You can spend 16 Legacy points, and earn more for a bear

Legacy is the account-wide progression of World of Warcraft: Forever, and at the launch you can spend at most 16 points in it. Points you earn above that are not lost: they still count for the reward track, which ends with the Reins of the Spectral Bear at 55 points. Here is what to know before the launch.

One point per challenge, once per account

Every Legacy challenge is worth one point. There are six categories. Classes and Professions fill up as you play: a class to level 25, 45 and 60, a tradeskill to 150, 225 and 300. PvP and Dungeons ask more of you. Novice Spelunker, for example, needs Ruins of Lordaeron, Wailing Caverns, The Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep, Excavation Site: Wetlands, and Ragefire Chasm or Hall of Thanes.

Each challenge counts once for the whole account. A second Druid to level 25 gives nothing; a Mage to level 25 does. Your first character earns the points slowly, but every next character starts with them.

16 points in three trees

The points go into three trees: Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness. Blizzard caps the total at 16 points, at the launch and for some time after. That is not enough for everything, so you choose.

Tree	For	Example
Professions	Tradeskills and gathering	Working Overtime, more chance at a skill point; Bountiful Harvest, more Scarce materials
Adventure	Levelling, exploring, the open world	Well Rested, up to 20% faster rested experience and a 20% higher cap; Talented
Resourcefulness	Resources, reputation and buffs	Gourmand, food buffs that last up to twice as long

Talented is the node most players look at. With 5 ranks you get talent points from level 5 instead of level 10, but never more than 51. Our class guides call those builds the Talented version. All nodes are in the Legacy calculator.

A wrong choice is not permanent. In the beta, unlearning your class talents at a trainer also reset the Legacy trees. Whether that stays the same at the launch, is not known.

The reward track

The Legacy bar goes much further than 16. Every point you earn counts for the reward track, also the ones you cannot spend:

Points	Reward
15	Replica Ironforge Air Rifle
25	Spectral Bear Cub
40	Spectral Bear Tabard
55	Reins of the Spectral Bear

Hardcore works one way

Normal, PvP, RP and RP-PvP share all challenges and points. Hardcore does not. What you earn on Hardcore counts on the other rulesets too, but nothing from the other rulesets carries over to Hardcore. Hardcore arrives after the launch. More in our rulesets guide.

WoW Forever launches on 5 November at 00:00 Belgian time.