I dropped almost 400 gold on enchanting yesterday and got up to 265. The economy that is so nice for making money on the AH is very bad for trying to level a profession in one day. The dusts and essences were so expensive, I had to play a crap shoot with items, with only Enchantrix to help. I got some nice suprises along the way (like a 15g shard in a 2g weapon), but it was a lot of wasted money. I ended up posting a lot of mats back up to sell off to recoup my costs.
Getting to 300 is not going to be cheap. Large Brilliant Shards are 15-17g each, Dream dust is 24g per stack, and Illusion Dust is 38g per stack, of which I will need 9-12 stacks. On a happy note, I was able to DE my Outlands gear for 20 Arcane Dusts (my original intent on switching professions) and sold them for a cheap 20g. I could have made more, but I wanted to get some money back.
For anyone left wondering after a bunch of run-around on the WoW database sites, if you chose Aldor as your Shattrath City faction, you still HAVE to go to Uldaman to get Artisan Enchanting, but you only need to use her up to 250, then you can leave and finish leveling using other recipes from the cities.
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Powerlevelling enchanting, something I’d never do again. Not without decent guildsupport. To expensive if you have to play the AH.
I also notice ypu have so many characters. Where do you find the time to play them all?
It HAS been pretty expensive. My only reason is that I play the AH better than the costs right now. I figure that if I have to buy a few 5g weapons and sell the Greater Nether Essences instead of enchanting, I can keep my costs down. Each one of those is like 1.5 weapon’s worth of resale value. When one drops from a 2g armor, I’m really ahead.
Despite the appearance that I play them all, I have a very hard time switching when I’m in the middle of something. I even have a hard time switching what I’m doing with one toon. I really want to get Deadr to 64 to wear new armor, but I can’t stop leveling his professions or making mad money to get a Fast Mount.
I recently rerolled on a new server, but I had four level 60 characters on my old one.
Those were my hardcore days :p
Now I have a hard time finding enough time for my one new character. It’s hard being a mmo/wow addict and going semi cold-turkey.
Wow man, gratz, that’s some impressive grinding. I don’t think I’ve ever done the powerlevelling of a trade skill, but goin off your example I think I’ll give it a try :)!
If you’re ever going to powerlevel a trade, do Alchemy, Tailoring, or lastly Leatherworking. The enchanting guide says toward the beginning (which I overlooked) that leveling using the AH will cost 1,000g.
Ouch. I guess dumping 200g from my beginning balance isn’t that bad, then. On the other hand, that’s over 400g of wasted head start on my Fast Mount. I’d be about there had I not done it.