Enchanting absurdly difficult to level.

[Ragels]

Anyone else agree with this?

Between the 5 second cast time, having to travel to places for optimal recipes, and generally being one of the most expensive profs to level, anyone think enchanting could use a little bit of a knock down in the difficult department?

Well, we all know that isn't going to happen soon. So, I would like to ask people for their tips to make the enchanting powerlevel grind a little more bearable. Macros, general tips, whatever you got.

[grimmymac]

can you elaborate exactly how it is difficult for you?

[Nume]

Lol after lvling JC/BSing on my warrior, leveling enchanting on my shaman really wasnt all that hard imo. Most of the mats arent that bad, and with vellums you even have a chance to make a profit on some recipes. The only traveling I had to do for recipes was to other major cities, which wasnt hat bad (yes there is one in moonglade but i just bought it off ah bc im lazy :P).

[Deleted]

I'd settle with people realising that this isn't BC anymore and a 10g tip for enchanting your shit is worthless.

Also, the 30 second craft time for the rods is painful. With all the recipe and mats costs (inclusing needing the previous highest rod), making the elementium rod would cost somewhere in the region of 4-5k total, at least.

[Deleted]

1. Claw back some of that gold by using vellums as targets, at least for the higher level enchants (350-375+).
2. Put your disenchant button in your actionbars in a slot with a keybind and disenchant many things in one go by mouseover and pressing the button.
3. Use this macro and vary it for target and enchant (again bind it to a key):

#showtooltip
/run CloseTradeSkill()
/cast Enchanting
/run local s for i=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do s=GetTradeSkillInfo(i) if (s=="Enchant Cloak - Superior Agility") then DoTradeSkill(i) end end
/use Enchanting Vellum
/script ReplaceEnchant()

4. Dump all your BoE's from your other toons to your enchanter for disenchanting. The mats should generate more gold than the items regardless of level. A good bulk email opening addon is EasyMail.
5. It is sometimes cheaper to buy BoEs from the AH and disenchant for mats, than buy the mats outright. Good idea to check for every expensive mat.
6. If you have another crafting profession, you can often craft items very cheaply which can be disenchanted for mats (JC and Tailoring come to mind).
7. You'll make FAR more back from high level enchanting (and some low level ones) to scrolls and selling on the AH than you have ever spent in levelling it. I'm not even counting gold from creating mats. That is, every copper is worth it. Enchanting is easily one of the core professions to make a lot of gold as well as being useful for yourself, your other alts and your guild.

Finally, if you think Enchanting is expensive to level, clearly you haven't levelled Blacksmithing or even worse, Engineering to a high level (especially without Mining). At least Enchanting is super useful and a huge gold maker!

[Strossus]

Anyone else agree with this?

Between the 5 second cast time, having to travel to places for optimal recipes, and generally being one of the most expensive profs to level, anyone think enchanting could use a little bit of a knock down in the difficult department?

Well, we all know that isn't going to happen soon. So, I would like to ask people for their tips to make the enchanting powerlevel grind a little more bearable. Macros, general tips, whatever you got.

Try to level engineering OR blacksmith and come back.... until then: /facepalm.

[Ragels]

can you elaborate exactly how it is difficult for you?

It's not really difficult, it's just that it's harder than pretty much everything else, as far as power-leveling goes. No queuing up and tabbing out, constant clicking, optimal recipes are often found on vendors throughout the world, just little things that add up that make power-leveling enchanting really involved.

[-Raer-]

The cost to power level depends on your server's economy. If you don't have any time constraints of when you need to be max level, then just watch the AH for a couple of days and see what the average price of mats are and buy when they're low. That should lessen the impact to your wallet. Make vellums instead of enchanting items, and sell the vellums for whatever you can get a way with. I know some of the lesser enchants go for a quite a bit on my server, so leveling isn't as bad as I thought it would have been. Lastly, once you get to 525, scan the AH for level 81-85 greens for cheap. But those, DE and sell the mats for people who need them for enchants, people who are power leveling, and AH tycoons who buy and sell a lot. This is my main source of income at the moment, although not the greatest, it's easily managed without logging more than a few minutes a day (:

[Ragels]

Try to level engineering OR blacksmith and come back.... until then: /facepalm.

I've leveled both over the years. Blacksmithing isn't bad at all, considering weapons and stuff give you more points, as well as flying in Azeroth making it even easier if you want to farm it.

Engineering is only difficult because of the various mats you need, there isn't just one type you need like herbs or metal. Everything is still readily available on the AH/Vendors.

[Kylecat15]

Try to level engineering OR blacksmith and come back.... until then: /facepalm.

Really? I leveled eng to 525 with little effort although it was annoying past 500. Enchanting is way more annoying

[Nume]

Well yeah I will admit the actual process of lvling it was a bit of a pain, but i still did it in like 3 hours on one night. The cost is nothing compared to BS/Engineering though imo.

[Ynna]

I didn't find it that hard so far. I'm only at 505 but I didn't have any troubles with it. The only thing that bugs me is the seemingly insane amount of mats the rods seem to need.

[Longview]

I take pride in spending 25k to level enchanting!

[Alraml]

For the most part it's fairly standard. Except the 300-375 skill TBC era where it's like you've jumped into mud.

I'd say jewelcrafting is worse.

For the most part, ench is expensive because of the massive amount of gold lost from disenchanting quest rewards instead of vendoring them

[eternalwhitemoon]

I didn't have much difficulty except for around the 500 mark which was a pain point because I couldn't make the rod because it required 515 to learn (but the rod itself requires 500? lol), and the recipes that were nice and orange of course needed the rod. Once I got over that, it was easy.

I had a ton of materials by a) disenchanting every single quest item I got that wasn't an upgrade, and b) running tons of dungeons. I usually didn't have many issues with getting materials in this fashion.

I also put every enchant on a scroll. Most sold, and some sold surprisingly well. This will help offset any costs you're experiencing.

[Deleted]

For the most part it's fairly standard. Except the 300-375 skill TBC era where it's like you've jumped into mud.

I'd say jewelcrafting is worse.

For the most part, ench is expensive because of the massive amount of gold lost from disenchanting quest rewards instead of vendoring them

Gold from quest rewards totals only 5-6k from level 1 to 85. This is both small relative to the total upfront cost of levelling Enchanting to max level and very easily recouped from Enchanting both while levelling it, even from mats and scrolls generated, and once capped from high level scrolls.

There's nothing "massive" about any "gold lost" from quest rewards while levelling Enchanting. However, you are right in the sense of it can *feel* costly if you are also levelling it at the same time as your character.

[Torian kel]

Since Vanilla i think i must have spent about 6000 gold in enchanting, and i got about 250 000 golds from it. I make more money with JC, but having 9 toons make it very profitable.

[Optimist]

problem with enchanting is not many of the enchant scrolls offer a good money return. On my server, people are selling cata enchants which are worth 70g + in matts for only 2-10 gold. It's a total money sink.

BS/Eng weren't bad because you could run out and farm ore for them and sell the overstock (no competition on ore sales on my server)

[acoolnamehere]

lol, enchanting wasnt hard at all...i just followed a guide, spent a lil less than 5k gold...i also de'd all the items from quest rewards and boe items i recieved from leveling...by the time i hit 500 enchanting is wen i needed to buy from the AH...but i was one of the firsts to hit 525 on my server cause everytime i posted my enchanting in trade..i never had another 525 enchanter compete with me for about 2 weeks

[Strossus]

Ok, then we just have different povs... I leveled every profession with diff. alts. And enchantig was never as worse (even with clicking on items all the time) as it was with BS or ENG, just by the difference of getting mats.

I never ever want to level BS or ENG again, but on one of my twinks I am just at enchanting... going through dungeon finder and questing has always a use for me...