Forever engineering leveling planner

How to level engineering in Forever

WoW Forever has 169 crafting recipes here for engineering, with a maximum skill of 300. 166 recipes have a matching recipe item. 27 require skill 300 or higher, so they do not help you reach that cap.

87 additional engineering recipes are left out because their learning requirement or availability is not established for Forever. A missing crafting route does not mean you cannot train further in the game.

The starting route uses Rough Blasting Powder, consuming 1 Rough Stone per craft. The shopping list counts each ingredient consumed. If you already have Rough Stone in your bags, subtract that stock before buying more.

Recipe colors and material costs

Rough Blasting Powder requires skill 1, turns yellow at 20, green at 30 and gray at 40. Orange grants skill every craft, yellow and green grant skill less reliably, and gray grants none. The green boundary is the midpoint between yellow and gray, rounded down to a whole skill point.

A worked engineering route

Starting at skill 1, the default target is 75. The available route reaches 75 using ~130 (95 to 164) crafts estimated. That covers 74 skill points.

For this route, Rough Stone requires ~35 (30 to 41) estimated; Rough Blasting Powder requires ~109 (54 to 164) estimated; Linen Cloth requires ~51 (30 to 71) estimated. Repeated ingredients are combined across steps. Crafted intermediate materials remain separate shopping entries, so subtract any that you make along the way.

Which engineering recipe uses fewer materials?

At skill 1, Rough Blasting Powder consumes 1 reagent units per craft, compared with 2 for Rough Dynamite. Each item counts as one unit, regardless of its gold price. The route minimizes expected units over the entire skill range, including extra attempts after recipes turn yellow.

SAF-T Tabs can be learned with Schematic: SAF-T Tabs. Check recipe access, quests and specializations before shopping. Exclude recipes you cannot learn or whose materials cost too much on your realm. Lock a known recipe to give it priority whenever it can grant skill; overlapping locks use the lower expected reagent total.

How estimated engineering craft counts work

Rough Blasting Powder has a yellow boundary of 20 and a gray boundary of 40. Its estimated skill gain chance at skill 30 is (40 minus 30) divided by (40 minus 20). Expected crafts equal one divided by that chance. For skill 30 to 31, this gives ~2 (1 to 6) crafts est.

The Rough Blasting Powder range covers at least 80% of outcomes under this estimated chance model, using the variance of independent attempts. It describes crafting luck under that model, rather than a guarantee about your game. For the longer route to 75, the planner recalculates chance after every skill gain. Update your current skill as you craft, and train the next profession rank before your current rank limit.

What differs in other versions?

Forever uses build 1.60.1.70707 for engineering. Classic has no additional recipe spells in this comparison. TBC adds recipes such as Fused Wiring and Zapthrottle Mote Extractor.