{"id":36067,"date":"2026-02-24T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/?p=36067"},"modified":"2026-11-03T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:46:30","slug":"wow-professions-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wow-professions-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"WoW Professions Guide: Midnight Season 2 (Patch 12.1) Reset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated November 3, 2026 for Midnight Season 2 (Patch 12.1).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WoW professions in Midnight Season 2 (Patch 12.1) run on <strong>Knowledge Points<\/strong>, <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"item=237505\">Artisan&#39;s Moxie<\/a> and Concentration. Each crafting or gathering profession can reset its spent Knowledge Points once at <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"npc=243280\">Theremis<\/a> in <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"zone=15969\">Silvermoon<\/a> City. Season 2 crafting also depends on the weekly Tidal Spark and on recipes found through four separate sources.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/wow-midnight-midnight-season-2-20a3368aabd1.webp\" alt=\"Midnight Season 2 key art in World of Warcraft: Midnight\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Midnight Season 2. Image: Blizzard.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"knowledge-point-reset\">Knowledge Point reset<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Each profession gets <strong>one reset per character<\/strong>, done at Theremis in Silvermoon City.<\/li>\n<li>The reset returns your spent Knowledge Points so you can allocate them again.<\/li>\n<li>Your profession skill level stays the same after the reset.<\/li>\n<li>Outside this reset, spent Knowledge Points cannot be refunded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"knowledge-points-and-how-to-earn-them\">Knowledge Points and how to earn them<\/h2>\n<p>Knowledge Points are tracked per profession. Cooking, Fishing and Archaeology have no specialization tree and need none. You need profession level 25 to earn every Knowledge Point source.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"one-time-sources\">One-time sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First-time crafts:<\/strong> each new crafting recipe you make gives +1 Knowledge Point and 10 Moxie.<\/li>\n<li><strong>First-time gathers:<\/strong> Herbalists and Miners get +1 Knowledge Point for each new node type they gather.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Renown:<\/strong> reaching Renown 6 or 9 with certain factions gives +10 Knowledge Points.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Knowledge Treasures:<\/strong> each profession has 8 treasures worth +3 Knowledge Points each, and each can be looted once per character.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abundance vendor:<\/strong> <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"npc=241928\">Chel the Chip<\/a> sells Knowledge Point books worth +10 each during Abundance events, which require <a href=\"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wow-leveling-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">level 90<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"repeatable-sources\">Repeatable sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Weekly trainer quests: these come from your profession trainer at the Work Order station in Silvermoon City and give +1 to +3 Knowledge Points.<\/li>\n<li>Patron Orders: crafting professions other than Enchanting receive these every few days, worth +1 or +3 Knowledge Points plus Moxie.<\/li>\n<li>Disenchanting: Enchanting earns most of its weekly Knowledge Points this way, about +9 in total.<\/li>\n<li>Gathering side items: +1 Knowledge Point items can be collected 5 times per week, and +3 items once per week.<\/li>\n<li>Treatises: Scribes can make Thalassian Treatises worth +1 Knowledge Point once per week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"event=479\">Darkmoon Faire<\/a>: each monthly visit gives +3 Knowledge Points and +15 Moxie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"catch-up\">Catch-up<\/h3>\n<p>Catch-up Knowledge comes only after you finish your <strong>weekly tasks<\/strong>. Crafters then see more +1 Patron Orders, Enchanters earn <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"item=267653\">Glimmering Powder<\/a> from disenchanting, and gatherers get +1 drops until they are caught up. Gatherers should complete the weekly quest in Silvermoon before gathering to get catch-up.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly Knowledge Point cap rises each week by a fixed amount for each profession. A profession far behind gets up to three flicker orders per day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-info\">\n<div class=\"blog-info-media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wow-the-war-within-professions-kits-boost.webp\" alt=\"WoW Midnight Professions\u00a0Kits Boost\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-info-text\">\n<p class=\"main-text\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>Buy WoW Midnight Professions\u00a0Kits Boost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"subtext\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Leave the grind to us!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/wow\/boost\/professions-kits\/\" class=\"white-button\">Buy now!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"artisans-moxie\">Artisan&#39;s Moxie<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Moxie is profession-specific, so Alchemy Moxie only buys Alchemy items.<\/li>\n<li>Moxie buys recipes, material bags and Knowledge Point books from vendors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"concentration-and-profession-stats\">Concentration and profession stats<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Every crafting profession keeps a separate Concentration pool, capped at 1,000 points.<\/li>\n<li>Concentration regenerates one point every six minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Ingenuity refunds part of the Concentration spent on a craft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Crafting professions use these stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Resourcefulness:<\/strong> chance to consume fewer reagents<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multicraft:<\/strong> chance to make extra items on eligible recipes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ingenuity:<\/strong> chance to refund Concentration<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crafting Speed:<\/strong> shorter craft times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gathering professions use Finesse for extra materials, Deftness for gathering speed and Perception for rare side materials.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-2-recipe-sources\">Season 2 recipe sources<\/h2>\n<p>Season 2 recipes come from four places.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zul&#39;jarra&#39;s Forces:<\/strong> reach Renown 5 with this faction to unlock recipes. The quartermaster is Jan&#39;sari the Vigilant at 58.8, 46.0. Renown is earned on <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"zone=16365\">The Coiled Isle<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Captain Tokka&#39;s crew:<\/strong> two vendors, Quartermaster Sluggs at <strong>51, 49<\/strong> and <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"npc=253843\">Navigator Otoola<\/a> at 57, 48, with different catalogs. Cursed Fishing earns trust with Captain Tokka and his crew.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fishing or the auction house:<\/strong> the Bottled Thalassian Recipe can be fished or bought.<\/li>\n<li><strong>V&#39;anore Assembly in Silvermoon at 55, 65:<\/strong> sells bind-on-pickup items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Season 2 also adds Amani profession trainers who teach niche recipes. Patch 12.1 recipes include <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"item=271883\">Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion<\/a>, <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"item=271886\">Liquid Luster<\/a> and <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"item=271889\">Alluring Nostrum<\/a> for Alchemy.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"tidal-spark-weekly-cap\">Tidal Spark weekly cap<\/h2>\n<p>The Tidal Spark is obtained through weekly content quests and lets you craft items up to <strong>item level 298<\/strong>. It is capped each week, and a skipped week is not made up later.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"leveling-your-profession\">Leveling your profession<\/h2>\n<p>Profession skill runs from 1 to 100. Build one specialization lane first, then expand. Mining plus Herbalism is the simplest gathering start, since both turn gathering into materials other players need. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/wow\/professions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">start a profession boost with WoW Professions<\/a> to hand the leveling off your hands.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"gathering-professions\">Gathering professions<\/h2>\n<p>Skinning is tied to combat and supplies Leatherworking. For a full skinning build, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wow-midnight-skinning-profession-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skinning Profession Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trap risk: gathering rare materials may trigger traps.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"item=236952\">Mote of Pure Void<\/a>: gathering can reward this rare material used in high-end recipes.<\/li>\n<li>Profession appearance: <a href=\"#\" data-wowhead=\"npc=243282\">Mahra Treebender<\/a> in Silvermoon City can hide profession equipment appearances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"crafted-gear-and-embellishments\">Crafted gear and embellishments<\/h2>\n<p>Crafted equipment keeps five quality ranks, while reagents and consumables use fewer ranks. Embellishments are limited, and you can use only <strong>two Embellished items<\/strong> at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WoW professions in Midnight Season 2 (Patch 12.1) run on Knowledge Points, Artisan&#8217;s Moxie and Concentration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33680,"featured_media":43705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[489,879,880],"post_kind":[97,123],"ppma_author":[127],"class_list":["post-36067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wow","category-all","tag-wow-midnight","tag-wow-midnight-professions","tag-wow-midnight-professions-guide","author-dina"],"acf":{"faq_header":"","faq_items":null,"wpwp_short_description":"WoW professions in Midnight Season 2 (Patch 12.1) run on Knowledge Points, Artisan's Moxie and Concentration.","wpwp_plus_for_views":""},"authors":[{"term_id":127,"user_id":33680,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dina","display_name":"Dina","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dina-avatar.webp","url2x":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dina-avatar.webp"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44443,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067\/revisions\/44443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36067"},{"taxonomy":"post_kind","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_kind?post=36067"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=36067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}