Enchanting was my main profession back in vanilla, from what I can remember on the lower levels, people really liked glows so beast slayer glowed red, etc. Then I think it was called striking enchants that had a slight blue hue? (I could be confused on that one.) In any case, when you get the higher level enchants for agility, int, etc… always sold well. Someone else said it, you would get traded mats plus a set amount gold tip for doing the enchant. I always had a gathering prof as my secondary though, to have something a little more steady to sell on the AH. Otherwise about an hour before most raids would start, I would sit in IF and send out a macro’d chat thing advertising some of what I had and my set price, but it does also heavily depend on the server population. I was one of only a few with all of the high level enchants back then so I had a lot more control over what I sold things for. Now I think most/all servers will be mid to high pop so you’re going to have a lot more competition, but all professions are probably going to be in a similar situation unless you luck out and get a rare recipe long before others. Good luck though!
I’ll never forget my first AH purchase. It was a green shirt from a tailor. I was browsing on my rogue for a new sword, but they were all too expensive for my little gnome. But that shirt was affordable, and matched my hair so nicely…No DPS increase that day, but I felt better!
If your goal is to make gold, either trade will do it for you. However, you must remember that the ability of other players to MAKE gold will affect how much is available for you to get. In the first months, there won’t be a heck of a lot of gold in the economy to get from other players. Hell, someone recommended selling 6 slot bags for 6 silver. I can pay a vendor that. You have to make the item worth the time to go to the AH to get.
Enchanting has potential, and a lot of it. But you need the recipes and a group to take you to Uldamann to train enchanting at a certain point. Then, it is a lot of sitting in a capitol advertising that you are selling enchants.
If you’re on an RP server, tailoring is one of the biggest money makers.
Also bags… Bags will net you gold.
Hell said, someone recommended selling 6 slot bags for 6 silver. I can pay a vendor that.
This last stress test, Vendors were selling the 6 slot bag for 5 silver. I’m going tailoring. I’ll be putting the 6 slot bags on the AH for 4 silver…or maybe 4.5 silver.
enchanting is largely a gold sink unless you can get rare recipes like many have stated.
Tailoring can make bags and some okay armor pieces while leveling.
if you can get linen bags, 6 slot bag, and lesser magic wands up on the market boards early enough you can make all kinds of money regardless what you put them up for due to people needing these items.
alchy/herb probably would be more profitable for you in the long run due to the lesser investment and ease of it, but if you are working with a group of people you could make some big bank early on due to bags and wands.
personally I would make an alt your tailor enchanter and make your main herb/alchy but that is me and my plan.
ya i forgot about that. 4 silver would be good. and it would be a skill up.
btw did anyone test if you could link your enchanting skill directly in trade chat on the beta or stress test?
i know it probably wasnt that way in vanilla but bleh.
There is another simple thing that’s pretty much bound to make money, and it’s fishing and cooking. Fishing only if you know, you don’t plan on leveling cooking, you can sell the fish on the ah for cooks who don’t feel like fishing for very long periods of time. But if you get cooking, go and farm for the savory deviate delight recipe. Those I think will always sell because eventually people get pretty tired of looking at the weird, unmatched gear on their character haha.
I do not know if you will make ton’s of money doing any AH stuff early on since all gold has to be farmed from mobs / instances / etc.
If you get twink items / lucky great drops, save them and AH them when their is sufficient gold in the economy.
JMHO however.
That’s fair.
I guess i have to decide what id rather have early.
Dumb question but if enchanting is a gold sink, what’s the point in leveling it?
because someone has to have it. XD
I found it to be a money maker by leveling it only enough to DE most things and sell the mats.
cool thing about classic is a lvl 1 enchanter can de everything
I’m not telling you not to do it, but it will be a long term investment. In the short term it is going to drain you dry. The vendor costs for training alone will eat up all the money you earn from quests and mobs.
Forgot about that!
If I recall, there’s +25 stat enchant recipes out there.
Some only do it to have Smoking Heart of the Mountain, and then drop it for something else.
Personal preference.
There’s probably other reasons.
Well I was hoping to save money by enchanting my characters. Is it worth leveling for that?
tailoring for bags and self made gear and help leveling enchanting.
as far as enchanting try to farm timbermaw rep asap get the +15 and +25 agi enchants and as a tailor you also can get 2 cloth gear recipes from their rep.
Then also farm BRD for fiery enchant and farm gaining thorium brotherhood rep hard for +22 int enchant and fire resist cloth recipes ‘flarecore’ stuff. +22int and fire resist will be hot items.
crusader is also a good one to farm but a lot of competition where the rep grinds are busy but if you can play off-prime time can be easier especially if you duo or group up for timbermaw and killing 1000s of incidisaurs
sure as long as you keep your expectation in check and remember that it is a huge grind for the “best” enchants that no one else has.
shiitaki having atleast one alt who can provide you deing services is worth it alone, might as well level it to 300 for easy access to common enchants for alts and boe gear.