Engineering Leveling Guide, 1 to 300

At a glance

Engineering makes bombs, tools, scopes, guns and utility devices. Many finished items require Engineering skill to use, so crafting a device does not imply you can sell it to every class. Pair it with Mining for stone and bars. Keep a Blacksmith Hammer, an Arclight Spanner and, later, a Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor, and craft at the required anvil.

The main route uses current Forever recipe data, with upper training and schematic acquisition conditional on access. Keep saved components for later rows. This is public-source research, not our own game test.

Train Artisan with Buzzek at Engineering 200 and character level 35, before the Expert cap of 225. The Classic trainer page and current Forever route agree on this gate. Reaching the skill number alone does not remove the character-level requirement.

The route by skill range

Counts refer to crafting actions, not necessarily the number of items produced. Bomb and dynamite recipes can produce more than one item. Save intermediates until their named later step, and learn the next rank before batch-crafting across a cap. Yellow or green recipes may require extra crafts.

For the displayed route, the working budget is about 60 Rough Stone, 66 Copper Bar, 50 Linen Cloth, 60 Coarse Stone, 5 Silver Bar, 110 Bronze Bar, 25 Weak Flux, 10 Moss Agate, 30 Heavy Stone, 60 Wool Cloth, 15 Medium Leather, 4 Steel Bar, 120 Solid Stone, 158 Mithril Bar, 20 Mageweave Cloth, 60 Dense Stone, 225 Thorium Bar and 35 Runecloth. It excludes specialization turn-ins and additional unlucky crafts. It also leaves some Bronze Tubes and contacts unused; sell them only after checking your other plans.

If Silver Bars are costly, Flying Tiger Goggles use leather and Tigerseye instead. If Moss Agate is scarce, start the Heavy Blasting Powder work earlier. Iron Grenade is a practical alternate skill-up and useful finished item around 175; it changes the stone, iron and cloth budget. A lower auction-house price for one reagent does not prove the whole alternative is cheaper: compare total craft cost minus any realistic sale value.

Gnomish or Goblin

The inherited specialization gate is skill 200 and character level 30. It is optional for reaching 300. Gnomish offers distinctive tools such as Gnomish Battle Chicken and Gnomish Death Ray; Goblin lets you craft Goblin Sapper Charges and its own devices. An Engineer of the other specialization can buy and use many tradeable devices, including Sapper Charges where the item permits it. Choosing Gnomish does not ban you from using every Goblin item.

Gnomish steps. Take the introduction through Tinkmaster Overspark in Ironforge for Alliance or Oglethorpe Obnoticus in Booty Bay for Horde, sign the pledge and turn in 6 Mithril Tubes, 1 Accurate Scope and 2 Advanced Target Dummies. Buy the Accurate Scope schematic from Mazk Snipeshot in Booty Bay before preparing the turn-in, or buy the finished scope.

Goblin steps. Follow the introduction to Nixx Sprocketspring in Gadgetzan, sign the pledge and turn in 20 Big Iron Bombs, 20 Solid Dynamite and 5 Explosive Sheep. Save five of the sheep from leveling if taking this route. Count finished bombs and dynamite, since a recipe can yield multiple items per craft.

The inherited switching method requires fully unlearning Engineering, losing skill and known recipes, releveling to 200 and then using Soothsaying for Dummies at Steamwheedle Port. Some Gnomish bind-on-pickup devices remain usable after a switch if they only require Engineering, while specialization-specific teleporters do not. Make this a deliberate long-term plan, not a routine recommendation to relevel twice. Verify Forever's current specialization and item requirements before copying the trick.

Recipes worth buying or farming

Satchel of Copper Bombs is a current thrown-weapon option at Engineering 85 for an eligible level-13 character. Both schematic and finished Unique weapon bind on pickup. Current vendor records list the schematic for 45 Merchant's Favor from Fritz Fizzle at Three Corners for Alliance or Fizzlefuse outside the Crossroads' west gate for Horde. Each craft uses 20 finished Rough Copper Bombs, 6 Light Leather and 4 Handfuls of Copper Bolts. Its attacks explode near the target; do not break crowd control with it. This optional weapon is different from a stack of ordinary bomb consumables. See the new recipe guide for the current use requirements.

Schematic: Thorium Widget comes from Gearcutter Cogspinner in Ironforge or Sovik in Orgrimmar. Schematic: Thorium Tube comes from Xizzer Fizzbolt in Everlook. The current Forever source says the Tube schematic binds on pickup, so send the actual Engineer to buy it. Limited stock and world-drop plans are different problems; check the acquisition method before camping a vendor.

Accurate Scope matters for the Gnomish turn-in. Repair bots, grenades, target dummies and jumper cables have specific skill, recipe and use restrictions; inspect them before a dungeon. A target dummy buys time, not permanent tank threat, and a device can fail or backfire.

Mechanical Squirrel Box is a low-level world-drop schematic. Flame Deflector and Ice Deflector are consumable devices. Check the named recipe's actual source before planning a dungeon or reputation farm.

Forever checks and tips

The current public source reports the Gnome Engineering racial replacing its flat skill bonus with fewer device failures. Treat beta racial numbers as a current observation rather than an immutable launch rule. The upper route remains provisional even though many skill ranges match Classic.

Check the current camping guide for profession stations and blueprints. Carry tools and components before visiting Buzzek, and leave bag space for bomb outputs. Do not sell every intermediate just because it has already given its skill points: triggers, casings and powder pay for later steps.

In Forever, the October 16 public data lists Working Overtime as an increase to tradeskill skill-up chance. That can change expected material use on yellow or green recipes; it does not mean an exact 20% reduction in every shopping list. The route budgets do not assume that perk. Bartering discounts vendor items under its current rules, not training or repairs, so do not subtract it from every profession expense.