Disenchanting, Skill 1-50Follow

The purpose of this post is to teach your average player how to use [dis]enchanting to make gold and level your skill up. My focus here is on the first 50 skill points, which you can earn from disenchanting. I recommend you have 1-2g to get started.

I use this method to ramp up the gold supply of new characters I roll on different servers. High-level characters will find this to be a good learning exercise, but high-level characters have more efficient methods of earning gold/hour than Strange Dust.

The method used here (with Strange Dust) can be applied to Vision, Dream, Illusion, and Arcane dust. There are some tricks to Illusion dust, but that's outside of the scope of this post. Soul dust, in my experience, just isn't used enough to turn a profit on. A similar method is used for Essence (which are hugely more profitable), but that again is outside of the scope of this post.

I would appreciate your feedback, bumps, and rate ups.

HOW TO GET YOUR FIRST 50 SKILL POINTS

Here's the skill you need to disenchant (DE) items:
Skill 1 = Items Level 1-15
Skill 25 = Items Level 16-20
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And here's the key to your success:
Green/Uncommon armor level 11-20 will DE into 2-5 Strange Dust
Green/Uncommon armor level 11-20 will DE into 2-5 Strange Dust
Green/Uncommon armor level 11-20 will DE into 2-5 Strange Dust
Green/Uncommon armor level 11-20 will DE into 2-5 Strange Dust
Green/Uncommon armor level 11-20 will DE into 2-5 Strange Dust

So your first 25 DE's will be of items level 11-15. Then you can open it up to DEing items 16-20, as well. You'll have 50/75 Enchanting very quickly.

*** You will need to adjust my numbers according to prices on your server ***

A stack of 20 Strange Dust costs 2g. If you DE 10 items (of the type listed above), you will get no less than 20 Strange Dust. So your bid/buy price is calculated: 2g / 10 items = 20 silver per item (that's your max price)

Go to the AH and bid/buyout items (of the type listed above) for less than 20s. I like to set my price at 10 silver, so that I'm doubling my gold while doing this. Even if you use the max price calculated above, you'll still be able to skim off the extra dust for yourself (from the items that occassionally give you more than two dust).

After you've got a full stack of 20, list them on the AH for 2g. When it sells, you get your money back and can start again. Buy more armor (of the type listed above), DE, and sell dust. You'll find yourself with extra dust as you go through each rotation. Save that up for use when you want to powerlevel your next skill points 50-75.

TIPS (relevant to the scope of this guide):
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You will occasionally get Lesser or Greater Magic Essence, instead of dust. That's a good thing. Normally you can sell that immediately (you don't need to wait for full stacks), and it sells for a higher price that Strange Dust anyway.

Crafted items yield more dust than drops. I have no data to back that up. It's just my personal observation. I also think Leather DEs into more dust than other types of items, but there's a good possibility that's a biased observation.

BID! Some items won't have a buyout price on them. That's great! When following this guide, I put a 10s bid on EVERY item in the designated level range. When you win the auction, the item will be waiting in your mailbox the next time you play.

Check the AH at the beginning & end of every play session. It only takes 10-15 minutes to buy, DE, & list the Strange Dust. This is the reason DEing is a better gathering skill than gathering herbs and ore.

Use the Auctioneer/Enchantrix addon to automatically scan for items that can be profitable disenchanted. Read more about that Enchantrix documentation. Download the addon from the Auctioneer homepage.

For a complete list of what materials items will disenchant into, see the WowWiki Disenchanting tables or the official Enchanting page.

Edited, Dec 24th 2007 11:12am by ixidoria

reserved again

i don't use auctioneer/enchantrix to find items to DE, nor do i believe that a newbie enchanter needs it to get a feel for how to make money DEing.

Edited, Dec 21st 2007 9:56am by ixidoria

130 points with strange dust. 30 points with soul dust. then it's on to some essence and a ton of vision dust. yes, powerlevelers will need a could stacks. but it's been my experience that there isn't enough demand for it to make a steady income. i've had to relist stacks many times to get them to sell (no AH fee for listing enchanting mats, but having to wait very long to get my money back can be a bother)

while doing your skill ups, you will have to go through a phase of DEing for soul dust and, therefore, selling stacks along the way. but i recommend moving onto vision dust as soon as you can. demand for vision dust is much higher.

Good point. Thanks for the advice.

I disagree. It is an incredibly useful tool and everyone should at least be aware of that. You may not like it, but if you want people to accept your guide you should be willing to discuss all of the tools available for the newcomer to this profession.

Done wrong, it can be a money sink. Done right, it can make you rich. Many of us have made a good deal of money from (dis)enchanting. The auctioneer/enchantrix addon is invaluable to that end.

Otherwise, you present a nice, simple procedure for using this profession to make some gold.

I have found that level 16-20 green armors tend to drop 4-6 strange dust. This means that all of the rings and necklaces that jewelcrafters unload onto the AH for cheap are pretty much "the cool". This is what i did on my priest alt and made enough for some nice blue robes, pants, and boots with enough for my mount at lvl 40.