Best Profession For Those New To Gold Making
Posted on September 12th, 2009 by Lawbringer under Auction House, DE, Economics, Efficiency Tips, Enchanting, Exploits, General Tips, Gold Building, Gold Farming, Instances, PVE, Supply And Demand, Tips, Trade Skills, Tricks, World of Warcraft, WotLKAnyone Can Make Gold Using Enchanting For Disenchanting – Here’s How:
Enchanting can be a very lucrative career profession. The only thing I hate about it is standing around in a major city spamming the trade channels with: level 435 ‘chanter LFW can do [some enchant] [another enchant] blah, blah, blah. Only to have to get into a 2 minute conversation with everybody anyway after linking my stuff and what the mat price is and what I charge for it. It can really be a hassle. But you can still make a TON of gold with enchanting and never enchant anything but your own gear.
Just like fishing and cooking are great for new toons and making bags is perfect for the mid-level characters, there’s just no beating enchanting for making the big bucks for your epic flying mounts. Questing in Northrend will land you the most amazing greens, and I would personally swear that they drop twice as often as in Azeroth & Outlands. Most of these greens are better than the level 70 dungeon gear from before the WotLK patch. However, because of the stats most people need on their items, about 50% of these drops are completely worthless. I mean you can’t sell them in the auction house at all. You can’t even give them away. So the greens in Northrend can be pretty hit-or-miss. They will either leave you agonizing over whether to equip it, sell it at the ah, or vendor it away.
Don’t worry about that if you have enchanting. The great thing about this technique is that you don’t have to mess around with maxing out your enchanting skill to make money at it. At skill level 375 you can disenchant everything in the game. Combine your DE work with just putting minor enchants on your own gear as you go from 70-80 and you can easily hit skill level 400-425 and sell most of what you DE along the way.
So you can do this without having to spend a ton of money leveling up your skill. The greatest thing about disenchanting items for money is that there are NO auction deposits for enchanting mats. Which means you can go for the highest price possible and re-list them all 100 times if necessary to get the very maximum price. On top of that, if you run just a few heroic dungeons you can easily farm enough Dream Shards to buy all of the top end recipes for yourself or your guild mates. So the materials are in high demand no matter what your server. Plus, at the level of the people buying these materials, money has usually ceased to be a big deal, because you can easily earn a few hundred gold just off of trash items in a few hours grinding, or from dailies.
So when you begin dreaming about that flying mount – you might go retrain in enchanting and spend a couple hundred gold getting it leveled up. After about three weeks of casual questing in Northrend, a famous nub I know was able to disenchant enough mats to sell the whole pile on AH for well over 2,500 gold, enough for half her flying mount (and she’s only level 73 so far). So whether you are farming, questing or raiding, enchanting is one way to make some serious dough without having to advertise.















My 43 banker toon has only 281 disenchant but has made 8k this month just disenchanting bought items and converting mats to sell on. About half an hour a day. Never moved from Og.
what about the other proffesion? thanks 4 this btw gave me a reason to lvl a DK and to keep ench on my main. Trying to get the last 10 skill to 375 but im cheap so i havent managed it even though i have the money
The only problem I’ve found on Fenris is the lack of decently priced greens in the DE 350+ range on the AH. As more people learn how valuable Ench is as a profession, the amount of disenchantables at good, profittable prices is getting more and more scarce.
Priunord: It would depend on the type of class you’re running your enchanting on. If your enchanter is a mage or other cloth-wearer, go with tailoring (which, btw, is the cheapest crafting prof for making DE’able items to make more money back from your levelling). If you’re a plate wearer, go for a gathering prof like mining (the toughness stat helps) or JC. Jewelcrafters get some nerf’d out bonuses to gear just using the JC only cuts. Hunters, Druids, Shamans, and the like would probably benefit more from another gathering prof, like herbalism.
Here’s an example that may hit home with you having a DK alt. I have a Pally with mining and ench. I transferred over a DK I had on my old server, with max’d JC and no secondary prof. I started levelling him as a BS. So far, I’ve been lazy and buying most of the mats I need. Then I list the items twice over the weekend (as laid out in the AH mastery guide), but only twice. I don’t waste the gold in deposits to list them 4x. After that, they get DE’d on Monday, and sold as mats. So far, I’m making back about 3/4 of what I spend on levelling the prof. This way, power-levelling BS isn’t the usual money-sink or time wasting grind it usually is. Plus, when my DK gets to the higher levels (67 right now), I’ll be able to use the nifty socketing bonus, along with my JC bonuses.
I have, thusfar, 1 main and 3 alts, and amongst those 4 toons, I have just about every prof covered. If any of my toons needs anything from simple upgrade gear to good bonuses and enchants, I have all my bases covered. The only 2 profs I don’t ever use are Alchemy and Leatherworking. Skinning is a great gathering prof, but it makes more bang for the buck just selling the leather on the AH. Plenty of LW’s don’t like farming for leather, and they end up relying on lower level chars to do the farming for them. Alchemy is pretty easy to grind up, but in the end, it’s almost more time consuming than it’s worth. I don’t use potions very often in the field (questing), and the times I need some elixirs or potions for a raid, I just buy them with the stacks of gold I can make using my other profs.
If you have multiple toons, and hey who doesn’t, i’ve been doing mining, JC and enchanting.
I mine ore, send to JC to prospect, make cuts that sell, AH gems or vendor for the crappy ones and use the gems and crystallized earth to make northrend greens. I then send my NR greens to my Enchanter to DE and AH the mats.
Simple
Serious question here – is enchanting still a good money maker even with all the abyss crystals flooding the market? Who buys these dusts and shards? It seems everyone these days has a guild source. please – educate me!
I’d assume the money is more in the rare’s not epics ? Or do I just run with a great guild
-Matt
absolutely,
there are more Abyss Crystals floating around because of reg ToC farming but they still sell (atleast on my server) for 40g a piece. Dust also goes for 3-5g per dust. And greater cosmics go for 14-20g. Its pretty easy to pick up cheap greens on the AH and then convert and resell.
it is difficult to level up but in the end is worth it
Well, on my server one enchanter started a trend and now all of them do it. They will spam trade with the following:
“WTB lvl 73 to 80 greens, 10g each.”. Some ppl go to 11 or 12g each. Guess what? There is no such thing as a cheap green anymore. Enchanting mats have gone up since all the enchanters are now doing this, Infinite dust is 5 to 7g each, GCE’s are 19 to 25 each, but there is still a lot of money to be made. It’s just the scale has gone up somewhat.
If you REALLY want to make a killing. Start doing this, but at 7 or 8g each, then store the mats, till all the enchanters are doing this and mats go up in price.
Apparently, there are a few DYS readers on my server.
Is enchanting still legit? On my server there are 4 pages of abyssal crystals alone due to the new disenchant loot feature. It seems alot of the mat prices dropped hard and even if you do enter some in more then likely it will not sell from the vast amounts that are being entered in.
Greg, you gotta keep up sir, or be sure you read carefully. There really isn’t a lot of fluff in a DYS article. Paragraph 4 states:
Currently, you’ll want to focus on DE items between level 200 and 300 skill. With everyone doing 5 million heroics per day, the market for Northrend mats is pretty depressed already – flooding it with another 50 stacks of infinite dust will just generate even more downward pressure on the price by inflating supply that much more.
So we answered your concern already. Since there ARE such a huge number of Northrend mats available:
-Yes, it would be silly to think you could make much gold off them
-Yes, you should sell other things
-No, it doesn’t mean enchanting is dead because ONE skill segment is flooded
-Yes, I still make more money from 200-300 level enchanting mats than anything else, and I sell thousands of things each week
Even mats that once were basically worthless, such as arcane dust, make me loads. I’m about the only person taking those worthless Outlands greens off the market and DE’ing them to get the mats. Eternals have always been good, but they are ridiculously profitable right now.
People are still leveling lots of tons, and lots of them are leveling enchanting, and enchanting takes tons of mats. Enchanting is also about the only profession where you can GATHER mats without FARMING mats. You could probably make more gold with Mining, but I’m not spending hours and hours every day mining. I would still much rather just go buy a couple hundred items no one wants anyway, DE them and go raid while I make gold.