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Engineering is a primary crafting profession that can create as many useful and amazing items as it can create junk. Engineers can create helpful items for generally all classes to be used in PVE or PVP. To counterbalance this usefulness, most items crafted by engineering require engineering skill to use, and many of these items come with a chance for unexpected backfires with often hilarious results. Hunters in particular see much use for engineered guns, bullets, arrows, and scopes.

The most notable of the Engineering Profession Recipes, known from now on as Schematics, are the [Field Repair Bot 74A] or [Field Repair Bot 110G], and the [Goblin Jumper Cables], [Goblin Jumper Cables XL] or [Gnomish Army Knife]. The cables can be sold for quite a large sum of money, and the former two are a must for longer raids. Another notable recipes are the various epic goggles (headpieces), which can be equipped as level 62 (BC) or 72 (Wrath), but are the same item level as end game loot.

As of patch 2.2 Engineering is an open profession with items useful for many classes, most notably Hunters, Rogues, Mages, Priests, Paladins, and Warlocks. [citation needed]

For the Alliance faction: Gnomes benefit from a +15 Racial Bonus to their Engineering skill.

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Companion Skills

By far the best option for your second Primary skill is Mining. The vast majority of the materials you need for Engineering recipes are acquired through mining. The only other profession that might be mildly beneficial is Skinning, since a small number of engineering recipes use leather.

Note: If you have an Alt with the Mining profession (such as a blacksmith), and that character can pass materials to your engineer, then the jewelcrafting profession would be a good secondary profession. This is primarily because most engineering items only require skill in engineering and are not level dependent and the engineering skill can be rapidly advanced by making blasting powder, dynamite, and bombs for personal use. Thus, low-level characters can equip themselves with powerful engineering gear, making leveling faster and easier. This also gives such engineers a distinct advantage in low level battlegrounds (such as Warsong Gulch) as they will be far better equipment than comparable non-engineers. Jewelcrafting can then be used with the same basic materials to craft early rings, amulets, and trinkets - making the character with this combination even more powerful. Draenei and Blood Elves have the advantage of starting in an area where both of these skills can be readily trained. Taurens, Humans, Dwarves, and Gnomes may need an escort to get to the transports needed to make the trip. All other races can fairly readily make the trip to the necessary cities for jewelcrafting training without much risk.

Schematics

Schematics are learned mostly via trainers all over Azeroth and Outland, but more recipes can be taught by schematics sold by vendors than any other profession. A large amount of these recipes can be found near Shattrath or from assorted Consortium vendors.

Specialization

Engineering, like Tailoring and Blacksmithing, has the opportunity to specialize in one field or another. Engineering has the option at skill level 200 to specialize in Gnomish or Goblin Engineering. The main difference between both sides is the location of their respective teleporters and the ability of their trinkets. Some items require a specific specialization to use, while other items are crafted by one specialization but are usable by any engineer. Fortunately, most recipes that are crafted by one Specialization can be worn by both, namely [Goblin Jumper Cables XL].

Specialization recipe comparison

Gnomish engineering Goblin Engineering
Transporters

Recipe

Trinkets

Explosives

Headgear

Transporters

Recipe

Trinkets

Explosives

Headgear

For more information read the respective pages for Gnomish and Goblin Engineering.

All in all, both Engineering disciplines are useful and fun. Some believe various Engineering gadgets, such as the [Goblin Rocket Launcher] or [Gnomish Poultryizer], are excellent for use in PvP given their crowd control potential and stamina boost. That being said, many people don't take Engineering until they reach max level and have ample gold saved because of the fairly steep expense involved in leveling it.

Switching specializations

Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Gnomish Engineers and Goblin Engineers can now switch profession specializations for a fee.

Details[1]
  • Read the book Soothsaying for Dummies which is on a table in Neutral [45] Narain Soothfancy's house. He lives in the northern part of Steamwheedle Port, on the northern coast of Tanaris (western continent of Kalimdor, Azeroth). Pay the 150g fee to unlearn your current specialization.
  • To learn another (or the same) specialization, two different techniques seem to be needed, for different players. One is to read the above book a second time and you will be offered a choice. The second is to do the quest sequence (beginning in Ratchet) for the specialization you desire.
  • Note: as of Patch 3.1,  [Schematic: Lil' Smoky] and  [Schematic: Pet Bombling] are no longer membership-renewal rewards. Instead they are drops from Gnomeregan mobs. These schematics are not specialized; all engineers (with suitable skill level) can learn both!


History in the World of Warcraft

Patch 2.1

In Patch 2.1.0 came a major overhaul to the Engineering Profession to increase the usefulness of the profession. Among other changes, Blizzard created 11 Epic Helm Schematics, [Frost Grenade], and an Epic Gun - [Gyro-balanced Khorium Destroyer].

These Schematics are available from faction Grand Master Engineering Trainers.

Engineering skill 350 is not the only pre-requisite: Depending on your class you may craft some (but not all) of these goggles. For example a Paladin can make all 3 plate options but none of the cloth, leather or mail ones. However below is a listing of Epic Head items that can be created at 350 Engineering skill between the classes:

  1. [Tankatronic Goggles] - Plate - Tanking Warriors/Paladins
  2. [Justicebringer 2000 Specs] - Plate - Healing Paladins
  3. [Furious Gizmatic Goggles] - Plate - Retribution Paladins/DPS Warriors
  4. [Living Replicator Specs] - Mail - Restoration Shamans
  5. [Surestrike Goggles v2.0] - Mail - Hunters/Enhancement Shamans
  6. [Gadgetstorm Goggles] - Mail - Elemental Shamans
  7. [Magnified Moon Specs] - Leather - Balance Druids
  8. [Wonderheal XT40 Shades] - Leather - Restoration Druids
  9. [Deathblow X11 Goggles] - Leather - Rogues/Feral-Cat Form Druids
  10. [Powerheal 4000 Lens] - Cloth - Healing Priests
  11. [Destruction Holo-gogs] - Cloth - Mages/Warlocks/Shadow Priests

With these adjustments, the Profession was reborn into an attractive alternative since all 11 helms are comparable to Tier 5. These goggles can be equipped at level 62.

Patch 2.3

Some notable changes in Patch 2.3.0 include:

Source and full notes: http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_2.3#Professions

Patch 2.4

As of Patch 2.4.0 every epic helm schematic added in 2.1 may now benefit from upgrades. The engineering schematics drop from Sunwell Plateau trash mobs and do not BoP.

Additionally all Patch 2.1.0 epic helm Schematics now require level 62.

The Schematics require 375 to learn. Below is a listing of the items that can be equipped with 350 Engineering skill at level 70:

  1. [Tankatronic Goggles] → [Hard Khorium Goggles] ([Schematic: Hard Khorium Goggles])
  2. [Justicebringer 2000 Specs] → [Justicebringer 3000 Specs]
  3. [Furious Gizmatic Goggles] → [Mayhem Projection Goggles]
  4. [Living Replicator Specs] → [Primal-Attuned Goggles]
  5. [Surestrike Goggles v2.0] → [Surestrike Goggles v3.0]
  6. [Gadgetstorm Goggles] → [Lightning Etched Specs]
  7. [Magnified Moon Specs] → [Hyper-Magnified Moon Specs]
  8. [Wonderheal XT40 Shades] → [Wonderheal XT68 Shades]
  9. [Deathblow X11 Goggles] → [Quad Deathblow X44 Goggles]
  10. [Powerheal 4000 Lens] → [Powerheal 9000 Lens]
  11. [Destruction Holo-gogs] → [Annihilator Holo-Gogs]

Wrath of the Lich King

The big Engineering news in WotLK is obviously the motorcycles, the [Mekgineer's Chopper] for the Alliance and the [Mechano-hog] for the Horde. Despite their expensive materials, they are nonetheless popular. There are also many new devices for Engineers to tinker with.

With the expansion there is a new set of engineering helmets.

  1. [Armored Titanium Goggles]
  2. [Charged Titanium Specs]
  3. [Unbreakable Healing Amplifiers]
  4. [Electroflux Sight Enhancers]
  5. [Truesight Ice Blinders]
  6. [Weakness Spectralizers]
  7. [Greensight Gogs]
  8. [Visage Liquification Goggles]


There are new Engineer-only trinkets:

There are also several devices which can be integrated into an engineer's own equipment, essentially being Engineer-only enchants:

Gloves
Belt
Cloak
Boots
  • [Nitro Boosts] - 2 sec speed boost every 3 minutes. 2 seconds may sound small and useless, but the boost speed is 150% and for non-melee classes (Hunters and mages for example) these may give a excellent way to get some range to the enemy.

Note that these cannot be put onto item presented in a trade window. While they can be put on BoE items, they offer no benefit to non-engineers (or Engineers who have not met the required skill level), so a market for them would be limited.

Also, many of these share cooldowns with other DPS burst abilities.

Patch 3.1.0

As of Patch 3.1.0 more new tinkers were added for the classes which recieved no previous 'buff' from engineering.
On certain items +statistics were added to compensate for the inferiority to regular enchants.

Boots
  • [Nitro Boosts] - 5 sec speed boost every 3 minutes with +24 critical strike rating.
Cloak
Gloves

A new trinket was also added for level 49+ which added hit and a beam of light (much like [Elune Stone])

Patch 3.2.0

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As of Patch 3.2.0 more buffs and changes to tinkers were done.
On certain items +statistics were added to compensate for the inferiority to regular enchants.

Engineering Exclusive Small Pets

Two engineer-crafted small pets, Lil' Smoky and Pet Bombling, are bind on pickup and therefore exclusively learned by engineers. However the spells that they teach do not require engineering, so it is possible to retain use of the pets after dropping the profession.

The recipes for these pets were also formerly specialty-specific - Lil' Smoky for Gnomish Engineering and Pet Bombling for Goblin Engineering. However, both recipes are now obtainable by all engineers as loot in Gnomeregan. [Schematic: Lil' Smoky] is dropped by several mechanical NPCs, including Arcane Nullifier X-21, Peacekeeper Security Suit and Crowd Pummeler 9-60. [Schematic: Pet Bombling] drops from Mekgineer Thermaplug at a very high, perhaps 100%, rate.

In Warcraft RPG

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft RPG.

Engineers in Warcraft

See also

References

  1. ^ 0. Switching Specializations 07/17/2007 09:23:45 PM PDT by Bindar

External links

For leveling guides please visit Tradeskill leveling guides


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