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MoP Classic Engineering Guide - Bonuses, Recipes & Overview

This MoP Classic Engineering guide gives you a full overview of the profession in Mists of Pandaria Classic. It covers profession perks like glove tinkers and epic goggles, along with mounts, pets, scopes, and special toys. You'll also find a breakdown of Gnomish vs. Goblin Engineering and how to unlock each specialization.

If you're looking to level up Engineering, check out my separate leveling guide here:

MoP Classic Engineering Leveling Guide

Profession Bonuses and Perks

Engineering provides powerful, self-only glove enchants called "tinkers." These offer a significant primary stat boost on a one-minute cooldown. Engineers also get access to unique helmet goggles with special cogwheel sockets, as well as tinkers for their belt and cloak.

Glove Tinker

Other Tools

These aren't all the available Tinkers, just the ones worth mentioning. Most players will probably end up using one of these:

  • Belt: Watergliding Jets - Allows you to walk on water and swim quickly.
  • Belt: Nitro Boosts - Greatly increase run speed for 5 sec.
  • Cloak: Goblin Glider - Deploys a glider to fall slowly for 30 seconds, great for avoiding fall damage and traveling.
  • Teleport: Wormhole Generator: Pandaria -Teleports you to a random location in Pandaria. (15 min Cooldown)

Epic Goggles (ilvl 476)

Engineers can craft their own epic helms in MoP Classic. These Bind on Pickup goggles come with two Cogwheel sockets, letting you customize your stats.

Cogwheels are cheap to craft and provide +600 to secondary stats like Crit, Haste, Mastery, Expertise, Hit, Parry, Dodge, or Spirit.

Goggles Armor Type Materials
Agile Retinal Armor Leather 6x Living Steel, 1x Primal Diamond, 6x Ghost Iron Bolts
Camouflage Retinal Armor Mail 6x Living Steel, 1x River's Heart, 6x Ghost Iron Bolts
Deadly Retinal Armor Leather 6x Living Steel, 1x Wild Jade, 6x Ghost Iron Bolts
Energized Retinal Armor Mail 6x Living Steel, 1x River's Heart, 6x Ghost Iron Bolts
Lightweight Retinal Armor Cloth 6x Living Steel, 1x River's Heart, 6x Ghost Iron Bolts
Reinforced Retinal Armor Plate 6x Living Steel, 12x Ghost Iron Bolts
Specialized Retinal Armor Cloth 6x Living Steel, 1x Sun's Radiance, 6x Ghost Iron Bolts

Mounts and Pets

To craft the high-end mounts, you'll need Orb of Mystery, which costs 20,000 gold and is sold by Big Keech in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

Item Type Materials
Geosynchronous World Spinner
Requires Gnomish Engineering to craft		 Mount
Depleted-Kyparium Rocket
Requires Goblin Engineering to craft		 Mount
Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling Pet

Guns and Scopes

Engineers can craft guns and scopes for ranged weapon users.

Item Type Note
Big Game Hunter Gun (ilvl 393) Requires level 85
Long-Range Trillium Sniper Gun (ilvl 463) Requires level 90
Lord Blastington's Scope of Doom Ranged Weapon Enchant Chance to increase your Agility by 1800 for 10 sec.
Mirror Scope Ranged Weapon Enchant Chance to increase your Critical Strike by 900 for 10 sec.

Blingtron 4000

The Blingtron 4000 toy is a new addition in MoP that gives out a daily quest rewarding a Blingtron 4000 Gift Package. This package can contain various fun items, Engineering materials, or even rare mounts and pets.

Notable Gift Package Loot

Mounts

Pets

Professions

Engineering Specializations

There is no in-game power associated with any of the specializations at max level. The only difference is the access to different toys.

I made a list of useful toys, pets, and mounts that Engineers can craft. These can help you decide which specialization to pick. The list doesn't cover every item, most are cosmetic or not very useful while leveling or at max level.

Gnomish Goblin

Specialization Quests

To Become a Gnomish or Goblin Engineer, you have to complete the Gnomish Engineering or the Goblin Engineering quest.

You can get both quests from these NPCs:

Alliance

Horde

Materials Needed for the Quests

To complete the quest, you will need the following items:

The Schematic: Accurate Scope recipe is sold by Mazk Snipeshot in Booty Bay. It's a limited-supply recipe, so you must wait if someone bought it before you. (or just buy it at the Auction House)

Total Raw Materials needed:

You will also need 18x Mithril Bar if you didn't save the Mithril Tube from leveling.

Crafting step-by-step:

  • Craft 6x Mithril Tube (if you haven't already)
  • Craft 1x Bronze Tube
  • Craft 1x Accurate Scope
  • Craft 2x Iron Strut
  • Craft 2x Bronze Framework
  • Craft 1x Gold Power Core
  • Craft 2x Gyrochronatom
  • Craft 2x Advanced Target Dummy

To complete the quest, you will need to craft the following items:

Total Raw Materials needed:

If you haven't saved the Explosive Sheep from leveling then you will also need these:

Crafting step-by-step:

  • Craft 10x Silver Contact
  • Craft 30x Heavy Blasting Powder
  • Craft 10x Big Iron Bomb
  • Craft 10x Solid Blasting Powder
  • Craft 10x Solid Dynamite

If you haven't crafted the Explosive Sheep yet:

  • Craft 10x Heavy Blasting Powder
  • Craft 5x Whirring Bronze Gizmo
  • Craft 5x Bronze Framework
  • Craft 5x Explosive Sheep

Changing Engineering Specialization

You can change your current Engineering specialization by simply talking to the quest givers again and clicking on the "I wish to unlearn my current Engineering specialization".

After you unlearned your current specialization, you have to complete the quest for the other specialization.