How to Level Engineering in World of Warcraft

Engineering may be the most entertaining and fun profession to take up in World of Warcraft. However, leveling engineering in World of Warcraft can take a lot of time and money. Engineering involves making parts from metal and stones and using those parts to make items such as guns, explosives, robots and even jumper cables.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

The Basics

1. Pick engineering as one of your primary professions. This can be done in the major cities. Ask a guard if you need help finding the engineering trainer.

2. Take up mining as your other primary profession. This will allow you to mine and smelt the metals and stone you will need and save you money from not having to buy as many ingredients.

3. Be a gnome if you are making a character specifically for engineering. Gnomes receive a plus 15 to engineering as a racial ability.

Leveling Engineering

4. Start out creating rough blasting powder. You should receive rough stones off of the veins you mine. Once you get to skill level 40, you can use your copper bars to make handfuls of copper bolts. This should get you to skill level 50. Keep these items as you will use them as parts for other engineering creations.

5. Become a journeyman engineer at skill level 50. Talk to the engineer trainer to train to be a journeyman. Your character needs to be level 10.

6. Create an arclight spanner. This is a tool that is necessary for higher level engineering schematics. Make copper tubes, rough boom sticks, coarse blasting powder, silver contacts and bronze tunes in that order to raise your skill level to 125.

7. Visit the trainer to become an expert engineer at skill level 125 so that you can continue leveling up your skill and make new items. Your character needs to be level 20.

8. Start making heavy blasting powder and then use the parts you have to make items that will give you good experience. The color of the name of the item will tell you how much experience you will receive with orange being the most and gray resulting in no experience at all.

9. Continue to make items until you reach level 225. You can now train to be an artisan engineer. Visit Springspindle Fizzlegear in Ironforge for the Alliance trainer or Roxxik in Orgrimmar for the Horde trainer. Your character level must be 35.

10. Specialize in either gnomish or goblin engineering. These are the two specializations offered for engineers and each has special schematics that can only be created if you take that specific specialization.

11. Keep grinding to reach skill level 300 and become a master engineer. You must travel to Outland to find the necessary trainer to become a master engineer.

Tips & Warnings

• You can sell a lot of your creations on the auction house, but many items you will create require engineering to be used, so there may not be a lot of demand. Engineering does not necessarily translate into a lot of gold.
• Engineers can make repair robots that will act as a repair vendor for 10 minutes. This is incredibly useful for instances or raids where there is not somewhere to get equipment repaired easily. You will be very popular in your raid group if you can make repair bots.