Greater/Lesser Nether Essences?Follow

Well, my enchanting is very low... about level 260 on my level 67 lock. I was wondering where a good place to go to find items to disenchant and get (with luck) nether essences would be. I don't really want to spend tons of gold buying it on the AH.

Thanks.

I did look at what items disenchant into nether essences, but I was wondering if their was an area/instance good for hunting such items.

According to this site, most of those items cost more than the Nether Essence itself, on the AH.

I've read over the replies to the ST page. It seems I may not be able to completely clear it out, but I think I should be able to kill a good number of the mobs in there without a problem.

Thanks.

The best place to obtain the mats is the AH. If you buy the items to be disenchanted for Nether essences using
/Enchantrix percentless 50,
you'll find plenty, and be able to sell whatever you don't use for a huge profit.

Edited, Apr 23rd 2008 4:25am by ohmikeghod

Another option is to focus on getting Dream Dust. While doing that, you'll probably get some Nether Essences to help you up a few levels. HINT - get a tailoring friend, and you can just farm cloth (Mageweave is easy to farm in Hinterlands - Jintha'lor or the AH)

Then, once you hit lvl 265, get the Enchant Shield - Greater Stamina recipe. 10 Dream Dust per enchant. That will get you from 265-290 easily.

The hardest part (I found) is when you need illusion dust or eternal essences. Those are the toughest to come by, even working the AH...

EDIT - farming instances at that level are hard. They go kind of slow, and the only reliable drops are the blues from bosses. As you know, those will give you shards most of the time. Shards are not very useful while leveling, and don't sell for much money (other than Prismatics of course).

Edited, Apr 23rd 2008 10:57am by YJMark

Thanks for the info. I'll see about buying that shield enchant soon. I think I've have a few stacks of dream dust laying around.

I looked at the shield enchant formula page, seeing what others said about it. It seems to have mixed replies... some say it doesn't show up until you have 265+ enchanting and others say you can have less. Some say they couldn't get it to show up in UC, but they could at the other merchant that sells it.

The shield enchant is a limited supply formula. Please ignore everything you read about it. People will tell you that you need to buy one formula off the vendor for it to spawn, or other stuff like that. Or that you have to buy the JC recipe 3x, and then it will show up.....ignore all that. All those are just coincidences.

Here's the deal. It will not always be on the vendor when you get there (just like any limited item). However, you must make sure to go through all the of the vendor's items since this particular formula generally shows up as one of the last items (even though another enchant formula and the JC recipe will be the first items). It is kind of weird.

I bought this on a toon that did not have 265 enchanting (that toon is still at 220). So you do not have to have 265 enchanting for it to show up (unless Blizzard changed this in 2.4).

On the upside, you don't have to go to Uldaman anymore to train.

I think all trainers now train up to artisan and then for the Outland stuff you'll have to go to Thrallmar then if you're Aldor.

I had the worst problems obtaining nether essences for my enchanter also. I had no problems with eternal essences.

As has already been stated, weapons tend to drop more essences than dusts. So your trade-off is buying more expensive weapons to disenchant versus needing to buy more of the cheaper armor pieces to get the same number of essences. Here's listing of items that disenchant into nether essences with percentages. Buy or craft items with higher chance of DEing into nether essences.
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=11174
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=11175

I just sent the armor and weaponry I created to level up my other toons trade skills to my enchanter. I disenchanted it all, kept what I needed and sold the excess dusts. The stuff one makes to level trade skills almost never is profitable to sell. So look for those in your auction house. They'll likely be the cheapest stuff you can buy that'll DE into what you need. ;)

Edited, Apr 28th 2008 12:10pm by ItsaGaAs

Handsofdeath - here are some other options...

Use the "/enchantrix percentless 50" slash command, and buy lvl 45-51 armor items. DE them, and use half of the mats to level your skill, and sell the other half. You should just about break even.

Aren't you a tailor too? Another option is to go crank out some Runecloth Belts and DE them. You'll get all the mats you need to level up. Plus, you'll probably get some Eternal Essences, which you'll need later on.

These are just some ideas so that you don't have to sit around trying to sell enchants. I've never had much luck with that until I got above lvl 300 (where people actually want the enchants).

3-4g? You lucky *******. On Amun'thul Horde Greater nethers are about 10g each and lessers are 5 or 6 minimum.