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[Terff]

Dwarves have plenty of useful skills... and sadly plenty of useless ones (woohoo legendary soap maker!!!) so what legendary skills do you find to be the most useful and most wanted.

For me:
Metalsmithing (insane furniture values)
Armorsmithing (unkillable soldiers decked out in masterwork steel armor?  Sounds great!)
Weaponsmithing (swords that cut through clowns like butter!)
Engraving (a few masterwork engravings and a room suddenly becomes massively more valuable for free)
Strand Extraction (because... well adamantine...)

Of course things like legendary mining are incredibly useful but they aren't that hard to achieve and with mining its usually achieved on one or two dwarves after simply carving out my fortress.

[Number7]

Cheese making
Swimming
Fish Dissection

and the attribute empathy to be at its lowest.

those are my most wanted legendary skills and attribute. but i keep getting legendary armorsmiths, gem setters and all these other junk migrants

[Afghani84]

Legendary Climber!

I'm more of a cat person though...

[Splint]

Soldiers: High investment but good soldiers are just as deadly as many traps without the caveat of being rooted in one spot.
Armorers/Weaponsmiths: For the soldiers.
Craftsdwarves (particularly metalcrafters and bone carvers): I prefer to do business in equal parts fine goods and battlefield salvage. Lavish meal sales are one of the few no-nos I have.
Doctors: For the good of all, a good medical staff means injured soldiers and citizens are back to work with minimal risk of infection.
Mechanics: My main defense against the caverns are rows and rows of traps for captures or killing.

Less demanded for me are farmworkers of any sort. Butchers, tanners, and brewers however do have some value as many things soldiers kill are edible and better brewers can keep pace with demand better.

No demand: Jewelers, fishery workers, hunters/hunting related.

[vjmdhzgr]

Definitely weapon and armorsmiths. I quite like legendary masons as well, but the material masons work with is basically unlimited while metal at the best of times costs several other jobs (smelting, fuel making), and at the worst of times the mountainhome only has access to one iron ore, lignite, and one flux stone so it can be very limited.

[NESgamer190]

My personal preference on legendaries:

Miners (Fast diggers who're also fairly deadly makeshift militants)
Carpenters (Summarily, lovely wood furniture is where I go.)
Armorer and Weaponsmith (Self-explanatory for military)
Mechanic (Masterwork mechanisms for the emergency drawbridge airlock or killing devices.)
Furnace Operator (Must...  have...  bars...)
Managers (To better manage orders, of course.)
Militants (In case the battle must be brought to the adversaries.)
Masonry (Fast build me those stone blocks!)
Engravers (I personally believe in a legendary engraver being something of a floor buffer device)

Undesired legendaries would be the following:

Butchers (I find the need to butcher is usually low for me.)
Soapers (Non-believer in soap I am.)
Beekeepers (I usually wind up unlucky to have no bees.)

[Number7]

Undesired legendaries would be the following:

Butchers (I find the need to butcher is usually low for me.)
Soapers (Non-believer in soap I am.)
Beekeepers (I usually wind up unlucky to have no bees.)

Does legendary in beekeeping and butchery make much of a difference even?

[Splint]

Undesired legendaries would be the following:

Butchers (I find the need to butcher is usually low for me.)
Soapers (Non-believer in soap I am.)
Beekeepers (I usually wind up unlucky to have no bees.)

Does legendary in beekeeping and butchery make much of a difference even?

Speed. Lots of skill are like that. Mining, fish cleaning, and so on.

[utunnels]

Any of those doctor skills.

[Wheeljack]

Mining, engraving, all of the metal workers, mason, carpenter, and engineer. I also prefer to have high level brewers and cooks so my fortress gets all the lavish meals and drinks. Clothes-makers and leatherworkers, so all clothing is high quality. I pamper my dwarves. After the first two years nothing under exceptional quality is acceptable and becomes trade goods.

[PDF urist master]

weaponsmith. High quality weapons are awesome for that 2x hit modifier.

[Terff]

Any of those doctor skills.

Then you would probably love my most recent migrant waves hehe... sooo many doctors with great/high master/accomplished doctor skills

[gchristopher]

Glassmakers for low-maintenance infinite magma-proof traps and trade goods.

[NullForceOmega]

Legendary Teachers.

[StagnantSoul]

1: Weapon and armour smiths.
2: Stone/metal crafters, bone carvers, engravers, and gem setters.
3: Military skills, top priority being armour.
4: Everyone else is kind of equal now.