Yes. You can respec your Legacy Points in World of Warcraft: Forever at your class trainer in one of the major cities. Blizzard’s class deep dives say “to change your talents (including Legacy talents), you’ll need to visit a class trainer in one of the major cities.” The reset hands back every point that character spent on Legacy perks so you can rebuild from scratch, and the points your account earned are never lost.
It costs gold, and the fee climbs if you reset often. Below we cover how Legacy perks work, how to respec step by step, what the fee does, what a respec leaves alone, and the one respec most players should plan for. Everything is checked against Blizzard’s Legacy system overview, its class deep dives and its WoW Forever development notes as of November 6, two days after launch.
How Legacy Points and Perks Work
Blizzard’s Legacy system overview splits the system in two:
- Points are earned by your account. Each of the 65 Legacy Challenges pays one point into a Battle.net-wide pool “available to all your non-Hardcore characters.”
- Perks are bought by each character. Every character spends up to 16 points on perks in three trees, Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness, and “each character on your account can spend these points differently and completely independent of each other.”
So a respec only touches the character you reset. Perks work like talents: deeper ones open as you commit points to a tree. Blizzard’s development notes say Master Chef and Luremaster “were already available with only 5 points committed,” for example. Our Legacy Points guide lists every challenge and the best first perks.
How to Respec Your Legacy Points
- Plan the new build first. Open the Legacy window with Y or the shield icon on the menu bar and decide where every point will go, so you only pay once.
- Go to your class trainer in a major city. A Warrior visits a Warrior trainer, a Mage a Mage trainer, and so on. Blizzard names the major cities as the place to do it.
- Choose the reset and pay the fee. The same trainer resets class talents, so if you are changing both, do them on one visit.
- Spend your points again in the Legacy window. All 16 of your character’s points (or however many it had spent) are free to place.
How Much a Legacy Respec Costs
Blizzard has not published the live fee, so check the price the trainer shows before you confirm. What Blizzard has explained is how the fee behaves. Its October 8 beta development notes said “the lowest-cost talent point re-spec for Legacy Points now costs 1s, and the cost to re-spec will reduce by one re-spec per hour,” adding: “This is similar to how re-spec costs work for class talents and only applies during the Beta.”
Read together, that means:
- The fee steps up each time you reset. Back-to-back respecs get more expensive.
- Waiting brings it back down. The price drops one step for every hour you leave it alone.
- The 1 silver floor was for the beta. Blizzard tied that price to the beta, so expect the live game to charge real gold.
Our guide to resetting talents covers the matching class talent fee.
What a Respec Does Not Touch
- Your earned points. Legacy Points belong to your account. A respec only frees the ones this character spent.
- Your other characters. Each character’s perks are its own, so resetting your main leaves your alts’ builds exactly as they were.
- Legacy Rewards. The cosmetic reward track, with the Spectral Bear mount, pet, tabard and the Replica Ironforge Air Rifle toy, counts points your account has accumulated, not points spent.
- Hardcore. Hardcore keeps its own Legacy progress when it arrives, separate from the other rulesets.
The Respec Worth Planning: Level 60
Several perks only help while you level, which makes reaching the level cap the natural time to respec. Going by Blizzard’s own descriptions:
| Perk | What it does | At level 60 |
|---|---|---|
| Talented | Unlocks talent points up to 5 levels early | Nothing left to unlock |
| Well Rested | Raises the rested experience cap and speeds it up | No experience left to earn |
| Thrill of Adventure | Restores a little health and mana after each kill | Still useful while farming |
Freeing Talented and Well Rested opens points for perks that keep paying at the cap. Good candidates from Blizzard’s list:
- Permanence: longer party, raid and camping buffs, which suits raiding from December 9.
- Gourmand: longer buffs from food.
- Reinforce: less durability damage when you die.
- The Quick and the Dead: faster corpse runs and free buffs after a wipe.
- Diplomat: faster reputation gains.
- For Great Honor: more Honor for players chasing PvP ranks.
- Bountiful Harvest, Master Chef and Luremaster: extra resources, dishes and fish for gatherers and cooks. Our guides to cooking and fishing cover those professions.
One caution while leveling: dropping Talented takes back the early talent points it gave you, so plan to rebuild your class talents on the same visit.
Dual Specialization and Legacy Perks
Dual Specialization becomes available at level 40, per Blizzard’s class deep dives, and it saves you trainer fees on class talents. Blizzard has not said whether a second specialization also stores a second set of Legacy perks, so treat a Legacy respec as a separate trip until it does. Our guide to dual spec in WoW Forever covers what is known. Every WoW Forever guide we have is on our World of Warcraft hub.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you reset Legacy Points in WoW Forever? Yes. Visit your class trainer in one of the major cities and choose to reset your Legacy talents.
How much does a Legacy respec cost? Blizzard has not published the live price. The fee rises with each reset and drops one step for every hour you wait.
Do you lose Legacy Points when you respec? No. Points belong to your account, and a respec only frees the ones that character spent.
Does resetting one character affect my other characters? No. Each character spends its points independently.
Can I reset Legacy perks and class talents at the same time? Yes. The same class trainer handles both.
When is the best time to respec Legacy perks? At level 60, when leveling perks such as Talented and Well Rested stop helping.