So, my druid has enchanting as one of his trades. Recently, I thought I should probably level that up for the upcoming TBC release. I don’t recall if you can start training in The Outlands at 275, or if 300 is required.
Anyone recall?
all professions start at 300 for tbc stuff
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Thanks, and crap… I was hoping to not have to make an arcanite rod.
im on the same boat… ive been buying up gems for my jewelcrafting while they are cheaper before people start price gouging them. may wanna get to 300 sooner then later.
You have to craft the rods still, but they are backwards compatible in TBC. I believe you need the old rod to craft the new one, but I could be wrong. Don’t need to keep your low level rods anymore once you’ve upgraded.
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You can always learn a new level of a primary profession at 25 points below cap for your current level. So yes, you can train Master Enchanting at 275, but your question suggests you’re thinking that will involve being instantly given 25 points; it will not. You’ll still need to level through those points to get to anything beyond them, and as Hurraku said, you will need your arcanite rod to make your fel iron rod.
Not actually addressing your question but possibly relevant:
You will be able to train Artisan Enchanting in Shattrath City and, if you are asking for a different character who is welcome there, in Silvermoon City; you will not need to go into Uldaman for it.
In BC, each enchanting rod “counts as” every lower-tier enchanting rod, so, again as Hurraku said, you can throw out your truesilver rod once you have your arcanite rod. Once BC has launched, each rod becomes a component for the next-highest one (so my planned blood elf enchanter will make his copper rod into a silver rod, then a gold rod, then a truesilver rod, then an arcanite rod, and then a fel iron rod).
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I was asking because I think I recall leveling enchanting to 300 out of necessity back in the day, and it sucked. The 25 points below thing may not apply here.
Don’t buy too many gems… Pick up mining and stash ore. You’ll need metal at least as much as gems. And you can prospect ore for gems.
just grabbing the ones that are cheap. not buying like the 40g blue sapphires or 6g huge emeralds. XD id rather farm the thorium for those
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LOL! Yah, can’t blame ya there, but look at it this way, Archanite is way less expensive now than a year ago.
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It might be even cheaper if I wait until it launches!
I’m sitting at 265 now. I might go as far as I can without the arcanite rod, then take care of the rest after TBC launches.
Just make it, get to 300 now, you can make the gold back easily
prices will probably go up too as prepatch gets close while people start buying up stuff for their new draenei and blood elves. so id get it done now as well.
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Yup because right now patterns and mats and all that is super cheap.
I feel like professions always need to be maxed to learn the next expansions tier, but I can’t remember a time I’ve ever not been maxed on an expansion launch.
May as well level it anyway, it’s probably cheaper to buy the mats now than to buy the Outlands mats on launch to catch up; also with TBC changes you’ll need similarly leveled Enchanting skill in order to Disenchant items so no more level 1 disenchanting alts.
You’ll have to be 300 to unlock outlands crafting. Would be no point to unlock at 275 cause there are no outlands patterns until 300
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Yes, you use the Runed Arcanite Rod in making a Runed Fel Iron Rod which will allow you do to any Vanilla level enchant. You can then safely vendor the Copper-Truesilver rods.
It’s been a long time and I am relying on memory here, but I believe you can learn outland enchanting at 275 and start there.
If thst ever happened, I think that may have been implemented later on (WotLK or Cata?)
Nah because you could always level a profession to the next stage when you were 25 below the current cap. But with enchanting, because you need the rod, it’s a moot point
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You can learn Journeyman Enchanting (…Alchemy…Blacksmithing…Engineering…Leatherworking…Tailoring…Jewelcrafting) at 50 skill. You can learn Expert Enchanting (etc.) at 125 skill (required character level 20). You can learn Artisan Enchanting (etc.) at 225 skill (required character level 35). And, you can learn Master Enchanting (etc.) at 275 skill (required level 50). They didn’t introduce “the new level functions in a way that screams ‘I was added in an expansion!’” until later.
But, as previously stated, this does not in any way imply that you can skip the arcanite rod.
However–you keep repeating that you don’t know if what we’re saying is right, which leaves me wondering why you asked. Wait and check for yourself.