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Engineering (Alliance)
Engineering is one of many professions available to the citizens of Azeroth. Engineering allows you to make a variety of devices such as trinkets, mechanical pets, bombs, and various mechanical parts like the delicate arcanite converter. At higher levels of skill, the engineer is asked to choose one of two branches, goblin engineering or gnomish engineering.
Gnomish Engineering
For those who like to make devices and various items of interest, gnomish engineering is the choice for you. This branch of the trade is more interested in developing devices, whether it be the gnomish deathray or the gnomish shrink ray (and more!). However, the devices don't always work as intended...
Goblin Engineering
Bombs, bombs and, you guess it, more bombs! The specialty of goblin engineering is explosive devices, if it explodes, the goblin engineer wants to know how to make it. There, a few exceptions, for example, only the goblin engineer can learn to make the higher level Goblin Jumper Cables XL, which have a chance of shocking the dead back to life (both branches of engineering can learn to make the lower quality Goblin Jumper Cables). However, many of the bombs are so volatile that sometimes it isn't the enemy who explodes when attempting to use it...
Dependencies
Engineering makes use of all the gathering skills, mostly mining, some skinning, with herbalism being the least useful. However, various schematics require alchemical potions or transmutes, a blacksmith's inlaid mithril cylinders (the engineer can scribe this blacksmithing plan themselves, they just cannot make it), and/or various pieces of equipment made by the other crafting skills (such as a pair of gloves or a cloak).
Attraction
This tradeskill allows you to get trinkets and head-gear earlier than others of your season. It allows you to do extra damage and even stun enemies during battle. It can help you weaken the enemy and can even do a little bit of crowd control when used correctly.
Drawbacks
Several of the devices and higher level bombs are capable of backfiring in a way that can cause more harm than good, though not often. Some of the devices have a straight fail chance of working and bombs have to be thrown at an area, so it is easy to miss a target in battle. Perhaps the biggest drawback to this profession is that it does not pull in money very often. Most of the items you can make are usable only by other engineers of the same skill level (to wear a certain pair of goggles as head gear you are required to have the same amount of engineering skill that it would take to make them). Because of this, most engineers prefer to make the items themselves rather than buying them from you.
Tips & Suggestions
Use the various stones (rouge, coarse, heavy, etc) until all the schematics involving them turn grey (I think that's two for each but cannot remember), conserving your ores in the meantime. The stones should be much cheaper than the ores of their level and you'll need them for a lot less schematics than the ores. If you are too impatient to wait this long, try conserving your ores and using your stones for as long as possible, the longer you do this, the more ore you will have conserved and the more money you will have saved.
Engineers are capable of crafting items for the Darkmoon Faire. Saving these items to turn in can earn you Darkmoon Faire rep and tickets. Or, if you are not interested in that, selling these items when the Darkmoon Faire comes around can earn you a decent amount of money. Be aware that as you gain more rep with the faire, the lower end turn ins will start becoming unavailable. (upon which point you can just sell them to others to turn in). The items the Darkmoon Faire wants from you are as follows: 5 copper modulators, 7 whirring bronze gizmos, 36 green fireworks, 6 mechanical repair kits, 6 thorium widgets.
Keep your head up, people will need you more once you become an Artisan, only the engineer can craft the delicate arcanite converter needed for the 1st Dungeon armor set upgrade quest. At higher levels, you have more chance of selling to your fellow engineers when it comes to schematics that can only be found in adventuring or bought for a lot of gold off the auction house (some people would be willing to pay less for the finished product in this case rather than purchasing an expensive schematic for themselves). Unless I'm mistaken, gnomish engineers can make use of many devices made by goblin engineers that they cannot make themselves and vice-versa, so selling engineer-only items to a different specialist can be profitable as well. Another device you will be sought after for is the salt shaker, these are needed by leatherworkers to make refined deeprock salt, which is used to cure rugged hides for high end patterns.
In the meantime, you can sell ores, gems, and stones you no longer use (assuming you took mining as your secondary skill) and just be happy to get trinkets and head-gear before anyone else.
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