Quick answer: The Legacy talent calculator below plans one character’s 16 Legacy Points across the Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness trees and follows the in-game unlock rules.
How to use the WoW Forever Legacy talent calculator
The tool includes all three Legacy trees and their 21 perks, seven per tree. Builds function the same on desktop and mobile, with a few controls designed for touch.
- Find your tree. On desktop, the three Legacy trees sit next to each other. On a phone, only one tree shows at a time, and the tabs at the top switch between them.
- Add a point by clicking a perk. Each click adds one rank, up to the maximum printed on the icon, such as 0/5. On a phone, tap the perk to open its card and press +.
- Take a point back with a right-click or Shift+click on the perk. On a phone, use the minus button on the perk card. The calculator refuses the removal if a perk further down the tree still depends on that point.
- Check what a perk does by hovering over it, or tapping it on a phone. The card lists the perk’s name, tier and current rank, the effect of the current rank and the next one, and anything still blocking it.
- Keep an eye on the bar above the trees. It counts points spent out of 16, points remaining, and how they divide across the three trees, shown as something like 0 / 15 / 1.
- Clear a tree with its own Reset button, or wipe the whole plan with Reset all.
- Use Copy build link to copy a URL that restores the calculator with your perk choices. Spending points also updates the page address, so bookmarking it preserves the build.
Keyboard input is supported as well: Tab moves focus between perks, Enter or Space invests a point, and minus or Backspace removes one.
Legacy perk icon colours and arrows
- Grey icon: locked, because the tier isn’t open, a prerequisite is missing, or no points are left.
- Green outline: the perk is available or partly ranked.
- Gold outline: the perk is fully ranked.
- Arrows: they connect a perk to its prerequisite and turn gold once that prerequisite is maxed.
WoW Forever Legacy tree rules: points, tiers and prerequisites
At launch, each character may allocate a maximum of 16 Legacy Points, even if the account has collected more. Points are earned across the account through the 65 Legacy Challenges, explained in detail in how to get Legacy Points. Each character allocates points independently, so two characters on the same account can use entirely different setups.
Tier 1 perks open with the first point. Tier 2 perks open once 5 points are spent in that same tree, and tier 3 perks open at 10 points in that tree. Points in other trees don’t count toward a tree’s unlocks.
Six perks also need a linked perk fully ranked before they can take a point:
- Performance Bonus needs Bountiful Harvest at 5/5.
- Dedicated Study needs Bartering at 2/2.
- Talented needs Well Rested at 5/5.
- Frequent Flier needs Field Guide at 3/3.
- Permanence needs Gourmand at 3/3.
- Reagent Economy needs The Quick and the Dead at 2/2.
Put together, any tier 3 perk eats at least 11 of a character’s 16 points. Reagent Economy, for instance, requires 10 points in Resourcefulness, both ranks of The Quick and the Dead among them, and then one more point for the perk itself.
Related: best Legacy talents in WoW Forever, with builds for leveling, professions, raids and PvP
In the game, Legacy perks are changed at a class trainer in a major city. The wider system is laid out in the Legacy system explained, and class talents have their own class talent calculator.
Every Legacy perk and what each rank does
Values run from rank 1 upward, and the number in brackets is the perk’s maximum rank.
Professions tree
- Working Overtime (5), tier 1: skill-up chance +4/8/12/16/20%.
- Bountiful Harvest (5), tier 1: Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning have a 20/40/60/80/100% greater chance to yield Scarce materials.
- Master Chef (5), tier 2: Each rank gives a 10/20/30/40/50% chance to produce an additional cooking result.
- Bartering (2), tier 2: vendor prices 5/10% lower.
- Performance Bonus (3), tier 2: 5/10/15% chance of 100% more Merchant’s Favor on crate turn-ins to the Azeroth Commerce Authority or Durotar Supply and Logistics.
- Luremaster (2), tier 2: An active Lure gives you a 25/50% chance of landing an additional fish.
- Dedicated Study (1), tier 3: +1 skill in your lowest Primary or Secondary tradeskill. With both Primary and all three Secondary tradeskills at 300, it grants 2 to 4 of a random Elemental Essence instead.
Adventure tree
- Well Rested (5), tier 1: Rested experience accumulates 4/8/12/16/20% faster, and the rested cap increases by that same percentage.
- Thrill of Adventure (5), tier 1: 1/2/3/4/5% of max Health and Mana over 10 sec per killing blow on a non-trivial enemy, outside dungeons, raids and battlegrounds.
- High Alert (2), tier 2: Stealth detection counts as though you were 1/2 levels higher, but this benefit does not apply in battlegrounds.
- Talented (5), tier 2: Talent points start at level 9/8/7/6/5 rather than level 10, with the total still capped at 51 points.
- Field Guide (3), tier 2: camp feature cooldown cut by 8/17/25%.
- Field Medicine (2), tier 2: Reduce the Recently Bandaged duration by 5/10 sec outside dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds.
- Frequent Flier (1), tier 3: Flight paths cost 50% less and the flight path mount flies 20% faster.
Resourcefulness tree
- Gourmand (3), tier 1: food buff duration +33/67/100%.
- The Quick and the Dead (2), tier 1: Movement speed rises by 5/10% while you are dead. After resurrection, helpful spells and abilities are free for 1/2 min, or until you enter combat.
- Reinforce (5), tier 1: Death reduces durability 8/16/24/32/40% less.
- For Great Honor (5), tier 2: +2/4/6/8/10% Honor.
- Permanence (2), tier 2: long party and raid buffs from class abilities last 50/100% longer, and camp rest benefits last 50/100% longer.
- Diplomat (5), tier 2: +2/4/6/8/10% reputation.
- Reagent Economy (1), tier 3: Vendor-purchased reagents are no longer needed for class abilities, and tier 1 camping features can be crafted without materials.
Legacy talent calculator FAQ
Can you share a Legacy build?
Yes. Copy build link puts a link on your clipboard that opens the same build in the calculator.
