Patch 8.2 - Rise of Azshara Profession Update

Rise of Azshara Patch 8.2 goes live on June 25. / 26. (US/EU). The new patch offers a lot of new recipes and items to craft or gather.

General Changes

  • All Battle for Azeroth professions (except Archaeology) now have a maximum skill of 175 instead of 150. Every old recipe will be gray after 150, so you can only use the new ones to level your profession up to 175.
  • Players can now gain the first 25 skill points in each profession by disenchanting, milling, or prospecting items from the respective expansion. These are not guaranteed skill points, but still, it will be a bit cheaper to level up these professions.

The Abyssal Focus

In Nazjatar, you will build a new crafting station called the Abyssal Focus. This is used to craft the new raid gear, and the new recipes no longer directly require materials from dungeons and raids. But you will still need Eternal Ornament from raids to upgrade your station.

You will get a series of quests to upgrade your station. Each upgrade lets you craft a higher level item. Upgrading the Abyssal Focus is permanent. You don't have to upgrade it for each item, you can craft as many as you want once upgraded.

The starting quest is Ancient Technology. You will get this quest after you do the into Nazjatar quests.

Gathering professions

Alchemy

Most new potions are basically just upgraded versions of the 8.0 potions. But there are 4 new potions with unique procs.

Blacksmithing

Cooking

Enchanting

  • 4 new ring enchants. They give 60 of a secondary stat (old was 37). (Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery, Versatility)
  • Force Multiplier - Permanently enchant a weapon to occasionally increase Intellect by 500 for 15 sec. While active, you restore 500 mana per second.
  • Machinist's Brilliance - Permanently enchant a weapon to occasionally increase Intellect by 500 for 15 sec. While active, your offensive spells and abilities sometimes increase your Mastery, Haste, or Critical Strike by 100, stacking up to 5 times. Your highest stat is always chosen.
  • Naga Hide - Permanently enchant a weapon to occasionally increase Strength or Agility by 500 for 15 sec. While active, your offensive spells and abilities sometimes increase your Mastery, Haste, or Critical Strike by 100, stacking up to 5 times. Your highest stat is always chosen.
  • Oceanic Restoration - Permanently enchant a weapon to occasionally increase Strength or Agility by 500 for 15 sec. Additionally, while active, your skin is covered in thick scales, allowing you to absorb 15000 damage.
  • Light-Step Hoofplates - New mount equipment provides +20% mount speed.
  • Notorious Combatant's Sorcerous Scepter - ilvl 370 Wand

Engineering

Inscription

Jewelcrafting

Leatherworking

  • New set of ilvl 370 Notorious Combatant mail and leather armors.
  • Cragscale and Dredged Leather pants and boots. (ilvl 410, 425, and 440)
  • Comfortable Rider's Barding - New mount equipment that prevents you from being dazed while mounted.

Tailoring

  • New cloth: Gilded Seaweave
  • New set of ilvl 370 Notorious Combatant cloth armors.
  • Gilded Seaweave cloth pants and gloves. (ilvl 410, 425, and 440)
  • Saddlechute - New mount equipment that will deploy an emergency parachute when dismounted while high in the air.