This is an engineering leveling guide to get you from 1-525. 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.

Definitely use this gold guide and buy all the materials, the gold guide can also be used to learn how to sell the stuff you make to get all your gold back and then some.

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.

It is highly advised that before you start this engineering leveling guide you pick up 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

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)

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

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.

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

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. 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.

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.

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.

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