Overall, lvl enchanting from 1-600 was pretty easy. solo farming old dungeons can get you at least 10 lvls per run. the only thing that really held me back was once you hit unlucky speed bumps, i.e. where you need like 30 arcane dust but you only get 1-2 from a dungeon run. things get even easier once you get to WotLK enchants. because you can use honor to buy the mats from the vendor in the PvP building.
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Being in a lvl 25 guild with bank tabs full of old enchanting mats help as well
Disenchanting Cataclysm-grade greens I farm everyday for some juicy 300 gold per stack Hypnotic Dust.
All the greens I find + whatever ores I shuffle into jewelery + whatever cloth I convert into 289 bracers (2200 cloth per hour, costs 10 cloth + 4.20g vendor to make one bracers).
It is very profitable indeed.
Get all of the MoP enchants and sit in a major city putting it in trade. People tip 100-200g for the simplest of things. I've even had a 500g tip for just a weapon enchant.
Yes but you have to realise IT IS VERY SERVER DEPENDENT, for instance enchanting in trade often oes for 10g an enchant on 3 of the servers ive been on. Same goes for the price of hypnotic dust.
With all of the Epic necklaces from the Love boss in Shadowfang giving Sha Crystals...Yes. It is worth it. I expect a fix/nerf very soon. Im good with my crystals farmed already tho.
Everything that talks about "gold" is server dependent. Have you ever heared of gold making which is not server dependent? None and Im 100% sure there is none. Your clearly commenting base on your personal preference and not by research.
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The answer is different depending on the situation.
Same server, Same Fraction: No, you only need one and its useless and a waste of time to make another.
Same server, Different Fraction/Server: Yes, its worth making a new enchanter since you CANT mail anything to a different server or fraction.
Gold gain and Min/Max topic, Enchanting is one of the most balanced. Not OP, Not Nerf...so its worth making.
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If you meant buying the matts to level it. Yes, enchanting matts is far cheaper and much easier to farm.
...specialy at burning crusade area where the mining nodes is anoyingly few in numbers, long spawn time and has been made a cross realm zone making it much harder with all the competition. The bc ore prize is always high and short in suply with a very high demand.
I didn't earn a lot with Ench
I'd go for BS/JC/Alch.