How professions work

Two primary, three secondary, a 300 cap, Legacy challenges and supply crates — what changes from Classic.

Two primary professions per character and three secondary skills (Cooking, First Aid, Fishing), with a 300 skill cap — the Legacy perk text itself spells this out.
Camping is a new outdoor tradeskill system: you build a campfire, other players contribute through their own professions, and everyone at the site shares the buffs.
Levelling tradeskills is one of the Legacy challenge categories, so every profession you max on any character earns account-wide perks.
Turning in supply crates to the Azeroth Commerce Authority (Alliance) or Durotar Supply and Logistics (Horde) rewards Merchant's Favor — a new profession currency seen in the demo.
The profession window was rebuilt in the modern style, without the clutter of twelve expansions.
962 new recipes across all professions in the beta client (the Deep Dive said over 600); almost every crafted food now gives a stat boost.
A basic campfire holds three objects, one per player (a blacksmith's sharpening wheel raises Strength, a tailor's banner adds a buff…); the first ones are learned at 20 skill.

The Legacy perk tree shown at BlizzCon 2026 — Legacy tree from Blizzard's panel recap: the Professions column holds the tradeskill perks below.

Client

Supply crates & Merchant's Favor

Merchant's Favor is a currency in the beta client — “an interim currency among high-traffic merchant organizations”, traded by the Azeroth Commerce Authority (Alliance) and Durotar Supply and Logistics (Horde). Supply-crate turn-ins pay it out, and a Legacy perk gives a 5% chance at double.

The Authority's outpost is at Three Corners in Redridge Mountains: one quartermaster per crafting profession, each selling that profession's recipes for Favor plus a Certification at 1,000.
The same outpost sells the Authority's tabard (200), an Advertising License Application (1,200), a Packmule Treat pet (1,500) and the Pack Kodo mount (6,000, level 60).
In the client, 45 vendor prices spend Merchant's Favor — the Horde side and what goes into a crate are not recorded yet.

Sold for Favor at Three Corners

Nina SurefireAlchemy recipes 45–240 · Alchemy Certification 1,000
Stondry DarkhammerBlacksmithing recipes 30–120 · Blacksmithing Certification 1,000
AlynsiaEnchanting recipes 45–240 · Enchanting Certification 1,000
Fritz FizzleEngineering recipes 45–360 · Engineering Certification 1,000
Daniel StitchsongLeatherworking recipes 30–90 · Leatherworking Certification 1,000
Mivin ShadowweaveTailoring recipes 30–90 · Tailoring Certification 1,000
Kalsey SandenCooking recipes 30–90
Tamelyn AldridgeAdvertising License Application 1,200Packmule Treat 1,500
Huey SunnydaleReins of the Pack Kodo 6,000

Prices as read off the vendors by our recorder; the Durotar Supply and Logistics counterpart has not been visited yet.