Level a profession

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Profession
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Materials209gold43silver42copper
Sell back30copper
Net cost209gold43silver12copper

Steps

1–11Craft ~10× Dust to Motescosts 99silver70copperafter selling for 30copper
recipe →each: 1× Strange Dust
11–20Craft ~9× Enchanted Lutecosts 93silver42copper
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 4gold30silver
recipe →each: 1× Strange Dust
90–101Craft ~11× Enchant Bracer - Minor Staminacosts 2gold20silver
recipe →each: 2× Strange Dust
101–130Craft ~37× Enchant Cloak - Minor Protectioncosts 7gold40silver
recipe →each: 2× Strange Dust
130–158Craft ~29× Enchant Boots - Minor Staminacosts 11gold60silver
recipe →each: 4× Strange Dustneeds Formula: Enchant Boots - Minor Stamina (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)
158–166Craft ~8× Enchant Bracer - Lesser Strengthcosts 4gold
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 34gold
recipe →each: 1× Soul Dust
210–230Craft ~144× Enchant Boots - Lesser Staminacosts 144gold
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).

Shopping list

364× Soul Dust182gold
274× Strange Dust27gold40silver
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.