SoulBound

All professions

What each tree does

4 specs

Market MobilityTree

Profession tools and accessories for Engineering, Tailoring, Jewelcrafting, Fishing, and Mining.

Combat AnalyticsTree

Goggles, bracers, boots, and guns. This is where all your combat gear recipes are.

RecyclingTree

Improves Recycling yield and gives you Resourcefulness, Multicraft, and Ingenuity bonuses for all Engineering crafts. This is also where you get a big chunk of your crafting skill.

Bits and BotsTree

Bots, gadgets, and utility items. Also gives you extra procs when crafting or recycling reagents.

Choose a goalOne build path — nested branches appear below.

Profession Gear

Spend Knowledge in this order. Open trees only when you need a visual.

10 points

Put 10 points into Mandatory Tools or Finishing Touches , depending on which path you want to prioritize. You get 3 recipes from this.

25 points

Put 25 points into the root node to get extra skill for all profession gear, and you'll also unlock another recipe in the other sub-spec.

30 points

Put 30 points into Recycling to get a huge skill bonus for all Engineering recipes.

Profession Gear Build

If you want to craft profession tools and accessories, your goal is max quality as fast as possible. You need everything that gives skill points to your chosen gear type.

30 points into your chosen profession gear sub-spec. Now you can craft it at max quality without Concentration if you have Engineering at 100 and at least blue 3 profession gear. If you're not filling crafting orders , you can skip this and just use Concentration instead.

(Optional) Put 30 points into Resourcefulness to save materials. This works on crafting orders too. You keep the saved mats even when using other players' materials. You can skip this for now and unlock more gear types at max quality first.

Unlocking Recipes and Getting Skill

Put 10 points into Mandatory Tools or Finishing Touches , depending on which path you want to prioritize. You get 3 recipes from this.
Put 25 points into the root node to get extra skill for all profession gear, and you'll also unlock another recipe in the other sub-spec.
Put 30 points into Recycling to get a huge skill bonus for all Engineering recipes.

Max Quality and Resourcefulness

30 points into your chosen profession gear sub-spec. Now you can craft it at max quality without Concentration if you have Engineering at 100 and at least blue 3 profession gear. If you're not filling crafting orders , you can skip this and just use Concentration instead.
(Optional) Put 30 points into Resourcefulness to save materials. This works on crafting orders too. You keep the saved mats even when using other players' materials. You can skip this for now and unlock more gear types at max quality first.

Next Steps

You're basically done at this point. You can start putting points into the rest of the profession gear trees for more recipes. You need to max out each sub-spec if you want to craft that gear type at max quality without Concentration.

Engineering specializations

What each tree does

Profession Gear

Profession Gear Build

Unlocking Recipes and Getting Skill

Max Quality and Resourcefulness

Next Steps

Engineering specializations

What each tree does

Profession Gear

Profession Gear Build

Unlocking Recipes and Getting Skill

Max Quality and Resourcefulness

Next Steps