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World of Warcraft: Midnight Engineering Guide - In-Depth Profession Analysis
This video covers the changes to the Engineering profession, leveling strategies, specializations, crafting ideas, and useful items in the World of Warcraft: Midnight expansion. It explains the differences between cooldown crafters and master crafters, the importance of recycling, tool selection, and provides information on the various items that can be made with Engineering.
1. ⚙️ Introduction to Midnight Engineering and Guide Overview
- ✅ This guide is an intermediate-level guide to Engineering in the Midnight expansion.
- ✅ It covers leveling, specialization paths, cooldowns and master crafting, builds, and the cool items that Engineering offers.
- ✅ Assumes you have some experience with professions from past years.
- ✅ You can use the video navigation to jump to the sections you want.
00:10 - 00:36
1. ⚙️ Introduction to Midnight Engineering and Guide Overview
- ✅ This guide is an intermediate-level guide to Engineering in the Midnight expansion.
- ✅ It covers leveling, specialization paths, cooldowns and master crafting, builds, and the cool items that Engineering offers.
- ✅ Assumes you have some experience with professions from past years.
- ✅ You can use the video navigation to jump to the sections you want.
00:37 - 02:39
2. 🛠️ Cooldown Crafters vs. Master Crafters: Understanding the Strategic Differences
- ✅ Consumables and materials now only have two quality grades.
- ✅ Cooldown crafters use multiple characters to increase item quality.
- ✅ Master crafters level up and gain knowledge to mass-produce high-quality items.
- ✅ Cooldown crafters can create the highest quality goods without needing high-quality materials.
- ⚠️ Cooldown crafting can affect material supply.
02:40 - 03:52
3. 📜 Specialization, Knowledge Points, and Artisan Crafting: Key Elements of Midnight Engineering
- ✅ Familiar elements like specialization, knowledge points, work orders, and focus are back.
- ✅ Recipes are purchased with Artisan's Mettle, and most can be obtained through discovery.
- ✅ Mettle replaces Artisan's Insight from within the war.
- ✅ Mettle only applies to specific professions.
- ⚠️ You cannot level multiple professions at the same time to focus Mettle in one place.
03:53 - 05:48
4. ♻️ Leveling and Recycling Guide: Efficient Engineering Growth Strategies
- ✅ Engineers use copper and tin ore.
- ✅ There are no recipes that use silver or thorium.
- ✅ Craft gear and then recycle it to get new parts.
- ✅ Recycling provides the necessary materials and allows you to learn recipes randomly.
- ✅ The type or quality of the item you recycle does not matter.
- ✅ After skill level 80, you need to craft epic tools to level up.
- ✅ Ingenuity is more effective for recycling.
05:49 - 07:27
5. 🧪 Specialization Deep Dive: Recycling, Gear, and Market Mobility
- ✅ It is recommended to quickly level up the recycling specialization to produce more Evercore and Aetheron.
- ✅ Focus on the stats you want in the remaining trees depending on how you craft.
- ✅ Bits and Bots cover trinkets, stat modifiers, and optional reagents.
- ✅ Market Mobility is where engineers produce various profession tools.
- ✅ Each profession tool has its own specialization.
- ✅ Combat Analysis is a risky tree due to demand.
- ✅ Engineers can craft helmets, bracers, guns, and new boots.
- ✅ Armor can be slotted with special engineering materials.
07:28 - 09:16
6. 💡 Build Ideas: Cooldown Crafting, Tool Crafting, and Gear Crafting
- ✅ Engineering can ignore quality, similar to Jewelcrafting and Inscription.
- ✅ Cooldown crafters can use Evercore and Aetheron to craft the highest quality gear.
- ✅ It is recommended to run a recycling alt army to produce Evercore and Aetheron.
- ✅ Making popular tools is also a good way to start.
- ✅ It is recommended to make Jewelcrafting tools first.
- ✅ Engineers can craft boots, which can be worn even if you are not an engineer.
- ✅ Bots can be attached to gain additional perks.
09:17 - 10:02
7. ✨ Engineering's Cool Items: Hunter Mods, Boots, and Trinkets
- ✅ Engineers can craft Hunter-specific mods and ammunition.
- ✅ Boots of all armor types can be crafted and used by non-engineers.
- ✅ Trinkets are specialized for crafted gear.
- ✅ Fun features like pausing long-term buffs, wipe recovery, and wormholes that move to random locations in the Midnight Zone are back.
- ✅ Decorations can also be made.