Some history first:
In my wisdom I thought I had plenty of cash at level 30 so I dropped herbalism and took up enchanting.
Once I reached 150 enchanting I grabbed a minor beastslayer enchant and started starting selling these for 1g50s a piece.
I am now level 33 and have reached enchanting 205 pretty easily, need to get my truesilver rod before I can go further.
I was buying greens/blues from the AH and running DM and WC for things to D/E, this gave me plenty of money to level my skills along with the money from selling glow enchants.
I've realised that it's taken up a lot of my cash, so I'm sitting at level 33 now with ~25 gold.
Just recently something has changed in the economy and now enchant mats have gone down almost 70% in price and there seems to be 1 million and one enchanters now competing with me.
I want to get my mount as soon as I ding 40 so I'll need to be saving pretty soon.
I also know that I need to go to Uldman to get up past 225 which I guess you need to do to make decent profit (not many seem to offer high enchants).
Uldman is going to be very tricky to get to until after 40 so I feel like I'm stuck in a hole.
The question is, should I cut my losses and pick up another gathering profession?
I guess if I do I can keep my rods in the bank if I want to pick it back up.
I was thinking mining cause I seem to pass by tin and silver a lot lately, also I notice the price of stacks of ores is over 2g atm.
Will it be easy to get back upto enchanting 225 when I can cope with Uldman (45+) solo?
Will I be able to get enough for my mount by the time I hit 40 with only one gathering profession and much less gold from D/E?
Any advise appreciated.
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I take it your other profession is skinning? you should be okay with that, but you will need to do some grinding to sell all of that and then of course the de-ed goods. I think I spent about 100g power leveling my DE alt to 225 (because mats are still expensive on my server) so that he could finally DE up to lvl 65 items.
There's really no money to be made in Enchanting anymore unless you have the endgame enchants. (Not the ones you can buy off vendors at 375)
However, you could take up Leatherworking and DE what you make to sell the mats. Not sure how much is to be made there with the price of leather in the AH but eventually it will come down again.
However, you could take up Leatherworking and DE what you make to sell the mats. Not sure how much is to be made there with the price of leather in the AH but eventually it will come down again.
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There's really no money to be made in Enchanting anymore unless you have the endgame enchants. (Not the ones you can buy off vendors at 375)
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maybe it's just a phase? You could always hold out for a month or so to see if the enchanters die down.
On an off-topic note, I went to level my enchanter, so I was gonna buy some strange dust. But to my surprise, some ******* has bought every strange dust on the market and has posted them serpritly at 1g a piece... I think Im gonna turn it in his face haha ^.^ *evil laguh*
On an off-topic note, I went to level my enchanter, so I was gonna buy some strange dust. But to my surprise, some ******* has bought every strange dust on the market and has posted them serpritly at 1g a piece... I think Im gonna turn it in his face haha ^.^ *evil laguh*
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Speaking from experience as a level 330 enchanter. The higher you get the more expensive it gets. Unless you are THE guild enchanter and getting fed green fodder for DEing and have a group of people who call on your for your skills, you need to dump Enchanting right now.
I've conservatively spent well over 3,000g leveling this monster and beside the nice ability of enchanting your own stuff, it really isn't worth it. You would do much better sticking with skinning and taking up either mining or herbalism.
Having two gathering professions means you will ALWAYS have plenty of money for what ever you want to buy and no short of customers coming to you for mats or selling on the AH. And get Auctioneer!
I've conservatively spent well over 3,000g leveling this monster and beside the nice ability of enchanting your own stuff, it really isn't worth it. You would do much better sticking with skinning and taking up either mining or herbalism.
Having two gathering professions means you will ALWAYS have plenty of money for what ever you want to buy and no short of customers coming to you for mats or selling on the AH. And get Auctioneer!
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