Knowledge & Acuity

One Time Sources

First Crafts & Gathers

The first time you craft any recipe you will get 1 knowledge. The first time you find a new type of herb or ore, you will get 1 knowledge. There is no equivalent for Skinning.

Intro Quest

There’s a one time quest in Dornogal that will get you 350 Artisan’s Acuity as well as a bag of crafting reagents. Talk to Roldira ( /way #2339 59.2 55.8 Roldira ) to pick it up. She’s located in the building behind the craft order stations. This quest will also have you find your crafting station and unlocks patron orders.

Treasures

24 knowledge points can be gained per profession from 8 treasures scattered across the TWW zones. You can find and use the treasures at any skill level, but you won’t be able to use the knowlege points until you hit skill 25 and can unlock a specialization. Using them does not give you Acuity.

Artisan Consortium Books

Lyrendal, the Artisan Consortium vendor in Dornagal ( /way #2339 59.6 56.2 Lyrendal ) sells 3 books per profession. They give 10 Knowledge Points each for crafting professions or 15 for gathering ones, and cost 200 / 300 / 400 Artisan’s Acuity. He’s located in the building behind the craft order stations are. You’ll need to have 25 skill in your profession to buy them.

Faction Renown Books

Upon gaining the rquired renown with the factions below, all of your toons will be able to purchase books for the listed price from the faction’s quarermaster. If the currency used to buy the book was Artsian’s Acuity, you will get 5 Acuity back per knowledge gained when using the book.

Faction	Renown	Professions	Cost	Knowledge Gained
Council of Dornagal	12	Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting and Tailoring	50 Artisan’s Acuity	Gathering 15, Crafting 10
Assembly of the Deeps	12	Mining, Engineering and Inscription	50 Artisan’s Acuity	Gathering 15, Crafting 10
Hallowfall Arathi	14	Jewelcrafting, Skinning, Herbalism, and Leatherworking	50 Artisan’s Acuity	Gathering 15, Crafting 10
Severed Threads	–	All professions, sold by your trainer in the City of Threads.	565 Kej	10
Cartels of Undermine	16	All professions	50 Artisan’s Acuity	10

Recurring Sources

You can use TWW Weekly Profession Knowledge WA to help you keep track of your recurring knowledge points.

All Professions

Dorogal Weekly Quests

• For gatherers (and enchanters), the questgiver is your profession trainer in Dornogal, and you’ll need to turn in some reagents you can gather or obtain by disenchanting. You’re rewarded 3 knowledge and 15 acuity. You need 25 skill in your gathering profession to be eligible for the quest.
• For crafters, the questgiver is Kala Clayhoof ( /way #2339 59.2 55.6 Kala Clayhoof ) inside the Artist’s Consortium building in Dornogal. She’ll ask you to fulfill 2-3 crafting orders (LW, BS & Tailor have 3, others 2). There is no minimum skill required to get the quest. Engineers are rewarded 1 knowledge and 5 acuity, other professions get 2 knowledge and 10 acuity. Filling patron orders counts toward this quest. Enchanters don’t get a quest – they act like a gathering profession (see weekly gathering drops below).

Treatises

Algari profession treatises (made by scribes) give you 1 knowledge point, and 5 acuity when you use one. They can be used once per week per profession, and require having 25 skill in that profession. They can be ordered through the crafting system, and don’t have a quality associated with them, so public orders using low quality mats work just fine.

Darkmoon Faire

Monthly Darkmoon Faire quests offer 2 skill points and 3 knowledge points (no acuity).

Crafting Professions Only

Patron Orders

This will be your biggest knowledge point source per week. Patron orders that offer 2 point knowldege rewards (Glimmers of Knowledge) are offered every 4 days. You’ll get 2-3* of these quests, which expire after 7 days. If you are behind on patron orders, you will also be offered quests that offer 1 point knowlege rewards (Flickers of Knowledge). These show up somewhat randomly, and have a shorter duration. See Patron Orders for more details.

*: Alchemists, engineers, and jewelcrafters get 2 glimmer quests; blacksmiths, scribes, leatherworkers, and tailors get 3. Enchanters don’t get patron orders that reward knowledge (but they do get weekly treasures).

Weekly Treasures

When you open a chest or dig in disturbed dirt, there’s a chance to find a profession treasure. You can get 2 a week, and they are worth 1-2 knowledge each depending on the profession.

Profession	Knowledge Item
Alchemy	Alchemical Sediment (2KP), Deepstone Crucible (2KP)
Blacksmithing	Coreway Billet (1KP), Dense Bladestone (1KP)
Enchanting	Crystalline Repository (1KP), Powdered Fulgurance (1KP)
Engineering	Rust-Locked Mechanism (1KP), Earthen Induction Coil (1KP)
Inscription	Striated Inkstone (2KP), Wax-Sealed Records (2KP)
Jewelcrafting	Diaphanous Gem Shards (2KP), Deepstone Fragment (2KP)
Leatherworking	Stone-Leather Swatch (1KP), Sturdy Nerubian Carapace
Tailoring	Chitin Needle (1KP), Spool of Webweave (1KP)

Gathering Professions & Enchanting

When gathering or disenchanting, you have a chance to find an item that gives 1 knowledge and 5 acuity. When you’ve reached your weekly allotment (5), you’ll find another item that is worth more (2-4 depending on your profession). If you are not “caught up” on gathering knowledge, you will continue to find more 1 KP drops, with a different name. It’s been reported that these catch up items won’t drop unless you’ve done all of the other quests to get KP for the profession that week (this includes the Darkmoon Faire, if it’s up).

Profession	Knowledge Item	Total KP per week*
Enchanting	5x Fleeting Arcane Manifestation (1KP ea), 1x Gleaming Telluric Crystal (4KP)	14
Herbalism	5x Deepgrove Petal (1KP ea), 1x Deepgrove Rose (4KP) / catch up item is Deepgrove Roots (1KP ea)	12
Mining	5x Slab of Slate (1KP ea), 1x Erosion Polished Slate (3KP) / catch up item is Null Sliver (1KP ea)	11
Skinning	5x Toughened Tempest Pelt (1KP ea), 1x Abyssal Fur (2KP) / catch up item is Razor Talon (1KP ea)	10