Level a profession

Steps

1–40Craft ~91× Rough Blasting Powdercosts 87silver36copperafter selling for 3silver64copper

recipe →each: 1× Rough Stone

Skill 40–90: 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).

90–130Craft ~50× Bronze Tubecosts 50silverafter selling for 1gold

recipe →each: 2× Bronze Bar, 1× Weak Flux (vendor)

130–195Craft ~240× Bronze Frameworkearns 4gold82silver40copperafter selling for 14gold40silver

recipe →each: 2× Bronze Bar, 1× Medium Leather, 1× Wool Cloth

195–225Craft ~82× Craftsman's Monoclecosts 66gold92silver84copperafter selling for 21gold58silver24copper

recipe →each: 6× Heavy Leather, 2× Citrineneeds Schematic: Craftsman's Monocle (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

Skill 225–300: 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).

Shopping list

Copy for Auctionator

164× Citrine73gold80silver

492× Heavy Leather14gold71silver8copper

580× Bronze Bar5gold80silver

240× Wool Cloth2gold40silver

240× Medium Leather2gold37silver60copper

91× Rough Stone91silver

50× Weak Fluxvendor50silver

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.