With the launch of WoW Forever on November 4th, there’s a lot for players to consider. What Class to play, which Race to choose, and which two Professions to level. It’s understandable that one of the biggest new features coming in Forever might have taken a backseat when planning for launch week, but if you use it right, it might have the biggest impact on your long-time journey through Forever. Let’s talk about the Legacy System.
Earning Legacy Points
The first thing to know about the system is that there are a plethora of “Legacy Challenges” that you can complete in order to earn Legacy Points. We’ll talk more about what to do with these points just below, but let’s have a look at what kind of Challenges the system has first.
There are six main categories for Legacy Challenges (pictured above). Many of these will be completed naturally as you play the game. The Classes category, for example, has challenges to reach level 25, 45, and 60. Similarly, Professions earn you Legacy Points when you reach skill level 150, 225, and 300 with a Profession.
Other challenges will need to be sought out to be completed. The Player vs. Player challenges require you to PvP, and include things like earning PvP Ranks, reaching Exalted reputation with PvP Factions, or participating in the Season Journey. The Dungeons category has challenges that require you to complete a group of dungeons to earn a Legacy Point, like 
Novice Spelunker that requires you to complete Ruins of Lordaeron, Wailing Caverns, The Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep, Excavation Site: Wetlands, and Ragefire Chasm or Hall of Thanes.
All of these challenges are account-wide and can only be earned once, meaning that if you level a Druid to 25, and then a second Druid to 25 as well, you will still only earn one Legacy Point. The same thing goes for Professions.
Using Legacy Points
Okay, so we’ve talked a lot about Legacy Points already. Why are they important, what’s the big deal?
In addition to Challenges, there is also has a talent-adjacent system in the Legacy Trees. Each Legacy Point can be spent in one of three trees: Professions, Adventure or Resourcefulness.
Each Tree focuses on a different aspect of the game. Spending points in the trees will give you bonuses and new effects.
- Professions: Increases your effectiveness when using tradeskills. Example:
Working Overtime, which increases your chance to gain a skill increase when using a profession. - Adventure: Assists in leveling, exploration and open-world activities. Example:
Well Rested, which increases the rate at which your accumulate Rested Experience, as well as your Rested Experience cap. - Resourcefulness: Bonuses to resources, reputation, and buffs. Example:
Gourmand, which increase the duration of Well Fed buffs.
At launch, and for the foreseeable future, players will only be able to spend a maximum of 16 Legacy Points in the Trees. This means you’ll have to choose carefully which Tree you want to focus on. Will you go all in on Adventure, to get the lucrative 
Talented bonus which allows you to earn Class Talent Points one level earlier, with a maximum of 5 levels earlier? Or will you be hyper-focused on Professions, and farm for Scarce materials with 
Bountiful Harvest?
You don’t have to be too worried however, since you are able to reset your Legacy Tree choices and go down a new path. The last iteration we saw on the Beta reset the Legacy Trees when you reset your Class Talents at your Class trainer, but this might change for actual launch.
Since the Legacy Challenges are account-wide, that also means that Legacy Points are account-wide. So while you might not have a lot of points to spend on your main the first time you level to 60, this system will allow your next character to start off with a head start in the Legacy Trees.
Legacy Reward Track
Now if you have an eagle eye, you might have noticed that the bar in the Legacy Challenges UI goes all the way up to 60, but that you can only spend 16 Legacy Points in the Trees. What’s the point of continuing to complete Challenges after earning 16 Points?
Blizzard’s answer to that is the Legacy Reward Track. In it, there are cosmetic rewards at 15, 25, 40, and 55 Legacy Points earned.
It’s very likely that Blizzard will continue to add to this reward track throughout the years, but for now the rewards are:
- 15 Points:
Replica Ironforge Air Rifle - 25 Points:
Spectral Bear Cub - 40 Points:
Spectral Bear Tabard - 55 Points:
Reins of the Spectral Bear
Final Note Regarding Hardcore
While the Hardcore ruleset won’t be available until sometime in early 2027, we do already know how the Legacy System will work across rulesets. For the other rulesets, meaning Normal, PvP, RP, and RP-PvP, all challenges and Legacy Points will be shared. But for Hardcore, that will not be the case.
Any Legacy Challenges and Points earned in Hardcore will transfer over to the other rulesets, but not the other way around. So if you have 10 Legacy Points that you’ve earned on the PvP ruleset, these will not be available in Hardcore. But if you level a new class to 25 in Hardcore, you will earn that Legacy Point on all other rulesets.
This article only covers the highlights of the Legacy System, to learn more about each individual challenge and see all the nodes in the Legacy trees, check out our dedicated guide below.