WoW Classic Engineering

WoW Classic Engineering Guide

Engineering is one of the primary professions in WoW Classic. Our Engineering leveling guide provides a focused and efficient path to leveling Engineering from 1 to 300 in in World of Warcraft Classic Era, Hardcore, and the 20th Anniversary Edition (aka WoW Classic Fresh). It outlines the most cost-effective recipes while minimizing downtime and maximizing skill-ups. Follow this WoW Classic Engineering guide to quickly reach max Engineering skill.

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📅 Last updated on March 12, 2025.

WoW Classic Engineering Leveling 1-300

To level Engineering efficiently in WoW Classic you need to craft the right items at the right skill level. We’ve broken down the leveling journey into 4 brackets, to help you navigate through our Engineering 1-300 leveling guide.

Leveling Engineering from 1-75 (Apprentice)

Craft the following items to level Engineering from 1-75 in WoW Classic Era, Hardcore, or Fresh:

  • 1-30: 60x Rough Blasting Powder Rough Blasting Powderyou’ll need these later.
    • Total items required: 60x Rough Stone Rough Stone.
  • 30-50: 30x Handful of Copper Bolts Handful of Copper Boltsyou’ll need these later.
    • Total items required: 30x Copper Bar Copper Bar.
  • 50-51: 1x Arclight Spanner Arclight Spanner – tool required for many Engineering recipes.
    • Total items required: 6x Copper Bar Copper Bar.
    • Check the auction house before crafting. You can often buy Arclight Spanner Arclight Spanner below the crafting cost.
  • 51-75: 30x Rough Copper Bomb Rough Copper Bomb
    • Total items required: 60x Rough Blasting Powder Rough Blasting Powder, 30x Handful of Copper Bolts Handful of Copper Bolts, 30x Copper Bar Copper Bar, 30x Linen Cloth Linen Cloth.

Learn Journeyman Engineering (requires character level 10) from an Engineering trainer in any major city. It costs 5 Silver. This allows you to level Engineering up to 150.

Leveling Engineering from 75-150 (Journeyman)

Craft the following items to level Engineering from 75-150 in WoW Classic Era, Hardcore, or Fresh:

  • 75-90: 60x Coarse Blasting Powder Coarse Blasting Powderyou’ll need these later.
    • Total items required: 60x Coarse Stone Coarse Stone.
  • 90-100: 20x Coarse Dynamite Coarse Dynamite
    • Total items required: 60x Coarse Blasting Powder Coarse Blasting Powder, 20x Linen Cloth Linen Cloth.
  • 100-105: 5x Silver Contact Silver Contact
    • Total items required: 5x Silver Bar Silver Bar.
  • 105-125: 25x Bronze Tube Bronze Tubeyou’ll need these later.
    • Total items required: 50x Bronze Bar Bronze Bar, 25x Weak Flux Weak Flux. You can buy Weak Flux Weak Flux from vendors.
    • Alliance If you play Alliance, you can usually craft Bronze Tube Bronze Tube with profit since they are required for the quest QuestLook To The Stars. Craft and sell Bronze Tube Bronze Tube until they turn green or even gray. In this case, skip Standard Scope Standard Scope as much as possible.
  • 125-135: 10x Standard Scope Standard Scope
    • Total items required: 10x Bronze Tube Bronze Tube, 10x Moss Agate Moss Agate.
    • Compare the auction house prices with Heavy Stone Heavy Stone. Craft Heavy Blasting Powder Heavy Blasting Powder instead, if Heavy Stone Heavy Stone is cheaper and Standard Scope Standard Scope is not sought after.
  • 135-150:
    • 30x Heavy Blasting Powder Heavy Blasting Powderyou’ll need these later.
      • Total items required: 30x Heavy Stone Heavy Stone.
    • 15x Whirring Bronze Gizmo Whirring Bronze Gizmoyou’ll need these later.
      • Total items required: 30x Bronze Bar Bronze Bar, 15x Wool Cloth Wool Cloth.

Learn Expert Engineering (requires character level 20) from an Artisan Engineering trainer. It costs 50 Silver. This allows you to level Engineering up to 225. These are the available Artisan Engineers in WoW Classic:

  • Alliance Springspindle Fizzlegear at Tinker Town in Ironforge (68.6 44.2).
  • Horde Roxxik in The Valley of Honor in Orgrimmar (76.0 25.0).

Leveling Engineering from 150-215 (Expert)

Craft the following items to level Engineering from 150-215 in WoW Classic Era, Hardcore, or Fresh:

  • 150-160: 15x Bronze Framework Bronze Frameworkyou’ll need these later.
    • Total items required: 30x Bronze Bar Bronze Bar, 15x Medium Leather Medium Leather, 15x Wool Cloth Wool Cloth.
    • You can sell Bronze Framework Bronze Framework to a vendor for 6 Silver. Craft this to at least 180, if the required mats cost less than 6 Silver at the auction house.
  • 160-170: 10x Explosive Sheep Explosive Sheep – keep 5 if you want to be a Goblin engineer.
    • Total items required: 10x Bronze Framework Bronze Framework, 10x Whirring Bronze Gizmo Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 20x Heavy Blasting Powder Heavy Blasting Powder, 20x Wool Cloth Wool Cloth.
  • 170-175: 5x Gyrochronatom Gyrochronatom.
    • Total items required: 5x Iron Bar Iron Bar, 5x Gold Power Core Gold Power Core.
    • Check the auction house for Gold Power Core Gold Power Core. Buy Gold Power Core Gold Power Core, if you can buy 3 for less than the value of 1 Gold Bar Gold Bar. Otherwise craft them yourself.
    • Craft Gyrochronatom Gyrochronatom till the recipe turns green or even gray, if you can craft Gyrochronatom Gyrochronatom with profit. Gyrochronatom Gyrochronatom is required in many other recipes and is quite often profitable if you sell them at the auction house.
  • 175-176: 1x Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor – tool required for many Engineering recipes.
    • Total items required: 4x Steel Bar Steel Bar.
    • Check the auction house before crafting. You can often buy Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor cheaper than the crafting cost.
  • 176-195: 60x Solid Blasting Powder Solid Blasting Powderyou’ll need these later.
    • Total items required: 120x Solid Stone Solid Stone.
  • 195-200: 7x Mithril Tube Mithril Tube – keep 6 if you want to be a Gnomish engineer.
    • Total items required: 21x Mithril Bar Mithril Bar.
  • 200-215: 20x Unstable Trigger Unstable Triggeryou’ll need these later.
    • Total items required: 20x Mithril Bar Mithril Bar, 20x Mageweave Cloth Mageweave Cloth, 20x Solid Blasting Powder Solid Blasting Powder.

Learn Artisan Engineering (requires level 35) from an Master Engineering trainer. It costs 5 Gold. This allows you to level Engineering up to 300. These are the available Master Engineers in WoW Classic:

  • Buzzek Bracketswing in Gadgetzan in Tanaris (52.2 27.6).

Leveling Engineering from 215-300 (Artisan)

Craft the following items to level Engineering from 215-300 in WoW Classic Era, Hardcore, or Fresh:

  • 215-238: 40x Mithril Casing Mithril Casingyou’ll need these later.
    • Total items required: 120x Mithril Bar Mithril Bar.
  • 238-250: 20x Hi-Explosive Bomb Hi-Explosive Bomb.
    • Total items required: 40x Mithril Casing Mithril Casing, 20x Unstable Trigger Unstable Trigger, 40x Solid Blasting Powder Solid Blasting Powder.
  • 250-260: 30x Dense Blasting Powder Dense Blasting Powder (turns green at 255, you might need a few more).
    • Total items required: 60x Dense Stone Dense Stone.
  • 260-285: 35x Thorium Widget Thorium Widget
    • Total items required: 105x Thorium Bar Thorium Bar, 35x Runecloth Runecloth.
    • Schematic: Thorium Widget Schematic: Thorium Widget can be purchased from Alliance Gearcutter Cogspinner in Ironforge (68.2 44.0) or Horde Sovik in Orgrimmar (75.6 25.2).
  • 285-300: 20x Thorium Tube Thorium Tube
    • Total items required: 120x Thorium Bar Thorium Bar
    • Schematic: Thorium Tube Schematic: Thorium Tube can be purchased from Xizzer Fizzbolt in Winterspring (60.8 38.6).

You have now reached the maximum level for Engineering in WoW Classic.

Engineering Specializations in WoW Classic

Once you reach skill level 200 in Engineering and your character reaches level 30, you can optionally choose a specialization. The following two specializations are available:

Your chosen specialization allows you to craft unique items that are not available to players with the other specialization. No matter which specialization you choose, it does not influence this leveling guide, as no specialization-specific recipes are used here.

Important to note: In WoW Classic you cannot simply change your specialization later. To do this, you would have to completely unlearn Engineering and relearn the profession from scratch.

To unlock one of the Engineering specializations, follow these steps:

How to Unlock Gnomish Engineering

  1. Pick up the quest Alliance QuestGnome Engineering | Horde QuestGnome Engineering from one of the following Engineering trainers:
    • Alliance Lilliam Sparkspindle in the Dwarven District in Stormwind (55.0 8.6)
    • Alliance Springspindle Fizzlegear in Tinker Town in Ironforge (68.6 44.2)
    • Horde Graham Van Talen in the Rogue’s Quarter in Undercity (75.6 73.6)
    • Tinkerwiz in Ratchet in The Barrens (62.6 36.2)
  2. Follow the quest chain in which you have to deliver the following items:
    • 6x Mithril Tube Mithril Tube (taught by Engineering trainers)
    • 1x Accurate Scope Accurate Scope (recipe e.g. sold by Mazk Snipeshot in Booty Bay (28.4 75.0))
    • 2x Advanced Target Dummy Advanced Target Dummy (taught by Engineering trainers)

How to Unlock Goblin Engineering

  1. Pick up the quest Alliance QuestGoblin Engineering | Horde QuestGoblin Engineering from one of the following Engineering trainers:
    • Alliance Lilliam Sparkspindle in the Dwarven District in Stormwind (55.0 8.6)
    • Alliance Springspindle Fizzlegear in Tinker Town in Ironforge (68.6 44.2)
    • Horde Graham Van Talen in the Rogue’s Quarter in Undercity (75.6 73.6)
    • Tinkerwiz in Ratchet in The Barrens (62.6 36.2)
  2. Follow the quest chain in which you have to deliver the following items:
    • 20x Big Iron Bomb Big Iron Bomb (taught by Engineering trainers)
    • 20x Solid Dynamite Solid Dynamite (taught by Engineering trainers)
    • 5x Explosive Sheep Explosive Sheep (taught by Engineering trainers)

What is the Best Engineering Specialization?

Both Engineering specializations in WoW Classic provide their benefits.

  1. Gnome Engineering provides two gadgets that are bind-on-pickup (BoP). These gadgets are Gnomish Death Ray Gnomish Death Ray and Gnomish Battle Chicken Gnomish Battle Chicken. BoP means you can not buy these two items from other players. If you want these items, you have to learn Gnomish Engineering and craft them yourself.
  2. Goblin Engineering allows you to craft Goblin Sapper Charge Goblin Sapper Charge yourself. This can be a good gold maker or at least save you gold, in case you’re using Goblin Sapper Charge Goblin Sapper Charge regularly.

To maximize your character it is often recommended to level Gnomish Engineering first. Craft the 2 BoP items and then unlearn Engineering. Start to level Engineering fresh from level 1 and then go for Goblin Engineering. You will be able to use all the Gnomish devices you’ve crafted earlier. Additionally, you can craft Goblin recipes like Goblin Sapper Charge Goblin Sapper Charge yourself.

Stay with your Gnomish Engineering specialization, if you don’t need to be able to craft Goblin Sapper Charge Goblin Sapper Charge on this character. This might be the case if you don’t use Goblin Sapper Charge Goblin Sapper Charge or you have a second character who can craft them already.

WoW Classic Engineering Trainers

You can learn Apprentice and Journeyman Engineering in WoW Classic from Engineering trainers. You’ll find these trainers in the capital cities. Once your character has reached at least level 5, you can go to one of the following Engineering trainers to learn the profession:

Horde Horde Engineering Trainers

  • Thund in the Valley of Honor in Orgrimmar (75.8 24.6)
  • Graham Van Talen in the Rogues’ Quarter in Undercity (75.6 73.6)
  • Mukdrak in Razor Hill in Durotar (52.2 40.8)

Alliance Alliance Engineering Trainers

  • Sprite Jumpsprocket in the Dwarven District in Stormwind (54.8 8.8)
  • Jemma Quikswitch in Tinker Town in Ironforge (67.8 43.8)
  • Jenna Lemkenilli in Auberdine in Darkshore (38.2 41.0)

To learn Engineering from 150 to 225 you need to talk to an Artisan Engineer. Depending on your faction, these are the available trainers:

To learn Engineering from 225 to 300 you need to talk to the following Master Engineer: