So I have an addon that tells me vendor price, AH price, and Disenchant price of items. I had a BOE green item that showed vendor price at 40 silver and disechant price of 1gold 30ish silver. So i decided to send item to my alt to disenchant it and sell the items on the AH. When I disechanted the item, I only got 1 item that sells for about 30 silver on AH. My question is: Am i doing this wrong? Is there a more reliable way to decide whether I should vendor a BOE or Disenchant it?
Thats based on the Database the addon draws from unless you have an auction mod that you have used to scan AH recently - Emphasis on recently. Prices can change with chant mats several times in a day. My general rule is - if its a 2h wep its typically better to vender. If its anything else without optimal stats - DE it.
You can’t base your conclusions on the results of 1 de roll. The amount of dust or essence can vary from 1-2 or 2-5 for most items. You’ll need to de many items to get a representative result of the rolls.
I have more stuff to disenchant, i just wanted to make sure I wasnt doing something wrong before I starting disenchanting or vendoring them
I see this kind of number as well. Not sure if it comes from TSM or the auction addon, but it will show a wildly inaccurate “DE” price point. (I have noticed that TSM always tells me to do /tsm scan, even when I’ve done one very recently, with some message about downloading data that I’m not going to do. So if it’s from TSM, there might be data I’m refusing to go get because it’s not provided in the addon.)
I tend to ignore that number and look instead at which mats it has a chance to DE to, assume it will give me only 1 of the lowest value of those, and make my decision based on what that is worth to me. (I usually do that while at the AH so I can see what the realistic going price for the enchanting mat is.)
A good example i can give is that i get alot fo level 45-49 greens from my Mara runs, somtimes they DE into a single dust worth 20s other times you get x3 greater nether essences worth 18g. DEing has big RNG - 20s vs 18g.
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The “disenchant price” on auction addons is horribly inaccurate and you shouldn’t even look at it. Look at the disenchanting materials and probabilities for the item, and take note of how much those are selling for on the Auction house.
Disenchanting is a gamble. There’s no guarentee that you’ll get essences from weapons, and dust from non-weapons, just a higher probability. You’ll usually have about a 5% chance of getting a shard from greens and 100% chance from blues though (except at low level)
I am going to find a guide on disenchanting. Apparently I have a lot to learn. Only made a level 5 alt to disenchant and have no idea what items gives what lol
This isn’t true of all the addons. Auctionator is very accurate, assuming you regularly scan the AH.
OP’s issue is that the DE value is very RNG based. Dust is worth basically nothing in classic, but AH addons calculate the “disenchant value” based on the overall chance or either dust/essence/shards.
So you might have an item that has a 4/5 chance of giving you dream dust and a 1/5 chance of giving you eternal essence. The AH disenchant price is based on the average value of DEing that item 5 times. If you get unlucky you could just end up with 5 dust and make a loss, if you get lucky you could end up with 5 essence and make a big profit.
Addons that give you disenchant “values” are taking data from lots of sources to come up with that value. They go off their most recent AH data and compare it with percentages of materials dropping from each disenchant and then give you an average price.
You should never expect to get the full amount from each disenchant, but rather if you were to D/E 50 of those items you’d average roughly that amount per item, total.
I’ve typically found it worth to just D/E any green that vendors for <1g (with the exceptions of “The Bear” “The Eagle” “The Monkey” gear from 30-50), and Blue above lvl 50 that vendor for <2g.
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This is very server dependent. It’s not worth DEing anything under level 51 on my server. It’s almost always better to just vendor it. Low level mats are worth very little.
I often get nether essences from 45-49 greens, are they not worth much on your server?
Not enough to make up for the almost worthless Dream Dust and Vision Dust that you mostly get.
A lot of this stuff vendors for close to a gold and the DE value is usually lower than that. In the event that it’s close I prefer to vendor because I don’t have to post it 15 times on the AH to realise the value.
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Blues that DE into Small/Large Radiant shards are worth DEing though.
I’ve made quite a bit of gold crafting and Disenchanting “Green Lens” engineering pattern.
Each item can roll either an essence or dust. Some items are almost guaranteed shards(mainly BoP items that are blue+)
Its usually 75/25 dust to essence ratio on BOE green items and the opposite on blue BOE items with a chance of shards. I would look up what items can DE into and vendor the ones that cant DE into useful dust/shards/essence for high level enchants. Most players aren’t leveling enchanting so the only people looking for mats are looking to get a high level enchant.