Specific trade skills within a profession allow you to do specific things - craft a specific item or add a specific enhancement. Professions can be learned regardless of their character faction, race, or class (although there are a few class skills that are similar to professions.) Professions are both learned and improved from a trainer (or sometimes with recipes), for a cost. Crafting, gathering, and secondary abilities or skills.Ī profession is a large trade-oriented set of skills that player characters may incrementally learn in order to gather, make, or enhance items that can be used in World of Warcraft gameplay.