WoW Engineering Guide

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While it may not seem the most useful of primary professions at times, engineering does allow World of Warcraft players to create some very fun and interesting items. A good WoW engineering guide like this one outlines all of these great items and teaches you how to get them quickly. One of the great things about engineering is that it can create some of the most useful items.

On the downside, many of these best items are engineer-only, and some have a chance to backfire on you.

Engineering, Classes, and Racial Bonuses
Engineering can be useful for any class, but it is especially helpful for those who use guns, especially hunters. Warriors and rogues may also find the guns, bullets, and scopes helpful.

If you’re playing a gnome, you will start with a +15 bonus to engineering.

Matching Professions
Each character in Warcraft can only have two primary professions. With engineering as one, you may wonder what other primary profession to take. The most useful one is mining. Engineers need a large amount of metal and gemstones, and it’s much cheaper for you to mine these items yourself instead of buying them. Skinning can be somewhat useful, too, since leather is needed for a few engineering recipes. Jewelcrafting can also be somewhat useful since they can prospect raw ore for gemstones.

Learning Engineering

To learn engineering, you have to find an engineering trainer. You’ll find these trainers scattered around the world, but most major cities have one. They will teach you a few basic schematics like Crafted Light Shot (a bullet), Rough Blasting Powder, and Rough Dynamite. Crafting these items will give you an engineering skill up for as long as the schematic is at least green. Engineering schematics are color-coded like all the other profession recipes and plans. Grey schematics will not give you skill ups at all. Green schematics will occasionally give you skill ups, while yellow will generally up your skill. Orange items will always give you a skill up, while red schematics (listed in your trainer’s list) are too high level for you.

When you have acquired 75 skill points, you won’t be able to level up your engineering any more until you return to a trainer and train as a journeyman engineer. This will allow you to skill up to 150 points. Then you’ll need to train as an expert (up to 225), artisan (300), master (350) and grand master (450)

Learning Schematics from Quests and Holiday Events
In addition to learning some schematics from trainers and buying them from venders, some schematics can only be learned from quests. During the Lunar Festival, engineers can learn how to make small and large rockets and rocket clusters. Others can be purchased from the Darkmoon Faire (Steam Tonk Controller) or received from completing quests. You can also learn the Snowmaster 9000 schematic from the Winter Veil holiday event.

Looting Schematics – WoW Engineering Guide
Some of the most useful and sought-after schematics are only available as drops from enemies or bosses. The special parachute cloak item, for example, can only be learned from looting the schematic off of random creatures. Another, the Stabilized Eternium Scope, is only available as a drop from Attumen the Huntsman, one of the bosses in Karazhan. These drops are often bind on pickup, meaning you can’t sell or buy them on the auction house or trade them.

Faction Reward Schematics
There are a few schematics that can only be purchased when you are friendly, honored, revered, or exalted with certain factions. Some are really no longer necessary or useful. However, two of the most important faction schematics that were introduced in Wrath of the Lich King are the Mechano-hog (Horde only) and the Mekgineer’s Chopper (Alliance only). These allow engineers to craft the very expensive motorcycle vehicles.

Specializing
Engineers can specialize in either gnome engineering or goblin engineering. By specializing in one, you cannot make the schematics that are only available to the other specialization. Which specialization you choose depends on which items you think you’d use more. Gnome engineers can make items like the X-Ray Specs, Transporters, and the Gnomish World Enlarger, while goblins can create things such as the Goblin Dragon Gun, the Super Sapper Charge, and the Foreman’s Enchanted Helmet.

Useful Items
No engineering leveling guide is complete without outlining some of the most useful engineering schematics. While items like guns and scopes may be useful for some classes, they will not be helpful for engineering warlocks or priests. However, there are some useful schematics that are usable by anyone.

All classes can make use of the special goggles that engineers can make, and these goggles are often better than other headpieces available at the same level.

Bombs can be used to blast open locked doors if there’s no rogue around to pick the lock.

MOLL-E allows engineers to summon a mailbox no matter where they are.

The Wormhole Generator can transport engineers around Northrend, although it occasionally malfunctions.

The Gnomish Army Knife is a great item for anyone and can be used by non-engineers. It combines the skinning knife, mining pick, blacksmith hammer, arclight spanner, and the gyromatic micro-adjuster. Engineers can also use it to try to resurrect a dead player.

The Jeeves schematic allows engineers to build and summon a mechanical robot butler. Jeeves will allow engineer to access their bank and allows all players to buy reagents, sell items, and repair their equipment.

Vehicles
There are three different vehicles that can be created via engineering. The first two are engineer only. At skill level 350, engineers can learn how to create the Flying Machine Control, an item that lets them summon a flying helicopter to use as a mount in Outland and Northrend. To use it, players must have learned the expert riding skill.

At skill level 375 and with the artisan riding skill, engineers can replace their Flying Machine Control with the Turbo-Charged Flying Machine Control, an item that summons a very fast epic-quality flying mount. Again, this is an engineering only mount.

The last type of mount is the motorcycle, the Mechano-hog for the Horde and the Mekgineer’s Chopper for the Alliance. This vehicle can be used by non-engineers, although only engineers can purchase the items required. This is one of the most expensive mounts in the game—the materials that must be purchased from venders alone cost 12,500 gold, and that’s not including the 12 titansteel bars or the other materials. However, the motorcycle is currently one of the few mounts in the game that can carry a passenger in addition to the driver. This and the fact that it’s the only engineering mount useable by non-engineers make it a very popular mount despite the cost. That is all what I wanted to tell in my WoW engineering guide. Good luck.