Recipe scrolls: rare recipes from bosses

Of the game's 171 recipes, 147 unlock on their own as your skill grows. The other 24 can only be learned from a recipe scroll, and scrolls drop from bosses.

Kinds of scrolls

Epic recipes belong to Engineering (3), Blacksmithing (2), Enchanting (2), and Tailoring, Leatherworking and Alchemy (1 each). Regular scrolls exist for Enchanting, Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Engineering and Alchemy (2 each) and Tailoring (1). Which boss drops which scroll, and how many runs it takes on average, is in the Recipe scrolls reference. If a boss carries several scrolls, each one rolls separately.

How to learn one

1. The scroll goes into your Pouch.
2. In the stack's menu press "Learn Recipe". Your hero must have that profession — otherwise the scroll isn't used up and the game tells you which profession to learn.
3. The recipe is written into your book forever. If you already know it, the scroll isn't spent.

Good to know

• You can learn it at any skill, but you can only craft it at the recipe's skill: 100–210 for regular dungeon scrolls, 240–300 for epic and legendary ones (300 for most).
• Only the hero who used the scroll knows the recipe.
• If you unlearn the profession, learned scrolls stay with your hero.
• A scroll rolls as soon as the boss falls: if you die or leave, whatever already dropped from slain bosses stays. The first two runs in a window roll (a day for dungeons and world bosses, a week for raids); a run counts once its first scroll boss falls, and that first roll opens the window. From the third run on there are no scrolls — see Repeat rewards.
• In a group scrolls aren't rolled for: every member gets their own roll.
• The eleven regular recipes used to unlock with skill until October 7. Heroes who had already reached them by then keep them learned.
• Scrolls, except the personal Hammer of the First Forge scroll, can be sold to the Merchant, listed at the Auction House, mailed and traded.

Hammer of the First Forge

Besides the scroll, forging it takes Blacksmithing 300 and 12 personal Shards of the First Forge (2–5% from raid bosses). None of it can be passed on — more in Legendary items.