Level a profession

Steps

1–40Craft ~91× Rough Blasting Powdercosts 3silver64copperafter selling for 3silver64copper

recipe →each: 1× Rough Stone

40–42Craft ~4× Rough Dynamitecosts 3silver96copperafter selling for 2silver40copper

recipe →each: 1× Rough Blasting Powder, 1× Linen Cloth

42–55Craft ~19× Handful of Copper Boltscosts 30silver97copperafter selling for 2silver28copper

recipe →each: 1× Copper Bar

55–65Craft ~11× Rough Copper Bombcosts 45silver54copperafter selling for 13silver20copper

recipe →each: 1× Copper Bar, 1× Handful of Copper Bolts, 2× Rough Blasting Powder, 1× Linen Cloth

65–70Craft ~5× Copper Tubeearns 10silver50copperafter selling for 33silver

recipe →each: 2× Copper Bar, 1× Weak Flux (vendor)

70–94Craft ~35× Coarse Blasting Powderearns 9silverafter selling for 37silver

recipe →each: 1× Coarse Stone

94–110Craft ~22× Copper Modulatorcosts 97silver46copperafter selling for 11silver

recipe →each: 2× Handful of Copper Bolts, 1× Copper Bar, 2× Linen Cloth

110–134Craft ~27× Heavy Blasting Powdercosts 51silver30copperafter selling for 40silver50copper

recipe →each: 1× Heavy Stone

134–135Craft ~2× Flying Tiger Gogglescosts 5silver72copperafter selling for 8silver16copper

recipe →each: 6× Light Leather, 2× Tigerseye

135–160Craft ~27× Gold Power Corecosts 67silver50copperafter selling for 2gold2silver50copper

recipe →each: 1× Gold Bar

160–194Craft ~67× Solid Blasting Powdercosts 1gold50copperafter selling for 1gold67silver50copper

recipe →each: 2× Solid Stone

194–222Craft ~47× Craftsman's Monoclecosts 7gold36silver2copperafter selling for 12gold37silver4copper

recipe →each: 6× Heavy Leather, 2× Citrineneeds Schematic: Craftsman's Monocle (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

222–240Craft ~31× Mithril Casingcosts 24gold80silverafter selling for 3gold10silver

recipe →each: 3× Mithril Bar

240–249Craft ~10× Spellpower Goggles Xtremecosts 20gold70silver40copperafter selling for 4gold8silver80copper

recipe →each: 4× Thick Leather, 2× Star Rubyneeds Schematic: Spellpower Goggles Xtreme (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

249–259Craft ~13× Rose Colored Gogglescosts 31gold74silver47copperafter selling for 6gold71silver97copper

recipe →each: 6× Thick Leather, 2× Star Ruby

259–285Craft ~78× Green Lenscosts 326gold90silver58copperafter selling for 60gold60silver60copper

recipe →each: 8× Thick Leather, 3× Jade, 3× Aquamarine, 2× Heart of the Wild, 2× Wildvine

Skill 285–300: 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

742× Thick Leather177gold93silver16copper

156× Heart of the Wild156gold

234× Aquamarine37gold44silver

46× Star Ruby34gold96silver

93× Mithril Bar27gold90silver

156× Wildvine23gold40silver

234× Jade21gold3silver66copper

94× Citrine11gold27silver6copper

282× Heavy Leather8gold46silver

27× Gold Bar2gold70silver

134× Solid Stone2gold68silver

62× Copper Bar1gold8silver50copper

27× Heavy Stone91silver80copper

55× Handful of Copper Bolts55silver

59× Linen Cloth34silver81copper

35× Coarse Stone28silver

26× Rough Blasting Powder26silver

4× Tigerseye8silver

91× Rough Stone7silver28copper

12× Light Leather5silver88copper

5× Weak Fluxvendor5silver

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.