Enchanting.... grrrrr >.<Follow

So, after much gold lost I am a 300 enchanter. Cool.

So, after almost a week straight of farming those stupid spellbinders I have crusader. Cool.

The going price for crusader on my server is 100g. Not that cool. Two orbs run you 70-80g. LBS's run about 5g each. So if you were to buy the mats out of the AH it would cost you 100g. Basically you can't sell the stupid thing and take into account the time you spent raising the skill or farming the enchant when pricing it.

I had a guy want to buy it for 70g, I said nope. He offered to throw in the LBS's, I said okay 80. He said 75, I gave in and said ok.

So I get my 75g, port over to UC to get going on my Strat group and he sends me a whisper asking if I will do 100hp to chest since he's got the mats. I'm like sure, but you'll need to tip, especially since I have to port back to Org. He says no, he will find someone else to do it.

Does anyone else experience this? People just expecting you to do the enchant for free? I can understand doing them for free if you need to raise skill, but after you hit 300 I don't think its too much to ask for a measly tip.

Grrrr. >.<

This is commonplace. If someone can get the enchant from someone that can use it as a skillup point, then they'll get it free. I did a 100hp enchant free yesterday, but I got a skillup point out of it. The problem is, the market is too flooded with enchanters, to the point where the actual enchanting doesn't make any money. The only way to make money with enchanting IMO is through DEing, and you never need to actually level enchanting to do that. That's why I never plan on making another char with enchanting ever again.

I have one character on a given server that has learned Enchanting (and it's usually not my primary one), for the sake of DEing worthless gear for the materials, which are *usually* worth more.

Realistically, few of the "Pick two" professions aside of the gathering variety can make a lot of money straight out of utilizing the profession...they're more useful for your own sake, based on your job.

In my personal experience and opinion, if you're aiming for professions to make money, then get a gathering duo (Herbalism or Mining+Skinning), or Herbalism + Alchemy, or just DEing (which never realistically requires you to level it past 75 if you don't want to), along with Fishing and Cooking.

happens to me on vek'nilash i am a 295 enchanter, and a 300 alc, i always get people asking me to enchant them or make potions ofr them i ask you got mats they say yeah, i meet up with them, they only have half the materials, then tell me to spot the other half, i ask got money they say no, im like no can do, and they beg me to do it, and then call me an ******* when i get back to my business....