Should I drop enchanting?Follow

The thing is, at level 55, it's hovering at 161. Also, I've seen that it's a good idea to save money early for the mount, ideally at level 50. I've gone through three other gathering professions currently (mining, skinning, and herbalism) and herbalism was the easiest for me. So now I have Enchanting and Herbalism, and my question is, should I replace Enchanting with Skinning?

All help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
Also, if anyone knows what the economy is like on the Alliance portion of Thunderlord, that'd be great. 'Cause I haven't ventured too far into either Skinning or Mining, so if anyone knows, I'd be one happy camper.

I can't get my skill high enough to disenchant the drops I'm getting. =/
Sure, I can go farm an instance, but when I disenchant the drops, they always turn into the mats I don't need. I know this is just bad luck, but still.

An easy way to help your enchanting would be tailoring. If your alliance, just sit at the stockades and run that, you will get loads of cloth and 3-5 greens per trip. once you get tailoring high enough to make blues and greens standard, enchanting will be easy to raise.

Use enchantrix and auctioneer to buy greens to disenchant for a profit. You can set an option for it to only show things that you can disenchant at your current level.

Once you start making money, you can use some of the mats and money to level to 275, where you can de level 70 blue items. Any level enchanter can buy items that make a profit. You just won't be buying the items above your level.

Although the amount of competition does have an impact, my level 43 mage bought my 2nd level 70 his epic flier. You can make money at your current level. Read some of the other threads on how to use these addons.

You don't mention what class you are, this may have a bearing on how well you can run old instances to get greens and bop blues to disenchant.

I have a priest as my main Enchanter but recently rolled a druid with the sole purpose of running old instances for the drops to disenchant. Stealth, plus the ability to tank and heal should mean I can run just the bosses reasonably quickly.

Also an Aoe Mage or a prot spec pally are good for rounding up large groups for quick kills.

my 2p worth :P

Then sell those on AH and use the profits to buy the mats you need. ;)

If you're 161 then that means you need to DE items that are in thier mid to late 20s to get the soul dust and lesser mystic ess you need to skill up with.

That means you want to hit instances that are in the low to mid 30s in order to get those kinds of drops - that means BFD, RFK, Gnome and SM - remember, an instance is going to drop gear that's about 5 levels lower then the level of the mobs inside it.

After that, you're going to start pharming RFD and ULD to get into the low 200s and finally, ZF and ST to finish up.

Also, don't hesistate to pharm the AH - do searches for items by level and bid on all of the cheap crap.

Make sure to take the extra time to search each catagory - open up weapons and do a search for each type of weapon level 25-35 and only bid on the very cheapest greens in each catagory, then do the same thing with all of the armor catagories - the jewelery will be a great place because thanks to the JC skill, there's always a ton of super cheap rings and necklaces.

Finally, when you're pharming an instance, don't forget that cloth will sell on the AH quite nicely too.

You could farm low lvl dungeouns(sp?) and D/E the drops, sell the mats and then buy the mats you need to lvl your enchanting.
But, you might need more of the low lvl dusts to buy the one you need, I don't know, just an idea though.

What part of "I don't feel the least twinge of sorry for a person who believes that the only things available for disenchanting are drops." did you phail to understand?

Farming dungeons = low number of mats/hour = low amount of gold/hour. There is only one reason for farming instances, and that's to be able to DE blues and purples that are not easily obtained at the AH.

I have a lvl30 Human Mage with Tailoring/Enchanting professions. Tailoring is in the 150-160 range. But my Enchanting is very high in the 220's and did just what someone earlier suggested. I bought the cheapest green items in the Ah to DE. Then when I got up enough mats say about enough to enchant something about 10 times I would get that item and just enchant it with the same thing over and over again until it would not lvl me up anymore. Then go get trained and do it again o the next orange enchant. Gets you up in lvl quite fast. Also its smart to actually have Tailoring because you can make your own greens and blue items to DE fairly early. Hope that helps you out

Essences drop more frequently from DE'd weapons, and dusts more frequently from armor, but either item can become either.