2nd Profession for EnchantingFollow

most reasonable in my opinion is tailoring. you can easily make 'uncommon' stuff later on, therefor, get 10 linen, and some thread and you can make a rare, disenchant, and enchant something else, and gain XP in the process.

what was the reason behind mining?

With my priest alt, I took tailoring and skinning. I knew that enchanting would eat you alive, financially speaking. So I didn’t want to take up enchanting until I could afford it. I now have four level 20 characters, including my priest, and my main character is a level 40 rogue. I also have all kinds of equipment stuffed onto several alts that exist only to hold items. So I felt the time had come to take up enchanting.

I dropped skinning, which I used to make money while I had it, and took up enchanting. By using only three formulas I was able to take my enchanting from 1 to 135 using nothing but strange dust. The secret to this is farming linen and using tailoring to make a brown robe, which is an easy to make green item. It takes two linen bolts and one course thread. I made hundreds of these and disenchanted them for the strange dust and the skill ups. I gained enchanting skill by doing nothing but disenchanting robes until about a skill of 80. Then I used the following formulas:

Enchant Bracer - Minor Health (1x Strange Dust)
Enchant Bracer - Minor Stamina (3x Strange Dust)
Enchant Bracer - Minor Strength (5x Strange Dust) Drop only formula

Using these three formulas I was able to take enchanting to 135 in two days, at which point the last formula turns green. The secret to doing this is to have a higher enough level character that you can quickly farm linen cloth. I was farming between 100 and 200 linen per hour with my level 40 rogue. So as you can see, tailoring worked out very well for me as a second profession.

Oh, now you tell me! *grins*

Oh well, I have to get my priest to level 35 to take his enchanting and tailoring to 300 anyway. And since I’m that close I may as well take him to 40 so that he can get his mount. I have no idea of the level required to reach the master trainer, but hopefully I’ll have a chance at survival by level 40.

this works well until you are 200 (tailoring works as a secondary proffession) but after that your price/regent cost skyrockets to 2 to 3 times what you were paying. You still have 2 reliable recipes at this point for regents until 225. after uldamon (both horde/alliance trainer I believe) you wil be needing large radiant shards and greater nether essences there is no tailroing recipe for these items , at least not a consistent recipe (in tailoring), and at this point you will wish you made an engineer alt to supply the green lens items needed.

Chanting is not a get rich quick profession you will make more off selling disenchanted tailored items then you will from enchanting. The reason you see people selling enchantments for so much is because they cost that much, do not sell in newbie zones (SW,DARnasus) they will only ridicule you and tell you how they paid 30s for your 15g enchant and no one is even high enough to afford you enchants.

Enchanting is fun because you have the power. there are still not too many ppl on my server as high as me and fewer still that are higher, I know them all by name and we are in fierce competition.

Edited, Mon Jan 31 07:48:53 2005 by sinrtb

Is Skinning as good as Mining as a second Profession for Enchanting?

so far from lvl 1-150 enchanting, i've spent a little over 50g. This is buying strange dust of the AH for 40-60sp for a stack of 10. Disenchanting items will give you the reagents you need, but the question is would you rather spend hours upon hours farming the greens or waiting for deals off the AH.