WotLK Engineering Guide (1-450)

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Engineering is a primary crafting profession that can create as many useful items including end level epic helms, guns, bullets, arrows and scopes. Looking at that list it’s no wonder that many hunters will find engineering useful but other classes will also find interesting items as an Engineer. The ability to harvest “clouds” for motes and crystallized elements, the Mechano-hog and Mekgineer’s Chopper for example.

List of Materials

Hopefully you’ve taken mining as a second profession or you have access to a miner otherwise Engineering will be an expensive profession to take all the way to 450. I’ve worked some leeway into the guide, often by making extra when the recipe has turn yellow just incase you don’t get a skill point. This means that there maybe some left over materials by the end.

There are occasions when you might need to buy extra. The Gnomish Knife at the end is a prime example of this. I’ve also not included the materials need to make the epic engineering helm as it is dependant on which you want to make for yourself.

20 Rough Stone
20 Coarse Stone
40 Heavy Stone
180 Solid Stone
100 Dense Stone

40 Linen Cloth
80 Wool Cloth
10 Mageweave Cloth
20 Rune Cloth
8 Frostweave Cloth

114 Copper Bars
15 Silver Bars
100 Bronze Bars
4 Steel Bars
165 Mithril Bars
130 Thorium Bars
80 Fel Iron Bars
80 Adamantite Bars
20 Felsteel Bars
334 Cobalt Bars
545 Saronite Bars

20 Medium Leather
30 Borean Leather

34 Weak Flux
30 Skinning Knives
30 Minning Picks
30 Blacksmith Hammers

30 Mote of Earth
15 Mote of Fire
33 Crystallized Water
10 Crystallized Earth
15 Eternal Shadow

Leveling

Skill Level	Items to make	Items Needed	Notes
1-21	20 x Rough Blasting Powder	20 x Rough Stone	Keep for later
21-31	10 x Rough Dynamite	20 Rough Blasting Powder 10 Linen Cloth	Sell or use then visit the trainer
31-50	30 x Handful of Copper Bolts	30 Copper Bars	You will need 30 bolts later. The recipe will go yellow at 45 but by making 30 you should get to 50
50-51	1 x Arclight Spanner	6 Copper Bars	This is a tool you need to keep
51-75	24 x Copper Tube	48 Copper bar 24 Weak Flux	Sell
75-90	20 x Course Blasting Powder	20 Coarse Stone	This goes yellow at 85 so keep going until you get to 90. You shouldn’t need more than the 20 which you will use later so keep them
90-100	15 x Copper Modulator	30 Handful Copper Bolts 15 Copper Bar 30 Linen Cloth	Only do enough to get to 100 as you don’t need these for anything else or keep them as extra points
100-110	15 x Silver Contacts	15 Silver Bar	Keep these for later. Again you might get more points as it goes yellow at 110
110-120	10 x Bronze Tubes	20 Bronze Bar 10 Weak Flux	If you have got any extra points from before this you could only do enough to get to 120
120-125	5 x Large Copper Bombs	15 Copper bars 20 Coarse Blasting Powder 5 silver contacts	Visit the trainer time after this
125-150	40 x Heavy Blasting Powder 20 x Whirring Bronze Gizmo	40 Heavy Stone 40 Bronze Bar 20 Wool Cloth	Both recipes go green around 145 but as you will need 40 powders and 20 gizmos for later so you should be able to get to 150
150-155	20 x Bronze Framework	40 Bronze Bar 20 Medium Leather 20 Wool Cloth	Again you will need 20 frameworks later so you might get further than 155
155-175	20 x Explosive Sheep	40 Heavy Blasting Powder 20 Whirring Bronze Gizmo 20 Bronze Framework 40 Wool Cloth
175-176	1 X Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor	4 Steel Bars	Another tool for you to keep
176-195	90 x Solid Blasting Powder	180 Solid Stone	With such large amount needed later you should get to the point where this recipe is greyed out. Keep going till you’ve got the 90 powders you need for later
195-205	15 x Mithril Tubes	45 Mithril Bar	This recipe is yellow do enough to get you to 205 Also time to visit the trainer after this
205-210	10 x Unstable Triggers	10 Mithril Bar 10 Mageweave Cloth 10 Solid Blasting Powder	Again you might get more points that needed but you will need 10 triggers later
210-225	30 x Hi-Impact Mithril Slugs	30 Mithril Bar 30 Solid Blasting Powder	Stop making the slugs when you get to 225 unless you want some points extra.
225-235	20 x Mithril Casings –	60 Mithril Bar	Again you might get more points that needed but you will need 20 castings later
235-245	10 x Hi-Explosive Bomb	20 Mithril Casings 10 Unstable Trigger 20 Solid Blasting Powder
245-250	10 x Mithril Gyro-Shot	20 Mithril Bar 20 Solid Blasting Powder	No need to make more if you get to 250.
250-260	50 x Dense Blasting Powder	100 Dense Stone	You need at least 20 but it goes green at 255 so make as many as needed to get to 260
260-280	20 x Thorium Widget	60 Thorium Bar 20 Runecloth
280-285	5 x Thorium Tube	30 Thorium Bar
285-300	20 x Thorium Shells	40 Thorium Bar 20 Dense Blasting Powder	Goes yellow at 295 so only make as many as you need to get to 300 Time to go to Outlands and find a trainer
300-310	50 x Handful of Fel Iron Bolts	50 Fel Iron Bar	Lots needed so keep going till grey
310-320	10 x Fel Iron Casing 15 x 4 Elemental Blasting Powder	30 Fel Iron Bar 30 Mote of Earth 15 Mote of Fire	You need at least 5 casings and 25 powders but probably more due to Fel iron Bomb already being yellow at 320. So make at least 10 casings and 10 powders. If you haven’t managed to get to 320 you might want to risk moving on to the Fel iron bombs as there is a chance to make some points up.
320-325	10 x Fel Iron Bomb	10 Fel Iron Casing 20 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts 10 Elemental Blasting Powder	This is already yellow but you would be very unlucky not to get 5 points from 10 attempts.
325-340	20 x 3 Adamantite Grenade	80 Adamantite Bar 20 Elemental Blasting Powder 40 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts	Only make enough to get to 340 as it goes yellow at 335
340-350	10 x Felsteel Stabilizer	20 Felsteel Bar	Time to find a trainer in Northrend
350-370	35 x 1-3 Handful of Cobalt Bolts	70 Cobalt Bar	You’ll need around 50 bolts for later so keeping going until you get enough
370-375	18 x 2 Volatile Blasting Trigger	54 Cobalt Bar 18 Crystallized Water	You’ll need a minimum of 25 triggers for later but we’ll make 36 (18×2) as some of the recipes will go yellow and extras may be needed
375-380	10 x Overcharged Capacitor	40 Cobalt Bar 10 Crystallized Earth	You’ll need 10 capacitors later so keep going passed 380
380-385	10 x Hammer Pick	50 Cobalt Bar	Only make enough to get to 385. If you’re a miner keep 1 to replace your pick and hammer.
385-390	8 x Explosive Decoy	8 Frostweave Cloth 24 Volatile Blasting Trigger	This is one of the yellow recipes that uses the triggers, so only make enough to get to 390
390-400	15 x Froststeel Tube	120 Cobalt Bar 15 Crystallized Water	You might not need all 15 so you can stop once you get to 400 and then come back to make more if needed for later recipes
400-405	5 x Diamond-cut Refractor Scope	5 Froststeel Tube 10 Handful of Cobalt Bolts
405-415	15 x 2-4Saronite Bomb	65 Saronite Bar 15 Volatile Blasting Trigger	Another of the yellow recipes that uses the triggers, so just make enough to get to 415
415-420	5 x 5 Mana Injector Kit	60 Saronite Bar 10 Crystallized Water
420-430	15 x Mechanized Snow Goggles	120 Saronite Bar 30 Borean Leather 15 Eternal Shadow	Goes yellow at 425 so you might not need all 15 to get to 430
430-435	5 x Noise Machine	10 Froststeel Tube 10 Overcharged Capacitor 40 Handful of Cobalt Bolts
435-445	15 x Gnomish Army Knife	150 Saronite Bar 15 Skinning Knife 15 Minning Pick 15 Blacksmithing Hammer	Stop when you get to 445 to make the your engineering helm (assuming you want it)
445-446	1 x Engineering helm example	Materials are dependant on what helm you want	I’m assuming that since you’ve gotten this far you will want the engineering helm
446-450	15 x Gnomish Army Knife	150 Saronite Bar 15 Skinning Knife 15 Minning Pick 15 Blacksmithing Hammer	To get to the last couple of points is very expensive as the only really viable recipe to use is the Gnomish Army Knife which unfortunately goes green at 445. So just keep grinding them out till you get there. I would say at least 15-20 might be necessary.. unless you are very unlucky.

Summary

This really is the end.. honest

I hope you found this guide useful.