Skip to content

Engineering leveling guide

Engineering from 1 to 300

What to make at every skill, what one craft takes, where to train each rank and which recipes to buy before you need them. The beta caps skill at 225 for now; the route carries on to 300.

Beta cap
225
On this page

The route

Highlights the step you are on.

Shopping list

Trainers

Apprentice Engineering (1–75)

Any Engineering trainer teaches Apprentice from character level 5 for 10. Where they stand.

  1. Skill 1–30

    Orange until 20, yellow from 20.

    Keep the output

    All 60 go into the bombs at 51.

  2. Skill 30–50

    Orange until 45, yellow from 45.

    Keep the output

    All 30 go into the bombs.

  3. Skill 50–51

    Orange throughout.

    1 × Arclight Spanner

    Materials: 6 Copper Bar

    Keep the output

    A tool: later recipes ask for it.

  4. Skill 51–75

    Orange until 60, yellow from 60.

    Train Journeyman before starting: this step can run past 75.

Materials for this rank3 items

Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.

Journeyman Engineering (75–150)

An Engineering trainer teaches Journeyman from Engineering 50 and character level 10 for 450.

  1. Skill 75–90

    Orange until 85, yellow from 85.

    Keep the output

    Dynamite at 90 uses all 60.

  2. Skill 90–100

    Yellow until 97, green from 97.
  3. Skill 100–105

    Orange throughout.

    5 × Silver Contact

    Materials: 5 Silver Bar

    Or

    Silver Bars pricey? Take this.

  4. Skill 105–125

    Yellow throughout.

    25 × Bronze Tube

    Materials: 50 Bronze Bar, 25 Weak Flux

    Keep the output

    Below 125 when the tubes run out? Move on to the scopes rather than more tubes.

  5. Skill 125–135

    Orange throughout.

    10 × Standard Scope

    Materials: 10 Bronze Tube, 10 Moss Agate

    Takes 10 tubes from the last step.

    Or

    No Moss Agate, or it costs too much? Take this.

  6. Skill 135–150

    Green until 145, grey from 145.

    Keep the outputMake together

    Pair with the gizmos: the 160 sheep take powder and gizmos.

  7. Skill 135–150

    Yellow throughout.

    Keep the outputMake together

    Pair with the powder: both feed the 160 sheep.

Materials for this rank8 items

Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.

Expert Engineering (150–225)

An Engineering trainer teaches Expert from Engineering 125 and character level 20 for 45.

  1. Skill 150–160

    Yellow throughout.

    Keep the output

    Train Expert first. Hold all 15; most runs pass 160 on these.

  2. Skill 160–175

    Orange throughout.

    Going Goblin at 200? Hold 5 back.

  3. Skill 175–194

    Yellow until 185, green from 185.

    Keep the output

    Later recipes want this powder.

    Or

    Stopping at 225 with Solid Stone pricey: make both, powder first.

  4. Skill 194–195

    Yellow throughout.

    Keep the output

    One is enough. Still under 195? A few more Iron Grenades.

  5. Skill 195–200

    Yellow throughout.

    6 × Mithril Tube

    Materials: 18 Mithril Bar

    Keep the output

    Gnomish at 200 uses all 6.

  6. Skill 200–215

    Yellow throughout.

    Keep the output

    Hi-Explosive Bombs take all 20.

  7. Skill 215–225

    Yellow throughout.
Materials for this rank7 items

Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.

Artisan Engineering (225–300)

An Engineering trainer teaches Artisan from Engineering 200 and character level 35 for 450. The beta caps skill at 225 for now, so this rank waits until it goes up.

Recipes to buy for this stretch: Schematic: Thorium Widget and Schematic: Thorium Tube. Buy them on your way so you are not stuck at the vendor-sold steps.

The beta stops at 225: skill cannot go past it for now. The steps below wait for the cap to go up.

  1. Skill 225–245

    Yellow until 230, green from 230.
  2. Skill 245–250

    Yellow throughout.
  3. Skill 250–258

    Yellow until 255, green from 255.
  4. Skill 258–262

    Yellow throughout.
  5. Skill 262–288

    Orange until 280, yellow from 280.

    28 × Thorium Widget

    Materials: 84 Thorium Bar, 28 Runecloth

    Recipe to buySchematic: Thorium Widget from Alliance: Gearcutter Cogspinner (Dun Morogh); Horde: Sovik (Orgrimmar). Pick it up before you get here.
  6. Skill 288–300

    Orange until 295, yellow from 295.

    13 × Thorium Tube

    Materials: 78 Thorium Bar

    Recipe to buySchematic: Thorium Tube from Both factions: Xizzer Fizzbolt (Winterspring). Pick it up before you get here.
Materials for this rank5 items

Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.

Saved pages

Nothing saved yet. Press S on any page to save it.

Keyboard shortcuts

⌘K
Search anything
/
Search anything
S
Save this page
?
Show this list
Esc
Close