Professions Bonuses for Mists of Pandaria Classic

All professions in Mists of Pandaria give your character a boost in stats. Some of these bonuses are more useful than others, while some are better for specific classes. Use this list to see the benefits of each profession to help you decide which to choose.

While Archaeology is not a main profession, it has a few powerful items that are useful for early characters.

• Anatomical Dummy
• Quilen Statuette
• Spear of Xuen
• Umbrella of Chi-Ji

Alchemy gains a unique buff, Mixology. This improves your flask and elixir stats and duration. You will also get Alchemist's Flask, a flask with unlimited uses, as well as a few additional perks.

• Mixology — Increases flask time to 2 hours and increases stats from flasks and elixirs.
• Alchemist's Flask — Has unlimited uses, can be used in arenas and rated battlegrounds.
• Zen Alchemist Stone — Mastery Trinket
• Transmute Elements — Daily Elemental Transmute
• Transmute Gems — Daily Gem Transmute
• Transmute Metals — Daily Metal Transmute

Blacksmithing lets you to add an additional gem socket to your bracers and gloves, allowing you to use two more gems in your gear. These additional sockets are even better if using Epic quality gems.

• Socket Bracer
• Socket Gloves

If you take Enchanting, you can enchant your own rings in Mists of Pandaria, but not others.

• Enchant Ring - Greater Agility
• Enchant Ring - Greater Intellect
• Enchant Ring - Greater Stamina
• Enchant Ring - Greater Strength

Engineering has many unique enchants, gadgets, and gizmos that improve your character in more ways that just raw stats. Below you can find all of the items available for Engineering during Mists of Pandaria.

• Lightweight Retinal Armor — Intellect Cloth Helmet
• Camouflage Retinal Armor — Intellect Leather Helmet
• Agile Retinal Armor — Agility Leather Helmet
• Energized Retinal Armor — Intellect Mail Helmet
• Deadly Retinal Armor — Agility Mail Helmet
• Specialized Retinal Armor — Intellect Plate Helmet
• Reinforced Retinal Armor — Strength Plate Helmet

These Cogwheel Gems can only be placed in the Engineering Helmets above, and Ghost Iron Dragonling.

• Fractured Tinker's Gear — 600 Mastery Rating
• Quick Tinker's Gear — 600 Haste Rating
• Smooth Tinker's Gear — 600 Critical Strike Rating
• Rigid Tinker's Gear — 600 Hit Rating
• Precise Tinker's Gear — 600 Expertise Rating
• Subtle Tinker's Gear — 600 Dodge Rating
• Flashing Tinker's Gear — 600 Parry Rating
• Sparkling Tinker's Gear — 600 Spirit

In Mists of Pandaria, all Engineering Tinker Enchants can be used along-side regular enchants, no longer requiring you to choose one or the other.

• Incendiary Fireworks Launcher — Deals high Fire damage to a target at range.
• Phase Fingers — 2,880 Dodge rating for 10 seconds, 1 minute cooldown.
• Synapse Springs — 1,920 Main Stat on use for 10 seconds, 1 minute cooldown.
• Watergliding Jets — Allows water walking and increased swimming speed for 12 seconds, 30 second cooldown.

Mists of Pandaria gives Herbalism an on-use cooldown, giving this profession some benefit in combat.

• Lifeblood — Heals over time, increased by max health and spell power or attack power. Also increases Haste Rating by 2,880.

Inscription offers unique shoulder enchants that are better than the regular enchants players can get.

• Secret Crane Wing Inscription — Intellect & Crit
• Secret Ox Horn Inscription — Stamina & Dodge
• Secret Tiger Fang Inscription — Strength & Crit
• Secret Tiger Claw Inscription — Agility & Crit

Jewelcrafting grants you access to unique, Jewelcrafting-only gems. These gems are much more powerful than any others available; they are, however, limited to the use of 3 equipped at a time. Jewelcrafting also offers some powerful early-game trinkets that may be useful as you begin gearing up.

• Rigid Serpent's Eye — Hit
• Solid Serpent's Eye — Stamina
• Sparkling Serpent's Eye — Spirit
• Fractured Serpent's Eye — Mastery
• Quick Serpent's Eye — Haste
• Smooth Serpent's Eye — Crit
• Subtle Serpent's Eye — Dodge
• Lucent Serpent's Eye — Agility & PvP Resilience
• Resplendent Serpent's Eye — Strength & PvP Resilience
• Willful Serpent's Eye — Intellect & PvP Resilience
• Assassin's Serpent's Eye — Agility & PvP Power
• Mysterious Serpent's Eye — Intellect & PvP Power
• Tense Serpent's Eye — Strength & PvP Power
• Bold Serpent's Eye — Strength
• Brilliant Serpent's Eye — Intellect
• Delicate Serpent's Eye — Agility
• Flashing Serpent's Eye — Parry
• Precise Serpent's Eye — Expertise

Leatherworking offers the ability to craft some great end-game gear as well as powerful bracer enchants.

• Fur Lining - Agility — 500 Agility
• Fur Lining - Intellect — 500 Intellect
• Fur Lining - Stamina — 750 Stamina
• Fur Lining - Strength — 500 Strength

In addition to the Leatherworking specific enchants, you can also make very cheap leg enchants.

• Primal Leg Reinforcements — Agility & Crit
• Draconic Leg Reinforcements — Strength & Crit
• Heavy Leg Reinforcements — Stamina & Dodge

Mining only offers a Stamina bonus, making it a bad choice for anyone besides tanks.

• Toughness — 480 Stamina

Skinning offers a Critical Strike Rating bonus, limiting its viability as other professions typically offer more variety.

• Master of Anatomy — 480 Critical Strike Rating

Tailoring offers the ability to craft some great end-game gear, as well as some powerful, unique cloak enchants. These cloak enchants have an amount of randomness to them as they are procs instead of passive stat increases.

• Darkglow Embroidery — 3,000 Spirit for 15 seconds.
• Lightweave Embroidery — 2,000 Intellect for 15 seconds.
• Swordguard Embroidery — 4,000 Attack Power for 15 seconds.