Enchanting worth it to pick up at lvl50?Follow

Right now I have tailoring (250) and skinning (298). In the past, skinning has always made a fair amount money, but now I'm starting to see that just selling enchanting reagents pulls in a good amount of money as well (on my server, for example, a lesser eternal essence will sell for 3g). I get plenty of garbage greens and blue bops (that no one wants), that I just end up selling to venders. I know that enchanting can be somewhat of a money pit in the beginning, but if i do it primarily to sell reagents for a while, would it be a viable replacement for skinning?

Thanks for your input.

I dropped Mining (300) for it, and never looked back. (also a tailor). If you're not interested in going out and spending hours specifically farming mines (let's face it, who is?) then (dis)Enchanting earns you way more gold.

Enchanting/Skinning is the best combination of professions for earning gold in the course of play.

(Mining/Skinning is far superior if you're prepared to spend time making money and nothing else, but Enchanting/Skinning gives you the most cash if you're just questing along.

Trouble with mining is that on high pop servers the best mining spots are camped 24/7 by farmers. You can make about 20-30G/hour without too much stress just mining Thorium (even with the farmers there), but you can make way in excess of that soloing SM with enchanting (esp. if you're a rogue/druid), and the farmers don't interfere your gathering that way. As an added bonus I find grinding through SM solo way more fun than racing farmers to mining nodes.

Also the % of enchanters (and therefor the demand for reagents) is much higher on high-pop servers where people are playing alts.