Engineering uses ores, metals, and stone to craft. It can be quite expensive to train and maintain, so pairing it with Mining can be quite beneficial, especially early on when materials will be more expensive. Mining will allow you to farm your own materials without needing to buy them on the auction house.

Engineering is a very popular profession choice as it offers tons of unique gadgets and explosives, greatly enhancing your overall performance. Engineering is commonly believed to be the strongest overall profession for the many different perks it offers, with some raid groups even deeming the profession required.

You can learn Engineering from any Engineering trainer, which are found in capital cities. When you arrive at a major city, you can ask any city guard for directions and pick the Engineering trainer option under the professions section. This will mark its location on your map, allowing you to easily find them and get the Engineering skill.

To train past 300 skill level, you need to speak with a Master Engineering trainer in either Outland or Northrend. This will allow you to train up to level 375 Engineering.

To learn Engineering past 375 skill level you must travel to Northrend and talk with a Grand Master Engineering trainer found below. This will allow you to max your Engineering skill out at 450.

• Sock Brightbolt in Borean Tundra
• Tisha Longbridge in Howling Fjord.

• Chief Engineer Leveny in Borean Tundra
• Jamesina Watterly in Howling Fjord.

• Timofey Oshenko in Dalaran City.

Below is a “quick shopping list” of materials needed to level Engineering up. This list is just an estimation, not an exact amount. Depending on your luck when crafting you may need more or less materials than what is listed here.

• 90 x Rough Stone
• 50 x Copper Bar
• 50 x Coarse Stone
• 50 x Silver Bar
• 60 x Heavy Stone
• 24 x Bronze Bar
• 40 x Gold Bar
• 8 x Iron Bar
• 4 x Steel Bar
• 90 x Solid Stone
• 95 x Mithril Bar
• 15 x Mageweave Cloth
• 40 x Dense Stone
• 130 x Thorium Bar
• 30 x Runecloth
• 45 x Fel Iron Bar
• 10 x Mote of Fire
• 20 x Mote of Earth
• 30 x Netherweave Cloth
• 40 x Adamantite Bar

• 340 x Cobalt Bar
• 27 x Crystallized Water
• 18 x Crystallized Earth
• 260 x Saronite Bar
• 10 x Eternal Air
• 2 x Eternal Shadow
• 2 x Eternal Water
• 2 x Eternal Fire

Skill Level Item to Craft Materials 1-40 Rough Blasting Powder 1 x Rough Stone 40-50 Handful of Copper Bolts 1 x Copper Bar 50 Arclight Spanner 6 x Copper Bar 51-65 Copper Tube

• 2 x Copper Bar
• 1 x Weak Flux

65-75 Rough Boomstick

• 1 x Copper Tube
• 1 x Handful of Copper Bolts
• 1 x Wooden Stock

75-95 Coarse Blasting Powder 1 x Coarse Stone 95-125 Silver Contact 1 x Silver Bar 125-145 Heavy Blasting Powder 1 x Heavy Stone 145-150 Big Bronze Bomb

• 2 x Heavy Blasting Powder
• 3 x Bronze Bar
• 1 x Silver Contact

150-170 Gold Power Core 1 x Gold Bar 170-175 Gyrochronatom

• 1 x Iron Bar
• 1 x Gold Power Core

175 Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor 4 x Steel Bar 176-195 Solid Blasting Powder 2 x Solid Stone 195-200 Mithril Tube 3 x Mithril Bar 200-210 Unstable Trigger

• 1 x Mithril Bar
• 1 x Mageweave Cloth
• 1 x Solid Blasting Powder

210-225 Hi-Impact Mithril Slugs

• 1 x Mithril Bar
• 1 x Solid Blasting Powder

225-235 Mithril Casing 3 x Mithril Bar 235-245 Hi-Explosive Bomb

• 2 x Mithril Casing
• 1 x Unstable Trigger
• 2 x Solid Blasting Powder

245-250 Mithril Gyro-Shot

• 2 x Mithril Bar
• 2 x Solid Blasting Powder

250-260 Dense Blasting Powder 2 x Dense Stone 260-285 Thorium Widget

• 3 x Thorium Bar
• 1 x Runecloth

285-300 Thorium Shells

• 1 x Thorium Bar
• 1 x Dense Blasting Powder

Skill Level Item to Craft Materials 300-310 30 x Handful of Fel Iron Bolts (note) 1 x Fel Iron Bar 310-320

• 40 x Elemental Blasting Powder(note)
• 5 x Fel Iron Casing (note)

• 1 x Mote of Fire
• 2 x Mote of Earth
• 3 x Fel Iron Bar

320-325 Fel Iron Bomb

• 1 x Fel Iron Casing
• 2 x Handful of Fel Iron Bolts
• 1 x Elemental Blasting Powder

325-335 Adamantite Grenade

• 4 x Adamantite Bar
• 2 x Handful of Fel Iron Bolts
• 1 x Elemental Blasting Powder

335-350 White Smoke Flare (note)

• 1 x Netherweave Cloth
• 1 x Elemental Blasting Powder

The following information is here to provide further context to the guidance given in the table above:

• 300-310 — You will need these for later Engineering levels, so make them all now while it offers skill-ups.
• 310-320 — You will need all of this for future Engineering training, so make them all now while they offer skill-ups.
• 335-350 — To get these skill-ups cheaply, you will need to grab the Schematic: White Smoke Flare schematic from one of the vendors below:
  • Captured Gnome in Zangarmarsh.
  • Yatheon in Silvermoon City.
  • Feera on Azuremyst Isle.
  • Both factions can also visit Wind Trader Lathrai, a neutral trader in Shattrath.

Be sure to head to a Grand Master Engineering trainer in Northrend as shown above to unlock Grand Master Engineering, allowing you to max out your Engineering at 450 skill level.

Skill Level Item to Craft Materials 350-375

• Volatile Blasting Trigger (note)
• Handful of Cobalt Bolts (note)

• (3 x Cobalt Bar
• 1 x Crystallized Water)
• 2 x Cobalt Bar

375-385 18 x Overcharged Capacitor (note)

• 4 x Cobalt Bar
• 1 x Crystallized Earth

385-390 Explosive Decoy

• 1 x Frostweave Cloth
• 3 x Volatile Blasting Trigger

390-405 Froststeel Tube (note)

• 8 x Cobalt Bar
• 1 x Crystallized Water

400-405 Diamond-cut Refractor Scope (note)

• 1 x Froststeel Tube
• 2 x Handful of Cobalt Bolts

405-410 Box of Bombs

• 5 x Saronite Bar
• 1 x Volatile Blasting Trigger

410-415 Mammoth Cutters

• 1 x Saronite Bar
• 1 x Volatile Blasting Trigger

415-425 Saronite Razorheads 2 x Saronite Bar 425-426 MOLL-E

• 8 x Saronite Bar
• 8 x Eternal Air

426-435 Noise Machine

• 2 x Froststeel Tube
• 2 x Overcharged Capacitor
• 8 x Handful of Cobalt Bolts

435-449 Gnomish Army Knife

• 10 x Saronite Bar
• 1 x Skinning Knife
• 1 x Mining Pick
• 1 x Blacksmith Hammer

449-450 Wormhole Generator: Northrend

• 8 x Titanium Bar
• 2 x Eternal Shadow
• 2 x Eternal Water
• 2 x Eternal Fire
• 2 x Eternal Air

The following information is here to provide further context to the guidance given in the table above:

• 350-375 — You will need these for later Engineering levels, so make them all now while it offers skill-ups. You will need at least 82 Handful of Cobalt Bolts and 14 Volatile Blasting Trigger using this guide.
• 375-385 — You need 18 of these following this guide, be sure to make them all now.
• 390-405 — You will need 18 of these for later skills using this guide. Make them now while they offer a skill-up.
• 400-405 — If you did not reach 405 making Froststeel Tube then make 1 more Froststeel Tube followed by 1 Diamond-cut Refractor Scope until you are 405.

Engineering specializations in Wrath of the Lich King are very minor, having little difference between the two. The main difference will be Global Thermal Sapper Charge, making Goblin the ideal choice for melee players.

To become a Gnomish Engineer, you will need to complete the quest Show Your Work / Show Your Work. This requires you to turn in:

• 6 x Mithril Tube
• 1 x Accurate Scope
• 2 x Advanced Target Dummy

Gnomish Engineering mostly focuses on fun items, offering no real advantage in combat.

• Gnomish X-Ray Specs
• Iceblade Arrow

To become a Goblin Engineer, you will need to complete the quest Show Your Work. This requires you to turn in:

• 20 x Big Iron Bomb
• 20 x Solid Dynamite
• 5 x Explosive Sheep

Goblin Engineering primarily focuses on explosives, being the better choice if you are trying to maximize your damage.

• Global Thermal Sapper Charge
• Shatter Rounds

In WotLK, you can easily swap your Engineering specialization between Goblin and Gnomish without needing to re-level the profession again. Simply speak with Narain Soothfancy in Tanaris, and for a fee of 150 gold, you can switch your specialization at will. After unlearning your current specialization, use the Book “Soothsaying for Dummies” to pick your new specialization.

Engineering has many unique enchants, gadgets, and gizmos that improve your character in more ways that just raw stats. These gadgets are lost if you get rid of Engineering. In addition to the enchants below, Engineers can craft a handful of trinkets, helmets, and explosives to further improve their characters, making Engineering a powerful profession choice.

• Mind Amplification Dish — 45 Stamina & Mind Control use
• Flexweave Underlay — 23 Agility & Slow fall use
• Springy Arachnoweave — 27 Spell Power & Slow fall use
• Hand-Mounted Pyro Rocket — On-use ranged attack
• Hyperspeed Accelerators — 68 Average Haste
• Reticulated Armor Webbing — 885 Armor
• Frag Belt — Cobalt Frag Bomb (Free Bombs)
• Nitro Boosts — 24 Critical Strike Rating & Movement speed use

• Gnomish Army Knife — All profession tools-in-one & chance to res dead player
• Wormhole Generator: Northrend — Teleport around Northrend
• MOLL-E — Portable mailbox
• Jeeves — Portable bank, vendor, and repair all-in-one

• Saronite Bomb
• Global Thermal Sapper Charge

• Flying Machine Control — 150% flying speed mount.
• Turbo-Charged Flying Machine Control — 280% flying speed mount.
• Mekgineer’s Chopper.
• Mechano-hog.

With Phaes 4 comes the new raid Icecrown Citadel, which hosts the new faction, Ashen Verdict. This new faction has multiple, new patterns, including 2 new patterns for Engineers to learn. These patterns are:

• Plans: Iceblade Arrow – Iceblade Arrow
• Plans: Shatter Rounds – Shatter Rounds

Engineering is just one of the many professions you may choose to level in Wrath of the Lich King Classic. To learn more about the other options available, we recommend checking out our overviews of all professions and their unique bonuses below.