disenchantingFollow

Ive read many things about enchanting and all, but is there any help on disenchanting? I've been disenchanting every green item i find and i get about the same thing as when i make a green item (Brown Linen Robe)...either a strange dust or lesser essence of magic.

How do I know what to disenchant and what it will yield? I disenchanted a lvl 20 green item yesterday for a Small Glimmering Shard, but today I did a level 22 green item for another strange dust...

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At what point do I get the glow effect enchant?

There's a semi-random aspect to it. While it's hard to work out specifics on drop items (as they really are uncommon) it's quite easy to map out the tradeskill items that people make and sell/give to you. I'm into double numbers disenchanted on many of the blacksmithing and tailoring items. Basically it seems that every item has a 'disenchant table' which you roll on to get a type and a quantity of loot. For example disenchanting two colorful kilts I first got some Strange Dust and then 2 Lesser Astral Essence. In other words, even with the *exact* same item being disenchanted there's an element of luck as to what and how much.

Bottom line just get a lot of cheap (<20s) items off the AH or get friendly with a tailor/blacksmith by giving him/her all your cloth + free enchants in return for free uncommons. It seems dust is the most common yield, then essences and most rarely shards. Remember you can convert lesser/greater essences with Use.

That is the only way to reliabley get Shards,meny other items have a chance of droping a shard, but a blue will always dorp one(of respective size to the level of the item) right arround level 22 greens, the next level of enchanting goods will start to be looted form disenchants. Lots of enchanters used to love the Green Lense that engeneers made as they didnt take a lot to make and they were blue, always resulting in a large radiant shard. Bliz has added a lot of ingredents(aquamarine and a extra 50% of the ingredents that were already in it). The job of a enhcanter is a thankless one till you get to about 180 then folks actualy want what you have to sell, it is just till then folks are chaneing equptement so often nobody can justify paying for the enchant .
hope it helps

for whoever looks at this thread talking about glows:
there are no enchantments that just put the glows on weapons. The glows are byproducts of all weapon enchants, excluding the first two damage enchants (+2 to 2hers and +1 to weapon).
hope this helps to the guy who ask about glows