My enchanting has been at 275 for a very long time now, prolly 1.5 months, because I just haven't got the time and gold to level it, most of my money goes into raid preperation lately. But I have started a Mage alt which has tailoring/herbalism so I was thinking about swapping enchanting with alchemy on my pally. Please lend me your thoughts on this.
,Zignaestos
PS: Dropping engineering is not an option.
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My wife's mage is a tailor/enchanter and she spent tons of gold levelling those. My alchemy, by contrast, was cheap to level and has been extremely useful throughout the game. Some of the potions, elixirs and flasks sell very nicely on the AH, while most of the materials are pretty cheap if you need to buy them.
If you've got the mage to feed you herbs, then definitely go for alchemy. It won't necessarily make you big gold, but it won't cost much, and you can get great benefits from your potions.
Edited, Jun 1st 2008 8:55am by meagherly
If you've got the mage to feed you herbs, then definitely go for alchemy. It won't necessarily make you big gold, but it won't cost much, and you can get great benefits from your potions.
Edited, Jun 1st 2008 8:55am by meagherly
Without herbalism alchemy won't save you much money as the price of herbs are almost as much as the price of the elixir, but the new alchemists stones look pretty sweet, on my server the price of dust and essence have crashed to the point where its easier just to vendor greens, I don't make much money from my enchanting anymore.
On a sidenote, can you have more than one type of alchemy stone, for offspecs and the like?
Edited, Jun 1st 2008 11:59am by Tinyknight
On a sidenote, can you have more than one type of alchemy stone, for offspecs and the like?
Edited, Jun 1st 2008 11:59am by Tinyknight
I was BS/Mining. I got really sick of BS and espically since most t5 gear is way way better. I did switch over to Alch keeping the Mining for money (and my alt is a gemcrafter), I'm loving Alch. Not only for the pots on my lower lvl alts, but the advantages you get from them are just awsome in battle. And, they do sell. Not as hot as ore or herbs and such, but the do sell.
Anyway, there is my 2cts...
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Anyway, there is my 2cts...
More rum!!
Alchemy was by far the easiest crafting profession I have leveled to date. Especially having the herbs to feed to your Paly, it may not be a bad idea to make the switch. It's been very nice for me to have an Alchemy alt, especially being an elixir master (when it actually procs ...). I almost wish that my Paly was my Alchemist though so I could use those Mad Alchemist Potions :D But then I wish I had enchanting for the ring chants, engineering for the goggles, etc :P
I'm having the same thoughts Maulgak, Still don't know if alchemy will be better then enchanting, its either two ring enchants, or one alchemist stone.
Edited, Jun 2nd 2008 4:00pm by Zignaestos
Edited, Jun 2nd 2008 4:00pm by Zignaestos
If you are looking for something easy to level - go Alchemy.
If you want something more useful and to make you more money - go Enchanting.
If you want something more useful and to make you more money - go Enchanting.
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I have a mage (54) with 375 Alchemy and my healadin (70) has maxed enchanting, so I have the best of both worlds. I would however still say that enchanting is better - not only can you use the ring enchants (which are absolutely not to be sneezed at), but you can enchant your gear YOURSELF (no spamming trade chat or chasing up guildies), AND disenchant all those useless quest rewards as well as run instances and disenchant all the drops - all the dust, essences and shards usually sell nicely on the AH.
However, I spent a LOT of gold to get to 385, whilst Alchemy required almost no extra investment (apart from recipes etc - I have a lvl 70 warrior with herbalism :)
You pays your money and you gets your choice.
However, I spent a LOT of gold to get to 385, whilst Alchemy required almost no extra investment (apart from recipes etc - I have a lvl 70 warrior with herbalism :)
You pays your money and you gets your choice.
I have both enchanting and alchemy, both powerlevelled in a day for horrid amounts of gold. I only took alchemy really for the redeemers alchemist stone, but i've discovered a fair share of useful flasks, so that made it kinda worth sticking with. enchanting was a bit more fuzzy for me, i always figured i ought to drop it and let others enchant for me, but since i have stuff like cats swiftness, boars speed, mongoose, soulfrost, i just stick with it. Alchemy to me is much more useful really, i save a bit of gold every raid buying the base mats off the ah and making them myself as opposed to buying the ready made potions and elixirs, plus potting while wearing an alchemist's stone is a godsend. if i'm lucky that's 50% of my mana back. Really the only thing you're missing from enchanting would be the enchanter only ring enchants. eveerything else you can get from others, and the 15g i pocket every time i do mongoose for someone will never amount to enough to cover the cost of levelling it to 385 in the first place. the rods absolutely kill you, especially the eternium rod, there went 1k gold up in smoke.
so yeah, alchemy ftw.
so yeah, alchemy ftw.
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the rods absolutely kill you, especially the eternium rod, there went 1k gold up in smoke.
wow - I got my eternium rod for 0g. I just collected mats over a bit of time (probably about 3 hours of total work) while doing other stuff. The key is to have friends. I have a BS friend and Alchemist friend. I supplied all the mats, and they did their craft for me.
Leveling enchanting by buying all the mats off AH is tough. You can easily level it for cheap by gathering mats, and working with people you know.
Plus, you can make tons of money with enchanting by selling DE mats. Much more than you'll ever make with Alchemy.
BUT - Alchemy is very useful since you can make your own pots.
Either is good.
People who don't like enchanting generally don't really understand the profession.
I'd rather not spend hours of game time dragging my feet across some distant land farming countless mats for a profession. You have no idea how horrid it is trying to farm anything as holy. I figured hey, i've got the gold to spare, i'll just buy everything up.
As I understand it, the alchemist stone is one of the best healing trinkets in the game. Definitely worth considering picking up.
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You have no idea how horrid it is trying to farm anything as holy.
lol - yes I do. I'm holy too. I also hate farming. What I was trying to say is that just doing regular stuff will generally get you a majority of the mats. Dailies get you Mana and Fire primals, heroics/raids get you the crystals, GPEs - don't get me started on how easy these are to get, etc... The rest, I was just lucky that I'm a miner I guess. I happened to have most of the mats in the bank already since I was saving up for when I hit 375 ench.
But, if you wanted it right away, and weren't planning for it, then it can cost you a lot of money. Hey, at least you have it now :)
Poldaran wrote:
As I understand it, the alchemist stone is one of the best healing trinkets in the game. Definitely worth considering picking up.
Very true. The awesomeness of this trinket should not be under-estimated.
Edited, Jun 11th 2008 9:10am by YJMark
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Another thing to consider is what you are going to do with all those tailoring pieces you make. If you keep Enchanting you can disenchant them and sell the materials or keep them and use them to help level your already decently high profession.
Yes, I was thinking about the same Lokarian.
But I recently transferend to another realm, Dreanor, because my old guild lacked the spirit to raid. And most people on Draenor are quite farm-happy so I join them ocasionally and it has really filled my pocket. So I'm still keeping enchanting for the ring enchants. And instead of a Tailoring/herba alt I've created a Herba/Alch alt so I can feed my pally with elixers ands stuff.
I guess enchanting is really worth it if you have appropriate funds.
,Zignaestos
But I recently transferend to another realm, Dreanor, because my old guild lacked the spirit to raid. And most people on Draenor are quite farm-happy so I join them ocasionally and it has really filled my pocket. So I'm still keeping enchanting for the ring enchants. And instead of a Tailoring/herba alt I've created a Herba/Alch alt so I can feed my pally with elixers ands stuff.
I guess enchanting is really worth it if you have appropriate funds.
,Zignaestos
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