The Legacy System is WoW: Forever's account-wide progression. You earn Legacy Points by completing Legacy Challenges, such as leveling a class to 25 or raising a profession to 300, and every character on your account can spend them on perks. At launch there are 65 challenges, one point each, and each character can spend up to 16 points. Tick off what you have done below to see where you stand.
Your Legacy Points
0 / 65
Toy
Pet
Tabard
Mount
Earn your first point to unlock the Legacy System (usually your first character reaching level 25).
Your ticks are saved in this browser only.
Classes · 0/27 points
Tradeskills · 0/18 points
Player vs. Player · 0/12 points
Adventure · 0/2 points
Dungeons · 0/3 points
Raids · 0/3 points
How Legacy Points work
- Unlocking: the system opens when you earn your first Legacy Point. For most players that is the first character to reach level 25, but reaching 150 in a non-gathering primary profession or exploring the whole world map also does it. Open it with the shield icon on the menu or the default Y key.
- Points are account-wide across your Battle.net account and across rulesets, except Hardcore (see below).
- Spending is per character. Each character spends the shared pool separately in its own perk trees, so an alt can specialize differently from your main.
- Spending cap: 16 per character at launch. You can keep earning beyond that; extra points count toward the reward track.
- Changing perks: visit a class trainer in a major city, the same place you change normal talents.
Do you need alts?
No. Blizzard designed the cap so a single character can reach it. One character can earn up to 29 points alone:
| Source on one character | Max points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Leveling your class | 3 | Levels 25, 45 and 60 |
| Professions | 6 | Two primary professions × 150, 225 and 300 (gathering professions do not count) |
| PvP | 12 | Five ranks, four battleground reputations, three season journey quests |
| Adventure | 2 | World map exploration and the Lord Valthalak questline |
| Dungeons and raids | 6 | Three dungeon brackets and three raids |
| Total | 29 | Above the 16-point cap |
Alts still help. Each new class you level adds up to 3 points, and other crafting professions add up to 3 each, which matters for the reward track and for future cap increases.
Legacy perk planner
Plan how one character spends its Legacy Points. The three perk trees, every perk's ranks, the row requirements (5 and 10 points in a tree) and the 16-point cap per character are read from the WoW: Forever client data (build 1.60.1.70532). Each rank costs 1 point. Hover a perk for its exact effect at each rank.
Click to learn a rank and right-click to unlearn. On a phone, tap a talent and use + / −.
All Legacy perks at launch
Every perk with its maximum rank and its effect at max rank, from the game data:
Professions
| Perk | Ranks | Needs | At max rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master Chef | 5 | 5 in Professions | Your cooking recipes have a 50% chance to create an extra result. |
| Working Overtime | 5 | – | Increases your chance to gain a skill increase from using any primary, secondary, or class-based tradeskill by 20%. |
| Bartering | 2 | 5 in Professions | Reduces the gold price of items from all vendors by 10%. |
| Dedicated Study | 1 | 10 in Professions | Increases your skill by 1 in your lowest tradeskill among your Primary and Secondary tradeskills. If you have already reached 300 skill in your two current Primary Tradeskills and all three Secondary Tradeskills, you will gain 3 of a random Elemental Essence. |
| Bountiful Harvest | 5 | – | You discover 100% more Scarce materials from Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning. |
| Performance Bonus | 3 | 5 in Professions | You have a 15% chance to receive 100% increased Merchant's Favor when you turn in a crate to the Azeroth Commerce Authority or Durotar Supply and Logistics. |
| Luremaster | 2 | 5 in Professions | While fishing with a Lure active, you have a 50% chance to catch an extra fish. |
Adventure
| Perk | Ranks | Needs | At max rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Alert | 2 | 5 in Adventure | Increases your ability to detect nearby targets with Stealth as if your level were increased by 2. Ineffective in Battlegrounds. |
| Well Rested | 5 | – | Your rested experience accumulates 20% faster and your rested experience cap is increased by 20%. |
| Talented | 5 | 5 in Adventure | You gain talent points every level starting at level 5 instead of starting at level 10, but you still may not have more than 51 total talent points. |
| Thrill of Adventure | 5 | – | You gain 5% of your maximum Health and Mana over 10 sec each time you deliver the killing blow to a non-trivial enemy. Ineffective in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds. |
| Field Guide | 3 | 5 in Adventure | Reduces your cooldown on adding Camp features by 25% |
| Frequent Flier | 1 | 10 in Adventure | You receive a 50% discount on all flight paths, and your flight path mount flies 20% faster. |
| Field Medicine | 2 | 5 in Adventure | Reduces the duration of the Recently Bandaged effect by 10 sec when you use a bandage. Ineffective in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds. |
Resourcefulness
| Perk | Ranks | Needs | At max rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| For Great Honor | 5 | 5 in Resourcefulness | Increases Honor Points gained by 10%. |
| Gourmand | 3 | – | Increases the duration of beneficial effects from eating food by 100%. |
| Permanence | 2 | 5 in Resourcefulness | Your class abilities which grant long-duration stat or attribute benefits to all party or raid members last 100% longer, and the benefits you gain from resting at a camp last 100% longer. |
| The Quick and the Dead | 2 | – | Increases movement speed while dead by 10% and your helpful spells and abilities cost no resources for 2 min after being resurrected or until you enter combat. |
| Reagent Economy | 1 | 10 in Resourcefulness | Your class abilities no longer require reagents purchaseable from vendors. |
| Reinforce | 5 | – | You take 40% less durability loss when you die. |
| Diplomat | 5 | 5 in Resourcefulness | Increases your reputation gains by 10%. |
Legacy reward track
Separate from perks, your total Legacy Points unlock account-wide cosmetic rewards with no competitive advantage. The spending cap does not apply here, so every point you earn counts. Blizzard's Legacy article shows four rewards for launch:
| Points | Reward | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | Replica Ironforge Air Rifle | Toy |
| 25 | Spectral Bear Cub | Pet |
| 40 | Spectral Bear Tabard | Tabard |
| 55 | Reins of the Spectral Bear | Mount |
The thresholds come from the Progress Track screenshot in Blizzard's article (below), taken before launch. The Replica Ironforge Air Rifle is a toy for a shootout game that stuns other players and keeps score.
Legacy and Hardcore
- Challenges you complete on Normal, PvP or Roleplaying do not appear in Hardcore.
- A challenge completed in Hardcore is granted on all other rulesets.
- Because PvP challenges cannot be done in Hardcore, Hardcore will launch with 12 extra Hardcore-specific challenges.
What comes next
Blizzard plans new Legacy Challenges with every content release, new perks in the existing trees, new trees later, higher spending caps and more rewards. We will update the tracker when new challenges are announced.
Related guides
- Camping system (Field Guide and Permanence perks affect camping)
- PvP ranks and rewards
- New dungeons · Raids
Sources
Facts on this page come from the sources below: official Blizzard posts unless marked as a secondary source. If Blizzard changes something, we update the page and the date above.
- Get to Know the World of Warcraft: Forever Legacy System (2026-09-24)
- World of Warcraft: Forever Deep Dive Panel Recap (2026-09-14)
- [Updated 10/22] Choose Your Ruleset in World of Warcraft: Forever (2026-10-22)
- WoW: Forever client data, build 1.60.1.70532 (talent and spell tables, exported by wago.tools) (2026-10-21)