Professions in Player Housing
New Lumber Resource
Lumber is a required reagent in all Decor crafts. This new material is Warbound, meaning you can share this reagent across your alts but cannot sell it on the Auction House or trade it to another player. Lumber can be gathered by any character by heading to a neighborhood and completing the Lumber For You quest. Click the given item and this will grant the ability for you to see Lumber Nodes throughout the world as you explore.
There are currently 12 different Lumber types that are used throughout the professions. Each type of lumber can be found in their specific expansion-related zones, make sure you farm the right one!
Lumber TypeGathering Location
Dornic Fir Lumber
Khaz Algar and K'aresh
Fel-Touched Lumber
Broken Isle Zones and Argus
Ironwood Lumber
Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms
Dragonpine Lumber
Dragonflight Zones
Crafting Profession Decor
With Lumber being required in all profession decor recipes, not being tradeable, and trees usually dropping 1 Lumber per harvest, crafting profession decor is heavily limited by the amount of Lumber gathered. Lumber is a brand new resource and there is very little of it in the economy, and the demand for these items is currently very high which makes it a great gold-making opportunity.
Take the Beloved Raptor Plushie item, which has the materials: 8 Fel-Touched Lumber, 15 Shal'dorei Silk, 5 Roseate Pigment, 2 Chaotic Spinel, 2 Runic Catgut. This is currently selling for, at minimum ~12k on populated servers, and more on unpopulated servers. The crafting materials other than the lumber for this item, currently cost less than 2k gold as there is a much bigger supply. This makes the 8 lumber that you can farm worth at minimum 1k each.
Cost and Profit Shown via CraftSim Addon
I personally farmed 8 Fel-Touched Lumber in about two minutes. Assuming the decor sells, with each lumber being sold for 1k each, you could make at minimum 100k per hour farming Lumber and crafting, if not way more! Just remember that you also need a character with a profession leveled since Lumber cannot be traded. Assuming you do, head out and craft some profession decor for some gold!
Check out our profession guide for more information on which decor items can be crafted from recipes.
Professions in Player Housing
Best Way to Farm Lumber
Lumber can be found from any trees and are in great supply. Flying a route around a wooded area and watching your minimap is a great way to collect some Lumber.
There's not much you can do to speed up Lumber farming. The best way to farm Lumber is to farm it on a Druid. As Lumber is Warbound, you don't need to collect Lumber on your crafter. Druids, like other gathering professions, don't need to leave Flight Form in order to collect lumber making them the most efficient gatherers, and this includes Lumber!
