So, from a skill level of 65+ you have no choice but to DE epics in order to skill up any further with enchanting. (There is one recipe at 80 that takes sacred shards, so you can get maybe 10 skill points on that. Maybe?) Which would bring you up to an 85 - MAYBE 90. But until then? From 65-80 I have to DE epic quality gear.
Eternal Crystals are 4,000g a piece. So - 4,000g per skill up?
I leveled every other profession and none of them require you to run Mythics to max out. Enchanting has never required you to run mythics and raids to max your skill, either. There has always been a recipe that required only rare quality gear up until this expansion.
So why am I being punished because I don’t have a guild or friends to run Mythics with? Even if I only pugged Mythic 0’s for gear, for the first few WEEKS (or months?) With how rare loot drops are, I would have to equip my gear rather than DE it. It would take literal weeks before I got even a single piece of repeat gear that I could disenchant.
Why is enchanted heavy callous hide a max level recipe? It only requires soul dust and heavy callous hide. Why couldn’t that have been used as a way to skill up instead? Why isn’t it a lower level recipe?
And from 90-115, it also ALL requires Eternal Crystals. So again, no choice but to DE epics if you want to max your profession.
Every other profession was absolutely gutted - only taking a few hours to max out: But enchanting was made literally IMPOSSIBLE for the casual player to max without spending MONTHS gearing, and forcing them to join a Mtyhic+ guild just to max a stupid profession. This was by far the most disappointing revelation of this expansion: Outside of the way you absolutely gutted fishing and there was NOTHING to look forward to other than a stupid bobber toy.
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Crystals drop from world chests. WQs give skill ups. It does seem like one of the harder professions to level but there are options.
Enchanting always hard to level at beginning of xpac. Epic is not easy to get.
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I’ve never had a crystal drop from a world chest.
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I am not sure why, but they decided to make the mission table an integral part of enchanting this time around. I get a box every day that is nearly guaranteed to give me an eternal crystal.
There’s one in bastion that has a guaranteed crystal drop once per character.
Not so much if you have tailoring.
They go hand in hand really, make some wrist items, de for mats.
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Ive had 5 drop. They were all from chests in bastion so maybe they are one time only but some were the ones that spawn for callings.
just do nonrated pvp. upgrade the 525 honor blues to ilvl184 epics and DE. its like 7 crystals at honor cap. its consistent and soloable.
Enchanting is extremely lucrative this expac btw
Cause that kind of service is in high demand of enchanters. Crafters need max skill to make legos, enchanters need max skill to make the supplies. Other wise everyone would just have an alt with skill 45.
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nope.
BFA, anything beyond 120 required Umbra Shards.
Legion, anything beyond 60 required Chaos Crystals.
etc etc.
there’s no need to run mythics, you don’t need a guild, you don’t need to buy mats from AH.
there are a lot of options.
make use of them.
I got a couple purples from quest rewards upgrading as I was leveling. That helped a little
In my opinion, the best times to use the DMF are to skip enchanting levels 70-75 and 110-115 because the only ways to skill up at these times require 1 or 2 crystals for a chance at a skill up. Other than that, every 3-4 days there is an enchanting WQ that gives a free skill up, and the mission table occasionally has an enchanting box that seems to always have a crystal in it.
same.
and while it’s a matter of luck, it’s the same with anything.
the more you do, the more chances you’ve got at getting stuff.
op still has a lot of questing they can do if they don’t want to do group content.
I’m pretty sure I got to 72 or 73 before I had to start burning eternal crystals.
It’s pretty bad, but the enchanting chests from the mission tables give the crystals, and after a little bit you barely even need them to level.
Quickest way I did it was be friends with a tailor, and since a good number of humanoid adds drop a metric boatload of cloth, mail them off to your friend…
Then they make the same metric boatload of armor that you in turn can DE.
It’s basically printing money at this point.
Also if you’re Kyrian, get the ability from Pelagos that gives you a bag that has Enchanting and Tailor supplies in it.
Except you can’t get past a 65 or so with tailoring because you can’t make epic pieces to DE.
So yeah, it’s either do Mythics, PvP (Which I hate and I am awful at)
Or pray for 1-2 crystals a day through a mission table or a weekly.
Totally great system. (NOT)