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Production Trade Skills
Production trade skills enable you to make items that can be worn by
players and sold in the World of Warcraft economy. Production skills are an
excellent way to equip your character with armor and weapons you can’t
find anywhere else in the game, and a great way to make money as well.
Using Production Skills
Using a production skill requires a blueprint of an item, and the ingredients
specified in that blueprint. When you have gathered all the ingredients in
your inventory, open your production trade skill window from the Abilities
book or from the trade skill icon on your action bar. A list of all the
blueprints you have appears in the trade skill window.
The item window at the bottom of the trade skill window shows you how
many of each ingredient you have, while the blueprint list tells you how
many copies you can make.
When you are ready, click “Create”, and after a brief amount of time, the
necessary ingredients will be taken from your bag. Then the newly
produced item will appear in your inventory.
Making an item with a production skill is always a success. As long as you
have all the required ingredients, your item will be made without failure.
Improving Your Production Trade Skill
Production skills improve as you use them. You increase your skill when you
make difficult items, but not when you make easy ones. All production
blueprints are color-coded for difficulty. From easiest to hardest, these colors
are as follows: gray, green, yellow, orange, and red. Red skills never show
up in your blueprint list because you cannot learn them, but you can browse
them when seeing the trade skill trainer. Creating orange items always
increase your skill; yellow items sometimes increase your skill; green items
rarely increase your skill; and gray items never increase your skill.
As you improve your trade skill, blueprints that were orange can turn
yellow, green, and eventually gray. To improve your skill further, you must
find more challenging blueprints to add to your list.