Level a profession

Steps

1–11Craft ~10× Dust to Motescosts 24silver70copperafter selling for 30copper

recipe →each: 1× Strange Dust

11–20Craft ~9× Enchanted Lutecosts 25silver92copper

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

Skill 20–55: 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).

55–90Craft ~43× Enchant Chest - Inferior Staminacosts 1gold7silver50copper

recipe →each: 1× Strange Dust

90–101Craft ~11× Enchant Bracer - Minor Staminacosts 55silver

recipe →each: 2× Strange Dust

101–130Craft ~37× Enchant Cloak - Minor Protectioncosts 1gold85silver

recipe →each: 2× Strange Dust

130–190Craft ~192× Enchant Boots - Minor Staminacosts 19gold20silver

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

Skill 190–300: 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

926× Strange Dust23gold15silver

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.