Level a profession

Steps

1–5Craft ~9× Basic Campfireearns 15silver75copperafter selling for 19silver17copper

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).

10–85Craft ~120× Kaldorei Spider Kabobearns 8silver40copperafter selling for 12silver

recipe →each: 1× Small Spider Legneeds Recipe: Kaldorei Spider Kabob (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

85–126Craft ~41× Cooked Crab Clawcosts 0copperafter selling for 10silver25copper

recipe →each: 1× Crawler Claw, 1× Mild Spices (vendor)needs Recipe: Cooked Crab Claw (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

126–141Craft ~15× Seasoned Wolf Kabobearns 13silver50copperafter selling for 45silver

recipe →each: 2× Lean Wolf Flank, 1× Mild Spices (vendor)needs Recipe: Seasoned Wolf Kabob (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

141–190Craft ~57× Curiously Tasty Omeletearns 5silver70copperafter selling for 85silver50copper

recipe →each: 1× Raptor Egg, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet first: 35silver

190–229Craft ~132× Rockscale Codearns 12silver32copperafter selling for 21silver56copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Rockscale Codbuy Recipe: Rockscale Cod first: 50silver78copper

229–300Craft ~116× Filet of Redgillcosts 52silver20copperafter selling for 5silver80copper

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

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116× Raw Redgill58silver

57× Raptor Egg57silver

30× Lean Wolf Flank30silver

57× Hot Spicesvendor22silver80copper

132× Raw Rockscale Cod9silver24copper

41× Crawler Claw6silver15copper

56× Mild Spicesvendor5silver60copper

120× Small Spider Leg3silver60copper

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.