Tradeskills FAQ in World of Warcraft

Skills are the common feature for most MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-play game). For World of Warcraft, skills are grouped into several categories: professions, secondary skills, weapon skills, class skills, armor proficiencies, and languages. Professions are the major trade skills available to all classes, such as tailoring and mining, but only have two professions you can learn at any time. Secondary skills are also trade skills but have no restriction on how many can be learned, such as fishing and first aid. Weapon skills include all weapons that a character is able to use. Many weapon skills need to be learned, as your character only starts with a handful of skills he can learn. Class skills are determined by your character class and are an integral part of your character. Armor skills are known from character creation, or received from trainers or talents. Language skills are assigned at character creation and do not change. Of course, all these skills are helpful your WoW explore. For example, mining skill can offer you WoW gold if you sell mine, and tailoring skill also can save your World of Warcraft gold at some time.

What kinds of items can players create using tradeskills?

Players can create a wide variety of items from resources gathered around the world - all using tradeskills. Players can make bags, bandages, weapons, armor, potions, and many other items with the tradeskills of Tailoring, Blacksmithing, Engineering, and others, it means that players do not need buy these tiems, and your WoW gold is saved to do other important things. The raw materials, including herbs, ore, and leather, are obtained using gathering tradeskills such as Herbalism, Mining, and Skinning. The finished products of these tradeskills can rank among the very best of their kind available.

Can you unlearn a skill?

You can unlearn tradeskills, but not any other type of skill. To unlearn a tradeskill, click the appropriate icon next to the skill name in your character's Skills tab. Since you can only learn two primary professions at any given time, the time unlearning a tradeskill will come into play is if you wish to drop a profession to learn another. You can relearn the initial profession if you wish, but your skill level in that profession will be reset to zero. We don’t suggest players to unlearn skills if it is necessary.

Do skills atrophy if they aren't used?

No. Once you learn a skill or improve a skill point, it's a permanent gain unless you decide to unlearn the skill.