Engineering Guide for Season of Discovery (SoD) Phase 8
Luxrah • Updated June 7, 2025
Phase 8 of Season of Discovery retains the 300 skill cap introduced in Phase 3 for professions, allowing players to max out their crafting and gathering skills in case they haven’t already done so. For the Engineering profession, that means you’ll be able to craft all kinds of interesting gadgets and explosives!
Engineering Leveling & Trainers
Check out our Classic Engineering Guide for trainer locations, a leveling guide, and more. Everything in that guide applies to Season of Discovery except for the level requirements for higher skill ranks (level 26 for Expert and level 41 for Artisan). There are some new recipes that are exclusive to Season of Discovery which we’ll cover in this guide, but they aren’t needed for leveling.
Learning Artisan Engineering
From Phase 3 onward, players were able to level their professions all the way to 300 skill, or Artisan level – the maximum skill for Vanilla WoW.
Artisan Engineering can only be learned from one specific trainer:
- Buzzek Bracketswing at Gadgetzan in Tanaris (52.3, 27.7)
Engineering Specializations
Along with the Artisan Engineering skill, players are now able to learn either Gnomish Engineering or Goblin Engineering. These specializations allow you to craft the specialization-exclusive schematics which you can see marked in the tables later in this guide. The Season of Discovery further expands upon the Engineering Specializations, allowing players to learn most schematics for the other specialization as well. So a player with Goblin Engineering will be able to learn most of the schematics provided by Gnomish Engineering as well, and vice-versa.
For a complete breakdown of what each specialization offers and a walkthrough for completing the quests, check out our Engineering Specializations Guide.
Gnome Engineering Racial
Gnomes have an advantage in leveling the Engineering skill due to their Engineering Specialization racial. This ability offers no advantage once you reach the skill cap, however. There are no schematics that require higher than 300 Engineering skill in Vanilla World of Warcraft.
New Engineering Schematics for Season of Discovery
Several new schematics have been added to the Engineering profession for Season of Discovery.
Phase 8 brings some new gadgets to the game, which you can get by completing quests in New Avalon:
- Pop-Up Shrub
- Tinkerbox
- Tinkerbox: Magnetic Displacement
- Tinkerbox: Nitro Boosts
- Tinkerbox: Teleport
- Tinker: Magnetic Displacement
- Tinker: Nitro Boosts
- Tinker: Teleport
- Semisafe Transporter: New Avalon
There are no new Engineering schematics in Phase 7.
Phase 6 adds some new items through Cenarion Circle and the Ahn’Qiraj raids:
- The Fumigator
- Obsidian Bomb
- Obsidian Blasting Powder
- Arcane Megabomb
- Obsidian Shotgun
- Tuned Force Reactive Disk
- Obsidian Scope
Phase 5 only adds the recipes accessible from the Zandalar Tribe.
Phase 4 unlocks most of the Vanilla WoW schematics for the end-game content while also adding a new rifle to the game! Most of the old schematics remain unchanged, however.
Phase 3 adds three new Engineer-exclusive Wrist items to the game:
In Phase 2, six more schematics were added to the game:
- Polished Truesilver Gears is a component used by other crafting recipes
- Ez-Thro Radiation Bomb is a new bomb that can be sold to non-Engineers
- High-Yield Radiation Bomb is a new bomb for Engineers only
- Hyperconductive Goldwrap is a useful Waist item for damage dealers
- Whirling Truesilver Gearwall is a powerful Shield piece for tanks
- Soul Vessel is used by Warlocks to obtain their Grimoire of Synergy Rune
One new schematic was added to the game for Phase 1:
- Shredder Autosalvage Unit is used for a quest that is required to discover one rune for every class
Phase 8 Engineering Schematics
Here are the best items you’ll be able to craft with Engineering in Phase 8, broken down by type.
Helmets & Goggles
All of the helm and goggle schematics in Vanilla WoW can now be crafted in Season of Discovery.
Trinkets
Other Equippable Gear
Scopes
Engineers are able to craft scopes which can be applied to guns and bows to increase their damage. These items are also used in other Engineering schematics.
Item | Recipe | Materials |
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Obsidian Scope | Schematic: Obsidian Scope Ahn’Qiraj raid drop | Thorium Tube x1 Arcane Crystal x1 Obsidian-Infused Thorium Bar x3 |
Biznicks 247×128 Accurascope | Schematic: Biznicks 247×128 Accurascope Dropped by Bosses in Molten Core | Lava Core x2 Essence of Earth x2 Delicate Arcanite Converter x4 Thorium Tube x1 Dark Iron Bar x6 |
Sniper Scope | Schematic: Sniper Scope World Drop | Truesilver Bar x2 Star Ruby x1 Mithril Tube x1 |
Deadly Scope* | Schematic: Deadly Scope Sold by: Knaz Blunderflame in Stranglethorn Vale Yuka Screwspigot in Burning Steppes | Thick Leather x2 Aquamarine x2 Mithril Tube x1 |
Accurate Scope | Schematic: Accurate Scope Sold by Mazk Snipeshot in Stranglethorn Vale | Jade x1 Citrine x1 Bronze Tube x1 |
Explosives
Gadgets
All of the crazy Engineering gadgets in Vanilla WoW are now accessible in Season of Discovery.
Combat Pets
These items summon pets that will fight for you for a short time.
A couple of notes about target dummies: the different versions are level 20, 40, and 60 and will only work on enemies around or below their level range. When they expire or are killed, they have a chance to drop Fused Wiring as well as any of the materials that were used to make them.
Non-Combat Pets
These are all of the collectible pets that can be crafted with Engineering, all of which can now be crafted in Season of Discovery.
Item | Recipe | Materials |
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Tranquil Mechanical Yeti | Reward from A Yeti of Your Own in Winterspring | Globe of Water x2 Gold Power Core x1 Cured Rugged Hide x1 Thorium Widget x4 Truesilver Transformer x2 |
Lifelike Mechanical Toad | Schematic: Lifelike Mechanical Toad World Drop | Rugged Leather x1 Gold Power Core x1 Living Essence x1 Thorium Widget x4 |
Lil’ Smoky Gnomish Engineering only | Schematic: Lil’ Smoky Random reward when renewing your Gnome Engineer Membership Card | Mithril Bar x2 Gyrochronatom x2 Truesilver Bar x1 Core of Earth x1 Fused Wiring x1 |
Pet Bombling Goblin Engineering only | Schematic: Pet Bombling Random reward when renewing your Goblin Engineer Membership Card | Mithril Bar x6 Big Iron Bomb x1 Heart of Fire x1 Fused Wiring x1 |
Mechanical Squirrel | Schematic: Mechanical Squirrel World Drop | Malachite x2 Copper Bar x1 Handful of Copper Bolts x1 Copper Modulator x1 |
Recipes
Engineers can craft a couple of recipes that are used in other professions. The items they create are in turn used in some Engineering schematics.
Item | Recipe | Materials |
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Recipe: Goblin Rocket Fuel Goblin Engineering only | Taught by: Nixx Sprocketspring in Tanaris Vazario Linkgrease in The Barrens | Engineer’s Ink x1 Blank Parchment x1 |
Plans: Inlaid Mithril Cylinder Gnomish Engineering only | Taught by: Oglethorpe Obnoticus in Stranglethorn Vale Vazario Linkgrease in The Barrens ![]() | Engineer’s Ink x1 Blank Parchment x1 |
Subcomponents
Many Engineering schematics require subcomponents that must be crafted first. Here’s everything you may need.
Max professions for phase 1 of SoD are actually 150 LOL, 225 locked to level 26
What he said – you can’t make half of this stuff!
Should be all fixed up now! That level 26 change was a surprise
Unfortunately I think a few things here are accurate but not possible to actually craft – for example, how are we supposed to get Frost Oil for Ice Deflector?
Good catch, I overlooked that.
Where’s Heavy Dynamite?
Added!
Won’t net-o-matic be available in p2 as well?
Unfortunately not since it requires Gnomish specialization.
Specialization requires artisan engineering? All I can find is that it requires 200 engi, but I guess that’s when artisan becomes available in era.