Level a profession

Steps

1–5Craft ~9× Basic Campfireearns 1silver53copperafter selling for 4silver95copper

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 6silver76copperafter selling for 9silver36copper

recipe →each: 1× Small Spider Legbuy Recipe: Kaldorei Spider Kabob first: 19silver

60–100Craft ~40× Blood Sausageearns 12silver68copperafter selling for 33silver8copper

recipe →each: 1× Bear Meat, 1× Boar Intestines, 1× Spider Ichorbuy Recipe: Blood Sausage first: 4silver90copper

100–130Craft ~30× Crispy Lizard Tailearns 34silver80copperafter selling for 75silver

recipe →each: 1× Thunder Lizard Tail, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)needs Recipe: Crispy Lizard Tail (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

130–150Craft ~20× Curiously Tasty Omeletearns 6silver60copperafter selling for 30silver

recipe →each: 1× Raptor Egg, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet first: 7silver

150–161Craft ~11× Heavy Crocolisk Stewearns 1silver76copperafter selling for 33silver

recipe →each: 2× Tender Crocolisk Meat, 1× Soothing Spices (vendor)needs Recipe: Heavy Crocolisk Stew (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

161–205Craft ~89× Curiously Tasty Omeletearns 29silver37copperafter selling for 1gold33silver50copper

recipe →each: 1× Raptor Egg, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)

205–228Craft ~93× Rockscale Codcosts 93copperafter selling for 8silver37copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Rockscale Codbuy Recipe: Rockscale Cod first: 42silver99copper

228–297Craft ~100× Filet of Redgillearns 68silver50copperafter selling for 1gold47silver50copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Redgillbuy Recipe: Filet of Redgill first: 2gold49silver

297–300Craft ~4× Poached Sunscale Salmoncosts 11silver52copperafter selling for 48copper

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

Shopping list

Copy for Auctionator

109× Raptor Egg83silver93copper

100× Raw Redgill79silver

139× Hot Spicesvendor55silver60copper

30× Thunder Lizard Tail28silver20copper

11× Soothing Spicesvendor17silver60copper

22× Tender Crocolisk Meat13silver64copper

4× Raw Sunscale Salmon12silver

93× Raw Rockscale Cod9silver30copper

40× Boar Intestines7silver20copper

40× Spider Ichor7silver20copper

40× Bear Meat6silver

9× Simple Woodvendor3silver42copper

52× Small Spider Leg2silver60copper

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.