The Professions tab shows every crafting and gathering profession across your roster in one place. Flip between a by profession view (who can craft what, sorted by skill) and a by character view (everything one player has), then tag exactly which recipes someone knows and leave a note for the rest of the group.
Find a crafter
Open Professions
From your Group Hub, open the Professions tab. It starts on the By profession lens.
Scan the profession cards
Each card is one profession, showing how many roster characters have it and how many are at max skill for the current tier. Click a card to expand its list of crafters, sorted by their current-tier skill.
Narrow with filters
Filter by member, minimum skill, mains/alts, or turn off "current expansion only" to include older-tier professions too.
Check what they can actually make
Recipe tags on a crafting profession show which specific items they know, color-coded by category (armor type, weapon, consumable, enchant, gem, and so on).
Leave a note or tag a recipe
If you're an admin, or it's your own character, add a short note or toggle recipe tags directly on the row. It saves as you type.
By profession: who can craft what
This is the default lens and the page's main question. Professions are listed in a fixed order: crafting professions alphabetically, then the three gathering professions (Herbalism, Mining, Skinning), each as a collapsible card showing how many characters have it and how many are at max skill for the current tier.
Expanding a card lists every crafter, sorted with the highest current-tier skill first, each with their skill number, any tagged recipes, and their note.
By character: one player's full spread
Switching to By character groups the same filtered data by roster member instead, alphabetically, with your own characters marked (You). Each character shows every profession that survives your current filters, plus their Cooking skill if they have it. This is the view for "what does this one player have," rather than "who can make this."
A profession icon strip sits above the list in this lens; clicking a profession's icon there is a quick way to filter down to just that profession without opening the Filters row.
Narrowing the list
| Filter | What it does |
|---|---|
| Member | Show only one roster member's characters |
| Skill | Any skill, a minimum skill threshold (25/50/65/70/80), or "Max only" |
| Midnight only (current expansion) | On by default; hides professions with no tier from the current expansion |
| Mains / Alts | Restrict to main characters, alts, or both |
| Search | Matches note text and recipe name, label, or description |
| Category (recipe) | Appears once a profession is selected; narrows to characters tagged for one recipe category |
On phones, the lens switch stays visible and everything else (skill, member, mains/alts, current-expansion, search) collapses into one Filters sheet with an active-count badge.
Reading skill and recipes
- Skill numbers are colored relative to that tier's cap: green at 90%+ of max, amber from 50-89%, red below that. Hovering a skill number shows every tier the character has ever leveled, not just the current one.
- Recipe tags mark specific items a crafter knows, grouped by profession specialization and color-coded by category (plate, leather, mail, cloth, weapon, consumable, enchant, gem, accessory, gadget, misc). Not every profession has recipe data to tag.
- Cooking shows as a compact, de-emphasized line under a character's primary professions when present. Fishing is never shown.
- The freshness note at the top of the page ("Updated Xh ago") reflects the oldest data among the characters currently visible, and links straight to your group's Data Freshness breakdown.
Who can edit notes and recipe tags
Notes and recipe tags are editable by group admins, and by the player who has claimed that character as their own. Everyone else sees the note and tags, but can't change them. Notes cap at 200 characters and save automatically as you type; there's no separate save step. On phones, tapping a note opens a small bottom sheet to edit it instead of a cramped inline field.
Why don't I see any professions?
If your roster has no characters assigned yet, you'll be pointed to the Roster tab first, since Professions only shows characters that have been claimed onto a roster member. If characters exist but none show profession data, they haven't been refreshed from Battle.net yet. And if your filters are just too narrow, clearing the profession, skill, or recipe filters usually brings characters back.
See also
- Roster Report: the wider gear, enchant, and readiness audit
- How Your Data Stays Fresh: what the "Updated Xh ago" clock and its colors mean
- Setting Up Your Group: claiming characters onto roster members in the first place