What does it cost to level Engineering right now?

82.9kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 139 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 81.4kg. 60% 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 15:54 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 · Shadowlands Engineering · TW · prices as of 15:54 UTC

Engineering leveling 1 → 201 · Shadowlands Engineering

82.9kg in reagents over about 139 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 81.4kg. 60% 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

Wormfed Gear Assembly×54488

26,399

×5426,399

Handful of Laestrite Bolts×70930

21,971

×70921,971

Porous Polishing Abrasive×114618

Mortal Coiled Spring×10150

Silken Protofiber×3422

Total82,867

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 25

Orange→Green

Porous Polishing Abrasive

About 51 crafts.205

per skill point8

Porous Stone×102

Step 2 · Skill 25 → 27

Yellow

Nutcracker Grenade

trainer

About 3 crafts.482

per skill point241

Handful of Laestrite Bolts×9

Porous Polishing Abrasive×6

Laestrite Ore×3

Step 3 · Skill 27 → 45

Orange→Yellow

Precision Lifeforce Inverter

trainer

About 10 crafts.6,028

per skill point334

Laestrite Ore×40

Mortal Coiled Spring×10

Handful of Laestrite Bolts×40

Twilight Bark×80

Step 4 · Skill 45 → 97

Orange→Yellow

Reinforced Ectoplasmic Specs

trainer

About 18 crafts.31,483

per skill point605

Wormfed Gear Assembly×54

Handful of Laestrite Bolts×90

Angerseye×36

Sinvyr Ore×180

Step 5 · Skill 97 → 120

Orange→Green

Pure-Air Sail Extensions

needs the recipe item

About 57 crafts.44,667

per skill point1,942

Progenium Ore×228

Silken Protofiber×342

Handful of Laestrite Bolts×570

Porous Polishing Abrasive×1140

Skill 120 → 201

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

Skill 201 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Pure-Air Sail Extensions5725

1,425

571,425

Reinforced Ectoplasmic Specs1868

1812

Precision Lifeforce Inverter1044

104

Porous Polishing Abrasive511

5151

Nutcracker Grenade0/30

0/30

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

Back in your pocket81,425

What's worth crafting with Engineering right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Engineering right now?: 82.9kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 139 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 81.4kg. 60% 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 15:54 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.