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WoW Engineering Guide 1-450

This WoW Engineering guide will show you the fastest and easiest way how level your Engineering skill up from 1 to 450. Updated for WoW patch 3.1

Engineering is the best combined with Mining. If you level your Engineering with Mining, you will save a lot of gold. Specially when you have to use Mithril and Thorium, because they aren't hard to find, but they are really expensive at the AH. If you don't have Mining, you have to buy everything and you will need a lot of gold again. Check out my Mining guide if you want to level your Mining too. However, the fastest way to level Engineering is to buy everything from the Auction House.

If you are low on gold, I recommend you to try this Gold Making Guide, it can help you to make loads of gold. You also need to realize this is not a leveling guide, so if you are looking for a leveling guide, the best one is this 1 - 80 Leveling Guide.

Engineering guide sections:

Engineering Apprentice 1 - 50
Engineering Journeyman 50 - 125
Engineering Expert 125 - 205
Engineering Artisan 205 - 280
Engineering Master 280 - 350
Engineering Grand Master 350 - 450

Approximate Materials Required for 1-450:

  • 40 Rough Stone
  • 100 Copper Bar
  • 50 Weak Flux
  • 15 Coarse Stone
  • 39 Linen Cloth
  • 120 Bronze Bar
  • 5 Moss Agate
  • 40 Heavy Stone
  • 80 Wool Cloth
  • 20 Medium Leather
  • 4 Steel Bar
  • 180 Solid Stone
  • 140 Mithril Bar
  • 12 Mageweave Cloth
  • 40 Dense Stone
  • 130 Thorium Bar
  • 20 Runecloth
  • 95 Fel Iron Bar
  • 20 Mote of Earth
  • 10 Mote of Fire
  • 40 Adamantite Bar
  • 30 Netherweave Cloth
  • 284 Cobalt Bar
  • 8 Frostweave Cloth
  • 43 Crystallized Water
  • 10 Crystallized Earth
  • 26 Borean Leather
  • 13 Eternal Shadow
  • 479 Saronite Bar
  • 25 Skinning Knife
  • 25 Minning Pick
  • 25 Blacksmithing Hammer

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WoW Engineering Leveling Guide 1 - 450

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Engineering. Northrend trainers can also teach you every recipe from 1 to 450.

  • 1 - 30
    40 x [Rough Blasting Powder] - 40 Rough Stone

    This recipe goes yellow at 20, so get enough materials to use this recipe 40 times.


50 - 125

Visit your trainer, and learn Journeyman Engineering.

  • 90 -100
    12 x [Copper Modulator] - 24 Handful Copper Bolts, 12 Copper Bar, 24 Linen Cloth
  • 100 -105
    5 x [Practice Lock] - 10 Handful Copper Bolts, 5 Bronze Bar, 5 Weak flux


125 - 205

Visit your trainer, and learn Expert Engineering.

  • 125 -150
    40 x [Heavy Blasting Powder] - 40 Heavy Stone

    and

    20 x [Whirring Bronze Gizmo] - 40 Bronze Bar, 20 Wool Cloth

    You will need 40 [Heavy Blasting Powder] and 20 [Whirring Bronze Gizmo] later, and if you make these you should reach 150 skill point.

  • 150 - 155
    20 x [Bronze Framework] - 40 Bronze Bar, 20 Medium Leather, 20 Wool Cloth

    by making them now, you might get a lot further - probably towards 160, then stop making these and only make more when you'll need them.

  • 155 -175
    20 x [Explosive Sheep] - 40 Heavy Blasting Powder, 20 Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 20 Bronze Framework, 40 Wool Cloth
  • 175 - 176

    The recipe will be yellow, so you might not gain any skill up, but you will need this item later. You will have to make only one of this, don't make more if you don't gain skill up.

    1 x [Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor] - 4 Steel Bar

  • 176 - 195
    90 x [Solid Blasting Powder] - 180 Solid Stone

    Extremely cheap! On my realm it costs 1 gold/stack. Save some of these, because you will need it later.


205 - 280

Visit your trainer and learn Artisan Engineering.



Engineering has the option at skill level 200 to specialize in Gnomish or Goblin Engineering. The main difference between both sides is the location of their respective teleporters and the ability of their trinkets. Some items require a specific specialization to use, while other items are crafted by one specialization but are usable by any engineer. Fortunately, most recipes that are crafted by one Specialization can be worn by both.

Gnomish Engineering

Goblin Engineering


  • 200 - 210
    12 x [Unstable Triggers] 12 Mithril Bar, 12 Mageweave Cloth, 12 Solid Blasting Powder

    Save these.

  • 235 - 245
    10 x [Hi-Explosive Bomb] - 20 Mithril Casings, 10 Unstable Trigger, 20 Solid Blasting Powder
  • 250 - 260
    20 x [Dense Blasting Powder] - 40 Dense Stone

    Save these and if you don't reach 260 by making these, make a few more [Mithril Gyro-Shot].


280 - 350

Go to Outland or Northrend,visit your trainer, and learn Master Engineering

.

  • 300 - 310
    50 x [Handful of Fel Iron Bolts] - 50 Fel Iron Bar

    You will need tons of these later. I suggest you to make these until it goes grey, then only make more when you'll need them.

  • 310-320
    If you don't reach 320 by making the recipes below, you should make [Fel Iron Bombs] until 320. But then you also need to make a few more Fel Iron Bolts and the other materials.

    10 x [4 Elemental Blasting Powder] - 20 Mote of Earth, 10 Mote of Fire

    Save these.

    15 x [Fel Iron Casing] - 45 Fel Iron Bar

    You will need around 15 of these later, but I suggest you to make these until it goes grey, then only make more when you'll need them.

  • 320 - 325
    5 x [Fel Iron Musket] - 5 Heavy Stock, 15 Fel Iron Casing, 30 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts
  • 325 - 335
    10 x [Adamantite Grenade] 40 Adamantite Bar, 10 Elemental Blasting Powder, 20 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts


350 - 450

Go to Northrend, visit your trainer and learn Grand Master Engineering.

  • 350 - 370

    You will need around 50 [Handful of Cobalt Bolts] and 36 [Volatile Blasting Trigger] later. Make these now, and you should reach 375 or probably more. Note that when you craft [Handful of Cobalt Bolts] you can get 1 or 3 bolts, and the same goes for [Volatile Blasting Trigger], you will get 2 [Volatile Blasting Trigger] each craft.

    35 x [1-3 Handful of Cobalt Bolts] - 70 Cobalt Bar

  • 377 - 385
    Save these too, you will need them.

    10 x [Overcharged Capacitor] - 40 Cobalt Bar, 10 Crystallized Earth

  • 390 - 400
    Save these too, you will need them later.

    You will probably reach more then 400, then stop making these and make more only if you need it.

    15 x [Froststeel Tube] - 120 Cobalt Bar, 15 Crystallized Water

  • 405 - 415

    13 x [Box of Bombs] - 65 Saronite Bar, 13 Volatile Blasting Trigger

  • 415 - 420
    You can sell these at the Auction House.

    5 x [Mana Injector Kit] - 60 Saronite Bar, 10 Crystallized Water

  • 420 - 430

    13 x [Mechanized Snow Goggles] - 104 Saronite Bar, 26 Borean Leather, 13 Eternal Shadow

  • 430 - 435
    5 x [Noise Machine] - 10 Froststeel Tube, 10 Overcharged Capacitor, 40 Handful of Cobalt Bolts
  • 435 - 450

    When you reach 440, you can make your epic Engineering Helm, however if you want to level your Engineering past 440, you should wait with your Goggles until 445, because there are only green recipes at that point, but the Goggles are still orange.

    This part is stupid I know, but there is just no other recipe that you can use to level your Engineering. The Gnomish Army Knife recipe turns yellow at 440 and green at 445. It doesn't sell at all, at least I couldn't sell any yet. That's pretty much a few thousand gold worth of Saronite Bars down the drain. Most of the time you will need to make a lot more then 25 of these.

    25 x [Gnomish Army Knife] - 250 Saronite Bar, 25 Skinning Knife, 25 Minning Pick, 25 Blacksmithing Hammer

I hope you liked this Engineering leveling guide, GZ to 450!

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