WoW: Forever professions like Alchemy and Enchanting are among the best for making gold because they offer recipes with consistent demand that players will always buy on the market. This guide covers all professions and explains why some are best for making lots of gold.
Alchemy
Potions and elixirs are consumables that grant temporary stat buffs or XP boosts to help with leveling. This makes Alchemy the most consistent profession for making money from early to late game. Early potions help with health and mana sustainability, while elixirs and flasks grant long-lasting buffs.
Raiders will also want to buy higher-quality potions to round out their stats for better DPS or sustain, so Alchemy will still remain relatively stable even after auction prices change when a new update arrives. Not only that, every class will benefit from Alchemy products, making this profession fairly universal.
Enchanting
Leveling up this profession is much harder than Alchemy, as you need more specialized materials to craft the enchantments players want. However, it is also the most rewarding profession, as some recipes can provide high-value stat enhancements that endgame players will want.
Enchanters can also disenchant raid gear like Malleable Essence of Nature from the Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps raids to craft Epic-quality gear for players who don't want to raid. Many of these items are Bind on Equip (BoE), meaning they're tradable and are accessible to most players.
Tailoring / Blacksmithing
Tailors and Blacksmiths can craft useful early-game gear with focused stats, though your choice should depend on your current class. Spellcaster classes should take Tailoring, while Paladins, Warriors, and other melee classes should go for Blacksmithing.
Tailoring
Recommended for spellcaster classes looking to craft useful gear with focused stats.
Blacksmithing
Recommended for Paladins, Warriors, and other melee classes looking to craft useful gear.
These professions, paired with Enchanting, let you make some of the game's most powerful items, which usually fetch a high price in the Auction House.
Engineering
While it's only decent for making gold, Engineering's value lies in the gadgets you can craft once you level it. These provide some extremely useful trinkets and items for PvE and PvP like the SAF-T Teleport, vendor bots, rocket boots, and CC gadgets.
Having the right set of Engineering gadgets available for all your alts will significantly improve the QoL of your next leveling run by giving you more movement speed, teleports, and early crowd control items until you unlock all your class talents.
