Updated for WoW patch 3.0.8

This WoW Engineering guide will show you the fastest and easiest way how level your Engineering skill up from 1 to 450.

Engineering is the best combined with Mining. If you level your Engineering with Mining, you will save a lot of gold. Specially when you have to use Mithril and Thorium, because they aren't hard to find, but they are really expensive at the AH. If you don't have Mining, you have to buy everything and you will need a lot of gold again. Check out my  Minnig Guide if you want to level your Mining too. However, the fastest way to level Engineering is to buy everything from the Auction House.

Approximate Materials Required for 1-450:

• 40 Rough Stone
• 99 Copper Bar
• 49 Weak Flux
• 15 Coarse Stone
• 15 Linen Cloth
• 5 Silver Bar
• 130 Bronze Bar
• 5 Moss Agate
• 40 Heavy Stone
• 80 Wool Cloth
• 20 Medium Leather
• 180 Solid Stone
• 180 Mithril Bar
• 10 Mageweave Cloth
• 100 Dense Stone
• 130 Thorium Bar
• 20 Runecloth
• 85 Fel Iron Bar
• 30 Mote of Earth
• 15 Mote of Fire
• 40 Adamantite Bar
• 30 Netherweave Cloth
• 284 Cobalt Bar
• 43 Crystallized Water
• 10 Crystallized Earth
• 26 Borean Leather
• 13 Eternal Shadow
• 479 Saronite Bar
• 25 Skinning Knife
• 25 Minning Pick
• 25 Blacksmithing Hammer

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Engineering.

• 1 - 30
  40 x [Rough Blasting Powder] - 40 Rough Stone

  This recipe goes yellow at 20, so get enough materials to use this recipe 40 times.

• 30 - 50
  30 x [Handful of Copper Bolts] - 30 Copper Bar

  You will need 30 of these later.

Visit your trainer, and learn Journeyman Engineering.

• 50 - 51
  1 x [Arclight Spanner] - 6 Copper Bar

• 51 - 75
  24 x [Copper Tube] - 48 Copper bar, 24 Weak Flux

• 75 - 85
  15 x [Coarse Blasting Powder] - 15 Coarse Stone

  You will need 15 of these later.

• 85 - 90
  5 x [Coarse Dynamite] - 15 Coarse Blasting Powder, 15 Linen Cloth

• 90 -100
  15 x [Copper Modulator] - 30 Handful Copper Bolts, 15 Copper Bar, 30 Linen Cloth

• 100 -105
  5 x [Silver Contacts] - 5 Silver Bar

• 105 -120
  25 x [Bronze Tubes] - 50 Bronze Bar, 25 Weak Flux

• 120 -125
  5 x [Standard Scope] - 5 Bronze Tube, 5 Moss Agate

Visit your trainer, and learn Expert Engineering.

• 125 -150
  40 x [Heavy Blasting Powder] - 40 Heavy Stone

  and

  20 x [Whirring Bronze Gizmo] - 40 Bronze Bar, 20 Wool Cloth

  You will need 40 [Heavy Blasting Powder] and 20 [Whirring Bronze Gizmo] later, and if you make these you should reach 150 skill point.

• 150 - 155
  20 x [Bronze Framework] - 40 Bronze Bar, 20 Medium Leather, 20 Wool Cloth

  by making them now, you might get a lot further - probably towards 160, then stop making these and only make more when you'll need them.

• 155 -175
  20 x [Explosive Sheep] - 40 Heavy Blasting Powder, 20 Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 20 Bronze Framework, 40 Wool Cloth

• 175 - 195
  90 x [Solid Blasting Powder] - 180 Solid Stone

  Extremely cheap! On my realm it costs 1 gold/stack.

• 195 - 205
  20 x [Mithril Tubes] - 60 Mithril Bar

Visit your trainer and learn Artisan Engineering.

Engineering has the option at skill level 200 to specialize in Gnomish or Goblin Engineering. The main difference between both sides is the location of their respective teleporters and the ability of their trinkets. Some items require a specific specialization to use, while other items are crafted by one specialization but are usable by any engineer. Fortunately, most recipes that are crafted by one Specialization can be worn by both.

Gnomish Engineering

• list of recipes

Goblin Engineering

• list of recipes

• 205 - 210
  10 x [Unstable Triggers] 10 Mithril Bar, 10 Mageweave Cloth, 10 Solid Blasting Powder

• 210 - 225
  30 x [Hi-Impact Mithril Slugs] - 30 Mithril Bar, 30 Solid Blasting Powder

• 225 - 235
  20 x [Mithril Casings] - 60 Mithril Bar

• 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

• 250 - 260
  50 x [Dense Blasting Powder] - 100 Dense Stone

• 260 - 280
  20 x [Thorium Widget] - 60 Thorium Bar, 20 Runecloth

Go to Outland,visit your trainer, and learn Master Engineering

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• 280 - 285
  5 x [Thorium Tube] - 30 Thorium Bar

• 285 - 300
  20 x [Thorium Shells] - 40 Thorium Bar, 20 Dense Blasting Powder

• 300 - 310
  50 x [Handful of Fel Iron Bolts] - 50 Fel Iron Bar

  You will need tons of these later. I suggest you to make these until it goes grey, then only make more when you'll need them.

• 310-320
  15 x [4 Elemental Blasting Powder] - 30 Mote of Earth, 15 Mote of Fire

  Save these.

  15 x [Fel Iron Casing] - 45 Fel Iron Bar

  You will need around 15 of these later, but I suggest you to make these until it goes grey, then only make more when you'll need them.

• 320 - 325
  5 x [Fel Iron Musket] - 5 Heavy Stock, 15 Fel Iron Casing, 30 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts

• 325 - 335
  10 x [Adamantite Grenade] 40 Adamantite Bar, 10 Elemental Blasting Powder, 20 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts

• 335 - 350
  30 x [White Smoke Flare] - 30 Netherweave Cloth, 30 Elemental Blasting Powder

  Recipe location

Go to Northrend, visit your trainer and learn Grand Master Engineering.

• 350 - 370

  You will need around 50 [Handful of Cobalt Bolts] and 36 [Volatile Blasting Trigger] later. Make these now, and you should reach 375 or probably more. Note that when you craft [Handful of Cobalt Bolts] you can get 1 or 3 bolts, and the same goes for [Volatile Blasting Trigger], you will get 2 [Volatile Blasting Trigger] each craft.

  35 x [1-3 Handful of Cobalt Bolts] - 70 Cobalt Bar

• 370 - 377
  Save these.

  18 x [2 Volatile Blasting Trigger] - 54 Cobalt Bar, 18 Crystallized Water

• 377 - 385
  Save these too, you will need them.

  10 x [Overcharged Capacitor] - 40 Cobalt Bar, 10 Crystallized Earth

• 385 - 390

  8 x [Explosive Decoy] - 8 Frostweave Cloth, 24 Volatile Blasting Trigger

• 390 - 400
  Save these too, you will need them later.

  You will probably reach more then 400, then stop making these and make more only if you need it.

  15 x [Froststeel Tube] - 120 Cobalt Bar, 15 Crystallized Water

• 400 - 405

  5 x [Diamond-cut Refractor Scope] - 5 Froststeel Tube, 10 Handful of Cobalt Bolts

• 405 - 415

  13 x [Saronite Bomb] - 65 Saronite Bar, 13 Volatile Blasting Trigger

• 415 - 420
  You can sell these at the Auction House.

  5 x [Mana Injector Kit] - 60 Saronite Bar, 10 Crystallized Water

• 420 - 430

  13 x [Mechanized Snow Goggles] - 104 Saronite Bar, 26 Borean Leather, 13 Eternal Shadow

• 430 - 435
  5 x [Noise Machine] - 10 Froststeel Tube, 10 Overcharged Capacitor, 40 Handful of Cobalt Bolts

• 435 - 450

  When you reach 440, you can make your epic Engineering Helm, however if you want to level your Engineering past 440, you should wait with your Goggles until 445, because there are only green recipes at that point, but the Goggles are still orange.

  This part is stupid I know, but there is just no other recipe that you can use to level your Engineering. The Gnomish Army Knife recipe turns yellow at 440 and green at 445. It doesn't sell at all, at least I couldn't sell any yet. That's pretty much a few thousand gold worth of Saronite Bars down the drain. Most of the time you will need to make a lot more then 25 of these.

  25 x [Gnomish Army Knife] - 250 Saronite Bar, 25 Skinning Knife, 25 Minning Pick, 25 Blacksmithing Hammer

I hope you liked this Engineering leveling guide, GZ to 450!