The Legacy System

On this page 8 sections

Source tiers

• A Official or client data
• B Verbatim reporting, hands-on
• C Provisional or placeholder
• D Our analysis

How we source

Now: Legacy on one screen

What it is. Complete Legacy Challenges → earn Legacy Points for the whole Battle.net account → every character spends them separately in three small trees of levelling, gold and comfort perks.
What it is not. Combat power. The perks shave downtime and gold sinks; your 51 class talent points are a separate system.
Why keep earning past the cap. Points you cannot spend still count toward the cosmetic Reward Track, and Blizzard says the cap will rise.

Each character gets 16 spendable Legacy points out of a pool of up to 65 earnable, and spending is not consumed across characters: a Warlock spending 16 does not take anything from a Warrior. Blizzard on why the cap exists: it “is intended to keep players from feeling pressured to do everything at once and to help new players avoid feeling too far behind.”

Recommended builds Source tier D — our analysis: D

Five ways to spend 16 points, each checked against the gates and linked-perk rules below and reachable under both readings of the disputed rules. They are this site's recommendations (tier D) built on rules that are themselves only tier B, so check them on the beta tree (hotkey Y) before you rely on them. Each card says what to take first when the account has fewer than 16 points — at launch everyone starts from zero.

How to earn points Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A

Every challenge pays 1 point; there are 65 at launch. Requirements are Blizzard’s (A); challenge names and dungeon lists are from Icy Veins and Wowhead (B). Scope says who can earn it: Account the first character on the account to do it, Character one character must do the whole thing, Unknown not yet stated.

Classes — 27 points

Level each class to 25, 45 and 60.

Scope: Account Account: first character of the class · Tier: Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Source tier B — verbatim reporting or hands-on testing: B A (requirement) / B (name) · Normal, PvP, Roleplaying (account-wide); Hardcore: see rules

Professions — 18 points

150, 225 and 300 in each of the six crafting primaries. Gathering pays nothing.

Scope: Account Account: first character to reach it · Tier: Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Source tier C — provisional or placeholder data: C A (requirement) / C (name pattern 'Journeyman Alchemist', as in 'Journeyman Engineer') · Normal, PvP, Roleplaying (account-wide); Hardcore: see rules

Only the first character on the account to reach each step scores. A second Tailor earns nothing; Mining, Herbalism and Skinning earn nothing.

Adventure and the world — 2 points

Explore the whole map; finish the Lord Valthalak questline.

Dungeons (Spelunker) — 3 points

Kill the last boss of every dungeon in a level band.

Raids — 3 points

Onyxia, then the two Forever raids.

PvP ranks and Battleground reputations — 9 points

Honor ranks and Exalted with each Battleground faction.

Which four Battleground reputations count is Icy Veins’ table (B); Blizzard says only “each Battleground reputation”.

Season's Journey — 3 points

The Field of Honor PvP journey, calendar-gated by week.

Hardcore — separate, and later Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A

Non-Hardcore challenges do not appear in Hardcore; a challenge earned in Hardcore is granted in all rulesets; 12 Hardcore-specific challenges replace PvP when Hardcore launches (after launch). The twelve have not been listed yet. Points earned in Hardcore count everywhere; nothing flows the other way.

Earning order at launch Source tier D — our analysis: D

1. Start a crafting primary on day one. 150 in a non-gathering primary pays a point and can open Legacy before level 25. Take two crafting primaries — gathering pays nothing.
2. Level through the Spelunker bands. Your class’s 25 / 45 / 60 points come on their own; run every 15–25 dungeon for Novice Spelunker while you are that level, then the 26–45 set.
3. Start the Field of Honor Season’s Journey in week 1 if it is open below 60 (unconfirmed). Weeks 4, 7 and 10 are calendar-gated: a late start cannot be caught up.
4. At 60: both primaries to 300, Master Spelunker, the Lord Valthalak questline, Onyxia, then Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps when raids open (9 December). Onyxia may also open only on 9 December — sources disagree, so don’t count her point before then.
5. Alts: 3 points per new class, plus crafting primaries nobody else on the account has. All 18 profession points need six different crafting primaries spread across your characters.
6. Whenever convenient: explore the whole world map on one character, and the four Battleground reputations with Diplomat.

The Reward Track Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Source tier B — verbatim reporting or hands-on testing: B

Total points earned (not spent) unlock cosmetics; claim from Innkeeper Wiley in Ratchet. Cosmetic and prestige only — Blizzard: “without providing a competitive gameplay advantage.” Blizzard names the four launch rewards but publishes no thresholds; the thresholds below are from the beta Progress Track UI.

The top reward sits at 55 of 65 earnable points — far above the 16 you can spend and the 29 one character can earn. That gap is the answer to “why keep earning past the cap”.

The trees and the planner Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Source tier B — verbatim reporting or hands-on testing: B

Three trees, read left to right. The first column is open; the second needs 5 points already spent in that tree, the third needs 10 Source tier B — verbatim reporting or hands-on testing: B. An arrow means the perk also needs its parent: fully ranked by Icy Veins’ reading, one rank by Wowhead’s calculator Source tier B — verbatim reporting or hands-on testing: B — plan for fully ranked. Every rank costs 1 point, and 16 is the total across all three trees. Names, ranks, positions and links are from the beta client (A); per-rank values and the gate rules are from the Wowhead calculator data and Icy Veins (B). Values are beta and can still change.

Adventure: every perk

Professions: every perk

Resourcefulness: every perk

Traps and open questions Source tier D — our analysis: D

• Gathering and duplicate professions earn nothing. Only the six crafting primaries score, and only for the first character on the account to reach each step Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A. Decide which character takes which crafting profession before launch.
• The one-rank perks at the end of a tree cost 11+ points. Frequent Flier, Dedicated Study, Reagent Economy each need 10 points in their tree first, so a character can own at most one of them at 16.
• Do not respec off Talented before 60. You would drop up to five talent points until 60. At 60 Talented does nothing, so dropping it then costs nothing.
• Respec once, at 60. Spend as you go while levelling, then move to an endgame build. Respec exists, at the class trainer. Beta: cheapest respec 1s, decays one step per hour; Blizzard says that pricing applies only during the beta. Launch pricing not announced. Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Source tier B — verbatim reporting or hands-on testing: B If launch pricing works like class talents, flip-flopping weekly between raid and PvP builds will get expensive.
• Some perks do nothing where you might expect them to. Bountiful Harvest is wasted on a character that does not gather; Thrill of Adventure and Field Medicine do nothing in dungeons, raids and Battlegrounds; High Alert does nothing in Battlegrounds.
• Do not plan around Master Chef and Luremaster opening at 5. Icy Veins says 10 (our reading of the client column agrees Source tier D — our analysis: D); only Wowhead’s calculator says 5.
• Hardcore starts cold. Points earned on the other rulesets never reach Hardcore; Hardcore points reach everything Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A.

Still unconfirmed (as of 9 October 2026)

Rulesets — what carries and what does not Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A

Forever has no realms; you pick a ruleset at character creation. Battle.net account-wide, available to all non-Hardcore characters.

Decisions at launch Source tier D — our analysis: D

Where Blizzard says it goes next Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A

New challenges every content release; new perks in existing trees first, new trees later; higher spend caps; Hardcore perks. 'Professions and Legacy System Updates' slated Summer 2027. That is the design answer to a permanent level 60: the game grows sideways. The itemization rework does the same job on gear.

Mounts and riding — filed here because Legacy is where it was announced

Forever adopts the Burning Crusade mount-cost model: the up-front mount cost shifts into the training, and learning the riding skill grants you a mount. Riding costs more gold than before, and there is no free mount at 40. A purchased Skyborne mount still needs riding bought in game. Why this is the game’s largest gold sink →

Sources behind this page

• Blizzard, Get to Know the Legacy System (news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24307383), 2026-09-23
• Blizzard beta dev notes 2026-10-08 (us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/2360696/5)
• Beta client C_Traits node walk via ForeverDump /harvest (2026-09-25; re-read unchanged 2026-10-08 23:27, build 70291)
• Wowhead Legacy Calculator data (wowhead.com/forever/legacy-calculator, build 1.60.1.69800), read 2026-10-09
• Icy Veins, WoW Forever Legacy System Guide (icy-veins.com/wow-forever/legacy-system), updated 2026-10-08
• Wowhead, Legacy System Overview guide (wowhead.com/forever/guide/legacy-system-overview-rewards), 2026-09-19
• Wowhead beta screenshot 1305283 (Progress Track UI), news 383335
• Warcraft Tavern, Legacy Tree & Rewards (BlizzCon demo), 2026-09
• Blizzard, Legacy Points for Beta Testing (us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/2368776/1), 2026-10-01

Knowledge base: WoW - Knowledge Base/400_Forever/400.50.1_Forever_Legacy_System.md · data: data/legacy.json, generated by genlegacy.py.

Generated from data/legacy.json (pulled 9 October 2026, Beta 1.60.1 (client 70291; Wowhead calc data 69800)), synced to KB 400.50.1 · rules and challenges from Blizzard's Legacy article (23 September) and the 8 October dev notes · node names and positions from the beta client, per-rank values and gates from the Wowhead calculator data and Icy Veins · builds, earning order and traps are this site's analysis (D). Last updated 9 October 2026.