DeKaTeK's SkillEazy

A profession leveling guide that is built for you: your skill, your recipes, your Auction House prices.

Normal leveling guides are written once, for an average player, with prices from someone else's server. They tell you to craft 40 of something you can't afford, to use green recipes that eat your materials without giving points, or to buy far too little and get stuck at skill 187. DeKaTeK's SkillEazy works out the route again every time something changes, from what you actually have and what things actually cost on your realm right now.

Made for WoW Forever. Covers Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring, Cooking and First Aid, all the way to 300, including the new Forever recipes. Requires Auctionator for prices.

What it adds to the game

1. A SkillEazy tab on the Professions window

Open any profession and click the SkillEazy tab on the side. You see:

• your current skill and your target (300 by default, you can change it),
• the full route: which rank to train, which recipes to learn, and what to craft and how many times,
• the total cost, a safe budget, and about how many crafts it takes.

Every step shows two numbers, for example Craft Bolt of Silk Cloth ×24 (up to 31): 24 crafts is the usual amount, 31 is enough to finish the step 9 times out of 10.

What this changes for you: you never have to search a website, open a spreadsheet or guess. The guide fits your exact skill and the recipes you already know.

2. A route that is safe, not only cheap

SkillEazy does not simply chase the lowest number. It weighs gold and time:

• Orange recipes (a sure skill point) are preferred.
• Yellow recipes are used when they are clearly better value.
• Green recipes are avoided. A green craft often needs 3, 4 or more tries for one point. SkillEazy only uses one when it is at least about 10× cheaper than the safe way.
• Leveling style setting: Cheapest, Balanced (default), Fast or Fastest – you decide how much your time is worth.

What this changes for you: you don't burn your materials on crafts that give nothing, and you don't end up 10 points short with an empty bag.

3. A shopping list that covers bad luck

The shopping list adds up every material the route needs:

• Need / Have / Missing for each item, counting your bags and bank.
• The price per item, from the Auction House (Auctionator) or the vendor, whichever is cheaper.
• Quantities are big enough to reach your target 9 times out of 10 (you can choose 8, 9 or 9.5 out of 10). Orange crafts get exactly what they need.
• One click on Create Auctionator list puts the missing items into an Auctionator shopping list, ready to buy.

What this changes for you: one trip to the Auction House, and you have everything.

4. The route updates by itself

The plan is never fixed. It is worked out again whenever something important changes:

• you scan the Auction House with Auctionator and prices change,
• you visit a trainer (SkillEazy records the real recipe fees) or a vendor (it records real vendor prices),
• your bags or bank change – things you already own are free,
• you gain a skill point – the finished part disappears and the route continues from where you are.

It never recalculates during combat and only when something relevant changed, so it doesn't slow your game.

5. Your own gathering counts as free

Tick what you gather yourself (herbs, ore, leather, cloth) and those materials cost nothing in the plan, so the route uses them first.

Commands

• /se – open the SkillEazy window for any profession you have opened before
• /se <profession> – open it for one profession, for example /se tailoring
• /se plan <profession> – print a short summary in chat
• /se help – list of commands

How the numbers are calculated

• Recipe data (materials, created items, skill colours) comes straight from the WoW Forever game files, so all new Forever recipes are included.
• Skill-up chance: orange = always, grey = never. Yellow and green use the common estimate (grey − skill) ÷ (grey − yellow). Blizzard has never published the exact formula, so for green crafts SkillEazy assumes half of that chance when it decides how much to buy.
• Prices: Auctionator's latest scan, or the vendor price when a vendor sells the item. Missing prices are listed, with a reminder to scan the Auction House.
• Trainer fees: an estimate until you visit a trainer once; after that, the real fees are used.

Good to know

• Requires Auctionator.
• Scan the Auction House with Auctionator from time to time – better prices give a better route.
• Visit your profession trainer once so SkillEazy knows the real fees.
• The route always starts from your current skill, so you can start using SkillEazy at any point, not only at skill 1.