Level a profession

Steps

1–5Craft ~9× Basic Campfirecosts 3silver42copper

recipe →each: 1× Simple Wood (vendor)

Skill 5–20: 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).

20–63Craft ~44× Scorpid Surprisecosts 39silver60copperafter selling for 4silver40copper

recipe →each: 1× Scorpid Stingerneeds Recipe: Scorpid Surprise (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

63–130Craft ~199× Rainbow Fin Albacorecosts 1gold91silver4copperafter selling for 5silver97copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Rainbow Fin Albacoreneeds Recipe: Rainbow Fin Albacore (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

130–175Craft ~46× Curiously Tasty Omeletcosts 41silver40copperafter selling for 69silver

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)

175–207Craft ~37× Rockscale Codcosts 34silver41copperafter selling for 2silver22copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Rockscale Codneeds Recipe: Rockscale Cod (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

207–225Craft ~20× Soothing Turtle Bisquecosts 32silverafter selling for 60silver

recipe →each: 1× Turtle Meat, 1× Soothing Spices (vendor)needs Recipe: Soothing Turtle Bisque (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

225–300Craft ~120× Spotted Yellowtailcosts 2gold32silver80copperafter selling for 6silver

recipe →each: 1× Raw Spotted Yellowtailneeds Recipe: Spotted Yellowtail (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

Shopping list

Copy for Auctionator

120× Raw Spotted Yellowtail2gold38silver80copper

199× Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore1gold97silver1copper

46× Raptor Egg92silver

20× Turtle Meat60silver

44× Scorpid Stinger44silver

37× Raw Rockscale Cod36silver63copper

20× Soothing Spicesvendor32silver

46× Hot Spicesvendor18silver40copper

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.