Leveling Engineering from 1 to 525

Engineering is a rather useful skill, for any class, with a whole bunch of interesting items, gadgets, etc.
If you’re a Gnome then you get +15 to your Engineering skill as a racial bonus.

Profession Perk: The Synapse Springs gadget can be attached to your gloves and increases your primary stat by 480 for 10 seconds, once per minute. This makes it a pretty useful “burst on demand” item.

Other perks, besides the special trinkets and fun items, are: engineering goggles that make for a very nice helm (example: Reinforced Bio-Optic Killshades,) Cogwheel helm gems are better than the Jewelcrafters’ own gems (but offer no primary stats,) and fun gadgets to use as enchants for their gloves and belt.

Specializations

at skill level of 200, you can go and learn one of the two specializations available for Engineering:

• Gnomish Engineering – If you wish to become a Gnomish engineer you will need to complete a short quest chain. This specialization focuses on gadgets.
• Goblin Engineering – Also requires a short quest chain. This specialization focuses on explosive.

You are not locked into one spec or the other. “Talk” to the Book Evil Soothsaying for Dummies in Tanaris to change from one to the other. (Soothsaying for Dummies is now sitting on a table at Bootlegger Outpost. Coordinates are 55,60 next to npc Narain Soothfancy. You need to click it a 2nd time to learn Goblin or Gnomish Engineering after you have paid 150 gold to unlearn the one you don’t want.)

You will also need to renew your membership every two weeks with whichever faction you signed up with. It’s pretty cheap, but you’ll have to remember to take care of it if you go on vacation from WoW for a couple of weeks.

Gold??? Bwahahaha! Engineering was designed to consume gold, lots of gold, not make it. That there hog will cost you around 12-15k just to make. There are various items which are used by other players, and you might sell a hog every week or two, but many Engie items come with Engie skill requirements so won’t sell well. Not saying you can’t make gold with this skill, it’s just hard mode. Other professions are better choices for actually earning and if you want tips on getting more gold (to pay for crafting, gear, donations to the exploded goblin repair fund, or whatever,) grab a copy of WoWcrusher.

Mists of Pandaria

• Zen Master Engineering, skill cap of 600, level up at 500, min level is 80.
• This page will be updated when the new engie recipes are introduced.

Step by Step Engineering Guide

Congratulations on your 525 Engineering skill!

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