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Yesterday I made a list of faction recipes. I found there were very few and we could also see how very few recipes are known by the teachers.

So how do we learn new recipes for our different professions? The answer is: in different ways for different professions. I really like that there is some diversity to leveling up the different jobs our characters have.

(Disclaimer: this is all I could find out via WoWHead at this moment and their database is far from complete at this point).

• Alchemy: when we’re done with recipes known by teachers we start doing  Northrend Alchemy Research (at skill 400). Besides discovered recipes there are 3 drop recipes namely the Protection potions. The last potions from the teacher are obtained at skill 435.
• Blacksmithing: there seem to be 4 drop recipes but other than that it’s all from the teacher? I would guess the information is incomplete.
• Cooking: more cooking recipes can be picked up with Derek Odds (or Misensi for the Horde) for Dalaran Cooking Awards. The Awards can be obtained through a set of 4 Dailies. Furthermore there are 4 Recipes for the so-called “Emotion Foods” that are obtained through relatively common green drops and 3 or 4 Recipes learned through quests.
• Enchanting: additional recipes are obtained from Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran. These can be obtained by turning in Dream Shards. There seem to be a couple of drop recipes for resistance cloak enchants as well.
• Engineering: so far I can find only two recipes Schematic: Mechano-hog and Schematic: Mekengineer’s Chopper.
• First Aid: there is only one more recipe to obtain and it’s a drop: Manual: Heavy Frostweave BandageThis book drops in instances. Since it is BoP you will have to visit a couple of instances to get this.
• Inscription: Scribes learn by doing Research. There are no Vendor Recipes or Drop Recipes at all. There are 2 types of research however: Minor Inscription Research (skill 75) and Northrend Inscription Research (skill 385).
• Jewelcrafting: Tiffany Cartier has a lot of nice recipes for Jewelcrafters, which she sells for Dalaran Jewelcrafter’s Tokens, which in turn are obtained by doing dailies.
• Leatherworking: while there are a few Reputation based Vendor recipes most are sold by Braeg Stoutbeard in Dalaran for Arctic Fur or Heavy Borean Leather.
• Tailoring: there are a few Reputation based recipes and a few drops and one very interesting drop: A Guide to Northern Cloth Scavenging.

So far this is all I was able to find out. So we have 2 professions that get new recipes more or less randomly from doing Research (Inscription + Alchemy) and a few professions that obtain recipes from special vendors in Dalaran that are either paid with rare drops or tokens obtained from dailies (Leatherworking, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting and Cooking). For several professions I could not find much yet: Tailoring, Blacksmithing and Engineering

Update: I am just reading a post by BBB on a similar topic as mine “Undecided about professions?” If you want some more knowledge and analysis go to his blog and read. There will most assuredly be tons of interesting comments on his blog.