WoW MoP Classic All Secondary Professions' Functions And Key Information
Posted: Sep 04, 2025 Views: 21
In addition to your race and class, you can choose between primary and secondary professions early in your character development. While you have a limited number of primary professions to choose from, you can learn all secondary professions.
Instead of engaging in intense combat, these professions allow you to craft items with buffs, similar to a management game, to aid you and your teammates in combat. These items can also be sold for WoW MoP Classic gold at your leisure.
There are four secondary professions available for learning in the game. While you can choose how many to learn on your own, it's recommended that you master all of them to maximize your potential item buffs.
For this reason, we'll cover all the secondary professions one by one.
1. Cooking
This profession applies to all classes in Mists of Pandaria Classic and grants you and your teammates stat boosts in dungeons and raids, even at max level and equipped with max-level gear.
To learn and level up the cooking skill, you must find the corresponding trainer in Halfhill in Valley of the Four Winds. Their locations are:
- Kol Ironpaw (Master of the Grill) - /way 53.0, 51.4
- Jian Ironpaw (Master of the Oven) - /way 53.2, 51.6
- Mei Mei Ironpaw (Master of the Pot) - /way 52.6, 51.6
- Yan Ironpaw (Master of the Steamer) - /way 52.6, 51.6
- Anthea Ironpaw (Master of the Wok) - /way 52.8, 51.8
- Bobo Ironpaw (Master of the Brew) - /way 53.0, 52.0
The cooking skill allows you to create meals for personal consumption, as well as feasts for your entire party to consume during battle. However, you must obtain the corresponding recipes and gather the ingredients.
How To Obtain The Recipes?
Regular recipes can be taught by Ironpaw Master Chefs at Halfhill Market, exchanged by Ironpaw Tokens from Nam Ironpaw, or found randomly throughout the map after completing Lost and Found achievement.
After reaching cooking skill level 520, you can master skill specializations by completing the quests "So You Want to Be a Chef..." and "Ready for Greatness." There are six specializations, each unlocking five unique recipes.
2. First Aid
As the name suggests, first aid is a supportive profession. Requiring only a few pieces of cloth and a one-second cast time, you can craft bandages in combat to restore approximately 25% of your health and that of your allies.
However, there is an 8-second channeling time associated with using a bandage; if the player being treated moves or takes damage during this time, the healing is interrupted.
In addition, any player treated with a bandage will be affected by Recently Bandaged debuff, preventing them from using bandages again for one minute.
Notably, MoP Classic adds a new fabric, Windwool Cloth, which you can use to craft the new bandages, Windwool Bandage and Heavy Windwool Bandage.
Unlike cooking recipes, which require constant collection, first aid bandage recipes are available from all first aid trainers. They are:
Alliance:
- Angela Leifeld, Stormwind City - /way 52.2, 45.6
- Dannelor, Darnassus - /way 51.6, 12.6
- Nissa Firestone, Ironforge - /way 54.8, 58.6
Horde:
- Arnok, Orgrimmar - /way 34.0, 84.4
- Pand Stonebinder, Thunder Bluff - /way 29.6, 21.6
- Mary Edras, Undercity - /way 73.6, 55.6
3. Fishing
Compared to other secondary professions, fishing doesn't seem to provide much combat benefit, but it's certainly fun to level up and catch rarer fish.
Fishing in Mists of Pandaria Classic doesn't require you to equip a fishing rod, but some rods offer special bonuses that can improve your fishing efficiency.
Another unique aspect of the fishing profession is that it progresses regionally. You must reach a certain fishing level in your current region to obtain rarer fish, otherwise you'll only catch junk or Golden Carp in Pandaria.
Luckily, the base value of Golden Carp is quite good, so you can stay in Pandaria and fish for it until you reach the maximum level, then travel to other regions to fish. It's worth noting that MoP Classic adds new fish to different zones:
- Emperor Salmon: Townlong Steppes, Krasarang Wilds, Valley of the Four Winds, Vale of Eternal Blossoms
- Golden Carp: Anywhere in Pandaria
- Jade Lungfish: Jade Forest
- Jewel Danio: Vale of Eternal Blossoms
- Krasarang Paddlefish: Krasarang Wilds, Valley of the Four Winds, Vale of Eternal Blossoms
- Redbelly Mandarin: Townlong Steppes, Vale of Eternal Blossoms
- Tiger Gourami: Kun-Lai Summit, Veiled Stairs
- Reef Octopus: Krasarang Wilds, Jade Forest
As for fishing trainers, whether Alliance, Horde, or neutral, they're located in all zones, making them easy to find as needed.
To improve your fishing, you'll need to find The Anglers at the docks. They'll randomly assign three quests each day. Completing them will level you up and grant you 500 reputation points. These quests include:
- Armored Carp
- Bright Bait
- Fishing for a Bruising
- Huff & Puff
- Jagged Abalone
- Jumping the Shark
- Like Bombing Fish in a Barrel
- Scavenger Hunt
- Shocking!
- Snapclaw
- Viseclaw Soup
- What Lurks Below
- Who Knew Fish Liked Eggs?
4. Archaeology
This profession is only available when your character reaches level 20. After mastering the archaeology skill from the trainer, a small shovel icon will appear on your map, marking Digsites where you can excavate.
Available trainers are located in:
Alliance:
- Diya, The Exodar - /way 34.6, 66.8
- Doktor Professor Ironpants, Ironforge - /way 75.6, 11.6
- Hammon the Jaded, Darnassus - /way 43.2, 83.6
- Harrison Jones, Stormwind - /way 85.6, 25.8
Horde:
- Adam Hossack, Undercity - /way 76.0, 36.4
- Belloc Brightblade, Orgrimmar - /way 49.0, 79.6
- Elynara, Silvermoon City - /way 81.6, 63.8
- Otoh Greyhide, Thunder Bluff - /way 75.8, 28.0
Neutral:
- Boduro the Seeker, Shattrath - /way 62.5, 70.2
- Brita Bramblebrush, Dalaran - /way 48.5, 38.6
Digsites you can find and the rewards you can dig up depend on your race, with Dwarfs generally having an advantage. Additionally, you must use Survey spell granted by this profession to begin digging.
Once you reach a high enough rank in archaeology, you'll gain access to a variety of combat and non-combat rewards. To increase your rank, you'll need to complete the following tasks:
- Completing a successful survey/dig and find a fragment container: 1 skill point
- Solving a common artifact: 5 skill points
- Solving a rare artifact: 15 skill points
That's the overview of all the secondary professions in WoW Classic MoP. I hope you find it helpful! Have fun!
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