Call me a complete n00b, but I have no clue how to actually get cash from enchanting. On my server (shadowsong) the AH is so screwed up that every week or so it completely changes: When I started Strange Dust went for 1g per stack. Then it dropped to about 50s. At that point, soul dust was at 1g per stack. Then it dropped to 50s and strange is back at 90+ s. My enchanting ability level is 126, so it's fairly low, yes, but the stuff I disenchant gives me stuff like Astral Essences-stuff that sells about 6g/stack of Greaters. To learn better enchanting skill, I need to either buy lots of Magic essences and strange dust (just to push beyond that lowbie area) and do some low level enchants on m own stuff or buy Fire Oil at about 40s a unit and re-enchant all my stuff over and over, because no one wants to buy low level enchants. Currently I am a 35 mage with about 8g. I'm very poor and need cash for a mount and new spells.
Any suggestions on how to boost my skill to a more profitable level without burning all my much needed gold?
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Unfortunately enchanting from the start without any suppliers leaves you very broke without many ways to change it. sorry man just gotta try and stick it out.
Don't worry about increasing your skill, just take a break from skill-up (it's a money sink) and focus on disenchanting for cash. Get into instance groups that are hitting the Scarlet Monastery and disenchant all the items you win (esp. rare items which are a guaranteed shard). You will also get decent cash from the mobs there so it will add up quikly.
Enchaning is a money sink! You can make more money(and have much more fun) doing quests and running instances, than you ever will by selling enchants. Dis-Enchanting on the other hand is very profitable! Almost everything you get from questing/instances you can't use or sell(soulbound), you can DE and sell the mats at the Auction House for much more cash than a vendor will give you.
Repeat, Enchanting is a money sink! This is true at every level of enchanting! I currently have Crusander and Lifestealing enchants(both dropped from me in 1 week), problem is that they are very hard to sell! In the time I could sell one of these top tier/rare enchants, I can make more money/have more fun, running an instance. Besides, spamming "selling enchants" in town is 1. annoying to everyone there and 2. so boring you will quickly want to give up enchanting as a profession!
PS. Yes the prices in the AH jump around alot!! Hint, sell your mats when most people are logging on the servers! At prime login time the prices are high because people are looking for enchants for the items they just got from yesterdays runs. When people leave, they throw mats in the AH cheap hoping someone will buy their unused stuff. This is really apparent weekends; prices usually peak friday night-saturday afternoon and hit the lows Sunday night.
Repeat, Enchanting is a money sink! This is true at every level of enchanting! I currently have Crusander and Lifestealing enchants(both dropped from me in 1 week), problem is that they are very hard to sell! In the time I could sell one of these top tier/rare enchants, I can make more money/have more fun, running an instance. Besides, spamming "selling enchants" in town is 1. annoying to everyone there and 2. so boring you will quickly want to give up enchanting as a profession!
PS. Yes the prices in the AH jump around alot!! Hint, sell your mats when most people are logging on the servers! At prime login time the prices are high because people are looking for enchants for the items they just got from yesterdays runs. When people leave, they throw mats in the AH cheap hoping someone will buy their unused stuff. This is really apparent weekends; prices usually peak friday night-saturday afternoon and hit the lows Sunday night.
Hmm, well I found a recipe that will allow me to get lots of skill points-it's orange and requires only 1 lesser astral essence, and I can get those from self-made tailored items for only 2s plus silk. So the low level thing I have conquered for a small while.
As for making money from enchants, I heard that the way to do it isn't to get your own mats and do enchanting by spamming "WTS enchant X", just find classes of people that need stuff (warriors in need of Crusader for example) and tell them to get the mats themselves. In other words, charge only 1-2 gold and have them get the mats so it doesn't look like you're ripping people off with 30+g enchants. I have no idea if this works...
so I think I have the money sink problem figured out since I can effectively make my own mats for a small amount of silver and can get gold from a tailoring recipe one of my guildies says sells for 1g over the mat cost (it improves swimming speed and gives a fair intellect bonus.)
And I now have about 13g thanks to a timely selling of some enchanting mats (actually only 1 stack of mats)
As for making money from enchants, I heard that the way to do it isn't to get your own mats and do enchanting by spamming "WTS enchant X", just find classes of people that need stuff (warriors in need of Crusader for example) and tell them to get the mats themselves. In other words, charge only 1-2 gold and have them get the mats so it doesn't look like you're ripping people off with 30+g enchants. I have no idea if this works...
so I think I have the money sink problem figured out since I can effectively make my own mats for a small amount of silver and can get gold from a tailoring recipe one of my guildies says sells for 1g over the mat cost (it improves swimming speed and gives a fair intellect bonus.)
And I now have about 13g thanks to a timely selling of some enchanting mats (actually only 1 stack of mats)
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Any suggestions on how to boost my skill to a more profitable level without burning all my much needed gold?
easy, don't do enchanting yet if money is a problem.
problem meaning, you dont have enough to buy your mats or you need that money to do something else, like prepare for your mount.
at yoru level 35 and being a mage, you could probably do some runs in Deadmines on your own..or get a friend to come along for insurance. disenchant all those items and sell off the cloth and mats you get.
it's hard to keep above a few gold just from selling vendor loot, especially when you're buying new skills every 2 levels or so. you have to work at making more money in these early levels, or especially on your first char.
you can get some money back when u sell the out of date essences shards etc but not alot
and when people overprice the recipies
and when people overprice the recipies
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