Can you make money engineering?

[:1]So last night I levelled up my Engineering to 415, because I wanted to be able to make my own ammo without having to rely on the auction house. Now I'm starting to wonder about the profit side of this profession, if there is one.

Is it possible to make money from engineering?

What can engineers make or do that is sought after?|||On 2 different characters I have steadily leveled skinning/LW and Mining/Engineering. My LW has allsorts to sell or DE or just vendor. My Engineer has spent probably 10 x the amount of gold to get to 440. The annoying thing with eng is that the gear you make requires an eng skill to actually use - ive never really understood why.

At 425 we can make Mechanized snow goggles with random enchant......really nice....i made 1 of the bandit +66 agility +99 stam +132 attack power...iirc. But again, you have to be an engineer to use them. These things would be pretty awesome to sell.

I got to 440 and stopped after I made the truesight ice blinders - requires level 72 to wear but ilevel200. After that we would have to make the guns....which are so easily replaced by very early 5 mans :(|||Engineering is probably one of the funnest professions I ever did, but don't take it to make money. Selling guns and/or ammo is probably the best way to make cash, but as odin said, most juicy stuff requires Engineering as well.

Unlike Odin though, I don't think it's much of a money sink as long as you take mining to go along with it and are prepared to farm a little for your own mats, but you can't exactly earn much money with it either.|||Grab a Zapthrottle mote extractor if you haven't yet. Eternal Fire cost about 35g each on my server, and they're pretty easy to farm since engineering isn't a popular profession. It beats the frustration of Wintergrasp and fighting crowds at other elemental spawns. This is your primary money maker pretty much, besides ammo.

If you've got mining then you can farm eternals and ammo mats all at once, plus make a nifty profit on titanium (and some people still buy titansteel cooldowns as well). I usually save my mats for the Nesingwary 4000 since they sell decently on my server (about 1-1.5k, compared to 2-2.5k for most other epic weapons). When it comes down to it though, farming the eternals might be the most profitable time wise.|||Mistro nailed it with the eternals. The ability to see those gas clouds and get motes from them is probably the most profitable aspect apart from the mining and guns.|||Quote:








So last night I levelled up my Engineering to 415, because I wanted to be able to make my own ammo without having to rely on the auction house. Now I'm starting to wonder about the profit side of this profession, if there is one.

Is it possible to make money from engineering?

What can engineers make or do that is sought after?




There are a lot of items an Engineer can make that sell well: amongst them are ammunition, some companion pets, eventually the rickety aircraft that is actually a flying mount and the Mekgineer's chopper.

It has always annoyed me that much of what an Engineer makes ingame is only usable by other Engineers. I've never understood why this is unless it's assumed that non-Engineers lack the skills and knowledge to use these things. I'm married to a RL Engineer and things he designs and creates are not at all restricted to use by his own profession.

In any event, no, you won't make a lot of money for the first while, partly because you will be selling mostly to other Engineers (and they're not going to buy things they could make themselves). And it may cost you a fair amount to get the necessary materials. Having Mining as another profession does help. But it really is the most amusing profession, whether you go Gnomish and make weird and often unreliable gadgets or whether you go Goblin and try to blow up the world.