Level a profession

Steps

1–5Craft ~9× Basic Campfireearns 17silver91copperafter selling for 21silver33copper

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 3silver64copperafter selling for 5silver20copper

recipe →each: 1× Small Spider Legbuy Recipe: Kaldorei Spider Kabob first: 9gold99silver99copper

60–100Craft ~40× Blood Sausageearns 40copperafter selling for 32silver

recipe →each: 1× Bear Meat, 1× Boar Intestines, 1× Spider Ichorneeds Recipe: Blood Sausage (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

100–141Craft ~41× Seasoned Wolf Kabobearns 31silver98copperafter selling for 1gold23silver

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)

141–175Craft ~35× Curiously Tasty Omeletearns 5silver95copperafter selling for 52silver50copper

recipe →each: 1× Raptor Egg, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet first: 65silver23copper

175–253Craft ~152× Giant Clam Scorchoearns 38silverafter selling for 4gold74silver24copper

recipe →each: 1× Giant Clam Meat, 1× Hot Spices (vendor)buy Recipe: Giant Clam Scorcho first: 2gold40silver20copper

253–300Craft ~92× Filet of Redgillearns 65silver32copperafter selling for 86silver48copper

recipe →each: 1× Raw Redgillneeds Recipe: Filet of Redgill (not on the AH right now: from a vendor or drop)

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152× Giant Clam Meat3gold75silver44copper

82× Lean Wolf Flank86silver92copper

187× Hot Spicesvendor74silver80copper

35× Raptor Egg32silver55copper

92× Raw Redgill21silver16copper

40× Bear Meat16silver

40× Spider Ichor8silver80copper

40× Boar Intestines6silver80copper

41× Mild Spicesvendor4silver10copper

9× Simple Woodvendor3silver42copper

52× Small Spider Leg1silver56copper

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.