WoW Forever Legacy System

The Legacy System is World of Warcraft: Forever's account-wide progression. You complete Legacy Challenges to earnLegacy Points, then spend them on perks in three Legacy Trees: Adventure, Professions and Resourcefulness. Points are shared by every character on your account, but each character spends them separately.

Open Legacy Planner

How the Legacy System Works

1. Complete Legacy Challenges. Blizzard's examples are leveling a specific class and reaching a particular skill milestone.
2. Earn Legacy Points. Points are shared across all of your alts.
3. Spend points per character. At launch each character can spend up to 16 points in its own Legacy Trees.
4. Keep earning. You can earn up to 65 points at the start. Points beyond the spend cap still count toward the Legacy Reward Track.

Blizzard says the system was built to make leveling alts more rewarding and that the 16-point cap is meant to avoid pressure to do everything at once. Players at the BlizzCon demo describe the in-game interface as three panels: Legacy Challenges, Legacy Tree and Progress Track.

Legacy Challenges

Legacy Challenges look like achievements. The BlizzCon demo showed these categories Unconfirmed:

• Exploring
• Leveling Classes
• Increasing Tradeskills
• Earning PvP Ranks
• Maximizing Reputations
• Completing Dungeons and Raids

Sources disagree on how points are awarded Disputed: Wowhead reports one Legacy Point per completed challenge, while Blizzard Watch reports that mostly the larger "meta" challenges award points. The full challenge list has not been published.

WoW Forever Legacy Challenges tracker

Legacy Points

Legacy Points are the currency of the system. Your account earns them, and each character decides where its share of up to 16 points goes. That split is what makes planning per alt worthwhile: a gathering alt and a leveling alt can use the same points differently.

Legacy Points: how to earn and spend them

Legacy Trees

Blizzard names the first three trees as Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness. Community transcriptions of the demo list 21 perks; they also show unnamed or "future patch" slots, so the trees are not complete.

Blizzard's own examples: Well Rested in Adventure increases rested experience gains and the rested cap ("especially useful for leveling alts"), Bountiful Harvest in Professions increases materials from mining, herbalism and skinning, and Reagent Economy deeper in Resourcefulness removes reagent requirements from class abilities.

Plan your Legacy Tree

Progress Track

The Legacy Reward Track unlocks cosmetic and prestige rewards as your total Legacy Points grow. Blizzard says these rewards give no competitive advantage and names the Spectral Bear Cub as one of them. Rewards seen in the demo:

• Spectral Bear Cub (Pet) — points required not known yet
• Replica Ironforge Air Rifle (Toy) — points required not known yet
• Spectral Bear Tabard (Tabard) — points required not known yet
• Reins of the Spectral Bear (Mount) — points required not known yet

Is Legacy Account-Wide?

Yes for points, no for spending. Legacy Points are shared across all characters, and each character spends them separately in its own trees. Blizzard also states that Legacy Points stay account-wide across rulesets except Hardcore: progress earned in Hardcore can become available in other rulesets, but progress from other rulesets does not flow into Hardcore.

Best Way to Start

No build can be called best yet: the point cost per rank and the unlock order between perks are not confirmed. What you can already do is decide what each character is for.

• Leveling several alts: Adventure perks such as Well Rested and Talented target the leveling journey.
• Gathering and crafting: Professions perks affect skill-ups, material yield, cooking and fishing.
• Buffing, dying less expensively and reputation grinds: Resourcefulness covers upkeep and convenience.

Save one plan per character in the Legacy Planner and revisit it when beta values land. See Legacy builds for perks grouped by goal.

Current Beta Status

Data on this site: BlizzCon 2026 demo, last reviewed Sep 15, 2026. 4 perks have values that sources disagree on: Dedicated Study, Performance Bonus, Luremaster, Reinforce. Every change is logged in the data change log.