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#1 Apr 25 2005 at 5:01 AM Rating: Decent
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Currently A lvl 28 Priest with 184 Enchanting and going nowhere. To get enchanting this far has drained at least 20g from me, leaving me at abotu 12.5 g right now. When do I start getting enchants people will want to buy? I've tried selling the small stat enchants I have in IF and SW right now, but no one wants them. People don't even want enchants when I sell them at half what it costs me to enchant how can I ever expect to make any money?
#2 Apr 25 2005 at 5:25 AM Rating: Decent
Im only 120 enchanting yet and i do sell em. First of all you gotta try to get hold of the formula: Minor Beastslayer. Its a weapon enchant and give +2 damage, but more important it gives the weapon a nice red glow. And that sells!

Formula: Minor Beastslayer is a drop only, so bought it inAH for 2 gold. I sell em for 50s a piece and since a lot a toons have 2 weps its a gold for almost each sold.

MARKETING
And then there is marketing. Some folks drop line in Trade like: "WTS: Ench MB 2h and 1h Dam+2, red glow"

Then they wonder why no one sends /whisper. I use this:
"WTS: Enchantment Minor Beastslayer. Gives 2 points DAMAGE vs Beast and it makes your weapon GLOW RED. That looks so cool. Only 50s! /w Trader"

Remember that you are selling something special and you should market it that way.

TRAVEL
If your selling low level enchants IF is not where your target buyers are at. Sure, sometime i sell low level enchants, but i go out in the world and sell.

Best places i found where Stormwind, Lakeshire, Sentinel Hill and Loch Modan. In fact go to zones where lvl 10-24 roam. Thats your audience.

Good luck!
#3 Apr 25 2005 at 9:14 PM Rating: Decent
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A lot of people in my guild complain about this. There are some dedciated lvl 60s out there w/ a guild supplyinh them w/ mats that seem to camp IF/Org all day spamming enchants.

The wierd thing about this game is that the economy actually varies quite a bit between servers, esp. if the servers are of a different age. On my server, not so long ago you more or less lost money on enchanting all the way up to Crusader/Icy/Fiery/Life Stealing simply b/c it was a nice server, many people new what they wanted and were abstemious. Once you know an Arc. Reaper +Crusader will cost you mroe than an epic mount, you know how to hold off.
#4 Apr 26 2005 at 3:23 AM Rating: Decent
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Well I picked up the enchant minor beastslaying +2, but found something odd.

I first did a test on myself to make sure it was glowing and that I wasn't selling out my customers, it worked on my staff, a bright red glow. Then I got my first customer, a rogue. I offered to do both of his weapons for 1g 50s and he accepted. Odd thing is when I was done I didn't see a glow on either weapon. He didn't say anything so either he just wanted the beast slaying effect or he was being nice about it.

was it lag or something? Why could I not see the glowing beastlsaying effect on his 1h weapons?
#5 Apr 26 2005 at 4:47 AM Rating: Good
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The glow won't appear on another player's weapon until the unsheath it. Just a graphic bug. By the way, how do you spend money on enchanting? I have never spent money on anything except the formulas on the AH.

Edit: spelling

Edited, Tue Apr 26 05:48:01 2005 by Nutaris
#6 Apr 26 2005 at 5:32 AM Rating: Decent
Easy. You just go buy stuff to disenchant. I've got mining as second profession, instead of tailoring, so cant make my own gree/blue items. Im not finding too many mid-high lvl stuff to get those Glowing Shards. But all in all I think I've sepnd more then twice the amount I earned on Enchanting. (Not including the enchants for my guildies)


Shootwabbits, lvll 43 dwarf hunter, Stormrage
#7 Apr 26 2005 at 9:19 AM Rating: Decent
The easiest way I've found to make money off enchanting is to have an alt that's a disenchanter. My main is miner/tailor for the simple fact that the three skills combined are a big money maker (although tailoring doesn't get close to the other two until your able to make the 14, 16 or 18 slot bags)

The way to do it is simple, my main mines ore, smelts the stuff and sends it to my alt based in IF who sells it on AH. I also send all green+ drops to him to disenchant and collect full stacks of all regeants which is then also sold on AH. Tailoring is self explanitory (I hope! heh) not only does this save me the money travelling back and forth to the AH, but also allows me quicker 'return to grind' times.

Also, my main being on lvl 43, I do the occasional Deadmines run. I usually end up with about 30 green items with around 26 of them being BoE (the others BoA) which gives me a good sorce of disenchatable items, without being killed once. (double bonus!)

anyway, I'm guessing this my not help, but hope it was an informative read (lol, riiight, heh =-Þ )
#8 Apr 26 2005 at 5:24 PM Rating: Decent
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how do you spend money on enchanting?


Some of us aren't lucky enough to have guilds feeding us free disenchants so we have to buy supplies.

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You just go buy stuff to disenchant.


Tried this, doesn't work well. It was somewhat viable in the lower level, but items in the higher levels are too expensive to disenchant for the small amount of supplies they give. When a Stack of oh say Astral essence costs around 1g and the armor piece you could disenchant 2 essences from costs 1g, well you're going to buy the stack.
#9 Apr 26 2005 at 7:01 PM Rating: Decent
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The easiest way I've found to make money off enchanting is to have an alt that's a disenchanter.


So that's where all those essences and dusts in the AH come from...
I think the big difference there is that you're not actually making money as an enchanter. You're selling the same green/blue items except in a different form. The tough part is making money while getting enchanting skill-ups.

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Also, my main being on lvl 43, I do the occasional Deadmines run. I usually end up with about 30 green items with around 26 of them being BoE (the others BoA) which gives me a good sorce of disenchatable items, without being killed once. (double bonus!)


I hear ya. At 260 ench skill the lev 20-30 items are only slightly useful
Taken from the enchanting FAQ http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-professions&t=105145

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Dust / Essence:
Level 1-10: A little strange dust/lesser magic essence.
Level 11-15: Much strange dust/greater magic essence.
Level 16-20: Much strange dust/lesser astral essence.
Level 21-25: Little soul dust/greater astral essence.
Level 26-30: Much soul dust/lesser mystic essence.
Level 31-35: Little vision dust/greater mystic essence.
Level 36-40: Much soul dust/lesser nether essence.
Level 41-45: Little dream dust/greater nether essence.
Level 46-50: Much dream dust/lesser eternal essence.
Level 51-55: Little illusion dust/greater eternal essence
Level 56-60: Much illusion dust/greater eternal essence
Shards:
Shards come from blue / purple items
Level 1-20: Small glimmering
Level 21-25: Large glimmering
Level 26-30: Small glowing
Level 31-35: Large glowing
Level 36-40: Small radiant
Level 41-45: Large radiant
Level 46-50: Small brilliant
Level 51-60: Large brilliant


so to do +5 dmg 2h or +3 dmg 1h I'd need to get lev 31-35 items.

Perhaps my ench is just too high for my lev (lev 43, 260 ench) and I need to wait until I can solo in Scarlet Monestary.

Lastly, on my server the beastslayer enchant recipes cost 8G+ while demonslaying is 15G buyout.
Shard are way up there - 10G buyout for large radiant and 3.75G-4.5G buyout for Large Glowing.

Has anyone found good crafted items for their shards? Something I can get ingredients for at l43 and give to a high lev tailor/ engineer/ leatherworker?
#10 Apr 27 2005 at 7:52 AM Rating: Decent
On Stormrage the price for just one greater astral essence easily amounts up to 70s-1g. And I can get quite a few lucky strikes on gear to disenchant. Getting Nether Essence from gear I payed less than 1g on. And Large Glowing Shards have only recently been seen on AH to prices below 5g.


Shootwabbits
#11 Apr 27 2005 at 8:58 AM Rating: Decent
i make about 20g a day enchanting, i have never spent money on enchanting, and im lvl 44 with 225 enchanting. how do i do it? +5 2h weapons +3 any weapon lesser elemental slayer minor beast slaying and plus 8% run speed to boots. the +5 and +3 both give a blue glow and sell for 5-7g, lesser elemental slayer gives the same glow as beastslaying and i sell that for 3g, beastslaying i sell for 70s and the speed enchant i sell for 10g. the mats for all of these enchants can be found in SM, all of the blues disenchant into a large glowing shard/small radiant shard, and te greens disenchant mostly into the others. all i need to do is find the trainer in uldaman and get the +7 and +4 dmg and ill be makeing twice as much, plus everyone loves demonslaying(7-10g)
#12 Apr 27 2005 at 11:51 AM Rating: Decent
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make about 20g a day enchanting, i have never spent money on enchanting, and im lvl 44 with 225 enchanting. how do i do it? +5 2h weapons +3 any weapon lesser elemental slayer minor beast slaying and plus 8% run speed to boots. the +5 and +3 both give a blue glow and sell for 5-7g


Aah - so it is a server economy issue. On my server a few people sell the +5 dmg for 4G which means when I try to ask 5.5G (because I don't play enough to farm instances daily) I don't get much of a response. I end up having to sell them for 5G and occasionally 4.75G - the blue item would sell for 4G and the green for another gold or so.

Compared to selling the disenchantable items I only get a max of 50s or so per. Even the +7 dmg enchant in which reagents are worth 23G on my server tend to rarely go for actual cost.

Other enchants like +50 armor are always underpriced at 60s because people just want to skill up.

At this point doing +5dmg is gray and doesn't even skill me up (260 ench, lev 43)


I think its mainly a server economy issue. On perenolde enchanting is a big money drain with players who undervalue the ench and are used to below cost-pricing from lev 60s who switched profs.
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