Engineering Guide for Midnight

Engineering can create many profession gear items, such as Giga-Gem Grippers. They are also responsible for creating the P.O.W. x3 gun, and helmets, boots, and wrists for all armor types, such as the Aetherlume Vision Shroud, Aetherlume Clonkers, and Aetherlume Bracelets. They also create Scopes which divided between permanent ranged weapon enchants such as Farstrider's Hawkeye, and temporary buffs such as Weighted Boomshots. Finally, they can also create a lot of unique House Decor.

Engineering-created Embellishments, such as the B1P, Scorcher of Souls, or the new Outdoor Embellishments, such as Kinetic Ankle Primers, are the only Embellishments that can be used on Engineering gear. Engineers can also produce the Lucky Keychain optional reagent which allows you to remove an existing Embellishment from an existing item through recrafting.

Engineering also has many unique gadgets, such as the Wormhole Generator: Quel'Thalas for quick transportation, the Curious Red Button which can give you a funny buff or kill you randomly when clicked, W-47CH D0G consumable-saving device, and M3DDY robot for quick wipe recovery.

Emergency Soul Link is particularly notable for being a combat resurrection item that can be used by anyone, but it has the downside of requiring close proximity to the dead player and taking 3 seconds at maximum Quality, or 6 seconds at base Quality.

There are no Horde races with Engineering bonuses, but Alliance players can be Gnomes for +5 skill points or Kul'Tiran for +2 skill points.

Engineering can make great use of all four stats, but you might want to focus on specific stats with different Engineering specializations. We go into detail with Engineering stats and the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guide below:

Increasing your skill in Midnight is done by crafting items that grant skill points as usual, but the way you learn new recipes with Engineering is completely unique. Instead of learning most of them from the trainer and / or world dropped recipes, you will learn recipes randomly when using your new Recycle crafting ability.

This ability allows you to destroy 5 crafted reagents from other professions in order to receive Aetherlume and Evercore Engineering reagents. Different destroyed items grant different types and amounts of these reagents, and while we suggest Powder Pigment as a cheap Evercore source and Gloaming Alloy for Aetherlume in a vacuum, the ideal option is to buy very cheap finished items from the Auction House, typically something mass produced for leveling purposes that has no practical usage for other players, and thus gets sold for very cheap!

You will be able to track all weekly and one-time sources of profession knowledge with Myu's Knowledge Points Tracker, which has been converted to an addon in Midnight!

There are also eight treasures around the world that you can loot to gain up to 24 extra knowledge. You can find them all easily in-game with the aforementioned addon.

If you want to craft Engineering combat and profession gear, the Combat Analytics tree is what you should invest your knowledge into. This tree has a sub-node for each gear type that unlocks all of its armor type variants and grants massive skill bonuses.

The Recycling tree improves your Recycle outcomes and has sub-nodes that massively increase the power of profession stats, making any other Engineering craft much more profitable in the process.

The Bits and Bots tree also improves Recycle but rather than improving your stats and their effects, it increases skill and stats when crafting (optional) reagents and teaches some recipes for them, such as M3DDY.

Finally, Market Mobility provides the blue profession gear recipe unlocks and a lot of extra skill to craft them with, but requires a massive amount of knowledge points for each specific tool/accessory making it a very inefficient tree.

From a gold-making perspective, Engineering allows you to convert cheap crafts from other professions, ore, and other materials into expensive Gear, Parts, Scopes, and House Decor.

Until you fully max out skill, gear, and knowledge for your desired crafts, you will be reliant on Concentration to get maximum ranks out, which can quickly be exhausted every day, so make sure to create some alts to increase your production cap while it is still very profitable to do so! Even later on those can still be useful as they will be able to create maximum rank items more cheaply than the guaranteed method, which requires full maximum Rank reagents.

Gear crafting is expected to hold out for longer on high prices than consumables, but the epic crafts will require you to find customers willing to tip well. An advantage unique to Engineering is that you craft less slots than other gear-crafting professions but can maximize them for all armor types with a single knowledge tree investment node. Engineering gear also has the advantage of having a single secondary stat, making it easier for specs to stack their favored stats. The main downside is that the Embellishments allowed on Engineering armor tend to be weak and very limited, and helmets can only be used by other Engineers.

We have a specialized guide for Midnight gold-making below, which contains a gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successful gold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!