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WoW Forever Weapon Skills: Trainers, Cost and What Changed
In World of Warcraft: Forever (WoW Forever), you learn most weapon skills from weapon masters in the six capital cities for 10 silver each, with Polearms costing 1 gold and requiring level 20. Warcraft Tavern's trainer guide gives both prices and the level 20 requirement, Blizzard Watch gives the same prices, and Warcraft Tavern says the weapon skill system itself is unchanged from the original game.
Quick answer: Find the weapon master for your weapon in your faction's capital, pay 10 silver, and the skill appears in your Skills tab. What changed is not the trainers but the bonuses: racial abilities no longer raise weapon skill, and items give less of it.
Weapon masters in the capital cities teach the rest, one fee at a time.
Key facts
- Cost: 10 silver per skill; Polearms 1 gold (Warcraft Tavern; Blizzard Watch), at level 20 (Warcraft Tavern)
- Trainers: eight weapon masters across the six capitals (Warcraft Tavern's guide counts eight; Blizzard Watch lists the same eight)
- Default skills: Defense and Unarmed for everyone; Wands for Mages, Priests and Warlocks (Warcraft Tavern's trainer guide)
- Feral Combat: a Druid weapon skill from level 1, leveling from Bear Form at level 10 (Warcraft Tavern's trainer guide)
- Racial bonuses: none now add weapon skill (Warcraft Tavern)
- New combinations: Rogues can use one-handed axes, and Druids can learn Polearms (Warcraft Tavern's trainer guide)
Where do you train weapon skills in WoW Forever?
Each capital has at least one weapon master. Warcraft Tavern and Blizzard Watch list the same trainers and skills (Polearms are marked level 20 by Warcraft Tavern only):
- Stormwind: Woo Ping, Weller's Arsenal, Trade District. Crossbows, Daggers, One-Handed Swords, Polearms, Staves, Two-Handed Swords.
- Ironforge: Bixi Wobblebonk (Crossbows, Daggers, Thrown) and Buliwyf Stonehand (Fist Weapons, Guns, One-Handed and Two-Handed Axes, One-Handed and Two-Handed Maces), both at Timberline Arms, Military Ward.
- Darnassus: Ilyenia Moonfire, Warrior's Terrace. Bows, Daggers, Fist Weapons, Staves, Thrown.
- Orgrimmar: Sayoc and Hanashi, Arms of Legend, Valley of Honor. Sayoc teaches Bows, Daggers, Fist Weapons, One-Handed Axes, Staves, Thrown and Two-Handed Axes; Hanashi teaches Bows, One-Handed Axes, Staves, Thrown and Two-Handed Axes.
- Thunder Bluff: Ansekhwa. Guns, One-Handed Maces, Staves, Two-Handed Maces.
- Undercity: Archibald, War Quarter. Crossbows, Daggers, One-Handed Swords, Polearms, Two-Handed Swords.
For the cities themselves, read the guides to Ironforge, Darnassus, Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff and the Undercity.
How do weapon skills work in WoW Forever?
Warcraft Tavern's report from the BlizzCon demo (published September 14, 2026) calls weapon skill a core mechanic in Vanilla WoW with a huge impact on how you build and gear a character, especially for physical damage dealers. It says the skill system itself is unchanged and that the Skills tooltip now shows how weapon skill affects attacks against targets of different levels. In the original game, Warcraft Wiki says skill rises through use, each attack that is not evaded has a chance to raise it, and the maximum is five times your level. No source I opened gives Forever's own skill numbers, so treat those as original-game mechanics.
What changed from the original game?
The bonuses shrank. Warcraft Tavern says no racial ability raises weapon skill in Forever: Dwarf Gun Specialization, Troll Bow and Throwing Specialization and Human Mace Specialization were removed or replaced, while Orc Axe Specialization and Human Sword Specialization now raise critical hit chance. All Things How reports the same racial changes. Warcraft Tavern says Edgemaster's Handguards fall from +7 weapon skill to +1, quoting Principal Game Designer Kriz Zierhut on weapon skill, which was "a little too easy to get and a little too strong" in Classic.
RankedBoost, citing Blizzard's September 13 panel, reports that items give less weapon skill per item, and, citing a September 30 class deep dive, that Warrior weapon specialization talents were folded into a new Weaponmaster talent. Class choices matter too: see the Warrior guide, the Rogue guide and the class quests guide. The free Lore Forever add-on is fan-made and does not change weapon skills.
What is not confirmed yet
- Item amounts and hit cap: RankedBoost says Blizzard has not announced how much weapon skill items give, nor a hit cap.
- Racial figures: RankedBoost lists percentages from beta files, including a Dwarf mace bonus that Warcraft Tavern's article does not list, and the page is inconsistent on that Dwarf figure itself.
- Trainer coordinates: the two guides give different map numbers for Woo Ping, so check in game.
- Skill rates: Warcraft Wiki's weapon skill page mixes mechanics from several expansions, so the original-game numbers are not confirmed for Forever.
- Beta limit: the beta capped at level 30, so Polearms training and high-level skill caps are untested.
Frequently asked questions
How much do weapon skills cost in WoW Forever?
Most cost 10 silver each, and Polearms cost 1 gold and need level 20, according to Warcraft Tavern and Blizzard Watch.
Where do I train weapon skills in WoW Forever?
At weapon masters in the six capitals, such as Woo Ping in Stormwind or Sayoc in Orgrimmar.
Do racial bonuses still raise weapon skill in WoW Forever?
No. Warcraft Tavern says no racial ability raises weapon skill, and some now raise critical hit chance instead.
Which classes use wands in WoW Forever?
Mages, Priests and Warlocks have Wands by default, and no weapon master teaches them, says Warcraft Tavern.
Did weapon skill change in WoW Forever?
The system is unchanged, according to Warcraft Tavern, but racial and item bonuses are smaller.
Sources
Reviewed October 27, 2026. Details may change at launch on November 4. Lore Forever is fan-made and is not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.