Going Broke EnchantingFollow

I'm an Enchanter of skill level 210. So far enchanting has not made me a single copper piece, and has instead cost me horrendous amounts of money. I can't get my skill up without buying lots of mats, and even then I have to cast them for free or cheap because no one is willing to pay for anything.

My other profession is tailoring. Oftentimes I find myself enchanting/disenchanting my tailored goods just so I can get my skill up.

What's the trick to making money as an enchanter? Surely there must be something I'm missing. I'm considering starting over as a skinner/miner but I've invested so much in enchanting I'd hate to quit now.

I got to 300 enchanting with my lvl 60 dwarf rogue back when enchanting was more expensive to level up than it is now. Don't get too discouraged, it really is a worthwhile profession. Much like Khalane said, you should disenchant for the materials that you need for whatever enchants that your doing. Also, I found disenchanting to be much more profitable than enchanting is -- many of the materials sell amazingly well on the auction house, and none of the materials have an auction fee.

What I did with my dwarf enchanter was find equipment that was selling for cheap on the auction house, buyout the equipment, disenchant them, and sell the disenchanted materials for more than I paid for the equipment. At the time, I was disenchanting mid-level weapons for Greater Nether Essences. Greater Nether Essences sold for 6 gold each and most mid-level weapons had 3 gold buyouts. Sometimes I would even get two Greater Nether Essences from one disenchant, but other times I would get Soul Dust which sold for significantly less. Anyhow, I would almost triple the amount of money that I spent on buying the mid-level weapons. In worse case scenarios I would have to deal with competitors trying to undercut my Greater Nether Essence prices, but I would simply buyout all their Essences and resell them at my listed price. Problem solved, and so was my gold making problem.

Give disenchanting a try, you should be able to make some good money or at least make back all of the money that you have spent on getting your enchanting skill up, and the greatest thing of all is that you wont have sit around in Orgrimmar or Ironforge spamming the enchantments that your trying to sell.


What I wish that Blizzard would do with enchanting is make it so you can imprint enchantments onto scrolls that you could sell on the auction house; they could be used much like how we use armor kits. However, the problem with this idea, much like the problem with every other profession, is auction house undercutters. There are too many people out there with the Walmart mentality, its very difficult to make a profit off of a crafting profession as its usually a lot more profitable to sell raw materials than finished products.

What works for my alt enchanter is my main character feeds items that are Bind on Equip to the Enchanter for getting my skill up and getting mats.

You need extra bags to hold the huge variety of mats things disenchant into, but it pays off in the long run.

Well i hope this isn't your first toon. Imo enchanting should be done later on when you have quite a bit of gold from your main so you can supply your enchanting alt.

As stated above enchanting will never make you a great amount of money. Disenchanting on the other hand will. You could get to 275 and be able to DE everything in the game but, epics from raids. The only problem with this is, you will be broke till you can start selling the mats.

I look at enchanting this way. It is something you can do for fun, not to make money. It is very beneficial to your guild esspeically for raiding.

I started off my enchanting adventures having first read some information on disenchanting for profit. As a result, I had enough gold for my first mount at level 32 (including riding training) as well as training all class/pet skills and upgrading all armor from leather -> chain at level 40 (I play a Hunter). In addition, when it was all said and done, I still had over 100g on hand.

Fast forward a bit and it was time to raise the cap on Enchanting from 225-300. Everything I read said that whether you go to Uldaman or Shattrath, bring enough mats to raise your skill as high as you possibly can while you're standing next to the trainer so you don't have to make another trip for a while. I paid 5g for a port to Shattrath and used up over 200g worth of mats training enchanting from 225-265 (then I was out of mats ; ;). Despite this, I didn't notice a 'loss' from using so many reagents. They were all mats I had set aside while disenchanting for profit. The profit remained steady as my stockpile grew.

What really hurt was the last 10 points I wanted so I could hit 275 and disenchant (almost) everything I could get my hands on, regardless of what level it was. I rushed through it and it's taken me a while to re-establish my reserves, but now I can frequently buy something from auction for ~3-5g and disenchant it into 12-15g worth of reagents. How quickly I can earn gold is limited only by how many items are on auction in the appropriate level range at a suitable price.

Currently, as a level 45 hunter who plays WoW on a casual basis, I have over 100g on hand, over 100g worth of reagents currently listed on auction waiting to sell, and well over 200g worth of reagents sitting in the bank for use/sale (depending on whim). I also have over 50g tied up in bids on things I plan to disenchant. So in other words, my net worth (not counting disenchant value on the gear I have equipped on my hunter) is over 450g.

(I also have skinning to ~290 on my Hunter, but I never make anything from that. Everything I get from skinning goes to my leatherworking alt for future use.)

Enchanting is a very straightforward profession to earn an income with, it just takes a little practice and a little mental energy to get the hang of what to buy and for how much. Addons like Auctioneer and Enchantrix can be a huge benefit for new enchanters entering the "disenchant for profit" market, but I find that I don't use either so much anymore because my server is still quite new and the market is highly volatile. This causes the income predictions from either addon to be often skewed.

The prollem with DISenchanting is that it stops giving skill-ups after enchanting level 60 or so.

Certain enchants sell for a f**k load of cash. What iam refering to is the weapon enchants with glows and effects. Unholy, greater agility, frost, fire and greater striking etc have all sold for 40g to 300g.

Enchanting is not a money-making prof unless you are selling your enchants. Even then getting people to pay for the enchants is tough enough as it is. I learned this too, but I read these posts and have not made a killing but have made good money. I am an enchanter for "my" benefit and for my guildies and friends. I haven't ever sold an enchant. I have enchanted to lvl up and some people have tipped but never for making money.

I d/e everything I get and use the mats. I also lost tons of money buying mats before Ohmike smacked me and woke me up. Now I stockpile all my mats and sell and make good money. I stockpile what I need for the next lvl of enchants and then make "1" trip if I can. Forget that back and forth stuff.

Like noted in other posts - Unless you have the specific "specialty" weapon enchants you are not going to make much money enchanting. D/E everything you have and sell the mats. Watch you AH and see how things sell. Download, I believe, the Enchantrix and Auctioneer mods. They will help.
Good Luck!! Don't give up!