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WoW Engineering Guide | 1-450 Engineering Leveling Guide
Engineering is one of the MOST FLAMED about WoW topics, whether it’s about Blizzard’s treatment of the profession or just what a pain in the ass the profession is. If you are going to do Engineering you’ll probably want to have A LOT of GOLD so CHECK OUT THIS GUIDE out if you are a noob, rerolling on a new server, or just plain want to be rich.
This leveling guide was last updated for patch 3.2
This is a engineering leveling guide to get you from 1-450. It provides a method of leveling up your engineering, which has been selected for its low cost and simplicity. However, no matter what, leveling engineering is going to be awfully expensive to grind. It is well worth it though, as it is one of the most hilarious and enjoyable professions in PvP with awesome items like the Discombulator Ray.
In some instances you will have to keep some of the engineering materials you craft to use them later down the road in this leveling guide so I highly recommend that you keep components based off expansion. Everything you make from 1 to 300 from engineering keep until you reach 300 and it might be safe to sell. Then keep everything you make from 300-350, once you hit 350 you'll be switching to Northrend stuff. I will try to make a note to tell you what stuff to keep when possible. Also, this is going to get very expensive unless you're farming your own materials, make sure you have this guide available to you.
What's in this Engineering Leveling Guide:
- Apprentice Engineering Leveling 1-75
- Journeyman Engineering Leveling 75-150
- Expert Engineering Leveling 150-225
- Artisan Engineering Leveling 225-300
- Master Engineering Leveling 300-375
- Grand Master Engineering Leveling 375-450
It is highly advised that before you start this engineering leveling guide you pickup a Gnomish Army Knife off of the auction house. They are extremely cheap and can be used in place of the tools you will create in Engineering that are required to do certain crafts. If you don't get one pay attention to what's missing when you try to follow these steps and make the tool that is needed.
Apprentice Engineering (Leveling 1-75)
This is a very easy section of the engineering guide to go through. There's 3 steps and you only need copper bars and rough stones to complete it.
Here is a summary of mats for this leveling section.
30-40 Rough Stones
80-85 Copper Bars
30 Weak Flux
Level
Item
Mats
1-30
30-40 Rough Blasting Powder
30-40 Rough Stones
30-50
20-25 Handful of Copper Bolts
20-25 Copper Bars
50-80
30 Copper Tubes
60 Copper Bars, 30 Weak Flux
Weak flux is bought from Engineering Supplies NPC
Journeyman Engineering (Leveling 75-150)
For this section of the engineering leveling guide, make sure you keep your heavy blasting powder and silver contacts. There is also an alternative step from 150-160 where you can make Gold Power Cores if you don't have the materials for the Big Bronze Bombs.
Here is a summary of mats for this leveling section.
10-15 Coarse Stones
20 Silver Bars
110-210 Bronze Bars
25-45 Weak Flux
55-110 Heavy Stones (includes mats to make extras for other steps of the guide)
40-80 Heavy Blasting Powder - Crafted in this section
20-40 Silver Contacts - Crafted in this section
2-4 Gold Bars (to make Gold Power Cores for other steps of guide)
Level
Item
Mats
80-90
10-15 Coarse Blasting Powder
10-15 Coarse Stones
90-110
20 Silver Contacts
20 Silver Bars
Keep all for other steps of the engineering guide
110-125
25-45 Bronze Tubes
50-90 Bronze Bars, 25-45 Weak Flux
Weak flux is bought from Engineering Supplies NPC
125-140
20-50 Heavy Blasting Powder
20-50 Heavy Stones
Will need 55-110 to complete other steps in the engineering guide
140-160
20-40 Big Bronze Bombs
40-80 Heavy Blasting Powder, 60-120 Bronze Bars, 20-40 Silver Contacts
Gold Power Cores can be made from 150-160 as an alternative, must make at least 5-10 gold power cores for step 170-175 in next leveling section of this guide
Expert Engineering (Leveling 150-225)
Make sure that if you didn't make Gold Power Cores in the last section of this guide that you make between 5-10 for the 170-175 leveling section. You get 3 Gold Power Cores per attempt and it only costs 1 gold bar.
Here is a summary of mats for this leveling section.
40-80 Iron Bars
5-10 Gold Power Cores - Crafted in last section
90-180 Solid Stones (includes mats to make extras for other steps of this engineering guide)
15-30 Heavy Blasting Powder - Crafted in last leveling section
5-10 Silver Contacts - Crafted in last leveling section
60-100 Mithril Bars
10-20 Mageweave Cloth
15-30 Solid Blasting Powder - Crafted in this leveling section
Level
Item
Mats
160-170
10-20 Iron Struts
20-40 Iron Bars
170-175
5-10 Gyrochronatoms
5-10 Iron Bars, 5-10 Gold Power Cores
175-190
20-40 Solid Blasting Powder
40-80 Solid Stones
Will need 45-90 to complete other steps of this guide
190-195
5-10 Big Iron Bombs
15-30 Iron Bars, 15-30 Heavy Blasting Powder, 5-10 Silver Contacts
195-210
15-25 Mithril Tubes
45-75 Mithril Bars
210-220
10-20 Unstable Triggers
10-20 Mithril Bars, 10-20 Mageweave Cloth, 10-20 Solid Blasting Powder
Will need 10-20 to finish other steps of the engineering guide
220-225
5-10 Hi-impact Slugs
5-10 Mithril Bars, 5-10 Solid Blasting Powder
Artisan Engineering (Leveling 225-300)
This part of the engineering leveling guide will start to get expensive because you'll have to buy all of the Thorium and Mithril bars if you don't farm them yourself. It takes me quite awhile of farming to get that many bars for leveling and I don't find it enjoyable to mine it all myself so what I've been doing is using some of the tips in this gold guide to just make enough money and buy the bars off the auction house. There are some tips in there that require very little time to make a lot of gold. I find it a lot easier to focus on leveling my engineering and being able to write a guide for it if I don't have to farm the mats.
Here is a summary of mats for this leveling section.
60-120 Mithril Bars
30-60 Solid Blasting Powder - Crafted last section of guide
150-210 Thorium Bars
10-20 Unstable Triggers - Crafted last section of guide
30-60 Dense Stones
30-40 Runecloth
Level
Item
Mats
225-235
10-20 Mithril Casings
30-60 Mithril Bars
235-245
10-20 Hi-Explosive Bomb
20-40 Mithril Bars, 10-20 Unstable Triggers, 20-40 Solid Blasting Powder
245-250
5-10 Mithril Gyro-Shot
10-20 Mithril Bars, 10-20 Solid Blasting Powder
250-260
15-30 Dense Blasting Powder
30-60 Dense Stones
260-290
30-40 Thorium Widgets
90-120 Thorium Bars, 30-40 Runecloth
290-300
10-15 Thorium Tubes
60-90 Thorium Bars
Master Engineering (Leveling 300-375)
At skill 350 you will be switching to Wrath of the Lich King stuff for leveling because it's a lot cheaper. So this may require you to go to Dalaran or the starting city in Northrend and train the engineering recipes as you go past 350 leveling. If you haven't already you really should be using the gold guide I recommended because things are about to get expensive up in here for this engineering leveling guide.
Here is a summary of mats for this leveling section (includes mats for extra items)
50-70 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts - crafted in this section
45-100 Elemental Blasting Powder - crafted in this section
20-30 Fel Iron Casings - crafted in this section
110-160 Fel Iron Bars
20 Adamantite Bars
20-65 Netherweave Cloth
155-295 Cobalt Bars (includes mats for enough cobalt bolts to complete 375-450 section)
25-45 Crystallized Water (includes mats for extra items to complete other steps of guide)
45-100 Motes of Fire
90-200 Motes of Earth
For 300-315 you can use any of the three steps to get to 315 but you will want to make sure you make the required amount for each so you can complete the steps after 315.
Level
Item
Mats
300-315
20-30 Fel Iron Casings
60-90 Fel Iron Bars
Make 20-30 for other steps of the guide
300-315
50-70 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts
50-70 Fel Iron Bars
Make 50-70 of these for other steps of the guide
300-315
45-100 Elemental Blasting Powder
45-100 Motes of Fire, 90-200 Motes of Earth
Make 45-100 of these for other steps of the guide
315-330
20-30 Fel Iron Bombs
20-30 Fel Iron Casing, 40-60 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts, 20-30 Elemental Blasting Powder
330-335
5 Adamantite Grenades
20 Adamantite Bars, 10 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts, 5 Elemental Blasting Powder
335-350
20-65 White Smoke Flares
20-65 Elemental Blasting Powder, 20-65 Netherweave Cloth
This can be purchased from Wind Trader Lathrai in Shattrah city 72,30. Please be advised this engineering recipe is on cooldown, meaning once it is purchased it will take some amount of time for the recipe to become available again. So if you check and it's not there you will have to try again later or check some of the other vendors, this recipe can also be bought from Engineering Supplies NPC in The Exodar and Silvermoon City. Be prepared and don't let this stop you from leveling.
350-365
15-20 Handful of Cobalt Bolts
30-40 Cobalt Bars
Need to make 60-80 for other steps of the leveling guide
365-375
10-20 Volatile Blasting Triggers
30-60 Cobalt Bars, 10-20 Crystallized Water
Will need 25-45 to complete other steps of the leveling guide
Grand Master Engineering (Leveling 375-450)
And finally here we are to the section you've probably been waiting for. This is the final section and the most expensive section. I can't stress enough how important it was for me to use this gold guide as I spent thousands of gold to level up my Engineering, I'm very thankful the money was easy to come by.
Here is a summary of mats for this leveling section from 375-435 (includes mats needed for extra items)
25-45 Volatile Blasting Triggers - crafted in last section
10 Overcharged Capacitors - crafted in this section
15-20 - Froststeel Tubes - crafted in this section
50-60 Handful of Cobalt Bolts - crafted in last section
160-220 Cobalt Bars
10-15 Crystallized Earth
5-10 Frostweave Cloth
15-20 Crystallized Water
190-255 Saronite Bars
20-30 Borean Leather
10-15 Eternal Shadow
Summary of Mats for Gnomish Army Knife leveling 435-450
200-650 Saronite Bars
20-65 Skinning Knives
20-65 Mining Picks
20-65 Blacksmith Hammers
Level
Item
Mats
375-385
10-15 Overcharged Capacitors
40-60 Cobalt Bars, 10-15 Crystallized Earth
Will need 10 to complete rest of the steps of this engineering guide
385-390
5-10 Explosive Decoys
5-10 Frostweave Cloth, 15-30 Volatile Blasting Triggers
390-400
10-15 Froststeel Tubes
80-120 Cobalt Bars, 10-15 Crystallized Water
Will need 15-20 to complete other steps of this engineering guide
400-405
5-10 Diamond-cut Refractor Scopes
5-10 Froststeel Tubes, 10-20 Handful of Cobalt Bolts
405-415
10-15 Box of Bombs
50-75 Saronite Bars, 10-15 Volatile Blasting Triggers
415-420
5 Mana Injector Kits Kits
60 Saronite Bars, 10 Crystallized Water
420-430
10-15 Mechanized Snow Goggles
80-120 Saronite Bars, 20-30 Borean Leather, 10-15 Eternal Shadows
430-435
5 Noise Machines
10 Froststeel Tubes, 10 Overcharged Capacitors, 40 Handful of Cobalt Bolts
435-450
20-65 Gnomish Army Knife
200-650 Saronite Bars, 20-65 Skinning Knife, 20-65 Mining Picks, 20-65 Blacksmith Hammers
This item is green at 445, there are other very expensive things that you can make to go from 445-450 engineering instead but I found this to be cheaper for leveling MY engineering. You may have to make more than 65 to actually get your engineering to 450, the last 5 steps of this are green, especially 449-450 is unpredictable, I won't lie to you. Now is the time to make any high level engineering items you want to use yourself, preferrably save them until 449-450 leveling.
Thanks for following this engineering guide. Engineering can be one of the most beneficial skills to have for raids, pvp, and you can also make a lot of money off engineering. Learn how to properly utilize engineering and make more gold with this guide which can actually help you level your engineering as well!
