WotLK Engineering Guide: 1 – 450 (WoW Classic Leveling)

Engineering is probably the best profession in WotLK. It offers both amazing minmaxing perks and fun items you can toy around with. If you are in a more serious raiding guild, there’s a high possibility the majority of your guildies have it as their profession. If you’d like to join them and become an engineer as well – this WotLK engineering guide is just for you.

One of the biggest advantages of engineering is definitely the feet enchant Nitro Boosts. Not only does it give you extra 24 critical strike, but it also has an on-use effect of increasing your speed for 5 seconds with a 3 min cooldown. This helps completely avoid some boss mechanics, which makes it very useful, especially for less mobile classes. 

Another notable engineering perk is the cloak enchant. You’ll have the option of choosing between Flexweave Underlay, which gives 23 additional agility, and Springy Arachnoweave, which gives 27 additional spell power. The last engineering enchant worth mentioning is Hyperspeed Accelerators, a hand enchant that has an on-use enchant of giving you 340 haste for 12 seconds with a 1 min cooldown. 

There are other engineering enchants as well, but they are less impactful. Furthermore, with engineering, you will be able to craft a powerful epic head item that will help you get ready for raids sooner. Also, if you use your sappers and bombs during raids, you will increase your DPS. 

Engineers can also make some fun items such as the Mechano-hog/Mekgineer’s Chopper. There’s also Jeeves, which will be a standard raid companion for many guilds. MOLL-E will help you access your mailbox wherever you are, and with Wormhole Generator: Northrend you can teleport all around Northrend. 

The downside of engineering is that it isn’t the most profitable profession in the game. However, you can deal with that while selling items like the aforementioned mounts. You can craft epic bind on equip guns like the Nesingwary 4000 and the Armor Plated Combat Shotgun, which are strong phase 1 weapons. Zapthrottle Mote Extractor is still usable in WotLK for farming gas clouds. Also, engineers will be able to salvage the corpses of mechanical units for additional loot.

And lastly, engineers are the only ones that can use the auction house in Dalaran. 

Total mats needed for 1 – 450 Engineering

Engineering guide WoW Classic

Start by learning engineering from one of these trainers:

Apprentice engineering (1 – 75)

• 1 – 21
  20x Rough Blasting Powder – 20x Rough Stone
• 21 – 31
  10x Rough Dynamite – 20x Rough Stone, 10x Linen Cloth 
• 31 – 50
  30x Handful of Copper Bolts – 30x Copper Bar

You will need 30 of them further down the line, so just keep making them until you have enough.

Don’t forget to train Journeyman engineering (75 – 150) once you reach skill level 50.

• 50 – 51
  Arclight Spanner – 6x Copper Bar 
• 51 – 75
  24x Copper Tube – 48x Copper Bar, 24x Weak Flux

Journeyman engineering (75 – 150)

• 75 – 90
  20x Coarse Blasting Powder – 20x Coarse Stone (This recipe goes yellow at 85, so you might need to make a bit more than 15.)

Also, don’t sell these, you will need them later. 

• 90 – 100
  12x Copper Modulator – 24x Handful of Copper Bolts, 12x Copper Bar, 24x Linen Cloth (This recipe goes yellow at 95, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)
• 100 – 110
  10x Silver Contact – 10x Silver Bar
• 110 – 120
  15x Bronze Tube – 30x Bronze Bar, 15x Weak Flux (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)
• 120 – 125
  7x Large Copper Bomb – 21x Copper Bar, 28x Coarse Blasting Powder, 7x Silver Contact (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.)

Don’t forget to train Expert engineering (150 – 225) once you reach skill level 125.

• 125 – 150
  40x Heavy Blasting Powder – 40x Heavy Stone
  20x Whirring Bronze Gizmo – 40x Bronze Bar, 20x Wool Cloth

Do both of these recipes until you have 40x Heavy Blasting Powder and 20x Whirring Bronze Gizmo. You will need those materials for later.

Expert engineering (150 – 225)

• 150 – 155
  15x Bronze Framework – 30x Bronze Bar, 15x Medium Leather, 15x Wool Cloth (Do this recipe until you have 15x Bronze Framework. You will need it for the next step.)
• 155 – 175
  20x Explosive Sheep – 15x Bronze Framework, 15x Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 30x Heavy Blasting Powder, 30x Wool Cloth
• 175 – 176
  Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor – 4x Steel Bar
• 176 – 195
  80x Solid Blasting Powder – 160x Solid Stone (This recipe starts yellow and goes green at 175. Keep crafting it until it gets grey, you are going to need a lot of them later anyway.)
• 195 – 200
  7x Mithril Tube – 21x Mithril Bar (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.)

Also, don’t sell these, you will need them for the next step.

Don’t forget to train Artisan Engineering (225 – 300) once you reach skill level 200. 

• 200 – 210
  13x Unstable Trigger – 13x Mithril Bar, 13x Mageweave Cloth, 13x Solid Blasting Powder (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)

Also, don’t sell these, you will need them later.

• 210 – 225
  18x Hi-Impact Mithril Slugs – 18x Mithril Bar, 18x Solid Blasting Powder (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 15.)

Artisan engineering (225 – 300)

• 225 – 235
  13x Mithril Casing – 39x Mithril Bar (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)

Also, don’t sell these, you will need them for the next step.

• 235 – 245
  13x Hi-Explosive Bomb – 26x Mithril Casing, 13x Unstable Trigger, 26x Solid Blasting Powder (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)
• 245 – 250
  12x Mithril Gyro-Shot – 24x Mithril Bar, 24x Solid Blasting Powder (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.)
• 250 – 260
  25x Dense Blasting Powder – 50x Dense Stone (This recipe starts yellow and goes green at 255, so you might need to make more than 10.)

Also, don’t sell these, you will need them later.

• 260 – 285
  27x Thorium Widget – 81x Thorium Bar, 27x Runecloth (This recipe goes yellow at 280, so you might need to make a bit more than 25.)
• 285 – 300
  17x Thorium Shells – 34x Thorium Bar, 17x Dense Blasting Powder (This recipe goes yellow at 295, so you might need to make a bit more than 15.)

Engineering guide TBC

Master engineering (300 – 375)

Learn Master enchanting (300 – 375) from one of these trainers:

Neutral:

• Xyrol in Netherstorm at Area 52.

• 300 – 320

Create all of these materials, you will need them for later.

• 40x Handful of Fel Iron Bolts – 40x Fel Iron Bar
• 20x Elemental Blasting Powder – 20x Mote of Fire, 40x Mote of Earth
• 10x Fel Iron Casing – 30x Fel Iron Bar

• 320 – 325
  7x Fel Iron Bomb – 7x Fel Iron Casing, 14x Handful of Fel Iron Bolts, 7x Elemental Blasting Powder (This recipe is yellow at 320, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.)
• 325 – 335
  10x Adamantite Grenade – 40x Adamantite Bar, 20x Handful of Fel Iron Bolts, 10x Elemental Blasting Powder
• 335 – 350
  30x White Smoke Flare – 30x Elemental Blasting Powder, 30x Netherweave Cloth

The Schematic: White Smoke Flare is a limited supply recipe sold by these vendors:

• Wind Trader Lathrai in Shattrath
• Captured Gnome in Zangarmarsh – Horde only
• Yatheon in Silvermoon – Horde only
• Feera in The Exodar – Alliance only

This recipe starts yellow and goes green at 345, so you might need to make more than 15.

Engineering Guide WotLK

Grand Master engineering (350 – 450)

Learn Grand Master engineering (350 – 450) from one of these trainers:

Neutral

• Dalaran: Timofey Oshenko

• 350 – 377
  35x Handful of Cobalt Bolts – 70x Cobalt Bar
  15x Volatile Blasting Trigger – 45x Cobalt Bar, 15x Crystallized Water

You will later need around 50x Handful of Cobalt Bolts and 30x Volatile Blasting Trigger so just make these recipes until you reach those numbers. 

Each craft of Handful of Cobalt Bolts has a chance of proccing 1-3 bolts, so it’s enough to do it 35 times.

Each craft of Volatile Blasting Trigger procs it 2 times.

• 378 – 385
  10x Overcharged Capacitor – 40x Cobalt Bar, 10x Crystallized Earth (This recipe goes yellow at 380, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)

Also, don’t sell these, you will need them further down the line.

• 385 – 390
  7x Explosive Decoy – 7x Frostweave Cloth, 21x Volatile Blasting Trigger (3) (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.)
• 390 – 400
  15x Froststeel Tube – 120x Cobalt Bar, 15x Crystallized Water (You will need cca 15 of them so don’t stop crafting until you’re done.)
• 400 – 405
  7x Diamond-cut Refractor Scope – 7x Froststeel Tube, 14x Handful of Cobalt Bolts (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.)
• 405 – 410
  5x Box of Bombs – 25x Saronite Bar, 5x Volatile Blasting Trigger
• 410 – 415
  5x Mammoth Cutters – 5x Saronite Bar, 5x Volatile Blasting Trigger
• 415 – 425
  25x Saronite Razorheads – 50x Saronite Bar (This recipe starts yellow and goes green at 417, so you might need to make more than 10. Still, it’s a pretty cheap recipe, and worth doing.)
• 425 – 430
  7x Mechanized Snow Goggles – 56x Saronite Bar, 14x Borean Leather, 7x Eternal Shadow (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.)
  
  Or if you are a goblin engineer:
  
  7x Global Thermal Sapper Charge – 7x Saronite Bar, 7x Volatile Blasting Trigger

This recipe also starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5. You can even push Global Thermal Sapper Charge until 435 if you want, it’s a pretty good consumable. However, it turns green at 430.  If you don’t know how to become a goblin engineer, read the section down below.

• 430 – 435
  5x Noise Machine – 10x Froststeel Tube, 10x Overcharged Capacitor, 40x Handful of Cobalt Bolts 
• 435 – 448
  20x Gnomish Army Knife – 200x Saronite Bar, 20x Skinning Knife, 20x Mining Pick, 20x Blacksmith Hammer (This recipe starts yellow and goes green at 445, so you might need to make more than 15.)
• 448 – 449
  Wormhole Generator: Northrend – 8x Titanium Bar, 2x Eternal Shadow, 2x Eternal Water, 2x Eternal Fire, 2x Eternal Air
• 449 – 450: Epic Head
  Armored Titanium Goggles – 8x Titanium Bar, 4x Heavy Borean Leather, 2x Sky Sapphire, 4x Eternal Earth, Frozen Orb
  
  Charged Titanium Specs – 8x Titanium Bar, 4x Heavy Borean Leather, 2x Monarch Topaz, 4x Eternal Fire, Frozen Orb
  
  Electroflux Sight Enhancers – 8x Titanium Bar, 4x Heavy Borean Leather, 2x Autumn’s Glow, 4x Eternal Air, Frozen Orb
  
  Greensight Gogs – 8x Titanium Bar, 4x Heavy Borean Leather, 2x Forest Emerald, 4x Eternal Life, Frozen Orb
  
  Truesight Ice Blinders – 8x Titanium Bar, 4x Heavy Borean Leather, 2x Twilight Opal, 4x Eternal Water, Frozen Orb
  
  Unbreakable Healing Amplifiers – 8x Titanium Bar, 4x Heavy Borean Leather, 2x Forest Emerald, 4x Eternal Earth, Frozen Orb
  
  Visage Liquification Goggles – 8x Titanium Bar, 4x Heavy Borean Leather, 2x Scarlet Ruby, 4x Eternal Shadow, Frozen Orb
  
  Weakness Spectralizers – 8x Titanium Bar, 4x Heavy Borean Leather, 2x Scarlet Ruby, 4x Eternal Air, Frozen Orb

Crafting the epic head is optional. Because it’s your decision, the mats needed will not be included in the total mats required list.

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Thank you for reading our WotLK engineering guide! This is truly one of the, if not the best profession in the whole expansion. With Nitro Boosts and Hyperspeed Accelerators, it offers some of the greatest enchants in the game. It also gives you bombs and sappers to include in your rotation to push the most DPS. And as if all of that wasn’t enough, you will also have a wide variety of items you could craft to make your gameplay quite more fun. My personal favorite is being able to access the auction house straight from Dalaran, instead of teleporting to one of the capital cities.