WoW Forever Legacy System: Points, Trees and Rewards

Plan your first Legacy points

October 24 update: Blizzard confirmed that the WoW Forever beta closed on October 23, 2026. The free testing grant and discounted resets below belong to that closed test. For launch, plan how you will earn your first points and which perks your character needs; the 16-point spending cap does not mean you start with 16 free points. Check access dates and name reservation for the next step.

The October 8 testing grant

Historical beta change: All beta players have been granted Legacy Challenge completion, awarding 16 Legacy Points for testing.

During beta only, the lowest Legacy respec cost is 1 silver; the cost drops by one respec step per hour. Those testing terms do not establish launch reset prices, and repeated beta resets were not all guaranteed to cost 1 silver.

Blizzard’s October 1 announcement described a future grant; the October 8 notes confirmed it had been applied. It let testers compare perks without earning the points first. The normal earning and spending rules below remain separate from that beta shortcut and from class talent points.

Budgeting for training and repairs

October 15 beta patch: Bartering no longer discounts training or repairs. Keep enough gold for those services instead of including an old beta discount in your budget.

Master Chef and Luremaster moved visually; their five-point access requirement did not change. The shifted icons are not an extra prerequisite.

How Legacy Points work

Legacy Points earned through challenges are shared across characters on the account.

Earn Legacy Points through Legacy Challenges. The starting trees are Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness.

Blizzard’s September 23 system explainer confirms that Legacy opens as soon as you earn your first Legacy Point. For most players, that means reaching level 25 on the first character. Reaching 150 in a non-gathering primary tradeskill or exploring the entire world map can also unlock the system.

At launch you can earn 65 points, but each character can spend 16. Earning more unlocks choices and rewards; it does not increase that character’s launch spending limit.

What earns Legacy Points

There are 65 Legacy Challenges across six categories at launch:

• Classes — 27 points: reach levels 25, 45 and 60 with each class.
• Tradeskills — 18 points: reach 150, 225 and 300 in each non-gathering primary profession.
• PvP — 12 points: PvP ranks, Battleground reputations and Field of Honor Season’s Journey milestones.
• Adventure — 2 points: explore the entire world map on one character and finish the Lord Valthalak dungeon-set questline.
• Dungeons — 3 points: clear the final bosses across the three dungeon level bands.
• Raids — 3 points: defeat Onyxia, all 13 Hyjal Summit bosses and all 8 Barrow Deeps bosses.

Legacy Points are Battle.net account-wide for non-Hardcore characters. Each character can spend those shared points differently.

Starting trees, perks and rewards

The starting trees are Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness.

Blizzard names and describes examples including Well Rested, Bountiful Harvest and Reagent Economy.

The September 23 breakdown also confirms useful perks such as Talented (earlier access to talent points), Frequent Flier (cheaper and faster flights), Diplomat (increased reputation gains) and Reagent Economy (removes purchasable reagent requirements from class abilities and tier-1 camping features).

Blizzard fixed Reagent Economy allowing Summon Incubus to be cast without a Soul Shard. Warlocks should still bring a Soul Shard for that summon; the earlier free cast was a bug, not a reason to choose the perk.

The October 15 notes also say The Quick and the Dead should affect more Priest spells. They do not list the newly affected spells, so check the interaction you need before spending points around it.

Additional accomplishments progress the Legacy Reward Track, unlocking cosmetic and prestige rewards without a competitive gameplay advantage.

At launch, the reward track includes the Replica Ironforge Air Rifle, Spectral Bear Cub, Spectral Bear Tabard and Reins of the Spectral Bear. Blizzard says new Legacy Challenges, perks and rewards are planned for future content releases.

Blizzard says future updates can add challenges and perks, expand the spending cap, add columns and potentially add new trees.

Legacy across rulesets and Hardcore

Collections and Legacy are account-wide across rulesets, but Hardcore is one-way isolated: Hardcore-earned progress/rewards can become available outside Hardcore, while non-Hardcore progress does not flow into Hardcore.

Blizzard says Hardcore will not be available at launch. When it arrives, non-Hardcore Legacy Challenges will not carry into Hardcore, while Hardcore-earned challenges will grant the corresponding challenge outside Hardcore. Blizzard also plans 12 Hardcore-specific Legacy Challenges, replacing PvP challenges that cannot be completed there.

A look at the perks

These examples were shown in the BlizzCon demo. They are historical observations, not verified launch values or maximum-rank totals.

Exact launch rank values, reset costs and some unlock details remain unverified here. For Working Overtime, see the current evidence gap before budgeting points around a percentage.

Where Camping fits in

Your professions matter to both systems: they contribute objects to a campsite and have their own tree of Legacy perks.

Explore profession camp objects and Blueprints, or find your next quest.

For the full official breakdown, read Blizzard’s September 23 Legacy System explainer.