World Of Warcraft: Dragonflight - Complete Guide To Engineering (2024)

From crafting mechanical mounts to damaging explosives and everything in between, Engineering is World of Warcraft's most complicated profession but also its most rewarding. While the recipes can be difficult to parse through, getting a handle on this trade grants you the ability to craft some of the most sought-after collectibles.

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With the introduction of Dragonflight, every single profession gained a better identity within the game, and Engineering benefited the most from the changes. Now, you can focus on making those unique collectibles while providing some of the most relevant endgame gear. If you want to master this trade, here's everything you need to know.

Overview

Engineering is often considered the king of the professions, as not only is it harder to understand, but it also uses every material in the game for its recipes, often requiring you to have a second profession to supply your tinkering.

Once you're ready to set off and become an Engineer, look for Clinkyclick Shatterboom in Valdrakken, the primary Engineering trainer, who can be found within The Obsidian Enclave. Next to the goblin are several Tinker's Workbenches and a helpful vendor for Engineering supplies.

Then, once you've purchased Dragon Isles Engineering, you'll be required to make or purchase profession equipment to begin crafting recipes. Make certain to always have one tool and two accessories equipped, as a full set will grant you a wealth of secondary crafting stats.

Engineering Reagents And Parts

As an Engineer, you'll find that many of your recipes will be parts or foundations for higher-tier recipes needed for the likes of high-quality gear and consumables.

Gear From Engineering

Though Engineering doesn't juggle as many gear recipes as Leatherworking or Tailoring, the weapon and armor recipes that are available are often prioritized over the other professions because of their stats, appearances, and unique buffs.

Weapons

There are only a couple of weapons that Engineers can produce, but both of these ranged riflescan benefit from scopes and ammo to enhance their power even further.

Armor

Engineers can craft a wide host of different head and wrist pieces, all of which can holdTinker Sockets to provide game-changing effects and buffs.

Profession Equipment

Finally, Engineers round off their gear recipes by providing several profession equipment items, both for their own trade and for others.

Engineering Tinkers

Tinkers can be thought of like Jewelcrafting sockets, but instead of gems providing flat boosts to secondary stats, each Tinker module is capable of providingmassive boons, such as resurrecting an ally or warding off enemy players and creatures. However, a Tinker isn't always guaranteed to work.

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Engineering Consumables

Crafting gear and Tinkers are only half the fun of Engineering. You'll find that the rest of your recipes are consumables, which can include explosions, scopes and ammo, devices, and robotics.

Explosives And Fireworks

There's more than one way to change up combat, and explosives are perfect if you need an extra advantage over your enemy on the battlefield, either slowing your foes or annihilating them completely in a fiery barrage.

Scopes And Ammo

These consumables can bind themselves to ranged weapons like enchantments, giving the wielder a chance for more damage or a temporary boost to several secondary stats.

Devices And Robotics

Devices and robotics are a vast array of different miscellaneous recipes. These can include helpful boosts, like reducing threat generation and allowing resurrection, or unique toys and pets.

How To Rank Up In Engineering

Gaining levels in Engineering can be a mixed bag. Some recipes stay orange and guarantee experience for lengthy periods of time, but they can also require time and dedication to acquire the necessary materials.

• From level one, purchase and craft Handful of Serevite Parts until level 15.
• Purchase and craft Shock-Spring Coil until level 20.
• Purchase and craft Bottomless Stonecrust Ore Satchel until level 40.
• Purchase and craft Arclight Capacitor until level 45.
• Purchase and craft Overcharged Overclocker until level 50.
• Purchase and craft any of the goggle recipes until level 100.

Unlike the other professions that require you to eventually seek out recipes on your own, your trainer will provide you with recipes that grant experience until max level, so long as you have the materials to craft them.

Engineering Specializations

You'll unlock Dragonflight's Engineering specializations as soon as you hit level 25, granting you the ability to master a certain talent tree. You do this with points of Dragon Isles Engineering Knowledge, which can be gathered through profession questsor crafting a brand-new recipe.

Optimized Efficiency

The first Engineering specialization is called Optimized Efficiency. While this won't net you any new recipes, its talents serve general needs of the profession instead, allowing you to save on material costs or elevate your crafts to a higher quality.

Explosives

The second specialization, Explosives, deals with damagingconsumables, their effect on enemies and players, and their duration. Masters of Explosives will unlock further recipes for bigger and better explosions as they climb higher into the talent tree.

Function Over Form

Function Over Form totes itself as a practical specialization, allowing you to craftbetter equipment and accessories, such as scopes and ammo, bracers, and optional reagents.

Mechanical Mind

Finally, Mechanical Mind is the specialization behind Tinkers, devices, and robotics, granting recipes that can be used for combat, other professions, or just to fill out a collection of robo-ducks.

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