Enchanting... as a gathering skill?Follow

I saw this idea a while ago, and I'm wondering if it works. I'm a level 35 Mage, and with only 10 gold, I'm not making too much from my Tailoring/Enchanting skills. My Enchanting is around 185 right now, which is nice (I can make my own equipment; keeps me from buying from the AH), but my enchanting is pretty low... around 130-140, I think. It takes forever to get enough materials, and from what I hear, I'm looking at a straight loss up to around 225+.

So, this bring up my question: is it better to stop enchanting but keep enchanting as a gathering skill? We all get crappy green items from quests that are not only useless, but soulbound. Anyone else just sells them off to a vendor. Well, would it be worth more to disenchant them and sell the components?

I'm looking for feedback here: enchanters, is it worth it to just disenchant and sell components, or would you make more selling to vendors? If the second is true, I think I'll ditch enchanting for Mining ^_^;

I agree. I switched to mining and am currently at 125 skill :-D.

Anyone have suggestions on a good place to mine iron? It's been easy so far with Copper and Tin, but with Iron, enemies might start to aggro; I'm looking for an area with enemies at or under level 30 :-P Thanks!

Somebody in my guild found a couple of items (not soulbound quest rewards) which didn't sell on the AH and nobody in the guild wanted to buy them. Instead of selling them to vendor (value: 1g63s) she shipped the items to me for disenchanting. Going by current prices on our server the materials created and sent back to her were worth approx 8g. I don't know if she managed to sell them at that value but clearly the potential was there for a considerable gain even if she under-cut considerably.

Basically for any item which is soulbound or unlikely to sell on the AH check if disenchanting it would generate materials which are high value. I doubt you'll make any money with items below level 30, but past that you should be able to profit.

To tell the truth the spawns in the vale are much like iron in the flats... Only a few. Its a smaller area of course. There is also some Iron.

To see if something's worth disenchanting, get the Enchantrix addon. Tells you what things will disenchant into, and you can check the AH for the going price of the item it will give you. ;)