As many people know, World of Warcraft (often abbreviated as WoW), has quite a lot to offer. In addition to epic combat, quests, arena, and dungeons (also known as instances), players have the opportunity to learn professions in order to earn gold and enhance their characters. One of the most well-known professions is enchanting, but it's also a profession surrounded by many myths. For instance, may people claim that it's impossible to make a profit from enchanting in the early levels. Others insist that you must choose tailoring as a companion profession, which makes it much less attractive to any class that doesn't wear cloth armor.
Neither of these myths are true, however. While it can be more of a challenge to earn WoW gold while leveling enchanting than, say, inscription, it's still possible, and the end-game benefits of the enchanting profession (both in gold and in weapon and armor buffs) make enchanting a very worthwhile profession to pursue, as long as you're up to the challenge. Further, while almost every enchanting guide out there recommends choosing tailoring as a companion profession, this is entirely unnecessary, and in fact, I recommend against it.
Whether you're a hunter, a rogue, a warrior, or any of the other non-cloth wearing classes, tailoring is a fairly useless profession. If you happen to be a mage, warlock, or priest, it may still be a bad idea to take tailoring along with enchanting, simply because it will seriously hinder your ability to earn gold while leveling your character. If you're dead-set on taking tailoring, it might be best to choose a gathering profession (mining, herbalism or skinning) instead of enchanting. However, if you do want to combine tailoring and enchanting, you can still follow a number of tips in this enchanting guide to help maximize profits.
My first, very important suggestion is that you do not purchase any enchanting recipes that cannot be learned from a trainer until you reach top level. There are many enchanting recipes available for sale at any given time on the Auction House, all going for various prices depending on your server, and you can spend a fortune trying to collect them all. While many of the most profitable recipes are ones that cannot be learned from a trainer, they're usually very expensive to buy on the Auction House. They will be worth purchasing once you reach top level, but in the meantime, there are other, easier ways to make a profit.
Your first and most important form of income while leveling enchanting is going to be from disenchanting quest rewards and other soulbound items that are useless (or become useless) for your character, and then selling the resulting enchanting materials on the Auction House for gold. As an enchanter, you will be able to disenchant any uncommon item, that is, items whose names are colored. At early levels, most of your profits will come from disenchanting green items, the most common of the “uncommon” item types. As an example, if you are playing a hunter and a quest offers a choice of rewards of cloth armor, plate armor, or a staff, you are going to want to disenchant whatever you choose because none of those are useful to you. Because all quest rewards are soulbound, you would otherwise have to sell them at a low price to a vendor, and can almost always earn more by disenchanting it and selling the resulting mats on the Auction House.
Also, every time you upgrade a piece of gear, if your old gear is soulbound to you, you will want to disenchant it so you can then sell the resulting enchanting mats on the Auction House for gold, just like unwanted quest rewards. One of the best parts of the enchanting profession is that enchanting materials require zero deposit cost to post on the Auction House, so you don't have to worry about losing a deposit if your items don't sell. Never undercut competing players' items by more than one silver, because doing otherwise just cuts into your profits, and even if your item doesn't sell, you won't lose any gold to the deposit cost and can just repost it.
When using the Auction House, it is best to have some sort of addon to help you keep track of the average prices that different items go for. As an enchanter, the best addon you can use is the Auctioneer Suite. The reason this addon (or group of addons, really) is so good is that it not only tracks item price data, but it includes the addon Enchantrix, which will use the data you collect to determine the average value of disenchanting an item. This will help you decide whether to disenchant items that aren't soulbound. Sometimes you will earn more gold from selling the original item on the Auction House, and other times it will be more profitable to disenchant it. Either way, the tooltip provided by Enchantrix is invaluable in making those decisions.
Early on in the enchanting profession, you will be able to earn skill levels simply by disenchanting items. However, after skill level 50, this will no longer be possible, and in order to increase your skill level, you will have to enchant items using enchanting recipes. Performing enchantments requires the same enchanting materials that you receive from disenchanting uncommon items. This is the part of the profession that is expensive, and why so many people claim that it's impossible to make a profit while leveling enchanting. You see, while enchanting materials are in high demand and sell well, few people will pay for many of the low level enchants that you will need to perform in order to raise your skill level.
That is, few people will both pay for you to enchant their gear and either travel to you or wait for you to travel to them in order the perform the enchant via the trade window. However, due to the advent of the inscription profession in Wrath of the Lich King expansion, it is now possible to record enchants onto vellums and then sell them on the Auction House. For instance, if you wanted to level your enchanting skill by casting Enchant Bracer: Minor Health, instead of casting it directly onto an bracer, you would cast it onto an Armor Vellum I and create a Scroll of Enchant Bracer: Minor Health. The great thing about these scrolls is that, like enchanting materials, they have no deposit costs for the Auction House. This is especially important because demand for low level enchanting scrolls is not very high, and you may have to post them a number of times before they sell.
You will unfortunately not always be able to sell the enchanting scrolls for as much as the materials costs to make them, but doing this will seriously decrease the amount of gold lost compared to simply enchanting your own gear over and over with the same enchants, a common practice. It is often worthwhile to enchant your own gear with enchants you are using to level up, but there's no point in doing it more than once unless you're lazy and don't care about wasting gold.
That being said, you shouldn't be enchanting your gear with enchants that won't provide skill levels until your character reaches very high levels, at least past level 60, if not 70. Why? At lower levels, you change gear so often that you would spend a fortune enchanting new gear every time you got it. While enchants may give you a slight advantage, most players make it to top level without ever having an enchant on their gear, and I therefor advise that you not enchant your gear at all if you want to earn the maximum gold, or at least only do it when the enchant will give you a skill level anyway.
My last piece of advice is about the second profession you choose to take for your WoW character. As I said earlier on in this enchanting guide, tailoring is a bad choice. The reason many Warcraft guides suggest it is that tailoring produces many items that can be disenchanted, and can therefore fuel your enchanting profession. The problem is that tailoring itself is an expensive profession to level, and you will often need to purchase cloth on the Auction House in order to make your recipes because you won't find enough cloth on your own.
On the other hand, if you choose a gathering profession instead of tailoring, you will not only be able to sell all the items you gather for a profit (since enchanting rarely uses materials from gathering professions), but you will also have a lot of excess cloth you can sell. The amount of gold you will earn this way will more than offset the advantage of being able to create disenchantable items. After all, you will find plenty of uncommon items to disenchant through quest rewards and simply from killing monsters, so taking tailoring as a companion profession to enchanting really is unnecessary, and a bad choice if you want to earn the maximum gold.
To learn more about earning gold with another WoW profession, Inscription, go here.
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