Engineering is used to assemble metal and stones into parts needed to make explosives, guns, scopes, bullets, mechanical dragons, aquatic helmets, and more. More than any other Profession, engineering products require several steps to be completed. Bombs and Dynamite are the bread and butter of the engineer's creations. Many engineering recipes require a lot of different parts before the item can be created. This will require more space in your bags than other Professions. Engineering is a very fun and creative Profession. You can create all kinds of wacky things that are fun to use and also entertain and amaze other players.

If you plan on being an engineer, you should probably already be a miner. Miners collect ore and smelt ore into bars to create the majority of engineering items. Engineer recipes often include jewels, which are found in a variety of places. Typically, most engineers buy or are given rare jewels from other players. Some engineer recipes require leather, which you will need to buy from a skinner. You will need to find a lot of other odd ingredients for your recipes that might need to be purchased from other players. Some items can actually be fished up with the fishing skill or found from monster drops or treasure chests.

The engineering trainer has some very cool engineering plans. However, there are many more interesting and desirable plans out there to find from monster drops. You will likely have to buy these from other players or get them from friends if you aren't lucky enough to get them yourself.

• You can create area of effect and direct damage explosives that you can use during combat. You can also give or sell these to other players.
• Scopes do not require the Engineering skill to equip.
• The level of the Mechanical Dragonlings, Battlechicken, and Bombs dropped by the Goblin Bomb Dropper scale with your engineering skill, so they will be always useful against enemies.
• You can find engineering devices as drops on higher level (50+) dungeons and in raids.
• Bombs cause a disorient effect when they go off.
• Target Dummies generate an initial taunt pulse so creatures will attack them for the first 5 seconds after they are dropped.
• Both types of the engineer-made Jumper Cables share a cooldown.

Repair Robot
An engineering recipe is available in Blackrock Depths for a repair robot. This robot acts as a repair vendor for 10 minutes and will repair and purchase items for normal cost. This will allow dungeon groups and raids to get items repaired and sold without returning to town

These sample items might convince you it's time to become an engineer:
Coarse Dynamite - Inflicts X to Y damage in a Z yard radius.
Big Bronze Bomb - Inflicts X to Y damage and stuns targets for Z seconds in an N yard radius.
Mechanical Squirrel - Create a mechanical squirrel that will follow you around as your pet. It serves no purpose other than to entertain people. You can hand out the squirrels to other people as gifts or even sell them. "It doesn't do anything, but boy, it's cute!"
Small Seaforium Charge - Use an explosive charge to open chests.
Goblin Land Mine - Places the Goblin Land Mine on the ground. It will explode the next time a hostile creature passes near.
Explosive Sheep - Summons an Explosive Sheep which will charge at a nearby enemy and explode.
Goblin Jumper Cables - Jumper Cables will sometimes be able to shock a dead player back to life. Be warned that they are experimental and may explode.

For more on quests read our Quests page .

Will quests vary in difficulty?
Yes, at each level there will be quests that vary in their degree of difficulty. Of course easier quests will give lower experience and/or lesser items whereas the harder quests will give high experience and/or more desired items.

There will also be "elite" quests in the game. Elite quests will yield much more experience than normal quests and the rewards will be exceptional as well. It will generally take a group (or in some cases, groups) of people to complete an elite quest.

Will there be group quests available?
Yes, most definitely.

Will each member of a group receive a quest reward if they participated in completing a quest?
If each member of the group accepted the quest from the quest-giver, each member would also receive the quest reward.

What happens when a player fails to complete a quest? Will there be an option to try that quest again?
Yes, players can always go back to the quest giver and try again.

Will there be quests that take you to enemy towns and/or cities? (For example, can a Rogue get to sneak in, steal stuff, and sneak out for a quest?)
Yes, there are quests in the game that take you into enemy towns.

Will there be Epic Quests?
Yes! We're calling them Life Quests.

Will there be very large or continued quests that take a lot of steps to fully complete?
Heck yeah! There will be "small" multipart quests, which you might be able to finish in several days, and epic "life quests" that will span your entire adventuring career.

How does the skill system work?
Characters have access to a huge variety of both class-specific skills (class skills) and general-use skills, called professions. Class skills are determined by your character class and are an integral part of your character. For example, a warrior's sword skill, axe skill, and mace skill are all considered class skills. There are also a wide variety of professions available to all players regardless of class, allowing players to customize their skill set. Examples of professions include alchemy, blacksmithing, and herbalism, to name a few.

Can you tell us more about professions?
Professions are learned from various trainers around the world. Some professions will be rare and hard to find trainers for, while others will be much more common, with trainers located in multiple cities. Professions can be broken into two tiers: primary professions and secondary professions. Players can learn a maximum of two primary professions. In order to learn a new primary profession, a player must unlearn one of his or her existing primary professions first. Secondary professions are less versatile and robust than primary professions, but there is no limit to the number of secondary professions you can learn.

How do you improve your skills and professions?
Players improve their class skills through a combination of usage and leveling. Class skills related to a character's class abilities, such as a mage's frost skill, which improves his frost spells, automatically increase when a character levels. However, weapon and defense skills only improve through usage. Thus, in order to improve your ability with swords, you must equip and fight with a sword. Professions operate similarly. In order to increase your skill level in a profession, you must use it. For class skills, even those that you increase manually, your character level dictates the maximum skill level you can have in a particular skill. For professions, your profession rank - apprentice, journeyman, expert, and artisan - determines your maximum skill level.

Is there a way to retrain talent or skill points?
Yes. If you unlearn a profession, you can return to a trainer and relearn it. However, your skill level will be rest to zero and you must increase it yourself.

You'll also see some familiar monstrous creatures, such as ogres, gnolls, centaurs, satyrs, murlocs, wildkin, and others, that are inspired by the hostile creeps of Warcraft III. And you'll encounter more spectacular enemies like demons, infernals, dragonspawn, and mighty dragons stalking the dungeons and high-level areas of the world.

The territories and terrain you will be able to explore are vast and varied. In addition to borrowing from some of the most storied locations in Warcraft history, the game also shows off many different kinds of environments, such as the lush forests in Ashenvale and Feralas, the snowy mountains in Dun Morogh, the savannah of the Barrens, the plains of Mulgore, and the deserts of Tanaris. Swamps in Un'Goro Crater, jungles in Stranglethorn Vale, farmland in Elwynn Forest, and even deforested hills in Stonetalon Mountains are some more of the many environmental regions you can explore. Terrain that has been vastly altered by magic and the ravages of war also appear in the game. The razed city of Dalaran, encased in a protective magic shell, is a painful reminder of the devastation of the Reign of Chaos, while the infested Eastern and Western Plaguelands are filled with diseased animals and plantlife, courtesy of the Scourge's plague.

This long list of fascinating terrain doesn't even include the underground environments and dungeons of the world. There are dungeons available for all ranges of mid- to high-level players, and offer many rich quests, rewards, and enemies to encounter in the depths below ground.