The final profession preview is upon us with Engineering on the block today. This profession has had a varied history for goldmaking, with large differences in profit potential.
New recipe unlock mechanic
Engineers are getting a mechanic to unlock recipes similar to experimentation for alchemist. On a daily cooldown you can invent which does make a prototype. You can also pilfer through scrap, which is a BoP material that will drop for you in the world. Scrap can also eventually be generated from breaking down engineering parts. Some recipes require you to have a specific node unlocked before you can learn them this way, and a LOT of the recipes are unlocked through this system.
Gear crafting is here!
A huge change in The War Within is the addition of epic gear crafts that do not require engineering to equip. They give just 1 single secondary stat, and that makes them quite good. I expect quite a few specs will prefer these, so specializing in bracers is definitely something with potential. The goggles you can craft require engineering to equip, so I doubt they will have meaningful demand sadly.
Profession equipment king
Engineering has a LOT of profession equipment recipes. All of the rare recipes come from prototypes, and require the base profession node to be unlocked. There’s 7 rare recipes for profession tools from engineering, so covering all of these can be quite lucrative early on when players are rushing to get theirs and competition is likely to be low.
Toys
There’s as usual a huge collection of toys, usually these aren’t particulary valuable from a goldmaking PoV. Big time toy collectors probably already have engineering as every profession has these. Either way both sales and profit margins are usually on the lower side.
Crowd-pummeler 2-30
Lastly there is a new crafted mount, and this one is very interesting. The mount requires vendor materials that cost 3.1 million as far as I can tell. With the right spec you get a chance to proc parts when you pilfer through parts. This is something you are likely to do a lot of for Pile of Rusted Scrap to unlock recipes. The gains do some scaled to how expensive the part is to craft, so you won’t just be crafting the cheapest possible part, but there’s some very significant potential for a shuffle here.