

The Filigreed robes, leggings and circlets for Tailoring drop in the early dungeons: Ragefire Chasm, The Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep, Blackfathom Deeps and Razorfen Kraul. Every listed drop chance is below 0.35%, so Pattern: Filigreed Flame Gown and its siblings are worth checking on the Auction House.

Camp blueprints drop too. Every profession has a camp station at skill 140, such as the Anvil, the Spinning Wheel or the Tanning Rack, and for most of them the drop source is not mapped yet. The exception is Blueprint: Arcane Salvager for Enchanting, which drops at about 6.6% from enemies such as Rath'mael in the Ruins of Lordaeron.

Recipes Without a Known Source Yet

295 new recipes have no confirmed source two days after launch, and 200 of them need skill 225 or more. They exist in the game files, but nobody has found the vendor, drop or quest for them yet.

Some of the most wanted recipes are on that list. Formula: Frozen Heart of the Mountain makes the trinket that ranks first for 19 of 27 specs at level 50. Recipe: Transmute Legionite makes Legionite Bar for 22 Blacksmithing and Engineering recipes, and the four Hyjal flasks such as Recipe: Flask of Natural Accuracy have no source either. We will update this section as the sources turn up.

New Recipes by Profession

Every profession got a different kind of update. Leatherworking and Tailoring got whole gear sets for each level bracket, Alchemy became a supplier of dyes, Cooking learned to speed up leveling, and First Aid took over healing potions. Below are the recipes in each profession that are worth learning first, with a link to our full leveling guide for each one.

New Leatherworking Recipes

Leatherworking got 271 new recipes, the most of any profession, and it now makes mail as well as leather. Besides six mail recipes moved from Blacksmithing, it has 24 new mail recipes in the Mender's, Skirmisher's, Skycaller's and Stalker's families.

Our WoW Forever Leatherworking guide covers the fastest route from 1 to 300 and the trainers you need on the way.

New Blacksmithing Recipes

Blacksmithing got 197 new recipes. Most of them are mail and plate sets in five stat variants per level bracket, so every mail and plate wearer gets a version with the right stats.

For the leveling route, the materials and every trainer, see our WoW Forever Blacksmithing guide.

New Tailoring Recipes

Tailoring got 180 new recipes. The best are the cheap caster sets at level 20: six variants, one for healing and one for each spell school, and each slot costs only 30 Merchant's Favor.

Our WoW Forever Tailoring guide shows the full leveling route and which cloth to stock up on.

New Engineering Recipes

Engineering got 77 new recipes, and 40 of them still have no known source. The ones you can buy are mostly gadgets with long cooldowns and goggles for every armor type.

The whole route from 1 to 300 is in our WoW Forever Engineering guide.

New Alchemy Recipes

Alchemy got 72 new recipes and lost the six standard healing potions to First Aid. It kept the new Discolored Healing Potion line, which heals at once and then returns 75% of the amount as poison or disease damage over time.

We cover the leveling route, the herbs and the new transmute in our WoW Forever Alchemy guide.

New Enchanting Recipes

Enchanting got 63 new recipes, but only 27 of them are enchants. The rest are staves, orbs, wands, trinkets, relics and camp items, which turns Enchanting into a real gear profession.

Every new enchant and where to get its formula is in our Best Enchants in WoW Forever guide, and the leveling route is in the WoW Forever Enchanting guide.

New Cooking Recipes

Cooking got 44 new recipes, and 35 of them share a bonus that old Classic food never had: 5% more experience from kills while you are well fed. That makes new food a leveling tool, not just a stat buff.

The full route, the fish recipes and the trainers are in our WoW Forever Cooking guide.

New First Aid Recipes

First Aid got 17 new recipes, and six of them are the standard healing potions that used to belong to Alchemy. They now also need spices, and the higher ranks need a Manual.

Our WoW Forever First Aid guide has both leveling routes, bandages and potions, from 1 to 300.

Recipes That Moved to Another Profession

Thirteen familiar recipes changed profession in WoW Forever. If you learned one of them in Classic, it now belongs to someone else, and the materials changed with it.

The healing potions are the biggest change. All six standard ranks moved from Alchemy to First Aid and now need spices, so a First Aid player can carry both bandages and potions. The six mail recipes moved from Blacksmithing to Leatherworking and swapped Thorium and Arcanite Bars for Rugged Leather and Enchanted Leather.

Alchemy did not lose healing completely. It keeps the Discolored Healing Potion line, which heals instantly and returns 75% of the amount as damage over time, so alchemists still have an emergency heal of their own.

What to Craft While Leveling

Crafted gear is worth making in WoW Forever, especially early. We checked the best in slot lists for all 27 specs at levels 20, 30, 40 and 50. A crafted item takes first place in 125 of 378 slots at level 20, and 92 of those 125 are new Forever recipes.

The share drops in the middle levels and comes back at 50, when the 90 Merchant's Favor recipes open up. At level 60 the lists switch to raid and dungeon gear, and the only crafted picks left are old Classic recipes.

The tables below list the new recipes that rank first for the most specs at each level. "Specs" is the number of the 27 specs that put the item first in its slot.

Most of these items are Bind on Pickup, so you craft them for yourself or for a guildmate who brings the materials. Our WoW Forever gearing and progression guide shows how crafted gear fits next to dungeon drops and reputation rewards.

Crafted Tier Sets and Malleable Essence of Nature

For the first time, crafters can make tier set pieces. Aisarra Nightmeadow, a level 63 elite of the Guardians of Hyjal in Mount Hyjal, sells 72 tier recipes at skill 300. She takes no gold: each recipe costs 6 or 8 Malleable Essence of Nature.

The recipes split between three professions by armor type.

The crafted pieces are Bind on Equip, so a crafter can sell them, but every one carries "Unique-Equipped: Artisan's Tier (1)". At launch you can wear only one crafted tier piece at a time, and the rest of the set has to come from the raids. Datamined notes suggest that a higher standing with the Guardians of Hyjal raises the limit, but that is not confirmed yet.

Essence matters beyond the tier sets too: it goes into 97 new recipes in total, including level 60 epics and Enchanting relics. Expect strong demand for it once the raids open. We explain every class set and its bonuses in our WoW Forever tier sets guide.

Reagent Bags

WoW Forever adds a full line of reagent bags, from 6 to 20 slots. They hold only crafting materials, so every profession player wants one, and the early ones are among the few new crafts that sell on the Auction House.

Seven of them are Tailoring recipes and one is Leatherworking. The bigger bags need the new dyes from Alchemy, and the Bottomless bag needs 12 Mooncloth and 5 Pristine Leather.

Do not expect easy money from the small bags. On launch day one seller made 5 to 6 silver of profit per linen bag, and within eight hours the price fell to about 7 silver per bag as everyone crafted them. Every other bag in the game, from quest rewards to rare drops, is in our WoW Forever bag guide.

New Crafting Materials

The new recipes run on a short list of materials, and most of them are either new to Forever or far more wanted than in Classic. If you gather or make one of these, you are supplying hundreds of recipes, which is where steady gold comes from in the first weeks.

The three dyes together go into about 200 new recipes, which makes Alchemy the quiet winner of the update. A Tailor needs dyes for almost every new pattern, so an alchemist with a stack of Cerulean Dye has customers from day one. Our WoW Forever gold making guide covers the professions and farms that pay best right now.

Tips for Crafters in WoW Forever

The first weeks of a new server reward patience more than speed. These tips come from the first days on live realms and from what crafters learned on the beta.

• Eat new food while leveling. 35 of the 44 new Cooking recipes add 5% experience from kills on top of their stats. Old Classic food does not, so a cheap new smoothie beats a stronger old one while you level.
• Check the trainer before spending Merchant's Favor. A few recipes the Favor vendors sell are also taught by trainers, and Favor is slow to earn.
• Plan reputation and Favor together. Crates give Favor but no reputation, and writs give reputation but no Favor. A crafter with 500 Favor and Neutral standing still cannot buy the 90 Favor recipes.
• Do not expect low-level crafts to sell. Everyone levels the same professions on one shared market, so bags and greens drop to material cost within hours. On launch day disenchanted greens sold for about 1 silver each.
• Use Favor recipes to push skill. On the beta the Favor patterns stayed orange for 15 to 20 skill points each, which made them useful for Tailoring and Leatherworking past skill 160.
• Farm The Deadmines if you craft. Cookie drops Blueprint: Cookie's Feast and Sneed drops Blueprint: Repair Bot, and the same dungeon drops Tailoring Filigreed patterns.
• Paladins can clean up Discolored potions. The damage over time after a Discolored Healing Potion is poison or disease, so a Paladin can remove it with Cleanse and keep the full heal.
• Level professions on a bank alt. Reaching 150, 225 and 300 in a profession for the first time grants a Legacy point, so a Tailoring and Enchanting alt that receives cloth and greens from your main earns account progress too.
• Watch for rollbacks. In the first days some players lost skill points and materials to server rollbacks, and support did not restore them. Avoid big, expensive crafting sessions right after a server restart.

WoW Forever New Recipes FAQ

These are the questions players ask most about the new recipes in the first days after launch.

More WoW Forever Profession Guides

Picking a profession, earning Favor or setting up camp? These guides cover the rest of the crafting system.