Engineering

What changed in Forever

More for non-engineers. Wowhead sees a shift towards Engineering items that anyone can use, and thinks this could make the profession a gold-maker, though it won't commit yet. ForeverDB gives an example: the new SAF-T Dynamite does the same damage as Rough Dynamite, but the client gives it no skill requirement, so you can sell it. The trade-camp vendors sell a run of new schematics for Merchant's Favor (Wowhead):

• Explosives: SAF-T and EZ-Thro bombs and satchels.
• Gear: belts at skill 175 (Clanking Cord, Gizmo Girdle and Whimsical Waistwrap) and four goggles at 200 (Bent, Dented, Floppy and Stuckbutton).
• At 225–300: an Emergency Field Cloak, a Gnomish Army Knife, a Loot-A-Rang, a SAF-T Disposable Parachute and an Ultralight Goblin Glider.

Icy Veins describes the Emergency Field Cloak as a bind-on-pickup trinket that gives brief invisibility.

Guns, scopes and ammo. Engineers are still the only crafters who make guns. New at the top end are the Hyper Deluxe Sniper Rifle Mk XVII and the SAF-T Ultra Precision Scope. Wowhead notes that crafted ammunition could be traded in Classic, but Forever's best epic ammo, Swiftfeather Arrow and Swiftstrike Shot, binds on pickup.

No passive perks. Wowhead found no sign of Wrath-style profession perks in Forever. Warcraft Tavern agrees: a profession's value lies in what it makes and its camp buff.

Gnome racial. wow-professions.com says Engineering Specialization no longer adds +15 skill. It now makes devices fail or backfire 20% less often, so Gnomes level Engineering like everyone else. Icy Veins also says some gadgets scale with your Engineering skill, so the same device does less for an engineer at 250 than at 300.

ForeverDB flags three crafts as notable crafts within the level-30 bracket: Flying Tiger Goggles and Shadow Goggles for a wide range of specs, and the Rough Boomstick for Hunters and some melee.

Specialisations

Wowhead documents both quest chains, each starting at level 30 with skill 200:

• Goblin: starts with Tinkerwiz in Ratchet and runs through Nixx Sprocketspring in Gadgetzan. The final step asks for Big Iron Bombs, Solid Dynamite and Explosive Sheep.
• Gnomish: starts at any Engineering trainer and leads to Tinkmaster Overspark in Ironforge (Alliance) or Oglethorpe Obnoticus in Booty Bay (Horde). It asks for Mithril Tubes, Advanced Target Dummies and an Accurate Scope.

Each chain ends with a membership card that unlocks that school's schematics. The card lasts 14 days and must be renewed by a quest. Wowhead lists every specialisation recipe as unchanged from Classic. wow-professions.com advises keeping a few Explosive Sheep and Mithril Tubes from levelling, in case you need them for the quest.

Levelling, in brief

wow-professions.com says Engineering kept every skill range from Classic. Its route, summarised:

wowtbc.gg prices its route from Auction House scans. It leans on Crude Scopes, Copper Modulators, Flying Tiger Goggles and Gyrochronatoms on the way to 200. Artisan needs level 35 and skill 200, and comes from Buzzek Bracketswing in Gadgetzan (wow-professions.com).

Money outlook

• Gadgets for everyone: Wowhead is cautious. It thinks the items non-engineers can use may make Engineering a strong gold-maker, but won't say yet. SAF-T Dynamite is one such item (ForeverDB).
• Ammo: the best ammunition now binds on pickup, which rules it out as a trade good at the top end (Wowhead).
• Title: at 300 you can buy an Engineering Certification and the title "the Engineer" for 1,000 Merchant's Favor (Wowhead).

Open questions

• Which new gadgets need the profession to use and which don't. Stats for several new items were hidden in the beta.
• Where the Anarchist's Workbench blueprint drops. The Repair Bot blueprint drops from Sneed in the Deadmines (wow-professions.com).