A profession is a large trade-oriented set of skills that player characters may incrementally learn in order to gather, make, or enhance items that can be used in World of Warcraft gameplay. Professions are learned from a trainer (or sometimes from a book at higher levels), for a cost. Professions can be learned regardless of their character faction, race, or class (although there are a few class skills that are just like a profession.)

 

Specific trade skills within a profession allow you to do specific things - craft a specific item or add a specific enhancement. These are learned from the profession trainers, from recipes, or occasionally directly from a quest trainer. Each profession starts out with a few specific trade skills.

 

Through practice, a character gains skill levels within the profession and becomes more capable within that profession. Note the distinction, professional skills are capabilities within a profession, whereas professional skill level is a progression metric which is used as a prerequisite for professional skills and as a prerequisite for the ability to gather specific items within a gathering profession.

 

While crafting and service (Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring, Jewelcrafting, Enchanting) professions are reasonably easy to do with the proper amount of materials, it can still be a pain if you do not have the proper resources or capability to gather the resources.  Gathering professions (Skinning, Mining, Herbalism) also take a lot of time to level up.

 

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