What does it cost to level Engineering right now?

18.3kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 79 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 18.2kg. 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 14:54 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 · TW · prices as of 14:54 UTC

Engineering leveling 1 → 101

18.3kg in reagents over about 79 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 18.2kg. 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

Tormented Tantalum×14554

Malleable Wireframe×12120

2,420

×1212,420

Dazzling Thorium×4243

Mote of Wild Magic×849

834

×84834

Mote of Primal Energy×845

Total18,305

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 40

Orange→Green

Evercore Zoomshroud

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 28 crafts.86

per skill point2

Evercore×28

Step 2 · Skill 40 → 75

Orange→Yellow

Quel'dorei Cloth Goggles

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 37 crafts.3,824

per skill point109

Pile of Junk×148

Malleable Wireframe×37

Evercore×37

Step 3 · Skill 75 → 100

Orange→Green

P.O.W. x3

specializationfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 14 crafts.14,394

per skill point575

Malleable Wireframe×84

Mote of Wild Magic×84

Mote of Primal Energy×84

Dazzling Thorium×42

Tormented Tantalum×14

Aetherlume×140

Evercore×56

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

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 pocket18,221

What's worth crafting with Engineering right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Engineering right now?: 18.3kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 79 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 18.2kg. 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 14:54 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.