Level a profession

Steps

1–5Craft ~9× Basic Campfireearns 8silver1copperafter selling for 11silver43copper

recipe →each: 1× Simple Wood (vendor)

Skill 5–10: no recipe we can price here (its reagents aren't on this auction house right now, or it needs a pattern you can't buy).

10–50Craft ~40× Kaldorei Spider Kabobcosts 7silver20copperafter selling for 4silver

recipe →each: 1× Small Spider Legbuy Recipe: Kaldorei Spider Kabob first: 60silver

50–100Craft ~52× Rainbow Fin Albacoreearns 37silver44copperafter selling for 40silver4copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Rainbow Fin Albacorebuy Recipe: Rainbow Fin Albacore first: 9silver50copper

100–120Craft ~20× Crispy Lizard Tailearns 6silverafter selling for 50silver

recipe →each: 1× Thunder Lizard Tail, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Crispy Lizard Tail first: 86silver

120–161Craft ~41× Crocolisk Gumboearns 4gold16silver15copperafter selling for 4gold53silver5copper

recipe →each: 1× Tender Crocolisk Meat, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Crocolisk Gumbo first: 1gold7silver

161–175Craft ~15× Curiously Tasty Omeletearns 30silver90copperafter selling for 50silver85copper

recipe →each: 1× Raptor Egg, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet first: 30silver

175–191Craft ~16× Rockscale Codearns 6silver24copperafter selling for 7silver4copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Rockscale Codbuy Recipe: Rockscale Cod first: 60silver

191–255Craft ~196× Giant Clam Scorchoearns 5silver88copperafter selling for 6gold11silver52copper

recipe →each: 1× Giant Clam Meat, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Giant Clam Scorcho first: 2gold19silver

255–300Craft ~90× Filet of Redgillearns 2gold35silver80copperafter selling for 3gold28silver50copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Redgillbuy Recipe: Filet of Redgill first: 2gold50silver

Shopping list

Copy for Auctionator

196× Giant Clam Meat5gold27silver24copper

272× Hot Spicesvendor1gold8silver80copper

90× Raw Redgill92silver70copper

20× Thunder Lizard Tail36silver

41× Tender Crocolisk Meat20silver50copper

15× Raptor Egg13silver95copper

40× Small Spider Leg11silver20copper

9× Simple Woodvendor3silver42copper

52× Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore2silver60copper

16× Raw Rockscale Cod80copper

At every skill point we pick the recipe with the lowest expected cost per skill-up: reagents at today's lowest (or the vendor) minus what the result fetches from a vendor (the safe minimum; the auction house is added for the few the market takes in about two days), divided by the classic skill-up chance (orange always, then falling to zero at grey). Crafts are expected counts, so luck can move them a little. Trainer recipes count as learnable 15 points before they turn yellow (their exact level isn't in the game data). Patterns that bind on pickup are left out; tradeable patterns that aren't listed right now are flagged. Trainer fees and the rank-ups (75, 150, 225) aren't included. Buying hundreds of a reagent will cost more than its lowest price.