Hi Fellow Wow Addicts,
I have an alt who’s had Enchanting since…I’m guessing 2008 or 2009. I’m thinking of dropping that for a gathering profession. I just don’t see the value in the Enchanting profession xpac over xpac.
Am I missing something? Can any of you share what your perceived value of the Enchanting Profession may be? I thought I’d ask before I ditch years and years of work.
Thank you!
Saves a ton of time when it comes to handling your crest enchanting for having pieces crafted and while enchants aren’t something you buy as often as consumables it also saves quite a bit of gold on buying enchants from the AH. Seems to have just as much value as any other production profession to me.
Plus glamours are fun.
If you are addicted to WoW, do get some help.
But to your actual post though:
Well, do you want to be an enchanter because if so… that’s the full extent of the reasons you need to be one. But in terms of value, Enchanting is still one of the most important and potentially lucrative professions in the game. It simply has competition now’a’days because other professions can actually make valuable stuff as well beyond just enchants and other consumables.
There really isn’t anything more complicated than that. Do you want to be an enchanter or not?
Of all the primary professions it’s the best passive earner on the AH with weapon scrolls, I don’t even have to put too much thought or energy into it or worry about getting to max knowledge points. It’s not like my blacksmith that I put a ton of effort into to get best weaps and gear.
(Alchemy is the other “direct to AH” top earner)
Disenchanting helps clear out my bank and generates acuity and knowledge points. Enchanting in War Within is also much easier to craft 3T scrolls than Dragonflight, where I was struggling in the 2T range a long time.
That being said, I also feel it could be dropped and you wouldn’t miss it. You can get your own gear enchants for a few thousand gold and should be good for the season.
And if you want to drop it, by all means drop it. It’s a free country do what you want. 
If you run content where you are regularly getting drops, there is value in disenchanting all that gear vs just vendoring it.
Otherwise, it just saves you a little time/gold.
You also have to consider how much time you really want to spend flying around gathering, vs enchanting doing its thing with gear drops from running content.
Enchanted crests are getting moved over to a vendor and removed from enchanting now according to this.
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Enchanting is a moneymaker
Good riddance. Having to double-craft each time for a single item was dumb.
Hey that’s good news imo. Still think enchanting has plenty of value.
It is arguably the best profession for people who refuse to spam trade for hours to make a low amount of gold chasing the first expansion patch crafting rush.
When there was dracothyst in the equation for enchanted crests, it was ok. No matter the stupid fees, a resource proc was enough incentive to make me do them. TWW enchanted crest? Meh, good for skilling up sure, but that is about it. And that is done for my chanters! Resource procs on R1 chanting mats and a pitiful fee? Ya Buh bye!
Enchanting has other way better income sources than that!
Personally, I stopped bothering to enchant my gear this expac. So…yeah.
if your going to farm the mats to craft gear to disenchant yourself its an easy win in terms of gold saved.
my leatherworker gathers enough leather while doing his weekly top-up/skill-up to provide enough mats to make enough gear to disenchant to cover the weekly skill-up for my enchanter.
if you go with what you can make (dosent have to be 3star at first) and just use your enchanter to provide for its self and the few alts you have then you’ll be saving a nice bit of gold.
subsequently; if you choose to bail on enchanting, its only going to cost you a few thousand or more gold per character to get 3star enchants and save yourself the time or effort of doing it manually.
“a dollar saved is as good as a dollar earned”
the choice is ultimately yours.
I have at least one character with every profession combination and I find enchanting pretty meh this xpac, only one worse is inscription and that one has felt pretty useless for multiple xpacs now.
Unless you’re getting r3 mats, you pretty much vendor stuff for more profit
It’s kind of a not great profession anymore
Huh. Interesting choice.
On one hand, my non-Enchanting characters are rejoicing. On the other, my Enchanter is contemplating if she wants to drop Enchanting.
What I really want is for them to make Scribe books Warbound though.
I personaly like enchanting as a profession, because it has a unique gathering element to it, can give you some gold passively, and you can enchant your own gear on the spot.
Although recent expansions kind of diminished it a bit, with cheap r2 enchants on the AH, disentanting requiring investment to get good quality mats, and recipes gated behind knowledge and quality grind.
But I’ve still made 600k gold in a few weeks just casually standing next to AH after I got a bis weapon enchant drop for me this mid season, using the concentration mechanic to guarantee r3. So it was still kinda useful.