Engineering Guide 1-450

Engineering Guide 1 450 WotLK 3.3.5a
  • Author: milliondollarpuppy
  • Date: October 6, 2022
  • Updated: December 19, 2022
  • Expansion: WotLK Classic

Welcome to Warcraft Tavern’s Engineering guide! In this guide, we’ll provide everything you need to max out your Engineering skill, from the materials required to level up your profession to the best recipes to follow.

Engineering is a standout profession as it is the best option for virtually every class/spec. Engineers can craft gear enhancements like Nitro Boosts and Hyperspeed Accelerators, and powerful helms for every armor class (Charged Titanium Specs, for example). Saronite Bomb is an important engineering consumable that lets any role add a little extra damage to their rotation. Finally, Engineers can construct a couple of different mounts, such as the Turbo-Charged Flying Machine from TBC or the newly introduced Mechano-Hog (H) and Mekgineer’s Chopper (A)

Because Engineering relies on smelted ore and stone, Mining is the gathering profession associated with this profession. In addition, you’ll occasionally use cloth dropped from monsters, as well as leather farmed with Skinning. WotLK Engineers also need crystallized elements found on the corresponding elemental and revenant mobs found throughout Northrend. .

Required Materials

Below you can find the materials you’ll need to level from 1-450, as well as a few tips and things to keep in mind.

  • Sometimes we will have to craft yellow recipes that don’t guarantee a level up on every craft, therefore the materials required are estimates, rather than exact figures.
  • Specific recipes will require items you have previously crafted, so check the lists before getting rid of crafts!
  • Some recipes aren’t taught by trainers, but instead are acquired from drops or vendors.

All of these things are accounted for in the materials listed below. Listed separately from the material list are those recipes not acquired from a trainer, but rather from a vendor or world drop.

Engineering Trainers

You can click on a Trainer’s name from the lists below to see its exact location. If you use TomTom, you can copy-paste the location and coordinates provided (after the name) to track down the trainer you need more easily. For example:

/way Orgrimmar 75.8 24.6

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  • Zebig – Hellfire Peninsula 54.8 38.6
  • Mack Diver – Zangarmarsh 34.0 51.0

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  • Both factions can train from Xyrol – Netherstrom 32.6 66.6

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  • Both factions can learn Grand Master Engineering from the trainer in Dalaran, Timofey Oshenko 38.4 27.4

Training Route

Certain crafts need to be used later to further level up the profession. Other times, the materials can be bought from a vendor instead of the Auction House, or the crafting recipe is not acquired from a trainer. Some recipes turn yellow and as such do not have a 100% chance to level up your profession with every craft; this means some randomness enters the equation when it comes to materials. We indicate all of these situations with the following icons:

reforgegreenarrow
Keep crafted items for later crafts.
buy 2
Buy material from the vendor.
ui grouploot coin up
Bought Recipe.
ui grouploot dice up
Craft amount depends on variance.

Materials

Crafting

Level
Amount
Materials
1 – 30
30 – 50
50 – 51
51 – 75

Materials

Crafting

75-90
90-100
25 (± 5 ui grouploot dice up) Coarse Dynamite
100-105
100-105 (alternate)
105-125
30 (± 5 ui grouploot dice up) reforgegreenarrow Bronze Tube
125-140
140-150

Materials

Crafting

  • Keep 5 of Explosive Sheep if you intend to do the Goblin Engineering quest at 200 skill.
  • Keep 6 Mithril Tube if you intend to do the Gnomish Engineering quest at 200 skill.

Level
Amount
Materials
150-160
160-175
175-176
176-195
195-200
200-215
215-235

Materials

Crafting

Level
Amount
Materials
235-250
250-260
260-285
30 (± 5 ui grouploot dice up) Thorium Widget
285-300
15 (± 5 ui grouploot dice up) Thorium Shells

Materials

Recipes

Crafting

Level
Amount
Materials
300-310
310-320
310-320
320-330
330-335
335-350

Materials

Crafting

Level
Amount
Materials
350-375
375-380
15 (18 if Goblin Engineering) reforgegreenarrow Volatile Blasting Trigger
380-385
385-390
8 (± 2 ui grouploot dice up) Explosive Decoy
390-400
400-405
405-410
410-415
415-420
420-425
425-430
425-430 (Alternate)
430-435
435-450

Congratulations on reaching 450 Engineering Skill! We hope you enjoyed our guide, please share any suggestions or feedback in the comments below.

 

About the Author

milliondollarpuppy

I am an avid WoW Classic player and love Druid, Priest, and Rogue and look forward to maining a DK in Wrath. When I'm not gaming or writing, I'm catching up on reading and spending time with my family, my parent's dogs, and my pet snake, Gloria.
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visij
visij
2 years ago

This is the absolute best Engineering guide for WoTLK 3.3.5a. Without a doubt. Thank you!!

Last edited by visij
Eliyan
Eliyan
1 year ago

415-425
15 Mana Injector Kit

This step is very expensive – you can instead use Saronite Razorheads which requires only 2 Saronite bars.

DanielD
DanielD(@danield)
Admin
Reply to  Eliyan
1 year ago

Great feedback Eliyan, thank you! We’ve done some testing and agree, so we’re putting your suggestion into that section of the guide.

Dbe
Dbe
Reply to  DanielD
1 year ago

FYI I followed this suggestion and i only got 6 out of the 10 points (421) even with 5 extra saronite crafts. Ended up needing to do mana injectors to get to 425. But everything else was spot on, huge thanks for the guide.

Eliyan
Eliyan
Reply to  Dbe
1 year ago

I guess it’s RNG because it worked out for me just fine – gonna do that again on another alt now 🙂

Shwango
Shwango
1 year ago

Explosive sheep are missing their wool requirement.

DanielD
DanielD(@danield)
Admin
Reply to  Shwango
1 year ago

Great catch, thanks Shwango.

Jagoda Kuridzic
Jagoda Kuridzic
1 year ago

You need engi anyways best proffesion

rhazescogan
rhazescogan
1 year ago

ty its so work it

Shizo
Shizo
1 year ago

“Make 3 more Volatile Blasting Trigger if you are a Goblin Engineer and want to make Global Thermal Sapper Charge for 225-230.”
should say 425-430 instead. very nice guide, helped me a lot 🙂

Last edited 1 year ago by Shizo
Baron Bad
Baron Bad
1 year ago

ggs!

Last edited 1 year ago by Baron Bad
priest
priest
1 year ago

Fel iron casing only took me from 310-315 with the allotted mats 🙁 Edit. Nevermind i read it more and i see my mistake.

Last edited 1 year ago by priest
Bielo
Bielo
2 years ago

This guide helped me so much thanks

Khudman
Khudman
2 years ago

Thank you Věry much

Occy
Occy
1 year ago

No 350-375?
EDIT: Nvm, its under “Grand Master (375-400)”

Last edited 1 year ago by Occy
DanielD
DanielD(@danield)
Admin
Reply to  Occy
1 year ago

Sorry about that, and thanks for correcting our mistake! The tabs now accurately reflect the steps within.

Occy
Occy
Reply to  DanielD
1 year ago

All good. Loving the guide. Best I’ve seen yet. Thank you!

ddsads
ddsads
1 year ago

Error in the guide – you cannot make Handful of Fel Iron Bolts until 320 as stated in the guide, as they turn grey at 310.

Dyretso
Dyretso
1 year ago

425-430 Global Thermal Sapper Charge could work (1 saronite bar, 1 Volatile Blasting trigger) if you are goblin spec.

drewwerd
drewwerd
1 year ago

I had to make 50 saronite razorheads to get from 415-425. The estimate is way off.

Itsjoeyo
Itsjoeyo
1 year ago

This is very off bronze tube give like no engineering xp at the lvl it claims to

brownman
brownman
1 year ago

decent guide a bit off on some parts but for the most part very nice thank you

Golem
Golem
1 year ago

Consider Small Seaforium Charge. It can save you some money cause Copper Modulator is super cheap in AH.

Tiego
Tiego
1 year ago

nvm

Last edited 1 year ago by Tiego
Golem
Golem
1 year ago

100-105
You will make 25 Silver Contact not 5 from 5 Silver Bar

Last edited 1 year ago by Golem
Josh
Josh
1 year ago

typo 380-385 part, says 1010 crystallised earth. Think you guys meant 10 x 1 Crystallised Earth

DanielD
DanielD(@danield)
Admin
Reply to  Josh
1 year ago

Thank you, fixed!

Maxsi
Maxsi
1 year ago

buy more solid stone

hehehe
hehehe
1 year ago

tHX fot that!

xDD
xDD
1 year ago

Journeyman 105-125 it tells us to craft 30 Bronze Tubes, but on the right and shopping list, it says to buy 25 weak flux instead of 30. Just a minor fault

DanielD
DanielD(@danield)
Admin
Reply to  xDD
1 year ago

Thank you for the correction, the guide has been updated  🙏 

Drog The Bog
Drog The Bog
1 year ago

Imagine being me. Needing to buy an extra 100 solid stone to get the last 2 skillups for 195

Drog The Bog
Drog The Bog
Reply to  Drog The Bog
1 year ago

No joke, I needed to craft 112 solid blasting powder, 60 extra for the last 2 freaking skillups 😍 

Drog The Bog
Drog The Bog
1 year ago

35x Handful of Cobalt Bolts is not going to be enough for 375 skill, 90% of the time. It turns green and you have 10 crafts to get 5 skills. You should update it to be more bolts.

JohnhOppkins
JohnhOppkins
1 year ago

Hey, very great guide so far! I would implement “gold Power Core” Gold bars are usually cheap af as ppl only need the ore to skill up mining.

Cheers and thank you

BrazilianNoob
BrazilianNoob
1 year ago

the good side of playing on a private server is the amount of materials. All materials posted here can be divided by 5 for the server I’m on.

BrazilianNoob
BrazilianNoob
1 year ago

hello, I would like to make a suggestion in the guide:
At engineering level 100 the guide recommends making silver contact or Flying Tiger Goggles until you reach level 105.
But in my wow wotlk 3.3.5 there is an item called practical lock box, and in my reality copper bar is free because I have mining, while light leather and silver bar would generate a cost if I were to buy.
So my suggestion is to practice lock box (which only costs 3 copper bar to do) from level 100 to 105
Thanks for the guide.

Last edited 1 year ago by BrazilianNoob
BrazilianNoob
BrazilianNoob
Reply to  milliondollarpuppy
11 months ago

undestood. thanks. I just wanted to show in detail why I’m in my opinion, I don’t want to offend. Thanks for the guide.

——————– prices on warmane server ——————-

——————– prices to do 1 lockbox ————————
1 bronze bar – 1 coopper bar (3 gold) + 1 tin bar ( 1 silver)
2 handful of copper – 2 copper bar ( 6 Gold)
1 weake flux – 1 silver
= 9 gold 2 silver

——————-price to do 1 Flying Tiger Goggles ————
6 light leather – 17 gold 24 silver
tigerseye – 31 gold 01 silver
= 48 gold 25 silver

——————-price to do 1 silver contact ————
disclaimer: engenering supplys sells silver contact, we not need to craft
buy from vendor – 1 silver
buy on auction house – 50 silver
price of silver bar today – 40 gold
to craft 1 silver contact = 40 gold.

thats why i preffer to do the lock box.
to tell you the truth i made the lock box well beyond level 105 kkk i do it until it turns green.
thanks for the guide, help me a lot.

Last edited 11 months ago by BrazilianNoob
Darkenixx
Darkenixx
11 months ago

Sadly after making the fel iron bombs i was only at 329, might have to add a variance icon there
Edit: because of that i only ended up at 334 after grenades and couldnt learn the white smoke flare so i just got 4 more adamantite and 2 more handfulls of fel iron bolts and made a last adamantite grenade

Last edited 11 months ago by Darkenixx
Zulazane
Zulazane
11 months ago

335-350 White Smokeflare
The recipe for this item is on a limited supply at a 12h cooldown.

There is an alternative in green smokeflare which is not limited, needs only a friendly reputation with cenarius in zangamarsh and has only one other vendor item as additional material.

Disciples
Disciples
10 months ago

Best of the best guide!

derolex
derolex
1 year ago

thats the worst engineering guide, i had to like 15 times to walk to the action house to rebuy mats cause i didnt get enough skill to get to the next step

Teal`c
Teal`c
1 year ago

Tekmate Bratak

nno88
nno88
1 year ago

its rly bad guide u can do that with less materials 🙂

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