Profession Changes in the Shadowlands Expansion
This page will cover all relevant changes to Professions in the Shadowlands.
Under each section, we will also link to our dedicated page for that profession. Those pages contain information on how to level the professions and how to get the most out of them.
- 1. General Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 2. Alchemy Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 3. Blacksmithing Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 4. Enchanting Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 5. Engineering Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 6. Shadowlands Inscription Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 7. Jewelcrafting Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 8. Leatherworking Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 9. Tailoring Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 10. Mining Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 11. Skinning Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 12. Herbalism Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 13. Cooking Profession Changes in Shadowlands
- 14. Fishing Profession Changes in Shadowlands
General Profession Changes in Shadowlands
Optional Reagents are reagents that can be mixed into various item recipes for all of the Professions. Depending on the type of Reagent that you add to your recipe, you can alter the resulting item's level and stats.
For example, adding the Alchemist's Pouch Optional Reagent to an item craft will cause the item to increase the duration of any Flasks you drink while it is equipped.
In addition to Optional Reagents, all Crafting Professions can craft the same set of "Crafter's Mark" items that go up to level 5. These can be used in item crafts to increase the item level of the final item. These items are the same between Professions, but the reagents required can change.
- Novice Crafter's Mark
- Crafter's Mark I
- Crafter's Mark II
- Crafter's Mark III
- Crafter's Mark IV
Legendary Crafting
In Shadowlands, new Legendary items are crafted by either Blacksmithing (Plate), Leatherworking (Leather/Mail), Tailoring (Cloth/Cloaks), or Jewelcrafting (Jewelry Items).
The base Legendary items are crafted by either of these Professions. These base items must be combined with certain other items to give you a working Legendary item.
- Soul Ash, obtained from Torghast, Tower of the Damned Weekly Runs.
- Memory of the Runecarver Legendary Recipes, obtained from various sources depending on the Legendary Item.
- Two Missive Stat Scrolls, crafted by Scribes. The Missives you choose determine the stats on your Legendary Item. These are: Missive of Haste, Missive of Critical Strike, Missive of Mastery, and Missive of Versatility.
All Crafting Professions except for Jewelcrafting can craft Legendary Base Items for every Armor Slot except for Jewelry, which only Jewelcrafting can do.
For even more detailed information about Legendary Items in Shadowlands, check out our dedicated guide below.
Alchemy Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Alchemy in Shadowlands. We have a Alchemy guide, and you can find a link to it below.
New Reagents
- New Herbs: Death Blossom, Marrowroot, Nightshade, Rising Glory, Vigil's Torch, and Widowbloom.
- All the Herbs listed above can be ground down to their Ground counterparts, for example Ground Death Blossom. The cost is 2 Herbs per Ground Herb.
- New Crafting Reagent: Shadestone, transmuted with Ground Herbs and used for the Eternal Cauldron and Spiritual Alchemy Stone, which are very valuable to raiders.
New Alchemy Consumables
Oils in Shadowlands
Oils are a new type of temporary Weapon Enchant that last for only 60 minutes.
- Shadowcore Oil
- Embalmer's Oil
New Flasks in Shadowlands
- Spectral Flask of Power
- Spectral Flask of Stamina
- Eternal Cauldron
New Unique Potions in Shadowlands
In addition to the potions listed below, there will also be new generic potions for Agility, Intellect, Strength, and Stamina. These will have the new handle of "Spectral"; for example: Potion of Spectral Agility.
- Potion of Deathly Fixation
- Potion of Empowered Exorcisms
- Potion of Phantom Fire
- Potion of Sacrificial Anima
- Potion of Divine Awakening
- Spiritual Anti-Venom
Optional Reagents from Alchemy
Optional Reagents are items that can be added to any recipe from any Profession to alter the item created. Every Profession can craft unique Optional Reagents, but they can be used for any item from any Profession.
- Alchemist's Pouch can be added to item crafts to increase the duration of any Flasks consumed while wearing the item.
Blacksmithing Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Blacksmithing in Shadowlands. We have a Blacksmithing guide, and you can find a link to it below.
Blacksmithing Legendary Item Crafts
Blacksmiths are one of the Professions that can create Legendary Base Items. These items must be infused with other reagents to create a usable Legendary Item. All Blacksmithing Legendaries are Plate items and require 100 Blacksmithing Skill to make.
Reagents for Legendary Blacksmithing Items
All Blacksmithing Legendary Base Item Crafts require these reagents. You can use more of these reagents to craft higher item level versions of the Legendary Items, and different slots also require different amounts of reagent.
- Shadowghast Ingot
- Enchanted Elethium Bar
- Luminous Flux
- Orboreal Shard
These Reagents can be turned into a variety of Base Items, such as Shadowghast Breastplate, which must be combined with items from other sources to finally create a Legendary Item.
Sharpening Stones and Weightstones
Sharpening Stones and Weightstones are Temporary Weapon Enchants that can be applied to sharp or blunt weapons respectively. They only last for 1 hour, and they all increase your Attack Power by varying amounts.
- Porous Sharpening Stone
- Porous Weightstone
- Shaded Sharpening Stone
- Shaded Weightstone
Optional Reagents from Blacksmithing
Optional Reagents are items that can be added to any recipe from any Profession to alter the item created. Every Profession can craft unique Optional Reagents, but they can be used for any item from any Profession.
- Elethium Setting can be added to item crafts to add a prismatic socket to the item, allowing for a gem slot.
- Reinforced Girdle can be added to item crafts to allow you to keep your Well Fed food buff if you are slain in an Arena or Battleground setting.
In addition to all of this, Blacksmithing will have a variety of generic weapons and armor items to craft as usual.
Enchanting Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Enchanting in Shadowlands. We have a Enchanting guide, and you can find a link to it below.
New Armor Enchants
Enchanting will have Weapon and Ring Enchants similar to previous expansions, with the new Ring Enchants being called "Bargain of X" and "Tenet of X" for the cheap and expensive versions respectively.
In addition, enchants for a lot of non-Jewelry armor pieces are making a return in Shadowlands. We have listed them below.
Cloak Enchants
- Enchant Cloak - Fortified Avoidance
- Enchant Cloak - Fortified Leech
- Enchant Cloak - Fortified Speed
- Enchant Cloak - Soul Vitality
Chest Enchants
- Enchant Chest - Eternal Bulwark
- Enchant Chest - Eternal Bounds
- Enchant Chest - Eternal Insight
- Enchant Chest - Eternal Skirmish
- Enchant Chest - Eternal Stats
- Enchant Chest - Sacred Stats
Bracer Enchants
- Enchant Bracers - Eternal Intellect
- Enchant Bracers - Illuminated Soul
- Enchant Bracers - Shaded Hearthing
Glove Enchants
- Enchant Gloves - Eternal Strength
- Enchant Gloves - Shadowlands Gathering
- Enchant Gloves - Strength of Soul
Boot Enchants
- Enchant Boots - Agile Soulwalker
- Enchant Boots - Eternal Agility
- Soul Treads
Weapon Enchants
- Enchant Weapon - Ascended Vigor
- Enchant Weapon - Celestial Guidance
- Enchant Weapon - Eternal Grace
- Enchant Weapon - Lightless Force
- Enchant Weapon - Sinful Revelation
Enchanted Reagents
In Shadowlands, Enchanters can enchant the most common reagents that are used for recipes from other Professions.
- Enchanted Elethium Bar
- Enchanted Heavy Callous Hide
- Enchanted Lightless Silk
Combining Dusts and Shards
As usual, there are three tiers of Enchanting-specific reagents in the form of Soul Dust, Sacred Shard, and Eternal Crystal.
Optional Reagents from Enchanting
Enchanting has no unique Optional Reagents, aside from the Crafter's Mark ones that can be created by all Professions.
New Enchanting Item Crafts
Wands
- Enchanted Twilight Wand
Engineering Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Engineering in Shadowlands. We have a Engineering guide, and you can find a link to it below.
New Unique Engineering Reagents
The following reagents are specifically for Engineering crafts but they can be created using primarily Mining and Blacksmithing reagents.
- Handful of Laestrite Bolts
- Porous Polishing Abrasive
- Mortal Coiled Spring
- Wormfed Gear Assembly
In addition, there will be a new set of generic reagents that can be purchased from the Engineering Vendor.
New Grenades, Bombs, and a Bola Launcher
Special Engineering items that deal damage are making a return. These share their cooldown with potions and can sometimes be competitive with them.
- Nutcracker Grenade
- Shadow Land Mine
- Bomb Bola Launcher
New Engineering Devices
These items all require Shadowlands Engineering to use and have unique, fun effects. Most of them have a small chance of backfiring, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
- 50UL-TR4P
- Gravimetric Scrambler Cannon
- Momentum Redistributor Boots
- Wormhole Generator: Shadowlands
New Engineering Ranged Weapon Scopes
- Infra-green Reflex Sight
- Optical Target Embiggener
New Engineering Belt Enchants
- Belt Modification: Dimensional Shifter
- Belt Modification: Electro-Jump
- Belt Modification: Damage Retaliator
New Engineering Goggles
Instead of being Azerite Items, the new Engineering Goggles all have an On-Use effect that effectively gives you Eagle Eye, allowing you to explore the map from wherever you are standing.
- Flexible Ectoplasmic Specs
- Grounded Ectoplasmic Specs
- Articulated Ectoplasmic Specs
- Reinforced Ectoplasmic Specs
New Engineering Combat Pet
Note that to craft this pet, you will either need to be a Gnome (for +15 Engineering Skill), or you will need to be wearing one of the Engineering Goggles, since the crafting requirement for the pet is Shadowlands Engineering 115, while the normal limit to Engineering Skill is only 100.
Buying the recipe requires Exalted with the Ascended Faction in the Bastion zone.
- PHA7-YNX
The pet's model resembles a small mechanical Panther, with a similar styling and color scheme to the Shadowlands Vestments of the Eternal Traveler transmog set and the Ensorcelled Everwyrm Mount.
Optional Reagents from Engineering
Optional Reagents are items that can be added to any recipe from any Profession to alter the item created. Every Profession can craft unique Optional Reagents, but they can be used for any item from any Profession.
- Hydrodynamic Accelerators can be added to item crafts to increase your swimming speed while wearing them.
- Reinforced Girdle can be added to item crafts to give you a small primary stat buff when you complete a World Quest, stacking up to 5 times.
Shadowlands Inscription Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Inscription in Shadowlands. We have a Inscription guide, and you can find a link to it below.
New Contracts
Contracts will be making a return in Shadowlands, and all require you to be Revered with the Faction that you are making the Contract for.
- Contract: The Ascended
- Contract: The Undying Army
- Contract: The Wild Hunt
- Contract: Court of Harvesters
New Parchment
There have been no new Parchments for Inscription for a while, but this is changing with Shadowlands' introduction of Dark Parchment.
Darkmoon Card Changes
In previous expansions, you relied on luck to finish your Darkmoon Cards. In Shadowlands, you will have a chance to craft Blank Cards. These Blank Cards can be fit into any deck and will fill out missing pieces, which is very helpful if you are just one or two cards short of finishing a deck.
We have listed the new Darkmoon Cards below.
- Tanks: Darkmoon Card of the Indomitable
- Casters: Darkmoon Card of Putrescence
- Melee DPS: Darkmoon Card of Voracity
- Healers: Darkmoon Card of Repose
New Tomes and Codexes
The new Tomes and Codexes may only be used by characters that are Level 51 or higher and will replace all of your existing Tomes and Codexes.
- Tome of the Still Mind
- Codex of the Still Mind
Optional Reagents for Inscription
Scribes have perhaps the most useful Optional Reagents of all, which are Missives that allow you to customize the secondary stats on crafted items. These are also used for Legendary Items.
- Missive of Critical Strike
- Missive of Haste
- Missive of Mastery
- Missive of Versatility
Jewelcrafting Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Jewelcrafting in Shadowlands. We have a Jewelcrafting guide, and you can find a link to it below.
Jewelcrafting Legendary Item Crafts
Jewelcrafters are one of the Professions that can create Legendary Base Items. These items must be infused with other reagents to create a usable Legendary Item. All Jewelcrafting Legendaries are Jewelry items like rings or necklaces and require 100 Jewelcrafting Skill to make.
Reagents for Legendary Jewelcrafting Items
All Jewelcrafting Legendary Base Item Crafts require these reagents. You can use more of these reagents to craft higher item level versions of the Legendary Items, and different slots also require different amounts of reagent.
- Shadowghast Ingot
- Essence of Rebirth
- Essence of Torment
- Essence of Servitude
- Essence of Valor
- Orboreal Shard
These Reagents can be turned into either Shadowghast Rings or Shadowghast Necklaces.
New Base Gems
- Angerseye
- Oriblase
- Umbryl
New Item Type: Essences
Essences are a new type of item that can be found when prospecting different types of Ore in Shadowlands. These are used for crafting Legendary Base Items of the Jewelry type, such as Rings and Necklaces.
- Essence of Valor from Solenium Ore
- Essence of Servitude from Oxxein Ore
- Essence of Rebirth from Phaedrum Ore
- Essence of Torment from Sinvyr Ore
New Gem Type: Revitalizing
In addition to the Versatile, Deadly, Quick, and Masterful Gem Types that are you are used to, Shadowlands introduces the Revitalizing gem type, which heals you every 10 seconds based on how many Shadowlands gems you have in your gear.
Currently, this gem only exists as an Uncommon-quality type Gem, the Revitalizing Jewel Doublet. Only one can be worn at a time.
Optional Reagents from Jewelcrafting
Jewelcrafting has no unique Optional Reagents, aside from the Crafter's Mark ones that can be created by all Professions.
Leatherworking Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Leatherworking in Shadowlands. We have a Leatherworking guide, and you can find a link to it below.
Leatherworking Legendary Item Crafts
Leatherworking is one of the Professions that can create Legendary Base Items. These items must be infused with other reagents to create a usable Legendary Item. All Leatherworking Legendaries are Leather or Mail Armor Items and require 100 Leatherworking Skill to make.
Reagents for Legendary Leatherworking Items
All Leatherworking Legendary Base Item Crafts require these reagents. You can use more of these reagents to craft higher item level versions of the Legendary Items, and different slots also require different amounts of reagent.
- Enchanted Heavy Callous Hide
- Heavy Callous Hide
- Heavy Desolate Leather
- Desolate Leather
- Pallid Bone
- Orboreal Shard
These Reagents can be turned into Leather/Mail Armor Legendary Base Items, such as Umbrahide Leggings and Boneshatter Greaves.
New Armor Kits
Armor Kits are making a return. They are 2-hour temporary enchants for Chest items that increases the Armor they give.
- Desolate Armor Kit
- Heavy Desolate Armor Kit
New Drums
- Drums of Deathly Ferocity
Optional Reagents for Leatherworking
- Loosened Belt can be added to all item crafts and increases the duration of all Well Fed food buff effects acquired while wearing the item.
Tailoring Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Tailoring in Shadowlands. We have a Tailoring guide, and you can find a link to it below.
Tailoring Legendary Item Crafts
Tailoring is one of the Professions that can create Legendary Base Items. These items must be infused with other reagents to create a usable Legendary Item. All Tailoring Legendaries are Leather or Mail Armor Items and require 100 Tailoring Skill to make.
Reagents for Legendary Tailoring Items
All Tailoring Legendary Base Item Crafts require these reagents. You can use more of these reagents to craft higher item level versions of the Legendary Items, and different slots also require different amounts of reagent.
- Shrouded Cloth
- Enchanted Lightless Silk
- Orboreal Shard
These Reagents can be turned into Cloth Armor Legendary Base Items, such as Grim-Veiled Hood.
New Bags
New Bags in Shadowlands will have the same amount of slots as Battle for Azeroth, so if you were skipping out on Bronjahm's 34-slot bag in the Scourge Event from the Shadowlands pre-patch, you may want to get that after all.
- Shrouded Cloth Bag
- Lightless Silk Pouch
Optional Reagents for Tailors
- Craftman's Pouch can be added to the craft of any item and will occasionally grant an extra skill point when crafting Shadowland Armor.
Mining Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Mining in Shadowlands. We have a Mining guide, and you can find a link to it below.
One of the primary changes is that several of the common Ores in Shadowlands can only be Mined in their respective zones, listed below.
- Oxxein Ore can only be mined in Maldraxxus.
- Phaedrum Ore can only be mined in Ardenweald.
- Solenium Ore can only be mined in Bastion.
- Sinvyr Ore can only be mined in Revendreth.
- Laestrite Ore can be mined from any of the Shadowlands zones.
- Elethium Ore can be mined from any of the Shadowlands zones.
New Minable Stones
Shadowlands introduces Stones as a byproduct of Mining any Shadowlands Ore. They are used in numerous recipes for all Professions.
- Porous Stone can be Mined from all Ore except Elethium Ore.
- Shaded Stone can only be Mined with Elethium Ore.
Skinning Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Skinning in Shadowlands. We have a Skinning guide, and you can find a link to it below.
There are currently no significant changes to Skinning in Shadowlands, other than new Hides and Leathers and mobs to Skin them from. Mechanically, Skinning is the same as in Battle for Azeroth.
Herbalism Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Herbalism in Shadowlands. We have a Herbalism guide, and you can find a link to it below.
There are currently no significant changes to Herbalism in Shadowlands, other than the new Herbs and the zones to get them from. Mechanically, Herbalism is the same as in Battle for Azeroth.
There is a new version of the Herbalist's Spade, the Flora Extraction Tool, sold in Oribos by Distributor Au'til. It offers the same +10 Herbalism skill boost.
As usual with new expansions, there are new Herbs to gather in Shadowlands which are used for all the new recipes from Alchemy. Four of these are Zone-specific, meaning that they can only be found in their designated zone, and two others can be found in any zone.
- Death Blossom (Any Zone except the Maw)
- Nightshade (Any Zone)
- Marrowroot (Maldraxxus)
- Rising Glory (Bastion)
- Vigil's Torch (Ardenweald)
- Widowbloom (Revendreth)
Cooking Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Cooking in Shadowlands. We have a Cooking guide, and you can find a link to it below.
Aside from a lot of new meats and fish to cook with in Shadowlands, as well as your usual assortment of stat food, there are some new foods with unique effects called "Soul Foods" that we describe below.
New Unique Foods
- Fried Bonefish gives you a small Speed buff after killing enemies.
- Smothered Shank causes you to periodically breathe fire, dealing damage to all enemies in front of you.
- Quiethounds gives you a ghostly, transparent appearance.
Fishing Profession Changes in Shadowlands
This section only covers changes to Fishing in Shadowlands. We will soon have a fully featured guide for Fishing here on Icy Veins.
Aside from a bunch of new fish and zones to fish them in, there are a few key mechanical changes to Fishing in Shadowlands.
Zone-Specific Fish
Most Fish in Shadowlands can only be caught in their corresponding zone. It is not possible to use Bait to circumvent this.
- Lost Sole can be caught in any Shadowlands zone.
- Elysian Thade can be caught in any Shadowlands zone, but is much rarer.
- Iridescent Amberjack can only be caught in Ardenweald.
- Pocked Bonefish can only e caught in Maldraxxus.
- Silvergill Pike can only be caught in Bastion.
- Spinefin Piranha can only be caught in Revendreth.
New Baits
Bait in Shadowlands can be fished up alongside the corresponding Fish. It can also be bought on the Auction House.
- Lost Sole Bait increases your chance of catching Lost Sole for 30 minutes.
- Elysian Thade Bait increases your chance of catching Elysian Thade Bait for 30 minutes.
- Silvergill Pike Bait increases your chance of catching Silvergill Pike Bait for 30 minutes.
- Pocked Bonefish Bait increases your chance of catching Pocked Bonefish Bait for 30 minutes.
- Iridescent Amberjack Bait increases your chance of catching Iridescent Amberjack Bait for 30 minutes.
- Spinefin Piranha Bait increases your chance of catching Spinefin Piranha Bait for 30 minutes.
Changelog
- 09 Mar. 2021: Removed mention of Profession Journals for Passive Leveling.
- 01 Dec. 2020: Removed mention of Eternal Crystals being made from Sacred Shards.
- 25 Nov. 2020: Added Engineering.
- 24 Nov. 2020: Added Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Leatherworking, and Tailoring.
- 17 Nov. 2020: Page added.
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