Engineering is a very playful and fanciful profession. You can produce all sorts of insane things that are fun to use and also amuse and bewilder other players. Engineering is used to assemble metal and stones into components necessary to build explosives, guns, scopes, bullets, mechanical dragons, aquatic helmets, and much more. More than any other profession, engineering products demands several steps to be finished.



Most items made by engineers can only be used by engineers. You can sometimes create something you can market to another engineer. Many engineering recipes need a lot of distinct parts before the item can be produced. This will take more space in your bags than other professions.

If you are planning on becoming an engineer, you should likely already be a miner. Miners gather ore and smelt ore into bars to make the bulk of engineering items. Engineer recipes frequently include jewels, which are encountered in a variety of places. Typically, most engineers purchase or are given rare jewels from other players.

The auction house is a good place to purchase gems if you unable to mine them yourself. Some engineer recipes require leather, which you will need to buy from a skinner or the auction house. You will need to find a lot of other peculiar components for your recipes that might require to be bought from other players. Some items can actually be fished up with the fishing skill or found from monster drops or treasure chests.

The engineering trainer has some very cool engineering plans. Nevertheless, there are many more interesting and desirable plans out there to find from monster drops. You will likely have to buy these from other players or get them from friends if you aren't lucky enough to get them yourself. You can also find them at the auction house, treasure chests, or by gaining reputations. Trainers are located at springspindle fizzlegear found in ironforge, tinkertown for the alliance. For the horde, roxxik is located in orgrimmar.

After you think you have mastered engineering, you are offered a chance to specialize in either gnomish or goblin Engineering. You must first reach 200 skill and level 35. Alliance players can then speak to lilliam sparkspindle in stormwind city. Horde players can talk to tinkerwiz in ratchet. Then you will be offered some quests to open new recipes for that school of engineering.

Oglethorpe obnoticus is the master gnomish trainer and is found in booty bay. Buzzek bracketswing is the master goblin engineer in tanaris, gadgetzan. Once you've selected your side, you cannot switch to the other. You should choose based on what recipes are available. There are some very cool and unique recipes for each side. You have to pick which ones you like the best. It can be a hard decision, they're both good, good luck.

Engineering is good for PvP and for a few items useful in raids. Gnomes have a racial ability of +15 to engineering. This allows them to reach artisan engineering prior to level 35. Some defenders can be summoned by the gnome that are higher level thanks to this bonus to engineering.