Level a profession

Steps

1–11Craft ~10× Dust to Motescosts 79silver60copperafter selling for 30copper

recipe →each: 1× Strange Dust

11–20Craft ~9× Enchanted Lutecosts 75silver33copper

recipe →each: 1× Simple Wood (vendor), 1× Strange Dust

20–55Craft ~35× Enchant Chest - Minor Intellectcosts 3gold49silver65copper

recipe →each: 1× Lesser Magic Essenceneeds Formula: Enchant Chest - Minor Intellect (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

55–78Craft ~24× Enchant Chest - Inferior Staminacosts 1gold91silver76copper

recipe →each: 1× Strange Dust

78–81Craft ~3× Enchant Chest - Minor Intellectcosts 29silver97copper

recipe →each: 1× Lesser Magic Essence

81–133Craft ~72× Enchant Bracer - Minor Spiritcosts 7gold19silver28copper

recipe →each: 1× Lesser Magic Essenceneeds Formula: Enchant Bracer - Minor Spirit (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

133–159Craft ~28× Enchant Boots - Minor Staminacosts 8gold94silver88copper

recipe →each: 4× Strange Dustneeds Formula: Enchant Boots - Minor Stamina (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

159–166Craft ~7× Enchant Bracer - Lesser Strengthcosts 2gold80silver

recipe →each: 1× Soul Dustneeds Formula: Enchant Bracer - Lesser Strength (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

166–210Craft ~68× Enchant Boots - Lesser Agilitycosts 27gold20silver

recipe →each: 1× Soul Dust

210–230Craft ~144× Enchant Boots - Lesser Staminacosts 115gold20silver

recipe →each: 2× Soul Dust

Skill 230–300: 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).

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Copy for Auctionator

363× Soul Dust145gold20silver

155× Strange Dust12gold38silver45copper

110× Lesser Magic Essence10gold98silver90copper

9× Simple Woodvendor3silver42copper

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.