Post by v***@gmail.comPost by ~BigredI have a lv.15 Paladin, and most of the enchanting I can currently do
Lesser Magic Essence & Strange Dust
However I have checked IronForge & Stormwind and a few other locations and
can only find 2-3 of each at any given
location. Where is the best supply of these two items so I can get my
enchanting levels up (I know you can buy em' through auction, but my guy
doesn't have that kind of money to buy any amount right now).
Get auctioneer and enchantrix addons and buy cheap green armor pieces
and weapons and disenchant them. The value of the dusts is often
higher than the price of those armor pieces (especially cloth armor).
You need those addons to figure out when the item is worth buying and
what the item will disenchant to.
Exactly.
Contrary to what some people have posted, Enchanting not only needn't
be expensive to level, but it can be *very* lucrative (and I'm very
grateful to whichever a.g.w poster it was that put me onto the fact!).
And you don't need to spend hours standing around offering your
services to people who think you should be doing it for nothing,
either. Dusts and so forth are always in demand.
You need the two mods mentioned above, probably plus something to help
you handle your mail (e.g. CT_Mailmod), because you're going to have a
lot of it. Bid on stuff that has a low starting bid and an average
disenchant value that's decently higher (and that is within your skill
to disenchant, because it's frustrating as hell to end up with a bank
full of stuff you can't D/E yet - check out somewhere such as
www.wowwiki.com for a bit more on that side of things). You'll lose
almost all of the auctions you bid on, but that doesn't matter - you
just need enough to keep things ticking over (and wouldn't you know it
- as I type, the chat messages are scrolling up on the other screen,
telling me that someone has outbid me on most of the stuff I bid for
earlier today).
Disenchant what you win, use a portion of it to skill up your
enchanting (not *too* much at a time, of course, because the objective
here is to make a profit along the way), and put the rest back on the
AH, priced competitively. Most of it will sell. Don't worry about
stuff that doesn't, because you didn't pay a deposit, so you've lost
nothing. Just put it back on again, priced to sell. Visit the
enchanting trainer regularly, of course. Over time, you'll be able to
ratchet your enchanting skill right up, and your bank-balance too.
The first character I did this with (alliance, full server and busy
AH) was making 200g+ on a good day, and had the money in hand for her
epic flying mount well before she hit 70. The second was, for a long
time, doing pretty much nothing else; he makes rather less (horde,
less populous server, less on the AH, and I have to shave my profit
margins more to get a decent amount of stuff to D/E), but even so, so
far he's paid for an epic land mount for another of my characters on
that server, and he's got the money for the next epic mount for
whichever one next hits 60. And he paid for the the first epic whilst
still level 10, and capped on how high his enchant level could go by
consequence.
As for time - it takes me 15-45 minutes (depending on server, when I
do it and how busy things are) to go through the AH bidding, field the
contents of my mail, D/E everything and put the mats back up onto the
AH.
Cheers - Ian