The Legacy system

Getting started

• Your first point opens it

  Legacy opens with your first Legacy point. For most players that comes when a character reaches level 25, but skill 150 in a non-gathering primary profession or exploring the whole world map works too.

• Where to find it

  Click the shield on the menu bar, or press Y.

• Shared by your account

  Legacy points belong to your Battle.net account, so every character outside Hardcore can use them.

Legacy Challenges

Each challenge earns one Legacy point.

• 27points

  Classes

  Reach levels 25, 45 and 60 with each of the nine classes.

  See all nine classes

• 18points

  Tradeskills

  Reach skill 150, 225 and 300 in each non-gathering primary profession.

  See every profession

• 12points

  Player vs. Player

  Reach PvP ranks 3, 7, 10, 13 and 14 (5 points), Exalted with each battleground reputation (4 points), and finish the week 4, 7 and 10 quests of a season’s Field of Honor journey (3 points).

  How PvP ranks work

• 2points

  Adventure

  Explore the whole world map on one character, and finish the Lord Valthalak dungeon set questline.

• 3points

  Dungeons

  Defeat the final boss of every dungeon for levels 15 to 25, 26 to 45 and 46 to 60.

  See the new dungeons

• 3points

  Raids

  Defeat Onyxia, all 13 bosses of Hyjal Summit and all 8 bosses of the Barrow Deeps.

  See the new raids

The 16-point cap

• A limit per character

  At launch each character can spend up to 16 points. The cap keeps new players from falling too far behind.

• Each character chooses

  Every character spends your account’s points in its own way, so one can be a crafter and another an adventurer. You can respend them later: the cheapest respec costs 1 silver, and the price steps back down every hour.

• No alts needed

  One character can earn up to 29 points: 3 from leveling, 6 from its professions, 12 from PvP, 2 from Adventure and 6 from dungeons and raids.

Legacy Perks

• Professions

  Perks for crafting, gathering and trading.

  Working Overtime

  A better skill-up chance in every tradeskill, Lockpicking included.

  Bountiful Harvest

  Extra scarce resources from mining, herbs and skinning.

  Bartering

  Lower vendor prices.

  Performance Bonus

  Sometimes extra Merchant’s Favor from the Azeroth Commerce Authority or Durotar Supply and Logistics, the two new trade factions.

  Master Chef

  Cooking sometimes makes extra food.

  Luremaster

  Fishing sometimes catches extra fish.

  Dedicated Study

  A daily cooldown for faster skill-ups, or free Elemental Essences once every tradeskill is at 300.

• Adventure

  Perks for leveling and getting around.

  Well Rested

  A higher rested experience cap that fills faster.

  Thrill of Adventure

  A little health and mana back after each kill that isn’t trivial.

  High Alert

  Spot stealthed enemies more easily outside battlegrounds.

  Field Guide

  A shorter cooldown on placing camping features.

  Field Medicine

  A shorter Recently Bandaged debuff outside dungeons, raids and battlegrounds.

  Talented

  Talent points up to 5 levels early.

  Frequent Flier

  Cheaper, faster flights.

• Resourcefulness

  Perks that save time, gold and reagents.

  Gourmand

  Longer food buffs.

  The Quick and the Dead

  Faster runs back to your body, and free party and raid buffs after you are resurrected.

  Reinforce

  Less durability loss when you die.

  For Great Honor

  More Honor from PvP.

  Permanence

  Longer party, raid and camping buffs.

  Diplomat

  More reputation.

  Reagent Economy

  No bought reagents for class abilities, and no materials for tier 1 camping features.

  How Honor works

Legacy Rewards

The points your account collects unlock these.

• 15points

  Replica Ironforge Air Rifle

  • Toy

  Join a shootout with other players. The toy guns stun whoever they hit and even keep score.

• 25points

  Spectral Bear Cub

  • Pet

  A pet only Legacy gives, inspired by the Dwarf Hunter and his bear in the WoW Forever cinematic.

• 40points

  Spectral Bear Tabard

  • Tabard

  A tabard only Legacy gives.

• 55points

  Reins of the Spectral Bear

  • Mount

  A spectral bear mount only Legacy gives.

Hardcore and what’s next

• Hardcore counts everywhere

  Hardcore comes later. A challenge you finish there counts in every other ruleset too.

• Nothing flows into Hardcore

  Challenges finished on other rulesets don’t show up in Hardcore.

• Twelve Hardcore challenges

  PvP challenges can’t be done in Hardcore, so it gets 12 challenges of its own.

• More with every update

  Each content release is meant to add challenges, new perks in the current trees, higher spending caps and later whole new trees, and more toys and cosmetics on the rewards track.