Tips for maxing out all professions in all expansions?

I started this new project and have started with Jewelcrafting, reaching so far Dragonflight after having maxed all previous expansions over 8 hours.

I’m following the wow-profession guides, but if there’s anything better or any tips that I could be given I’d love them! :smiley:

Thank you ^^

it goes quick I guess if you don’t farm all the materials rather buy off auction house

Some of the old ones can be a bit annoying… Just hang in there, some of them just take patience and perseverance!

A lot of Outland stuff is gated behind rep. Timewalking is your friend if you didn’t get those reps then.

WoD stuff tends to be time-gated behind “secrets of draenor X”. Sometimes you may need a few days to get the recipe you need to max.

Legion is by far the worst to level, especially for gathering professions. You’ll have to patiently wait for the right world quest to be up. And most crafting professions need you to have done the story up to unlocking suramar, as well as their individual quest chains. None of this is account bound, so if you didn’t do that then on that character you need to do it again. Sometimes the recipe you need to level with will cost blood of sargeras; if you don’t have any you might have to do a few world quests. These are, unfortunately, not transferrable.

BfA you’ll need to unlock Nazjatar. Sometimes it’s rep gated. Wow-professions will tell you to do pvp to finish these. If you don’t pvp, you may have to go through the process of making the void focus instead. Just keep in mind that wow-professions usually shows the quickest route, but that’s not the only route.

For Dragonflight keep in mind that wow-professions is not entirely accurate. For every profession except leatherworking there is a recipe that is a straight shot to 100. If it doesn’t say, you should come down to the professions forum and someone can help you figure out which specific recipe you need.

And finally for the current expansion there are multiple ways to get to 100 fairly easily. JC for example you can get it done in like 5 minutes by making any of the blasphemite gems. Wow-professions is also not accurate on the knowledge per week or catch-up so again I’d hop down to the professions forum and we’ll get you sorted.

And last, but not least… If any last bits of skill elude you or frustrate you, Darkmoon faire will skill up old professions if the current one is maxed out. It gives skill for whichever is the most recent unfinished expansion.

Remember you have friends down in the profession forums! We’re always there to help a fellow crafter, so if you get stuck come join us.

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Well for starters have the professions on characters you actually play and love, except maybe Mining/Herb put that on a Druid (unless you love Druid).

Do all of that expansions professions at the same time. There are alot of reagents you are going to be using across multiple professions so doing all of MoP professions at the same time helps alot. USE your warbank as you can craft from it.

When you need a recipe that can be sold on the AH check a site like undermine exchange to see all of the prices across all servers to get the cheapest one (but if it’s already cheap on your server don’t bother). Simply have the gold in your warbank, create a character on that realm (Mag’har orcs are the best because you spawn right near the Valley of Honor AH) buy the item and deposit it into your warbank then delete that character.

Finally for Dragonflight and TWW professions get into the habit of logging off at the Dornogal profession tables especially if you are swapping around alot. All of my crafters park at the profession tables.

Hey, thank you for the reply, nobody is replying there yet however, I can’t find any info on Dragonflight Jewelcrafting 1-100 guides

DF really benefits from having alt 80s who can do transmog runs of the raids and pick up a bunch of sparks. Spark gear give most of the upper skillups but a big hassle if you can’t get that one component.

One thing I’ve noticed with past professions is that you might be better off going for what’s cheaper to progress some of your profession than the guide items (something you can spam on a green level that costs next to nothing vs expensive mate).

So I usually approach it from a ‘what has a relatively easy recipe with cheap mats’ .

So right now there is a bug that lets you mine while flying as long as you’re slow flying (steady flight, old flying). This works in all expansions as long as you can fly in that area.

Basically, hover just within reach of the ore so that you can mine it and it won’t (for whatever reason) dismount you.

And you can use the sky golem mount for herbing.

So until they fix the bug anyway, everyone’s a druid!

The few people who actually do list old mats charge a lot.

Cloth prices especially are nasty. So just in case you’re stuck on tailoring: Silk in Scarlet Monastery, Dire Maul for Felcloth, Tempest Keep drops so much fabric you will never run out of Netherweave if you run through it, not sure what’s a good farm for the early stuff but starter zones in general.

Also Mists crafting is heavily timegated.

For everything UP to DF … you just follow the old guides. You’re either going to spend a decent amount of time farming some old mats, or spending a lot of gold.

But for DF and tWW, you are going to be HARD time-gated.

Pro-tip:

1> Get the weekly quest in DF for crafting orders.

2> Go to each individual crafting table and do the weekly quest for that profession.

3> Go to Dorn. Get the weekly quest for crafting orders.

4> Now, do your crafting orders using patron orders… and it will complete BOTH of the crafting order quests for DF AND tWW!

5> Do the individual crafting orders for each proff.

6> Get a Treatise for DF and tWW from an Inscriptionist. I mean, you should have one of your own for this, right? :stuck_out_tongue:

7> If you have extra time, for DF you can use Sturdy Expedition Shovels and earn +7 pts a week by digging in the dirt.

For tWW, you don’t need a shovel, just fly around and dig in dirt/wax (make sure to get the quest in Ringing Deeps). Although I think it’s only 5 pts/ week.

Note that digging for points is random and is often quite time consuming. This often isn’t worth the effort, it was basically a “freebie” when it was current content.

But all of the DF/tWW stuff is going to get you like 10 pts a week when you need 500+ pts to max a profession out. It will take a LONG, LONG time. And you have to put A LOT of time and material in to it.

tWW and patron orders did a lot of good things, but it’s still a MONSTROUS grind.

edit: My post is about maxing every SPECIALIZED node in DF/tWW. The OP might only be interested in “filling the bar to 100.” Which… isn’t really that hard.

Just filter for “what gives me a skillup” and… make those items.

Maxing every specialization node is much more of a challenge.

They’re just looking to level from 1-100 (for the achievement) so they don’t need to do all that. There’s more than enough initial kp points to get to the specific recipes needed to level.

For example, I got Khaz Algar Master of All completed in the first week of the expansion so it’s quite fast!

The tree takes awhile but you don’t need to fill it all out even if you are going to make items in TWW. Just the one(s) you want to make. Also there’s no achievement for filling the knowledge tree out, just personal satisfaction.

This isn’t a bug. TWW and DF Herbalism and Mining have a talent that allows you to mine/herb while mounted. As well as a few other items for Legion and BfA and WoD (garrison perk) namely stirrups.

Wow-professions is the best. From that point there isn’t much nuance. You either need to buy the materials or farm them.

The only deviations you make will be on the fly by using a different recipe if someone price gouges the mats you need.

This is indeed a bug as it has been reported that people who do not have mounted flying yet unlocked were able to do this in TWW.

Also I had no stirrups or anything in. That character I was running did not exist in WoD so no garrison either. I was nonetheless able to mine while mounted in the legion zones. If I got too close to the ground, it did dismount me. (You have to hover just close enough to make the cursor change to the mining pick without being too close)

ahh yeah, like I said in my edit, that’s super easy.

If you want to do it in just 2 weeks like you mentioned, although you CAN do that, it’s going to cost a rather extreme amount of gold.

I much prefer to just take the easy points and let the DMF push me over the finish line.

But no matter how you do it, just getting to 100 is easy. :slight_smile:

I did it in the first week for less than 200k for all of them. (The vast majority of this for recipes) It took me that long because I used the slow and cheap leveling path. I could have leveled in a day if I’d thrown actual money at it.

Generally there’s one fast path (like wild experimentation + flask making) that’s expensive, one slow path (like meticulous experimentation daily) and a path involving acuity/sparks.

The slow path is not that slow though. I still leveled in a week (you can check my achieve date). And no, I absolutely did not spend a lot of gold doing it. Having a plan and knowing what you’re doing keeps costs low.

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