Primary
Use smelting for early skill if buying ore is cheaper than gathering it. Mine at 140–155, which this smelting chain cannot cover.
Recipes with checked reagents: 17
Professions: choose your next goal
Choose two of the nine primary professions. Cooking, Fishing and First Aid are additional skills. Open a profession for its route and recipes.
Primary
Gather herbs while questing. Keep uncommon secondary reagents, which Forever recipes use alongside ordinary herbs.
Recipes with checked reagents: 3
Primary
Skin beasts after looting them. Compare leather prices with finished items. Gathered leather also has a sale value.
Recipes with checked reagents: 3
Secondary
Fish can reduce the need for extra reagents. Compare raw fish and meat prices before buying. Cookie’s Stirring Rod speeds cooking only for characters who can equip it.
Recipes with checked reagents: 125
Secondary
Choose water where your skill is sufficient for successful catches. Keep cooking fish for your own leveling. Treat Big Iron Fishing Pole as a fishing tool rather than combat gear.
Recipes with checked reagents: 3
Secondary
In Forever, ordinary healing potions belong to First Aid. Compare bandage and potion costs for early leveling. At skill 150, get the next training book.
Recipes with checked reagents: 32
Primary
Check trainer recipes for early elixirs. Minor Arcane Elixir and Elixir of Minor Force start at skill 1. Cerulean Dye is learned at 40. Some recipes require a camp feature.
Recipes with checked reagents: 182
Primary
Mining supplies many engineering reagents. Check use requirements before making bombs. Learning a recipe does not mean every character can use the item.
Recipes with checked reagents: 247
Primary
Start with linen bolts and bags if you need bag space. When pairing with Enchanting, compare cloth prices with disenchanting materials. Disenchanting is not automatically profitable.
Recipes with checked reagents: 417
Primary
At character level 10, choose boots for Strength, Agility, healing or spells. These boots bind on pickup, so the wearer must craft them.
Recipes with checked reagents: 512
Primary
An early wand can be crafted at skill 10. Runed Copper Rod is a tool, not a consumed reagent. Check the finished wand price before buying materials.
Recipes with checked reagents: 222
Primary
Crusader’s Silvered Helm offers spell benefits for a paladin. Buying a plan and crafting the item may require different skill levels. Use the current recipe before buying reagents.
Recipes with checked reagents: 441