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Making Gold by Disenchanting (WoW)  

Enchanting (Primary Profession)
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Making Gold by Disenchanting - A Guide

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Introduction

Enchanting can be the most lucrative profession in World of Warcraft, as long as you treat it as a gathering profession. That means that you should never enchant items unless you are doing it in order to level the profession. When leveling, you should never try to sell enchants to others. Use your mats on your own items and you won't have to stand around in a main city attempting to get someone to buy one of your enchants.

You will make your gold by farming the Auction House in a major city. The reason behind this strategy for making gold is that there are many enchanters and people who want to have enchantments placed upon their equipment. The enchanters may purchase materials in order to level quickly, and the non-enchanters will be purchasing them in order to provide an enchanter with the materials needed for their enchantment.

Your character will be spending a lot of time travelling between the auction house and the mailbox. Choose a city where it is easy to do so. For Alliance the city should be The Exodar, City of Ironforge, or Stormwind City. For Horde, the city should be Silvermoon City, Orgrimmar, or Thunder Bluff.

Tools

Auctioneer Advanced

In order to use this guide, it is imperative that you use the Auctioneer Advanced Addon from norganna.org.

Download

Download the latest (Preview) version of Auctioneer in zip format. If you are familiar with TAR and RAR, you may elect to download those versions instead. However the installation instructions here assume that you are using an unzip utility.

Install

Unzip the downloaded program into c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons. If you have World of Warcraft installed elsewhere than the default location, adjust accordingly. Make certain that you maintain the original directory structure contained in the zip file.

You can verify correct installation by using Windows Explorer to look at the World of Warcraft folder.

Open "My Computer" Click on "C:" Click on "Program Files" Click on "World of Warcraft" Click on "Interface" Click on "Addons"

You should see the following folders - If you do not, you failed to install properly.

Auc-Advanced Auc-Filter-Basic Auc-Scan-Data Auc-Stat-Classic Auc-Stat-Purchased Auc-Stat-Simple Auc-Stat-StdDev BeanCounter BtmScan Enchantrix Enchantrix-Barker EnhToolTip Informant Stubby !Swatter

Bag space

You should invest some of the gold you make into getting three 16-slot bags, along with the largest Enchanting bag you can afford. Your disenchantable items will go into your backpack and normal bags, and the enchanting mats you create will be placed into the Enchanting bag automatically.

As you get richer, buy at least 4 bank slots and put four 16-slot bags there. Those will contain your "adventuring bags". When you want to level your enchanter character, swap your enchanting bags with the ones that contain your adventuring supplies and you will be ready to go out of the city and into the cold, cruel world. Enchanting bags should remain as empty as possible. Adventuring bags will contain items like pet food, your hearthstone, potions, quest items, etc.

Bulk Mail

There are several Addons that give you the ability to grab a large number of items in your mailbox and put them into your bags. If you use CT_Mods, CT_Mailmod (part of the base package of add-ons) has that function. Another Addon that performs this task is Bulk2Mail from WowAce. This allows you to disenchant a large number of items instead of disenchanting one at a time.

Getting Started

Initial Setup

Load Always

Upon first entering your realm with your disenchanter toon after installation of Auctioneer Advanced, type in the following commands:

/Auc load always
/Enx load always

These two commands will ensure that both mods are loaded and working for you.

Bottom Scanner

Go to the auction house and open up the auction pane. You will see a number of new tabs along the bottom of the pane. At the far right is the one of interest, labeled "BtmScan". Click on it. This will produce a new pane. Now click on the red "Configure" button. This opens the configuration pane.

"Core Options"

check "Look for bargains wile browsing" check "Enable automatic last page reload (Bottom Scanner)" move the slider all the way to the right to change the reload timer to 60 seconds. check "Top Scan as well as Bottom Scan"

Go down to "Purchase Settings" The "reserve amount" is the smallest amount of coin you want to keep on you. if you are just starting out and very poor, you might want to set it at 1 silver. As you become wealthier, you will want to adjust your reserve a bit higher than that.

The "maximum price" is the largest amount that you will want to purchase an item for. Even if you are poor, setting this to a high number will not hurt, since the game itself will never allow you to purchase anything with gold you do not have.

Under "Buy/Bid Preferences"

check "Allow Buyout on Items"

If you are just starting out (and poor), do not check "Allow Bid on Items" just yet. Wait until you make a bit of gold first and have extra cash lying around not working for you before you start bidding.

If you want to hear bells, click on "Play sound when a bargain is found". Be warned that you can be dinged to distraction if a great number of items are found. If you are, then just go back to this menu, and uncheck the option.

Evaluators

Go through all the evaluators and disable them, except for "Disenchanting". You do this by ensuring that the "Enable Purchasing..." option on each of them is unchecked.

click Disenchanting evaluator

Disenchant General Settings

  1. check "Enable purchasing for Disenchant" and "Allow buyout on Items". As before, you don't want to allow bidding until you have a cash reserve.

Custom Skill and Profit Settings

  1. check "Use Custom Levels". This is important! If you don't check this box, Bottom scanner will ignore levels and you can get items that you do not have the skill to disenchant.
  2. set minimum skill to zero
  3. set maximum skill to your current enchanting skill. If you are just starting out, set it to the minimum amount (25).

Fees Adjustment

  1. set "Faction Auction Fees"
  2. check "Subtract Auction Fees from Projected Profit"

Building the database

Auctioneer uses a database to determine the prices that items need to be purchased and sold for. It's very important to build the database to get a good baseline for your disenchanting buys and your enchanting materials selling. You should scan the Auction House daily for at least a week before making your first buy. If you don't do this, some prices for materials may be too high and they won't sell or too low and you won't find disenchantables for some materials. Scan early, scan often. You can start a scan from the main Auction House panel by clicking the red "Scan" button.

Purchasing and Disenchanting

Your first purchase/disenchant

Selling your materials

Leveling

Advanced techniques

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