Engineering Guide for The War Within (2025)

Engineering makes profession gear, such as Lapidary's Aqirite Clamps, the P.0.W. x2 gun, helmets and wrists with special Tinker Sockets, suchas Overclocked Idea Generator and Venting Vambraces, Potion Bombconsumables, 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 Battlegroundand World PvP and Tinker: Heartseeking Health Injector which heals for muchmore 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 Algarfor quick transportation, the Pausing Pylon consumable-saving device, Irresistible Red Button for quick wipe recovery, Algari Repair Bot 11Ofor quick repairs when in an instance, coveted Crowd Pummeler 2-30 mount thatis either massively expensive or time-consuming as you sift through tens of thousandsof parts to assemble it, and Convincingly Realistic Jumper Cables battle ressitem that is now usable by anyone without needing a Tinker Socket, alongwith 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 theknowledge talent Tinkers in the Devices tree, allowing you to useone of the other two optional reagents available instead, Complicated Fuse Boxor the fun (for you!) Blame Redirection Device.

There are no Horde races with Engineering bonuses, but Allianceplayers 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 onspecific stats with different Engineering specializations. We go into detail withEngineering 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 grantskill points as usual, but the way you learn new recipes with Engineering is completelyunique. Instead of learning most of them from the trainer and / or world droppedrecipes, you will use the cooldown craft Invent, which grants skill allthe 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 basedoff. You will also get a number of Hastily Scrawled Notes (through Inventalso if you have 40/40 into the Inventing talent tree) when destroying aPrototype 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 notalready possess of your choosing.

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

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

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

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

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

Finally, the Inventing tree allows you to learn recipes faster bymaking Invent also grant Hastily Scrawled Notes at 40/40, and providesskill towards all of your Engineering crafts otherwise. Its sub-nodes increase yourcrafting stats, and the right sub-node also allows your Scour through Scrapcraft to sometimes find Dragonflight tinkers that can be used on maximum level gearand Dragonflight Engineering toys.

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

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

From a gold-making perspective, Engineering allows you to convert cheap ore andother 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 agreat 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 onthe fun.

Until you fully max out skill, gear, and knowledge for your desired crafts, youwill be reliant on Concentration to get maximum ranks out, which can quicklybe exhausted every day, so make sure to create some alts to increase your productioncap while it is still very profitable to do so! Even later on those can still beuseful as they will be able to create maximum rank items more cheaply than theguaranteed 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, andalso 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 containsa gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successfulgold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!