Enchanting questionFollow

I have read several posts now that Enchanting is very expensive early on. However, I have not read any explanation why it is so expensive? I am considering making an alt char that does Enchanting and would really like to know why it is so expensive? Thanks all!

Up until two days ago I was a Tailor/Enchanter.

The really enchanting is so expensive is because of your components: to get them you need to disenchant. To disenchant, you need green+ equipment. What stinks is that (if you're disenchanting green armor, the most common green items for a Tailor), you'll get dust most of the time, and occassionally essences. However, you need to make items solely to disenchant. This gets to be very expensive.

Then, for the first 200-225 levels (this is hearsay), you won't make much, if any, money off of these enchants. Because every mage/warlock/priest is probably doing the same thing; and they cut each others' throats to just cut their losses in half. I know I didn't sell a single enchant for the 140 levels I was an encahnter; because everyone else would lower their prices to make sure their enchants sold :-/.

There is a good guide on enchanting for less, but take it all with a grain of salt. The recommendations don't tell you that you'll need to farm a ton of cloth for your tailroing greens that you'll end up disenchanting. While this is less expensive than wastefully leveling enchanting, you could make soooo much more by selling your cloth or AHing the greens. Also, some suggestions like selling Minor Beastslaying for 1 gold is totally server-dependent. On my server, it hovers between 30-40 silver. Better than nothing, but... ouch...

I eventually gave up enchanting for mining; and just by getting it to level 190, I've made over 20 gold. I'm quite happy with my choice :-). But don't let me hold you back; just take into account that you won't be getting income from cloth nor random green/blue drops. This is where I got almost all of my money as a Paladin; think carefully; is it worth it to be poor for 45-50 levels, to not get your mount until you're almost 45, just to have a few worthwhile enchants at level 50+? I decided it wasn't; you may decide it is.

If you are really intrested in doing enchanting then don't start with a lvl 1 main char. Probably one of the better things to do is get get your main at a decently high lvl (say high 40's to 50's) and then supply your alt Enchanter with most of the stuff that they will need.

For example: My lvl 50+ Rogue can solo the Deadmines, Stockades, BDF, Orc Camps, SM ect... Generally I can come out of the deadmines with 20 or so nonsoulbound green items which I will send to my alt tailor/enchanter along with all the cloth I picked up. I kid you not, by the time I hit lvl 10 I was capped at both tailoring and enchanting until lvl 20 (my alt mage is now lvl 21 and halfway capped on both Tailoring and Chanting).

Another advantage of having a high lvl toon do all the work for you is that you can pick up some pretty kick butt armor/weps for the alt. When you can solo a instance there is no need to share or roll the drops. Anyway that has seemed a pretty effective way to get to 225 in tailoring and chanting.

There is a pretty good guide on getting to 225 btw (I really dont know why this isnt a sticky in this forum but it is in the guides section):



Edited, Tue May 24 10:55:53 2005 by Paraclease

disenchant soulbound and sell non-soulbound items up to lvl 45 then after that go for really boosting the enchanting skill

Without having spent more than 30-40 gold on AH supplies, I've managed to level up Enchanting to 272 so far with my rogue, just using DE'd components. I occasionally make a run into places like Shadowfang Keep or the Scarlet Monestary for greens and BOP blues. It wasn't expensive for me at all.