why price enchants so high?Follow

These people just dont seem to get it!!
Enchanting is not a prof that you can just go around and gather the mats. Leatherworkers can skin, alchemists can gather herbs, blacksmiths can mine. People don't seem to realize enchanters can farm...but the things that enchanters farm are the items that sell the best in the AH or if you get lucky as a drop. NOt like you can run up to a green or blue weapon laying on the ground and farm it. Enchanters have to actually run instances to get the supplies to use for their prof, or have to go to the AH and buy numerous greens/blues or even buy the mats that another enchanter is selling because they have too many. You need a small glimmering shard to enchant a weapon - you might disenchant 4-5 things before you get lucky and get one(it is a crap shoot as to what mat you might get). If you are a leatherworker and need 5 light leathers to make chest armor, you go kill 5-10 beast mobs skin them and you get light leather(and yes I know about ruined leather scraps 3/1).
So yes, as long as the mats are harder to come by enchanting will be a premium cost!
So as long as you people keep wanting the enchants we will keep charging!! If you don't like the cost...don't ask!!

Replying to the OP, I think charging that much for an off the cuff enchant like +5 health to chest is ridiculous. But then again, it all depends on the economy of the server, for some servers the mats to make an enchant are more expensive than buying the greens to get the mats yourself.

Now, if it were a crusader or another extremely difficlut chant then I say charge what you want, if people want it then they will pay what they have to...for those kinds of things there is always some kind of parley-dance to come when deciding who provides what and that kind of thing to make sure everyone is manageably happy.

level 300 one handed weapon enchant: Lifestealing: often takes life away from your opponent, and gives it to you. This has a reduced effect if you are over 60.

6 large Brilliant shards, 10g ea.
6 Essence of Undeath, 10g ea.
6 Living essence, 10g ea.

So for the one enchant: 180g cost price, and I'm going to get you to supply the mats.

The recipe itself is a blue drop. After reading up on what it takes to get it, I decided that paying 150g for the recipe was a bargain. I expect a 20g "tip" from you if you aren't in my guild.

wrong. There are plenty of cheap (yes, even when you buy something for 10G, it's cheap if you can get 15G worth of mats out of it) items on the AH. There are plenty of people who put their bid price well below the buyout. Bids enable enchanters to make gold. OK, you're overbid 70% of the time. So what? We get the gold back when an item is outbid - no loss whatsoever. ...and we double or better our gold on the items that we get.


If you get mats you can't use, you sell them - for a profit. If you aren't making a profit on mats, you aren't farming the AH properly. An enchanter NEVER has to go into an instance to get mats. The only instance that is really necessary to go into is Uldaman to get past 225 enchanting - and that only has to be run once.


I don't find any mats at all hard to come by. But then again, I don't sell enchantments. I sell mats to people like you.