Ana Resendez, lead software engineer on the World of Warcraft Forever team, laid out the full rules of the Legacy system at the World of Warcraft: Forever Deep Dive panel at BlizzCon 2026. Her lower-third was not legible on the stream, so the name comes from her spoken introduction.
Resendez said the idea came from watching Hardcore players level “over and over again” and wanting to reward that “without facing the consequences.”
Legacy Challenges
The Legacy Challenges window lists six categories: Classes, Tradeskills, Player vs. Player, Adventure, Dungeons, and Raids. The Classes list showed the nine original classes; Tradeskills showed Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, and Tailoring.
Novice, Experienced, and Master Mage are earned for reaching level 25, 45, and 60 for the first time on a Mage. Journeyman, Expert, and Artisan Engineer are earned for reaching 150, 225, and 300 Engineering skill. “The idea is that the system complements your journey and rewards the way that you already enjoy playing the game,” Resendez said.
Three trees at launch
Points are spent in three starting trees: Professions, Adventure, and Resourcefulness.
Well Rested, in Adventure, has five ranks: rank one makes rested experience accumulate 4 percent faster and raises the rested cap by 4 percent, rank two lifts both to 8 percent. Bountiful Harvest, in Professions, gives 20 percent more Scarce materials from Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning at rank one and 40 percent at rank two.
Reagent Economy, in Resourcefulness, is a single-rank perk: class abilities no longer need vendor reagents, and Tier 1 camping features cost no reagents to craft. The example tree had 11 points in it to reach that perk. “Some of the more powerful perks like these ones are very deep in the trees, so you’re going to have to make some very tough choices,” Resendez said.
16 points at launch, 65 to earn
Points are account wide. “Each character you have will be able to spend the same number of points in their own trees,” Resendez said. At launch the spendable total is capped at 16, but you can keep earning up to 65. “We didn’t want people to feel pressure to have to do absolutely all of the challenges, or for new players to feel like they have a very long way to catch up.”
Points beyond the cap feed a Progress Track of cosmetics: a Replica Ironforge Air Rifle at 15 points, a Spectral Bear Cub at 25, a Spectral Bear Tabard at 40, and Reins of the Spectral Bear at 55. The rewards “should not provide a competitive gameplay advantage at all,” she said. Mount cost also shifts to the riding training, as in Burning Crusade.
New challenges, perks, and possibly new trees are planned for later patches; one slide showed an “Unknown” perk “to be added in a future update.” The panel did not say when the 16 point cap rises, how many points each challenge is worth, or what the PvP, Dungeon, and Raid challenges are.