What does it cost to level Engineering right now?

5.8kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 122 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 5.1kg. 99% of the route is priced

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 14:27 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Midnight Engineering · KR · prices as of 14:27 UTC

Engineering leveling 1 → 101

5.8kg in reagents over about 122 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 5.1kg. 99% of the route is priced

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Neutralized Venom Clot×1029

Tormented Tantalum×3196

Mote of Wild Magic×188

160

×18160

Mote of Primal Energy×184

×1872

Malleable Wireframe×7518

×7513

Total5,795

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 40

Orange→Green

Evercore Zoomshroud

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 28 crafts.193

per skill point4

Evercore×28

Step 2 · Skill 40 → 80

Orange→Green

Quel'dorei Cloth Goggles

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 57 crafts.902

per skill point22

Pile of Junk×228

Malleable Wireframe×57

Evercore×57

Step 3 · Skill 80 → 90

Yellow

Coiled Snake-Eye

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 14 crafts.1,208

per skill point120

Pile of Junk×140

Neutralized Venom Clot×42

Evercore×70

Step 4 · Skill 90 → 95

Yellow

P.O.W. x3

specializationfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 3 crafts.1,764

per skill point352

Malleable Wireframe×18

Mote of Wild Magic×18

Mote of Primal Energy×18

Step 5 · Skill 95 → 100

Green

Coiled Snake-Eye

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 20 crafts.1,726

per skill point345

Pile of Junk×200

Neutralized Venom Clot×60

Evercore×100

Skill 100 → 101

Every recipe over this stretch has a reagent nobody is selling right now, so it is left out of the totals.

Skill 101 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Coiled Snake-Eye3417

588

34588

Evercore Zoomshroud283

2884

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket5,123

What's worth crafting with Engineering right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Engineering right now?: 5.8kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 122 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 5.1kg. 99% of the route is priced
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 14:27 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.