How to Unlock Legacy Perks in WoW: Forever

To unlock Legacy Perks in World of Warcraft: Forever, complete a Legacy Challenge and spend the point it awards in your character’s perk tree. For most new characters, the clearest first milestone is level 25. You can also earn a point by reaching 150 skill in an eligible crafting profession. Your earned points are shared across your account’s non-Hardcore characters, while each character chooses its own perks.

1. Earn your first Legacy Point

Continue your normal leveling route until a character reaches level 25 for the first time in its class. If you’re already focusing on crafting, look at your current skill before changing plans. A primary crafting profession can award its first point at 150. Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, and Tailoring qualify. Gathering skills such as Mining and Herbalism do not award the profession milestone.

Completing a challenge adds one point to your account. Repeating the same class milestone on a second character of that class won’t earn the same point again. If your goal is just to start spending points, pick the qualifying milestone that fits what you already do. There’s no need to roll an alt or pay for materials to rush a crafting skill before you’ve checked what you’re close to completing.

2. Open the Legacy screen and inspect all three trees

Click the shield-shaped Legacy icon on the game menu, or press Y if you use the default binding. Open the perk view and read the tooltip for a node before you spend. The three trees serve different activities:

Choose a perk you expect to use soon. Well Rested increases rested experience capacity and accumulation, which makes it a sensible node to inspect for a character you play in bursts. Working Overtime improves the chance of gaining tradeskill skill points, which is more relevant for a character you’re actively training in professions. If you spend most of your time working toward a reputation reward, look at Diplomat in Resourcefulness. Treat these as examples of what to look for in the tree. Check the in-game requirements before you plan around a particular node.

3. Spend separately on each character

At launch, you can spend up to 16 Legacy Points on each character. The cap applies to how many points a character can allocate. Your account can keep earning points after you reach it. For example, a character you use for crafting can put points toward profession perks, while another character on the same account spends its own allocation on travel or rested experience. Spending on the first character doesn’t empty the second character’s pool.

If a node is unavailable even though you have earned points, check three things before grinding another challenge: whether you’re in the intended tree, whether you’ve met the node’s prerequisites, and whether the character is already at its spend limit. Compare the number of points earned in Legacy Challenges with the points allocated on the character. Those counts answer different questions.

4. Pick your next milestones by what you already play

Class challenges also award points at levels 45 and 60, and eligible crafting professions have further milestones at 225 and 300 skill. Other challenges come from PvP ranks or reputation, dungeon brackets, raids, and exploration or quest chains. Open the challenge list to see the remaining objectives before committing to one. A point from a class milestone is just as spendable as one from a raid, so an objective you were planning to complete anyway is usually a better first choice.

Perks are distinct from the cosmetic rewards unlocked by the account’s cumulative point total. You can continue making progress toward those rewards after an individual character reaches the perk cap. Start with one point, give it to a perk that helps the character you actually play, and check the challenge list again as your routine changes.