Enchanting Leveling Help

[killahgrag]

Well, looks like I'm running a bit broke trying to level enchanting. Arcane Dust is prohibitively expensive and the greens associated are no help. Planar Essences are few and few and far between and that goes for their DE fodder as well. I know I can run BC heroics and such for mats, and being lvl 85 this is not a problem. I'm just wonder which dungeons are the best bang for my buck(time spent)? I'm sitting around 335 right now, so I will be doing the LK dungeons, too. Same question applies for those dungeons... Any advice as to which dungeons, normal or heroic, will be most efficient?

If it helps at all, I'm a Disc priest with a Shadow OS (in healer gear, not that it matters at that level, really).

Thanks, all!

[Armakus]

If I remember correctly, I ran the first hellfire dungeon over and over. To be honest though, the fastest way to do it would be to farm gold by other means and just buy the mats off the auction house. It's faster to farm the gold than it is to farm the mats

[killahgrag]

If I remember correctly, I ran the first hellfire dungeon over and over. To be honest though, the fastest way to do it would be to farm gold by other means and just buy the mats off the auction house. It's faster to farm the gold than it is to farm the mats

Agreed, but there is a serious lack of certain mats and when they do pop up, they put them up for a retarded amount. I'm starting to think I just need to start farming for these particular mats. The BC dust, essences, and shards are probably about 2-3x what the Cata mats are in the AH, and they're not cheap. My server's economy is not terribly good.

[wynterlyn]

The best thing I can probably say is to level Enchanting or any of those professions you feel you hit a "tough spot" is through the Darkmoon fair Dailies. You can gain 35 skill levels if you do it every month. I did that when I had levelled Inscription recently. I had just dinged level 500 and the cheapest route to 525 would take me 25 days of doing the daily scribe quest. However, the Darkmoon fair went live that same week. I managed to do the daily profession quests and reach 525.

On the other hand before the Darkmoon Fair, my only other option was to craft the relics which required inferno inks which were selling for 200G for a stack of 5. It also helped me level my Enchanting for the last couple of levels. This method has given me hope to level my other professions including fishing and cooking.

This is the best advice I could give you. I find TBC to be the most expensive phase for every profession I've levelled including Alchemy (I didn't farm the mats). I just checked my realm for Arcane Dust and I've found none. The only profession that is probably dirt cheap to level is Tailoring during the "TBC" phase only cause nether-weave cloth is in abundance everyone keeps putting them on the AH.

Your other option is to find green BOEs on the AH. If it sells for anywhere below 5G, pick it up and DE it. I did this a couple of times, but it wasn't very productive in a large scale. It only helps for a few skill levels.

P.S Even running all those TBC dungeons may not be enough. I've noticed the quickest and easiest way to level Enchanting and Tailoring for that matter is to level those professions as you level. I levelled Enchanting on my Priest. This way you can DE all the gear from quest rewards and all the BoEs you find from killing mobs. So I suggest you go back and complete all your quests if you have not done them. This way if you plan on working on your loremaster title, it could help as well. Do the same thing for WTLK. Avoid running dungeons because you ain't guaranteed to get too many drops. You will probably get 6-7 greens and 4 Blues from the bosses at most. I did not quest at all from level 15 till level 72. I just chain ran dungeons. However, I had to invest quite a bit on the mats. But most of the mats I had collected from levelling 2 of my previous toons to 85. So that helped big time. Even during Cataclysm I just chain ran dungeons. I did only the introductory quests to open the portals for me to the Cata zones. I probably should have levelled Enchanting on my Hunter cause I did quite a few quests.

[Ineras]

The best thing I can probably say is to level Enchanting or any of those professions you feel you hit a "tough spot" is through the Darkmoon fair Dailies. You can gain 35 skill levels if you do it every month. I did that when I had levelled Inscription recently. I had just dinged level 500 and the cheapest route to 525 would take me 25 days of doing the daily scribe quest. However, the Darkmoon fair went live that same week. I managed to do the daily profession quests and reach 525.

The profession quests are not dailies; you can only do them once (and receive +5 points per profession) per faire.

[Namarus]

If you hold Halaa in Nagrand there is a vendor there who sells "green" weapons just buy them up every 30 mins and DE them for Essence. For LK instances, do instances that will get you "epics" or just spend jps buying the cheapest possible epics that you can get. Then DE them, and then shatter the crystals for dust and essence. The other alternative is to kill Lost Heroes in Icecrown, you can AOE the packs and they drop greens and cloth. Get the cloth made into greens and then DE them.

[999tigger]

what armakus said. Find the best way to get gold... professions or dailies and then use the ah. Cosider items you cna craft and then de.

[drwelfare]

I farmed Sporeggar rep in Underbog, got to exalted and the mats needed.

[syn1k]

for lk mats if you can find someone to shatter abyss crystals you get a ton of dust/essence from that. if you have friend that has enchating and would run icc5 man dungeons w/ you you can get lk stuff done fairly quickly. also if you have quests left over in tbc/lk/cata zones thats a good source of greens and probably faster than relying on rng of dungeon grinding.

[eliyah]

I did this recently and had a similar problem - the mats on the AH were ridiculously inflated for TBC and Wrath. I found that grinding dungeons wasn't that great for getting mats either. For the most part, I went back and did the quests that I had missed and DE'd the greens. I also did some netherweave farming and found that the best place to get it was the ogres in Nagrand. Another fairly good place was Skettis in Terrokar. Then get a guildie/someone on trade who has tailoring make you some items and DE those as well. For Wrath, I found the best thing was to buy the iLevel 200 relics from the JP vendor in Dalaran. They're 174 JP each. DE them, and then abyssal shatter or get a guildie/someone on trade to do it for you. If you're getting someone else to DE them, try to find someone in a guild with the Bountiful Bags perk.

[wynterlyn]

I did this recently and had a similar problem - the mats on the AH were ridiculously inflated for TBC and Wrath. I found that grinding dungeons wasn't that great for getting mats either. For the most part, I went back and did the quests that I had missed and DE'd the greens. I also did some netherweave farming and found that the best place to get it was the ogres in Nagrand. Another fairly good place was Skettis in Terrokar. Then get a guildie/someone on trade who has tailoring make you some items and DE those as well. For Wrath, I found the best thing was to buy the iLevel 200 relics from the JP vendor in Dalaran. They're 174 JP each. DE them, and then abyssal shatter or get a guildie/someone on trade to do it for you. If you're getting someone else to DE them, try to find someone in a guild with the Bountiful Bags perk.

True. That is why I always recommend to level Tailoring and Enchanting while questing and levelling up. This way you don't vendor all your greens from quest rewards and dungeon drops. This goes a long way in minimising the amount of gold required to level up Enchanting.

[Pere uBu]

For BC mats, I would recommend Tempest Keep trash. I do this with a shadow priest as well. It's pretty easy.
Kill the trash to Al'ar (paladins allways 1st target), then make your way to Solarians room (don't bother with the trash in Al'ars room... the birds are annoying and usually don't drop much). There are groups with like 10mobs who have very little hp (15k~) in front and in Solarians room, which normally drop very good (cloth + greens). Also they drop a little over 1g each. Avoid the 2 patrols in Solarians room. The mindcontrol of the bigger mob isn't worth the hassle... After that, exit and reset the instance and repeat.
This will net you ~100g, ~5-8greens, 2-3 stacks cloth, 1-2 epic patterns and some vendor trash and you can do this in 12-15min.

For LK mats, I find the best is Pit of Saron trash (heroic)... Kill all the trash in there... ~80g, 3-4stacks cloth (if you are a tailor), some greens... can do 1 run in 20mins and reset. If you're done for the day, kill the first two bosses and de+shatter the epic. The big advantage of PoS is that you can get a battered hilt which sells for 15-20k (on my server). Got this every 15th-20th run. Perhaps I'm lucky.. don't know :-)

Have fun and good luck!

Edit: Ofc you can kill Al'ar and Solarian at the end of the ID. Very easy as Shadow and 250g each. And with a little expirience you can also kill Kael'thas and have a chance on the mount. I'm doing this for ~20weeks. It will drop eventually!

[eliyah]

True. That is why I always recommend to level Tailoring and Enchanting while questing and levelling up. This way you don't vendor all your greens from quest rewards and dungeon drops. This goes a long way in minimising the amount of gold required to level up Enchanting.

I agree - leveling Enchanting at 85 was painful. Made me wish I hadn't offered to do it to help my guild out.