anathor wrote:
- at low lvl (say, before 50), nobody apart from twinks can afford the mats, therefore everybody gets enchants for free from an enchanter who wants to skill up
- at high lvl, who doesn't know an enchanter? Just buy the mats (or farm them) and a guildmate will do the enchant for you for free (and skill up)
Enchanting other player's items is not the most efficient way to skill up. It uses up time and effort and is totally pointless, unless you are doing it for guildies. Enchant your own items, and then enchant them again (overlaying the prior enchantment) with the same enchant. Do this until you level your skill to the point of visiting the trainer. Then get new enchants and do the same with the next bunch of orange enchants.
This means that you need mats. LOTS OF MATS! Buy cheap disenchantable items at the AH and disenchant them. You won't always get the particular mats you need, but you
will get lots of sellable mats other than those. You'll end up making money while you level your skill. Once you have a good supply of the mats you need to get to the next level, repeat the process.
There is no need to think of enchanting as a money sink, as long as you stop hawking enchants to the the general public. (edit) Especially ones like the OP.
Edited, Mar 6th 2007 8:39am by ohmikeghod