WoW Engineering Guide - WoW Trade Skill Guides, 3.2 and Beyond

At the dawn of World of Warcraft Engineering used to be a profession mainly focused on its usefulness specifically for PvP, (Player vs Player). But that is not the case anymore. This profession has had a lot of changes in the past few major content releases of World of Warcraft with a lot of cool new additions to attract all kinds of players in general. Epic head gear, useful trinkets, guns, bullets, arrows, scopes, ability to use cool gadgets, portable mailbox/repair bots are some of the things that come to my mind. And not to forget, "THE EPIC Mechano Hog"

Engineering is best coupled with mining as your secondary profession similar to Jewelcrafting which also benefits a lot from mining, unlike Inscription or Alchemy which benefit a lot more with having herbalism as your secondary profession. The reason is quite obvious here. You would need a lot of ores/bars of different kinds varying from old school stuff in Azeroth upto Northrend. The sheer amount of gold required to be invested would itself make it a smart choice to go with mining as your 2nd profession, although it's not mandatory if you have the money supply coming from one of your other characters to fund you through.

Taking up Engineering as your profession not only allows you to make cool gadgets, bombs etc.. but also craft your own mounts to travel around the world, be it ground mounts or flying. Also similar to some other crafting professions like Tailoring or Leatherworking, Engineering also gives you an option to choose a specialization which are either Goblin or Gnomish. Each of these has its own advantages and disadvantages which we will discuss in detail later. But it's not going to be a game breaker if you choose one over the other.

Having said that much for introduction, let's get straight down to business...

• Rough Stone - 40
• Copper Bar - 100
• Weak Flux - 50
• Coarse Stone - 15
• Linen Cloth - 39
• Bronze Bar - 120
• Moss Agate - 40
• Heavy Stone - 40
• Wool Cloth - 80
• Medium Leather - 20
• Steel Bar - 4
• Solid Stone - 180
• Mithril Bar - 140
• Mageweave Cloth - 12
• Dense Stone - 40
• Thorium Bar - 130
• Runecloth - 20
• Fel Iron Bar - 95
• Mote of Earth - 20
• Mote of Fire - 10
• Adamantite Bar - 40
• Netherweave Cloth - 30
• Cobalt Bar - 284
• Frostweave Cloth - 8
• Crystallized Water - 43
• Crystallized Earth - 10
• Borean Leather - 14
• Eternal Shadow - 7
• Saronite Bar - 340
• Skinning Knife - 25
• Minning Pick - 25
• Blacksmithing Hammer - 25

Note: While leveling up engineering you would notice that items go from "red" to "green" very quickly as compared to other professions. And the number of skill points you would get is quite random. So I would suggest buying the mats as and when required.

First thing you should do is get yourself one of these, Blacksmith Hammer and keep it with you in your bags all the time. A majority of

items which you will be creating with Engineering would require your character to be in possession of a Blacksmith Hammer and in proximity to an anvil. You can get it from any general vendor or trade supplies vendor that can be found in all major cities. You can also buy it from Blacksmith Supplies vendors, who are normally found next to Blacksmith trainers.

Learn Apprentice Engineering from any of the trainers found in major cities.

1 - 30: Grab some Rough Stone and make Rough Blasting Powder till you reach 30. You would require to make around 40 of these since the recipe turns yellow at 20.

31 - 50: Keep making Handful of Copper Bolts till you hit 50 skill points. You would end up making 34 of these approximately. Save these, you will need them later.