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Steps

1–5Craft ~9× Basic Campfireearns 1silver80copperafter selling for 5silver22copper

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).

10–60Craft ~52× Kaldorei Spider Kabobearns 47silver84copperafter selling for 49silver40copper

recipe →each: 1× Small Spider Legbuy Recipe: Kaldorei Spider Kabob first: 2gold

60–90Craft ~30× Blood Sausageearns 2silver10copperafter selling for 24silver

recipe →each: 1× Bear Meat, 1× Boar Intestines, 1× Spider Ichorbuy Recipe: Blood Sausage first: 94silver

90–110Craft ~20× Dig Rat Stewearns 17silver20copperafter selling for 37silver20copper

recipe →each: 1× Dig Ratbuy Recipe: Dig Rat Stew first: 11silver11copper

110–130Craft ~20× Gooey Spider Cakeearns 30silver20copperafter selling for 49silver

recipe →each: 2× Gooey Spider Leg, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Gooey Spider Cake first: 88silver

130–175Craft ~46× Curiously Tasty Omeletearns 6silver90copperafter selling for 69silver

recipe →each: 1× Raptor Egg, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet first: 21silver

175–191Craft ~16× Rockscale Codearns 80copperafter selling for 1silver60copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Rockscale Codbuy Recipe: Rockscale Cod first: 25silver83copper

191–246Craft ~82× Giant Clam Scorchoearns 2gold6silver64copperafter selling for 4gold51silver82copper

recipe →each: 1× Giant Clam Meat, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Giant Clam Scorcho first: 89silver

246–300Craft ~99× Filet of Redgillearns 24silver75copperafter selling for 32silver67copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Redgillbuy Recipe: Filet of Redgill first: 2gold15silver81copper

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82× Giant Clam Meat2gold12silver38copper

148× Hot Spicesvendor59silver20copper

46× Raptor Egg43silver70copper

20× Dig Rat20silver

40× Gooey Spider Leg10silver80copper

30× Bear Meat9silver90copper

99× Raw Redgill7silver92copper

30× Spider Ichor6silver60copper

30× Boar Intestines5silver40copper

9× Simple Woodvendor3silver42copper

52× Small Spider Leg1silver56copper

16× Raw Rockscale Cod80copper

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.