Useful items of Engineering
by Spiritix | 06/10/2007 18:07:27 This article was made to investigate the usefulness of the items crafted by the Engineering profession. Let it be no secret... I have only limited experience with Engineering, which is why I am posting this in the first place, as I hope to start a discussion that can provide valuable insight into the usefulness of this profession. Crafted items The items created by any WOW crafting profession can be divided into four categories: - ingredients - leveling items - trade goods - useful items Even though this article aims to investigate the last of these categories, I will start out explaining how the others fit in. Ingredients Ingredients are items which are useful only as an ingredient, when you later on are crafting another item. Most crafting professions have a small amount of ingredient recipes. Engineering however has alot of ingredients, which without carefull planning might end up having you spend extra gold on bag slots in the bank. This article does not intend to elaborate over ingredients but for the sake of completeness I list them below: 1 Rough Blasting Powder 30 Handful of Copper Bolts 50 Arclight Spanner 50 Copper Tube 65 Copper Modulator 75 Coarse Blasting Powder 90 Silver Contact 105 Bronze Tube 125 Whirring Bronze Gizmo 125 Heavy Blasting Powder 145 Bronze Framework 150 Gold Power Core 160 Iron Strut 170 Gyrochronatom 175 Solid Blasting Powder 175 Gyromatic Micro-Adjustor 195 Mithril Tube 200 Unstable Trigger 215 Mithril Casing 250 Dense Blasting Powder 260 Truesilver Transformer 260 Thorium Widget 275 Powerful Seaforium Charge 275 Fused Wiring 275 Thorium Tube 285 Delicate Arcanite Converter 300 Elemental Blasting Powder 300 Fel Iron Casing 300 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts 325 Adamantite Frame 335 Icy Blasting Primers 350 Hardened Adamantite Tube 350 Khorium Power Core 350 Felsteel Stabilizer Trade goods Trade goods are items that are needed by other professions and have no use by the profession of which they are crafted. These items are only there for you to trade to other players. As this article are not about making Engineering profitable, I will not go into which Engineering items are used by other professions, but for the sake of completeness I will list the trade goods craftable by Engineers: 205 Inlaid Mithril Cylinder Plans 205 Goblin Rocket Fuel Recipe 250 Salt Shaker Leveling items Leveling a crafting profession often requires you to craft a bunch of stuff that you dont need. Leveling items are items that are rarely used by players to anything else than getting skill-ups. Useful items Useful items are the items you are actually able to use and/or sell/giveaway for others to use. These are the items that often made you pick the profession in the first place. Most crafting professions have a small variety of usefull items. Tailoring provides bags and cloth armour, Alchemy provides pots and elixirs, but Engineering are special in that it provides a large amount of different sorts of usefull items. This is the area I am trying to investigate in this article, the end goal being to provide a categorized overview of these items and hopefully get a discussion going based on peoples actual experiences. Categories The useful items crafted by Engineering can by grouped into the following main categories: - Bombs - Gadgets - Goggles - Guns - Toys As gatgets are where the real fun is, as well as an area of large variety, I will start by looking at the others first. Bombs Bombs are disposable items that provides a single burst of AOE damage. They all have a casting time and most of them stuns the targets for a short amount of time. Most bombs also have a cooldown timer. I personally consider bombs Leveling items as the cast time, moderate amount of damage and short duration of the stun, makes it hard to justify the bag slots they occupy. I could however imagine them being useful for tanks, which by doing an AOE pull could have an easyer time establishing agro on a group of mobs. I have included some bomb-like devices to the list, which are: - Mortars, which have multible charges - Mines, which are triggered by the enemy running over them - Suicidal bombs, which also inflict damage on the caster (Goblin Sapper Charge, Gnomish Death Ray, Goblin Dragon Gun, Super Sapper Charge) - Autonomous bombs, which triggers themselves (Goblin Bomb Dispenser, Gnomish Flame Turret) - Reusable bombs (Goblin Rocket Launcher) Bombs craftable by Engineers: 1 Rough Dynamite 30 Rough Copper Bomb 75 Coarse Dynamite 100 EZ-Thro Dynamite 105 Large Copper Bomb 120 Small Bronze Bomb 125 Heavy Dynamite 140 Big Bronze Bomb 165 Portable Bronze Mortar 175 Iron Grenade 175 Solid Dynamite 190 Big Iron Bomb 195 Goblin Land Mine 200 EZ-Thro Dynamite II 205 Goblin Sapper Charge 205 Goblin Mortar 215 Mithril Frag Bomb 230 Goblin Bomb Dispenser 235 Hi-Explosive Bomb 235 The Big One 240 Gnomish Death Ray 240 Goblin Dragon Gun 250 Dense Dynamite 260 Thorium Grenade 285 Dark Iron Bomb 300 Arcane Bomb 320 Fel Iron Bomb 325 The Bigger One 325 Gnomish Flame Turret 335 Adamantite Grenade 340 Super Sapper Charge 345 Frost Grenades 350 Goblin Rocket Launcher Goggles Goggles are traditional head armour, useable only by Engineers. Goggles craftable by Engineers: 100 [Cl] Flying Tiger Goggles 120 [Cl] Shadow Goggles 150 [Cl] Green Tinted Goggles 175 [Cl] Bright-Eye Goggles 185 [Cl] Craftsman's Monocle 205 [Cl] Fire Goggles 205 [Ma] Goblin Mining Helmet 205 [Cl] Goblin Construction Helmet 210 [Cl] Gnomish Goggles 220 [Cl] Catseye Ultra Goggles 225 [Cl] Spellpower Goggles Xtreme 230 [Cl] Rose Colored Goggles 245 [Cl] Green Lens 270 [Cl] Spellpower Goggles Xtreme Plus 290 [Cl] Master Engineer's Goggles 300 [Cl] Bloodvine Goggles 300 [Cl] Bloodvine Lens 340 [Le] Cogspinner Goggles 340 [Cl] Power Amplification Goggles 350 [Cl] Ultra-Spectropic Detection Goggles 350 [Pl] Furious Gizmatic Goggles 350 [Pl] Justicebringer 2000 Specs 350 [Pl] Tankatronic Goggles 350 [Ma] Surestrike Goggles v2.0 350 [Ma] Gadgetstorm Goggles 350 [Ma] Living Replicator Specs 350 [Le] Deathblow X11 Goggles 350 [Le] Wonderheal XT40 Shades 350 [Le] Magnified Moon Specs 350 [Cl] Destruction Holo-gogs 350 [Cl] Powerheal 4000 Lens 360 [Le] Hyper-Vision Goggles 375 [Cl] Foreman's Enchanted Helmet 375 [Ma] Foreman's Reinforced Helmet 375 [Cl] Gnomish Power Goggles 375 [Le] Gnomish Battle Goggles Guns Engineers can craft a wide array of guns, scopes and ammunition, making it a popular profession for hunters. Guns, scopes and ammunition craftable by Engineers: 1 Crafted Light Shot 50 Rough Boomstick 60 Crude Scope 75 Crafted Heavy Shot 105 Deadly Blunderbuss 110 Standard Scope 120 Lovingly Crafted Boomstick 125 Crafted Solid Shot 130 Silver-plated Shotgun 145 Moonsight Rifle 200 Accurate Scope 205 Mithril Blunderbuss 210 Hi-Impact Mithril Slugs 210 Deadly Scope 220 Mithril Heavy-bore Rifle 240 Sniper Scope 245 Mithril Gyro-Shot 260 Thorium Rifle 275 Dark Iron Rifle 285 Thorium Shells 300 Flawless Arcanite Rifle 300 Biznicks 247x128 Accurascope 300 Core Marksman Rifle 310 Fel Iron Shells 330 Fel Iron Musket 335 Adamantite Shells 335 Adamantite Scope 350 Adamantite Rifle 360 Felsteel Boomstick 360 Khorium Scope 375 Gyro-balanced Khorium Destroyer 375 Ornate Khorium Rifle 375 Stabilized Eternium Scope Toys All professions have useless items, one of the great thing about Engineering however are that the useless items are either fun, flashy or both. In the category of toys I have included Fireworks, Mechanical pets and Gizmos. Even though some of the pets provide additional dps, I see them more as a toy than as an actual weapon. Fireworks craftable by Engineers: 125 Small Blue/Green/Red Rocket 150 Red/Blue/Green Firework 175 Large Blue/Green/Red Rocket 225 Blue/Green/Red Rocket Cluster 225 Firework Launcher 250 Snake Burst Firework 275 Large Blue/Green/Red Rocket Cluster 275 Firework Cluster Launcher 335 White/Green/Purple Smoke Flare Mechanical pets craftable by Engineers: 75 Mechanical Squirrel 150 Explosive Sheep 175 Compact Harvest Reaper Kit 205 Pet Bombling 205 Lil' Smoky 200 Mechanical Dragonling 230 Gnomish Battle Chicken 250 Mithril Mechanical Dragonling 265 Alarm-O-Bot 265 Lifelike Mechanical Toad 300 Arcanite Dragonling 300 Tranquil Mechanical Yeti 325 Crashin' Thrashin' Robot Gizmos craftable by Engineers: 190 SnowMaster 9000 200 Mechanical Repair Kit 260 World Enlarger 275 Steam Tonk Controller [07.10.2007] Changed googles to goggles. [09.10.2007] [ Post edited by Spiritix ] |
by Salthem | 08/10/2007 17:20:51 A nicely categorised list. Because of it's different approach I'd say this makes a nice companion to the other engineering guides, so I have added this to the Compilation of informative and useful threads: Compilation of informative and useful threads  |
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