User:Thio/Woodworking

Woodworkers use wood and other materials (such as gems, metal, leather, and cloth) to create wooden crafts, which can take the form of weapons, armor, or other useful items.

Woodworking is useful to many classes due to its varied nature. Hunters, casters, and classes that use relics will generally glean the most use from it, however. Though woodworking frequently uses wood gathered using herbalism as a base material, woodworking uses the products of many different crafts more often than other professions, making it easy to pair with any gathering skill or another crafting profession.

Woodworking Training
Nearly all Woodworking crafts require wood as a base material. Wood can be acquired through herbalism and occasionally bought from vendors, depending on rarity of the wood type. Though it is possible to level the profession to 525 without ever using the product of another profession, many woodworking designs require gems, metal, leather, and cloth.

Herbalism is not technically required, but is highly recommended as nearly every alchemy recipe requires wood to make and herbalism can alleviate most of the cost of leveling up. Rare lumber types also make it difficult to purchase wood from other players, as they may be extremely uncommon, but needed for the best designs. Because of this, these professions are the best pairs for Woodworking, in descending order.


 * Herbalism - You probably can't afford to buy all your wood at the Auction House, so you might as well harvest them yourself.
 * Enchanting - Enchanting allows you make more money off of disenchanting the items you create, and many of the later designs require dust and essence for their creation.
 * Mining - Next to enchanting materials, gems and metal are used the most as secondary materials for woodworking, and miners will always have these on hand.
 * Skinning - For armor especially, woodworking uses a substantial amount of leather in its designs. A supply of fresh skins will aid in creating these.

Woodworking Specializations
Once you reach a Woodworking skill of 425 and level 78, you may begin a quest to learn one of three specializations: Armorcrafting, Weaponcrafting or Carving.

These specializations allow access to unique designs for each category. All specialization products are Bind on Equip, meaning that all woodworker-exclusive benefits can be obtained regardless of specialization.

Armorcrafting includes many different types of armor, but specifically leather and mail. All classes that can use these armor types will find at least once piece suited to each of their talent trees for each raiding tier.

Weaponcrafting includes staves, bows, arrows, and other wooden weapons. All classes that can use these weapons will find at least one weapon and ammo piece for each of their talent trees for each raiding tier.

Carving includes trinkets, relics, necklaces, and rings. All classes will find at least one trinket for each of their talent trees for each raiding tier. Carving also includes special trinket enchantments, though all Woodworkers may access special woodworker-only enchantments regardless of specialization.