Lorimath wrote:
My druid is a leatherworker / skinner. I've maxed LW and been thinking recently of picking up enchanting. I'd like the ring enchants and I'd also like to be able to disenchant quest rewards and random drops. I do not have a high level enchanter, as I make my casters enchanters and I get bored of them in the mid to late 40s for some reason.
It could be irritating not being able to skin to supply my leatherworking, but I have a hunter that is a skinner / miner and he can farm some in a relatively painless fashion.
I'd really like to up my potential as a bear tank, and I'm not prepared to make another engineer.
If I do pick up enchanting, what would be the best way to rapidly level it? Solo run through some low level instances, disenchanting all the drops and using those? I think I could reliably solo instances up to 50s instances.
There are two possible reasons to want an enchanter: to get rich, or to enchant your own items.
1) to get rich.
If all you want is gold, you don't need an enchanter above 300 skill. Any of your mid-40 enchanters can make you all the gold you need by disenchanting.
2) to enchant your own items.
There are two ways to level your enchanting skill. One is slow, steady, and inexpensive. The other is rapid and expensive.
In the first, you farm the AH for cheap greens, disenchant, use the resulting mats for leveling enchanting and sell what you don't use. This method results in net gain of gold while leveling.
In the second, you also farm the AH for cheap greens, but you also buy the mats there as well. Cost is dependent on your particular server's economy. You will also be buying recipes at the AH, too. Like I said, expensive.
Your saving grace is your mid-40 enchanters, becuase they can provide you enough gold by disenchanting to fund your drive to 375.