Professions

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.

I didn’t get to play last night because the cable Internet went down. It started with lag (3300ms),  then lost looting of DEing items, then lost chats. Boom. Disconnected from server. The modem light was doing the pissy steady blink of trouble. I went to bed at 9:30, still mad at American Idol.

I saw AMAZING prices of dust, essences, and shards. This is the money-maker on BL. I can tell. After a really good article on enchanting I read earlier this week (somewhere, don’t remember where), I don’t care if I can’t make money enchanting things…it’s disenchanting where the money is.

I haven’t looked too high up the chain, but I saw Greater Magic Essences for 1g each, Soul Dust for 5g a stack, and Vision Dust for 9g a stack. The cost of DEing those is a fraction of that. Sweet. I think I’ll be spending a lot of time in Silvermoon running between the AH/mailbox and Enchanter/mailbox.

When my cohort, Bloodaxel, logged in last night, we chatted for a while on what to do with my selling him bags and such. He wanted me to sell them to him for less. I told him that the 12 bags I just sent him cost me more because the price of cloth was higher last night.

He replied with a loud: “WTF BUYING??!!” He thought I was farming 12 bags’ worth of cloth twice a day, I guess. Sha….right. I have a life! Once he got it clear that my price was determined by the market, he agreed to let me sell them along with him as long as we don’t sell lower than the other. In fact, we are going to buy out everyone lower than x amount and let the other between that price and ours sell out or expire. He said they have been buying them at that price for ages, even when I was low-balling him. This morning, we were the only ones selling Netherweave Bags. 🙂 Now that I’m farming for cloth, my profits should get much nicer.

Okay, okay, I’m tired of shelling out so much money for crafting Imbued Netherweave Bags. They require 8 Arcane Dusts each, which comes out to 15-20g per bag on my server. Greens drop on a regular basis in Outlands, and I don’t think getting through to the enchanting trainer in Uldaman. Actually, does anyone know if it is even necessary to go there since there is a Master Enchanting Trainer in Shattrath City?

Mining is all and good, but you have to farm for spawns of ore and I’d have to go out and finish up my last 29 points until I can start mining where I’m playing. Greens are everywhere when you kill and you can get them on the AH and as quest rewards that aren’t any good. I’ve got a chest, belt, and 2 pair of boots that I don’t really want to use, plus a bunch of weapons that aren’t going to match my dagger and wand combo right now. I might as well do something with them.

What do you say? Tailor/Enchanting with Aldor combo?