Profession Quests

• Each profession will get a unique quest line, these quests will immerse your character in the story and they will try to mimic what you would do if you had that profession in real-life. (like smelting different kind of metals, and ores for blacksmithing)
• You learn most recipes from quests, but there are still a few recipes that drops from creatures.
• These are not max. level quests, you can start doing them as you level up, but there are level requirements for later quests so you can't finish them all at level 100.

New improved crafting UI

• There is a new Unlearned tab where you can check which recipes you are missing and where to get them.
• The new profession window is much larger.
• Filter options for slots, category, and sources.
• Many new categories for recipes.

Recipe Ranks

• Most Legion recipes now have 3 ranks.
• Higher rank recipes allow you to craft an item for fewer materials, or you get more potions/food for the same amount of material.

As I mentioned in my previous article, you can assign a follower with a profession perk to your level 2 garrison buildings for an added bonus. One bonus is that you have a chance to get 2 extra resource from your work orders. The chance for getting an extra resource is only 50% if you have a level 90 follower, but it will increase to 100% when you level your follower to level 100. For the Mine and Herb garden, the bonus is that you will get 8 herb/ore from your work orders instead of 5.

Profession skill level requirements removed

Work orders and daily cooldowns

• Work orders:

General changes

• Direct combat benefits of Professions will be removed. This means you no longer have to level professions to get 0.5% dps increase, so leveling a profession will be more like a personal choice now.
• Realm First profession achievements are gone.
• Work orders and profession daily cooldowns convert raw materials like herbs and ores to a more useful reagent. Almost every new item you can craft requires this reagent generated from doing work orders, or your profession daily cooldwon, these reagents binds on pickup.
• You can craft items at your garrison without having professions. But, you can't craft the best items, consumables.
• Herbalism, Mining and Skinning will be easier to level. You can now pick herbs, harvest mineral nodes and skin animals without a required skill. The amount of ore/herb/leather you'll get is determined by your skill level. This is similar what we have now for herbs and ores in pandaria. You can read more about this here.