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.

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

I’d assume the money is more in the rare’s not epics ? Or do I just run with a great guild

-Matt

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

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.