From my vague memory of vanilla… enchanting/tailoring was a massive money sink.
And yet i’ve hear allusive tales of massive money to be made.
Im tempted to go enchanting/tailoring on a priest, but worried i am butchering my ability to make gold (herb/alchemy)
Thoughts?
You won’t really be making money with enchanting until you get those big enchants. You will be spending hundreds of gold leveling it up before you start making the hundreds of gold.
level tailoring till you get the first green you can make and then make it alot and de it . make the enchanting rod and then start making wands to sell by crafting the greens and deing them . eventually get the bag making skill and make bags and sell them for 6 silver and sell the lesser magic wands for 20+ silver.
then make the greater magic wands later and sell them for 1g .
takes a good bit of leveling to get it started but once you do its ez.
Don’t forgetting making all those fancy shirts… those things always sold better than I expected them to.
Enchanting is good to throw enchants on AH items. Give them a boost out the door, and they tend to sell quickly.
Tailoring is always useful to make your own bags and sell some.
Do you know by any chance if there are recipees available in phase one that can make decent money for enchanting?
My biggest concern about leveling with enchanting/tailoring is id be cutting my self short.
Herbalism/alchemy seems like an easier route… albit less rewarding.
Timbermaw rep.
You wont make any money from enchanting or tailoring unless you have an exclusive recipe early. They’re utter gold sinks with a little bit of convenience thrown in.
Tailoring is a little better since once you’re 250, mooncloth cooldown makes you easy gold
you cant sell enchants on the market. No enchanting scrolls in classic
That’s why the trade window exists.
You can still sell your services as an enchanter.
I always had to pay for the agility enchant before we could get our guild enchanter up in rep. My mats + X gold (I forget the going rate)
Is timber-maw rep recipees good enough?
If you push for them.
Can you not enchant a BoE item and sell it on the AH? I don’t remember enchanting an item binding it to you in Vanilla…
From an enchanting point of view yes. They have the nice weapon agility enchants. 1 handed and 2 handed. If you can be one of the first to get friendly or honored i believe you might get some cash off that.
Tailoring wise not as much as back in the day. They mostly have blue quality items with intellect and spirit on them. Nice but not worth the price early game. Most healers and casters will just grab BiS dungeon gear with healing or +spell damage.
True. Tailoring is more of a profession to fuel enchanting (and make bags). Not ne necessarily money.
Interesting thought though: Herbalism + enchanting :o
timbermaw rep enchants and crusader enchant from the spellbinders (i think) in western plaguelands up in the scarlet crusade places.
the thing about enchanting tailoring is you can de the stuff you make leveling tailoring for enchanting mats to level enchanting.
the timbermaw hold rep gives agi enchants at friendly and honored so you dont have to max it.
that being said if i diddnt have to be max tailoring for phase 3 with the zg bloodvine set i would be herb/alch.
Go to the plaguelands and kill the scarlet crusaders. They drop the crusader weapon enchant. For rogues, warriors, ret paladins, enhance shams, it’s the absolute best weapon enchant and was always expensive.
That being said, enchanting was only ever a great way to make gold if you had a lot or all of the rare enchants. So being a part of a good raiding guild that can help you get those recipes was important. Every raid had rare recipes that dropped off random bosses, and a few of the higher end zones, mobs, and dungeons also had recipes that were specific to their loot tables. If you want to make money with enchanting i’d Recommend you google classic enchanting recipes, locate where they all drop, and farm the heck out of them. Otherwise it’ll be a gold sink for you, not a gold farm.
Considering most servers going to be highly populated. I would not expect to make much money at all from professions. Unless you’re into the AH game and want to sit at the AH 18 hours day.
The only reason why I would ever go tailoring is for the epic robes for warlock/priest/mage. Or to take advantage of the Bloodvine set 300 tailoring bonus as a mage/warlock/moonkin for 2% extra crit. Those are the only exclusive things about tailoring besides the nice lvl 30 robes of power. & Mooncloth CD.
Enchanting is even worse. The only exclusive thing is Smoking heart of the mountain. This is the BEST tanking trinket for druids because of the armor. Its BoP the moment its crafted. Enchanting is more expensive and only offers the convenience of being able to disenchant your old gear or in dungeons/raids. Other than that you can mail and disenchant on an alt.
Most people would be x10 times happier with herb/alchemy. Its easy money. Doesn’t cost you anything really to level. Extremely convenient early for all classes. Invisibility potions/swiftness potions to avoid gank. Constant healing, mana and rage potions while leveling. And an easy arcanite transmute cooldown for gold later.
We don’t start with gold. You have to LOOT the cooper, silver, and gold to begin with.
Economy 101. Spells, professions skills, regen items, etc. all cost something from the NPC’s.