Engineering Guide for The War Within

Engineering makes profession gear, such as Lapidary's Aqirite Clamps, the P.0.W. x2 gun, helmets and wrists with special Tinker Sockets, such as Overclocked Idea Generator and Venting Vambraces, Potion Bomb consumables, such Potion Bomb of Power, and Embellishments, such as Concealed Chaos Module.

You will also be able to do tinker items that fit into the aforementioned sockets. The two new ones are Tinker: Earthen Delivery Drill for Unrated Battleground and World PvP and Tinker: Heartseeking Health Injector which heals for much more than a regular Algari Healing Potion free of cost, but also deals 30% of the healing as damage over time, and can occasionally backfire.

Engineering also has many unique gadgets, such as the Wormhole Generator: Khaz Algar for quick transportation, the Pausing Pylon consumable-saving device, Irresistible Red Button for quick wipe recovery, Algari Repair Bot 11O for quick repairs when in an instance, coveted Crowd Pummeler 2-30 mount that is either massively expensive or time-consuming as you sift through tens of thousands of parts to assemble it, and Convincingly Realistic Jumper Cables battle ress item that is now usable by anyone without needing a Tinker Socket, along with many other cosmetic toys.

It is also one of the few professions with direct combat benefits, albeit minor, from being able to skip on the Recalibrated Safety Switch thanks to the knowledge talent Tinkers in the Devices tree, allowing you to use one of the other two optional reagents available instead, Complicated Fuse Box or the fun (for you!) Blame Redirection Device.

There are no Horde races with Engineering bonuses, but Alliance players can be Gnomes for +5 skill points or Kul'Tiran for +2 skill points.

Engineering can make great use of all four stats, but you might want to focus on specific stats with different Engineering specializations. We go into detail with Engineering stats and the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guide below:

Increasing your skill in The War Within is done by crafting items that grant skill points as usual, but the way you learn new recipes with Engineering is completely unique. Instead of learning most of them from the trainer and / or world dropped recipes, you will use the cooldown craft Invent, which grants skill all the way to 100 to obtain random Prototypes, such as Prototype: Potion Bomb of Speed, and which mostly work like the real thing.

Once used, these Prototypes will teach you the recipe they are based off. You will also get a number of Hastily Scrawled Notes (through Invent also if you have 40/40 into the Inventing talent tree) when destroying a Prototype you do not care about with the Disassemble Invention craft ability. 15 of these notes can be used to let you learn one of 3 random recipes you do not already possess of your choosing.

You will be able to track all weekly and one-time sources of profession knowledge with Myu's Knowledge Points Tracker, a very helpful Weak Aura!

There are multiple treasures around Khaz Algar that you can loot for up to 24 extra knowledge. You can find them all easily in-game with the aforementioned Weak Aura or the Rarescanner addon, which will put up small treasure icons with a hammer underneath at their map location, as exemplified below.

If you want to craft Engineering combat and profession gear, the Engineered Equipment tree is what you should invest your knowledge into. The left tree focuses on the Gun and Bracers, and while you will learn your own armor specialization bracer recipe easily from the trainer once you unlock the final sub-node, you will need to discover the rest through Hastily Scrawled Notes.

The right tree focuses on Profession gear and Goggles, with Goggles having a similar recipe discovery method to bracers, where you can learn your own armor version from the trainer but need to discover the rest the hard way.

The Devices tree, and specifically its Tinkers sub-node is what grants you the personal benefit of having the benefit of Recalibrated Safety Switch active whenever you use a tinker. It will also massively increase the skill you can craft your tinkers at. The other sub-node focuses on Explosives, specifically the new Potion Bombs such as Potion Bomb of Power, and its 15/30 node allows you to occasionally not spend the Potion Bombs when you use them.

Finally, the Inventing tree allows you to learn recipes faster by making Invent also grant Hastily Scrawled Notes at 40/40, and provides skill towards all of your Engineering crafts otherwise.

Its sub-nodes increase your crafting stats, with the Ingenious sub-node being particularly valuable due to granting massive passive Ingenuity bonuses and allowing you to obtain the near-permanent Inventor's Guile 150 Multicraft and 150 Ingenuity buff!

Scrapper is also a valuable node, especially if you like to use your Scour Through Scrap craft, as it will increase your scrap yield and also allow you to sometimes find Dragonflight tinkers that can be used on maximum level gear and Dragonflight Engineering toys.

The bottom tree is all about Parts reagent crafting and the Crowd Pummeler 2-30 mount in particular. You can get the materials needed for the mount by simply buying them from Paxton Bombshell at 64,78 in the Ringing Deeps..but the prices are incredibly expensive! The catch is that you can also use your Pilfer Through Parts craft to go through Parts reagents, including those of previous expansions, in the hopes of getting some of the components for free, and thus saving a massive amount of Gold on the mount.

Finally, the last sub-nodes at the very bottom are simply there to increase your skill and Resourcefulness benefit when crafting cogwheels to set the secondary stats of Engineering combat gear.

From a gold-making perspective, Engineering allows you to convert cheap ore and other materials into expensive Gear, Potion Bombs, Parts, Scopes, and the new pets, mounts and toys. If you have a large stockpile of old world materials, this is a great time to Pilfer Through Parts on them until you can assemble a Crowd Pummeler 2-30! Or just sell them, as prices rise due to other Engineerings trying to get in on the fun.

Until you fully max out skill, gear, and knowledge for your desired crafts, you will be reliant on Concentration to get maximum ranks out, which can quickly be exhausted every day, so make sure to create some alts to increase your production cap while it is still very profitable to do so! Even later on those can still be useful as they will be able to create maximum rank items more cheaply than the guaranteed method, which requires full Rank 3 reagents.

Gear crafting is expected to hold out for longer on high prices than consumables, but the epic crafts will require you to find customers willing to tip well, and also that you find the recipes you need when you need them through your Hastily Scrawled Notes.

We have a specialized guide for The War Within gold-making below, which contains a gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successful gold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!