This week, Insider Trader will be walking you through the cheapest method of reaching 375 enchanting from a skill of 300, as well as providing tips for making some money while you're at it.
Enchanting materials used in this guide:
- [Large Brilliant Shard]
- [Greater Eternal Essence]
- [Arcane Dust]
- [Illusion Dust]
- [Greater Planar Essence]
- [Large Prismatic Shard]
I'll try to avoid recipes that cannot be obtained from your trainer, and include any exceptions at the end.
300-301
- For your first skillpoint, you're going to want to construct a [Runed Fel Iron Rod]. You will need a basic [Fel Iron Rod], which, like other rods, can be obtained from a blacksmith. If you come prepared with 6x [Fel Iron Bar], you might even get a discount. You will also need 4x [Greater Eternal Essence], 6x [Large Brilliant Shard] and your old [Runed Arcanite Rod].
- You could perform [Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense] for 8x [Illusion Dust]. The recipe will be yellow at this point.
- You could also do [Enchant Bracer - Assault], for 6x [Arcane Dust]. It will stay yellow until 325.
- 1) [Enchant Cloak - Major Armor] for 8x [Arcane Dust] is one of the alternatives.
- 2) You could also perform [Enchant Gloves - Assault], also for 8x [Arcane Dust]. You could take both of these to 335 if you liked, when they turn green.
- You might be able to start selling [Enchant Chest - Major Spirit], primarily to restoration druids and the odd priest. Each enchant will cost you 2x [Greater Planar Essence]. You may find the above two enchants cheaper for this purpose, however, at least until 335.
- Here, you might want to consider getting commissioned to make [Superior Wizard Oil]. You will need 3x [Arcane Dust], 1x [Nightmare Vine], and 1x [Imbued Vial]. You could also purchase a small stack of the herbs, as ten would probably more than set you up. You could also put out a tell similar to, 'WTC [Superior Wizard Oil], free with 1x [Imbued Vial] and 2x [Nightmare Vine]. Tips welcome.'
- This turns green at 350.
- You'll want to create a [Runed Adamantite Rod] at this point. You'll need 1x [Adamantite Rod] from a blacksmith, 8x [Greater Planar Essence], 8x [Large Prismatic Shard], 1x [Primal Might] from an alchemist, and your old [Runed Fel Iron Rod]. This one is a bit expensive.
- If you are leveling tailoring as well, you'll find that the upper level blues you'll be making too many of will give you a [Large Prismatic Shard] every time. Otherwise, you might be stuck buying them, or buying Outland blues, or even running dungeons and getting permission to shard the blues.
- [Enchant Gloves - Major Strength]. Each enchant will set you, or hopefully your client, back 12x [Arcane Dust] and 1x [Greater Planar Essence].
Consortium: 365-375
- If you have reached revered, pick up [Formula: Enchant Ring - Striking]. Keep in mind you can only enchant your own rings, so this will be a pure loss for you. For 2x [Large Prismatic Shard] and 6x [Arcane Dust], you might want to take it slow, and enchant the rings you're really going to be using.
- If +physical damage doesn't really grab you, then perhaps you'll benefit more at revered from [Formula: Enchant Ring - Healing Power]. It is more expensive than striking, for 2x [Large Prismatic Shard] 5x [Arcane Dust] and 3x [Greater Planar Essence].
- If you can reach revered, then [Forumla: Enchant Gloves - Spell Strike] might grab you. For 8x [Greater Planar Essence], 2x [Arcane Dust], and 2x [Large Prismatic Shard].
- As long as you are 70, you should be able to reach honored with the Shattered Sun within a week without issue. At that point, you can pick up [Formula: Enchant Chest - Defense]. Each enchant costs 4x [Greater Planar Essence], 8x [Arcane Dust] and 4x [Eternium Ore].
While the above may be the cheapest method on paper, you're likely to stumble upon a bit of luck in some form or another. Maybe a very popular recipe drops for you, or is given to you by a guildmate. Perhaps your guild provides a market for your services, or you find that your connections on the server seem to bring you business.
By all means, take advantage of requests from friends, solicitors in trade channel, tips, and free things in order to advance your career and build your skills. Deviate from this guide if you stand to make money, or even a valuable contact and a better reputation.
In addition, you can disenchant everything you can get your hands, or paws, on, from quest rewards to dropped items, to crafted items. You may end up with more materials than you need, allowing you to make a profit, or at least recover some of your losses.
You might want to try advertising enchants for free with the client's materials. Often you will be tipped anyway, and even if you are not, you are earning skill points for free, and selling all of your materials on the auction house.
Finally, if you yourself need an enchant, no matter how expensive, then you might as well milk a skill point out of something you intend to do anyway.
Each week, Insider Trader takes you behind the scenes of the bustling sub-culture of professional craftsmen, examining the profitable, the tragically lacking, and the methods behind the madness. For the low-down on disenchanting, check out A Disenchanted Profession. If you like pretty sparkly things, you should hit up our coverage of glows and other visual effects. As always, you can peruse the directory for more information. 
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5-16-2008 @ 8:54PM
Kryptonls said...
I used a similar strategy to level Enchanting lately on an alt - I enchanted Gloves - Major Strength as listed from 350.... all the way to 375.
Sure, it goes green at 360-365 (can't remember which exactly) but I found it to be the cheapest way for a new alt who had not yet hit revered with the "ring" factions, to hit 375 and be able to start pumping out the top-end TBC chants so soon.
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5-16-2008 @ 9:50PM
Rob said...
That SSO tip will be very handy. In that week of doing SSO dailies you could get enough mats to powerlevel the last 10 levels (ouch). WHen I hit 300 I decided that since the enchants were actually useful, every time I was in shat I would hit my sell macro every once in a while (ie every 5 min). On a busy night i'd get a couple of requests within a few minutes. That plus oil put me at 330 and a slight profit (actually a chunk of profit, since i was charging the mat cost x 2).
The absolute key is providing your own mats, and building in a profit margin. People love the idea of forking over 10g for a nice enchant to a epic item, its super cheap and easy for them.
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5-17-2008 @ 12:56AM
Bylak said...
This kind of relates, but it's a thought I've had in regards to enchanting and instances . . .
In my experience at least, no one ever rolls on herbs gathered or ore mined in instances save those who can actually gather the materials. I know a lot of this wasn't possible pre-BC which led to the way it is today, but would it be crazy for an enchanter to not DE instance items for the benefit of the group if herbers and miners won't allow /rolls on what they collect in an instance as well?
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5-17-2008 @ 1:37AM
Foxfyr said...
Before I say this, I'll note that both of my mains are enchanters.
This argument or question comes up a lot on forums and thankfully I've yet to be in a group with someone that thinks this way.
If you don't want to disenchant BoPs that drop then don't offer the service. If you would rather take your chances that you get to win the greed roll and DE the drop, then so be it. But being an enchanter does not give you the right to all the shards in an instance.
If no miners or herbalists are present no one gets the herbs and ore. If no enchanters are present the drops can still be sold for gold.
5-17-2008 @ 1:49AM
Acceptable Risk said...
The difference is that without an enchanter along, the group could still collect the loot to sell at vendor. Disenchanting for your group is just a courtesy. If you don't want to disenchant for them, just don't mention that you're an enchanter and let them vendor whatever rolls they win.
If instead you mean to say that an enchanter should have free access to all of the un-needed loot in the instance to disenchant for their own profit, you're crazy. Prepare to get kicked out of groups with a viewpoint like that.
5-17-2008 @ 8:06AM
PeeWee said...
"Prepare to get kicked out of groups with a viewpoint like that."
I have seen people being /gkicked for less, and chased off the server.
5-17-2008 @ 9:08AM
Bylak said...
No no, I'm not saying that an enchanter should get all the un-needed gear by default. I'm just saying it's kind of a crummy situation where herbers and miners get their stuff without conflict. The situation I had in mind I suppose is that if you're in a group where a herber or miner is present and they won't /roll for stuff they collect, is it too much of a stretch for an enchanter to refuse to disenchant for the benefit of the group, so everyone would have to /roll on vendor trash.
Like has been mentioned though, I suppose it's just easier in the long run to not mention you're an enchanter.
5-17-2008 @ 10:28AM
bonelip said...
Disenchanting is a great way to make money. My favorite old world instance scholomance is a gold mine. I can solo the instance, disenchant 9-10 blue items, sell each large shard for 7-8 gold and make several thousand in a couple of weeks.
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5-18-2008 @ 4:19PM
ErsatzPotato said...
Enchant Ring - Spellpower (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=27924) is a great way to level enchanting. 365-375+, goes yellow at 370. 2 large pris, 2 greater planar.
Requires honored KoT, which takes an hour or two to get.
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5-19-2008 @ 11:20AM
Brendan said...
Shattered Sun: 360-375
That is the way to go. I was struggling getting my enchanting up until I got [Formula: Enchant Chest - Defense]. I went from 361 to 375 in one easy night using the crap I had in my bank plus that ore from the AH. That recipe is a godsend to level enchanting.
I'd also recommend grinding Bash'ir Spell-Theives in Blade Edge Mountains to get [Enchant Weapon - Major Spellpower]. It's a very high demand enchant and will get you a bunch of skill points. It's also great to have regardless.
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