Level a profession

Steps

1–5Craft ~9× Basic Campfireearns 29silver88copperafter selling for 33silver30copper

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 5silver60copperafter selling for 4silver

recipe →each: 1× Small Spider Legneeds Recipe: Kaldorei Spider Kabob (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

50–60Craft ~10× Longjaw Mud Snapperearns 1silver60copperafter selling for 2silver10copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Longjaw Mud Snapperbuy Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper first: 15silver

60–130Craft ~94× Blood Sausageearns 4silver70copperafter selling for 75silver20copper

recipe →each: 1× Bear Meat, 1× Boar Intestines, 1× Spider Ichorbuy Recipe: Blood Sausage first: 10gold

130–209Craft ~172× Curiously Tasty Omeletearns 43silverafter selling for 2gold58silver

recipe →each: 1× Raptor Egg, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)needs Recipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

209–225Craft ~55× Rockscale Codearns 38silver50copperafter selling for 52silver25copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Rockscale Codbuy Recipe: Rockscale Cod first: 35silver

225–285Craft ~68× Filet of Redgillcosts 63silver92copperafter selling for 3silver40copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Redgillneeds Recipe: Filet of Redgill (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

285–300Craft ~17× Poached Sunscale Salmoncosts 31silver96copperafter selling for 2silver4copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Sunscale Salmonneeds Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

Shopping list

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172× Raptor Egg1gold46silver20copper

172× Hot Spicesvendor68silver80copper

68× Raw Redgill67silver32copper

94× Bear Meat37silver60copper

17× Raw Sunscale Salmon34silver

94× Boar Intestines16silver92copper

94× Spider Ichor15silver98copper

55× Raw Rockscale Cod13silver75copper

40× Small Spider Leg9silver60copper

9× Simple Woodvendor3silver42copper

10× Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper50copper

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.