Engineering Leveling Guide for TBC Anniversary

Engineering Leveling Guide for TBC Anniversary Quick Summary:

• Great profession for PvP players
• Quite expensive to level up if you have no prepared materials
• Guide includes a full shopping list as well as a leveling path, focusing on minimizing the expenses.
• Explanation of differences between Gnomish and Goblin Engineering specializations.

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TBC Classic Anniversary Engineering Overview

Let’s start with a brief TBC Classic Anniversary Engineering overview. Engineering is a profession that aims to excel at one thing. This thing is PvP. With a plethora of various gadgets, such as bombs, trinkets, scopes, and other tools that help you in this content, you’ll have an upper hand over everybody else in the arenas. If this is your goal, then choosing Engineering is a no-brainer. Engineering also has two specializations that push your potential even further:

• Gnomish: Gnomish engineering specialises in utility. Includes such items as Gnomish Death Ray, Gnomish Battle Chicken, and Gnomish Goggles.
• Goblin: This engineering focuses on creating explosives. Popular items are the Goblin Construction Helmet and the Goblin Sapper Charge.

To get either of these, you’ll need to complete their respective quests. They are both quite good, but if you level your profession specifically for monetary gain, Goblin is the best specialization for Engineering in TBC. I personally prefer Gnomish, cause you can pop the Battle Chicken at the beginning of the combat and then switch to another trinket, doubling your effectiveness. I also just use Zapthrottle Mote Extractor to make money, so Goblin spec isn’t something I consider all that useful for myself.

If you’re still thinking if you should try this profession, look at its pros and cons:

Pros

• Amazing Situational Items: Arcane Bomb, Force Reactive Disk, Field Repair Bot 74A, Powerful Seaforium Charge - all of these make Engineering a top profession.
• Preparation Saves Money: If you have all the materials prepared, this is a pretty cheap and fast profession to level.
• Decent Money Maker in TBC: Before TBC, Engineering wasn’t that profitable, but with the introduction of a Turbo-Charged Flying Machine in TBC that changed.

Cons

• Expensive Mats: If you haven’t prepared the materials beforehand, expect to waste a small fortune. Or a big fortune, even.
• Crafting Popular Items is Expensive: Basically, what it says. To craft a Turbo-Charged Flying Machine, you need rare and expensive mats. Lots of them, if you want to sell well.
• Purely PvP: There are few to no items that are actually useful in PvE. If you’re mainly a PvE player, this profession isn’t for you.

To sum up our overview of the class, let’s take a quick glance at the class that works with Engineering perfectly. The best class for Engineering in TBC Anniversary that profits most from maining it is the Hunter. It synergizes best with Engineering, allowing them to create guns and scopes. A self-sustaining PvP machine, if you will. While other classes benefit from Engineering to some extent, none stand out like Hunter. Especially a Gnome Hunter. Gnome is TBC Classic Anniversary best race for Engineering. That’s because they get a racial skill called Engineering Specialization. Very subtle. It gives them a +15 bonus to the Engineering skill. They’re an obvious choice if you want an Engineer character. Now that this introduction is finished, let’s cover the shopping list and the leveling. BLOG20

TBC Anniversary Engineering Leveling Guide

With the right materials, getting to level 300 doesn’t take that long, like an hour or so is an average time, minus all the traversal. While you can use Engineering with other professions, I strongly recommend Mining. If you don’t want to go broke from buying tons of expensive materials, consider it. Below, we’ll go over the shopping list of all the needed materials, as well as the upgrade paths 1-300 and 300-375 for TBC leveling. Let’s start with the TBC Classic Anniversary Engineering shopping list:

Materials	Amount	Where to Farm
Rough Stone	60	Drops from Copper Veins. Best zones: Elwynn Forest, Durotar, Dun Morogh, Tirisfal Glades.
Copper Bar	66	Smelted from Copper Ore. Farm Copper Ore in: Elwynn Forest, Durotar, Mulgore, Dun Morogh.
Coarse Stone	60	Drops from Tin Veins. Best zones: Hillsbrad Foothills, The Barrens, Loch Modan
Linen Cloth	50	Drops from low-level humanoids. Best zones: Westfall, Silverpine Forest, The Barrens.
Silver Bar	5	Smelted from Silver Ore. Silver spawns as rare nodes in: Hillsbrad Foothills, Arathi Highlands, The Barrens.
Bronze Bar	110	Smelted from Copper Bar and Tin Bar. Farm Copper and Tin in: Hillsbrad Foothills, Wetlands, The Barrens.
Weak Flux	25	Purchased from Trade Supplies vendors. Cost is very low and unlimited stock.
Moss Agate	10	Rare drop from Iron Ore nodes. Best zones: Arathi Highlands, Desolace, Alterac Mountains.
Heavy Stone	30	Drops from Iron Veins. Best zones: Arathi Highlands, Alterac Mountains, Desolace.
Wool Cloth	60	Drops from mid-level humanoids. Best zones: Hillsbrad Foothills, Scarlet Monastery, Alterac Mountains.
Medium Leather	15	Skinned from level 20-30 beasts. Best zones: Wetlands, Hillsbrad Foothills, Thousand Needles.
Steel Bar	4	Crafted via Blacksmithing from an Iron Bar and Coal. Farm Iron Ore in: Arathi Highlands, Desolace, Badlands.
Solid Stone	120	Drops from Mithril Veins. Best zones: Badlands, Searing Gorge, Tanaris.
Mithril Bar	170	Smelted from Mithril Ore. Farm in: Badlands, Tanaris, Hinterlands.
Mageweave Cloth	20	Drops from level 40-50 humanoids. Best zones: Tanaris, Zul’Farrak, Hinterlands.
Dense Stone	60	Drops from Thorium Veins. Best zones: Winterspring, Eastern Plaguelands, Silithus.
Thorium Bar	135	Smelted from Thorium Ore. Farm in: Winterspring, Eastern Plaguelands, Burning Steppes.
Runecloth	35	Drops from level 50-60 humanoids. Best zones: Western Plaguelands, Eastern Plaguelands, Blackrock Spire.

As for the levels 300-375 of TBC Engineering leveling, the shopping list is like this:

Materials	Amount	Where to Farm
Fel Iron Bar	270	Smelted from Fel Iron Ore. Farm Fel Iron Veins in: Hellfire Peninsula, Zangarmarsh, Terokkar Forest.
Mote of Earth	40	Dropped by earth elementals. Best zones: Nagrand, Shadowmoon Valley, Blade’s Edge Mountains.
Mote of Fire	20	Dropped by fire elementals. Best zones: Hellfire Peninsula, Shadowmoon Valley, Blade’s Edge Mountains.
Primal Earth	30	Created by combining 10 Motes of Earth.
Netherweave Cloth	70	Dropped by Outland humanoids. Best zones: Hellfire Peninsula, Shadowmoon Valley, Netherstorm.
Adamantite Bar	160	Smelted from Adamantite Ore. Farm Adamantite Veins in: Nagrand, Shadowmoon Valley, Blade’s Edge Mountains.
Khorium Bar	15	Smelted from Khorium Ore. Khorium spawns rarely and replaces Adamantite nodes. Best zones: Nagrand, Netherstorm, Shadowmoon Valley.
Primal Fire	5	Created by combining 10 Motes of Fire.

The number of materials above is average. Depending on your luck, you may have leftovers, or, on the contrary, need a little more. 

With all materials gathered, you can now move straight into the Engineering leveling. Having every bar, cloth, and element ready removes tedious grind and prevents skill gaps caused by missing components. The sections below walk through each skill bracket step by step, showing exactly what to craft, when to switch recipes, and how to move efficiently from 1 to 375 without unnecessary backtracking or wasted materials. Here’s the TBC Anniversary Engineering leveling guide:

Levels	Recipe	Materials
1-30	Rough Blasting Powder x60	Rough Stone x60
30-50	Handful of Copper Bolts x30	Copper Bar x30
50-51	Arclight Spanner x1	Copper Bar x6
51-75	Rough Copper Bomb x30	Copper Bar x30, Handful of Copper Bolts x30, Rough Blasting Powder x60, Linen Cloth x30
75-95	Coarse Blasting Powder x45	Coarse Stone x45
95-100	Coarse Dynamite x15	Coarse Blasting Powder x45, Linen Cloth x15
100-105	Silver Contact x5	Silver Bar x5
105-125	Bronze Tube x30	Bronze Bar x60, Weak Flux x30
125-140	Heavy Blasting Powder x30	Heavy Stone x30
140-150	Whirring Bronze Gizmo x15	Bronze Bar x30, Wool Cloth x15
150-160	Bronze Framework x15	Bronze Bar x30, Medium Leather x15, Wool Cloth x15
160-175	Explosive Sheep x15	Bronze Framework x15, Whirring Bronze Gizmo x15, Heavy Blasting Powder x30, Wool Cloth x30
175-176	Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor x1	Steel Bar x4
176-195	Solid Blasting Powder x60	Solid Stone x120
195-200	Mithril Tube x7	Mithril Bar x21
200-215	Unstable Trigger x20	Mithril Bar x20, Mageweave Cloth x20, Solid Blasting Powder x20
215-235	Mithril Casing x40	Mithril Bar x120
235-250	Hi-Explosive Bomb x20	Mithril Casing x40, Unstable Trigger x20, Solid Blasting Powder x40
250-260	Dense Blasting Powder x30	Dense Stone x60
260-285	Thorium Widget x30	Thorium Bar x90, Runecloth x30
285-300	Thorium Shells x18	Thorium Bar x36, Dense Blasting Powder x18

For levels 260-285, you will need to buy a Schematic: Thorium Widget first. You can purchase it from Gearcutter Cogspinner in Ironforge or Sovik in Orgrimmar. You’ll also need to learn Thorium Shells, but their schematics are a world drop. Though other guides recommend making Thorium Tubes if you can’t access Shells, I recommend focusing on getting them, as they’re a big boost to any Hunter’s damage, plus you can sell them, unlike most other items that can be of interest only to other Engineers. Schematics: Thorium Tubes drops the best in Blackrock Depths, Scholomance, Stratholme & Dire Maul. Now let’s move on to TBC Anniversary Engineering leveling 300-375:

Levels	Recipe	Materials
300–320	Handful of Fel Iron Bolts x114	Fel Iron Bar x114
300–320	Fel Iron Casing x52	Fel Iron Bar x156
300–320	Elemental Blasting Powder x17	Mote of Fire x17, Mote of Earth x34
320–325	Fel Iron Bomb x7	Fel Iron Casing x7, Handful of Fel Iron Bolts x14, Elemental Blasting Powder x7
325–335	Adamantite Frame x30	Adamantite Bar x120, Primal Earth x30
335–355	White Smoke Flare x61	Elemental Blasting Powder x61, Netherweave Cloth x61
355–360	Khorium Power Core x5	Khorium Bar x15, Primal Fire x5
360–370	Adamantite Rifle x15	Fel Iron Casing x45, Adamantite Frame x30, Handful of Fel Iron Bolts x60
370–375	Field Repair Bot 110G x5	Adamantite Bar x40, Handful of Fel Iron Bolts x40, Khorium Power Core x5

TBC levels are pretty straightforward, albeit even more costly. As I mentioned before, some of the items may require you to craft more or fewer of them to increase your level. Schematic: White Smoke Flare and Schematic: Adamantite Rifle should be purchased beforehand. You can purchase the first one from Wind Trader Lathrai, and the second one from Viggz Shinesparked, both in Shattrath City.

 

TBC Classic Anniversary Engineering Trainers

With an important change in TBC, you don’t need to look for different trainers to teach you different levels of Engineering. Now, any one of them can do that. Below, I’ll provide a list of all trainers who can teach you from Apprentice to Artisan level. Here are all TBC Classic Anniversary Engineering trainers:

Alliance

Bronk Guzzlegear: 1-300

Deek Fizzlebizz: 1-300

Jemma Quikswitch: 1-300

Jenna Lemkenilli: 1-300

Lee Smallfry: 300-375

Lebowski: 300-375. Teaches Schematics for Goggles.

Lilliam Sparkspindle: 1-300

Niobe Whizzlespark: 300-375. Teaches Schematics for Flying Machines.

Ockil: 1-300

Springspindle Fizzlegear: 1-300. Gives Gnomish Engineer quests

Sprite Jumpsprocket: 1-300

Trixie Quikswitch: 1-300

Horde

Danwe: 1-300

Franklin Lloyd: 1-300

Graham Van Talen: 1-300

Jonathan Garrett: 300-375. Teaches Schematics for Flying Machines.

Mack Diver: 300-375

Mukdrak: 1-300

Nogg: 1-300

Roxxik: 1-300

Thund: 1-300

Twizwick Sprocketgrind: 1-300

Zebig: 300-375. Teaches Schematics for Goggles.

Neutral

Buzzek Bracketswing: 1-300

Tinkerwiz: 1-300

Xyrol: 300-375

The change to the trainers is more than welcome, as remembering the location of each specific trainer for your level of the profession was immersive, yet such a bother. Sometimes, it’s better to be convenient than realistic.

Gnomish vs Goblin Engineering Specializations

Engineering is among the professions that have specializations. It’s not as boring and straightforward as something like Alchemy specializations, because it gives you different Schematics according to what spec you choose. As with all specializations, you’ll need to finish the questline in order to get a chosen mastery. Below, I’ll provide an explanation on how to get TBC Classic Anniversary Engineering specializations.

Gnomish Engineering Specialization

First, you need to pick up the Gnome Engineering quest from Springspindle Fizzlegear for Alliance, or Tinkerwiz for Horde. Then you need to go to Tinkmaster Overspark or Oglethorpe Obnoticus for Alliance and Horde, respectively. Talk to them, and they’ll give you the quest called The Pledge of Secrecy. Click on the Overspark’s Pledge of Secrecy to complete the quest and accept the Show Your Work quest. In it, you’ll need to deliver the following items:

• Mithril Tube x6
• Accurate Scope
• Advanced Target Dummy x2

After that, the quest will be complete, and you’ll be able to learn Gnomish schematics from Tinkmaster Overspark or Oglethorpe Obnoticus.

Goblin Engineering Specialization

The Goblin Engineering quest can be picked up from the same person for Alliance and Horde. Here are the steps to get this mastery:

1. Take the Goblin Engineering quest from Tinkerwiz.
2. Go to Gadgetzan and take The Pledge of Secrecy from Nixx Sprocketspring.
3. Right-click the Nixx’s Pledge of Secrecy and finish the quest.

After that, you’ll be given Show Your Work, but unlike in the Gnomish variation, it requires different items to be delivered:

• Big Iron Bomb x20
• Solid Dynamite x20
• Explosive Sheep x5

Both specs can be quite pricey to learn and require you to be at least level 30 and have 200 in Engineering. However, the schematics that they offer are really good for your character, so it’s highly recommended to master at least one of them.

Read our other TBC Classic Anniversary guides:

• Best Professions
• Alchemy Leveling
• Jewelcrafting Leveling

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