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Dis-Enchanting vs Herbalism
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Post by
Lorkin
What do you think is more profittable, being able to Dis-Enchant Greens/Blues/Purples or Herb gathering in TBC? I'm a miner atm, and 2 gathering proffessions seem difficult without installing mods. Consider Epic Flyer and Tauren as well (+15 herbalism).
Wanted to get an idea which would be better before I dedicated a lot of time into it.
Post by
cms2k
My 70 hunter does Herbalism/Enchanting. Great combo!
I herb and have several alchemist friends that will produce raiding potions for me. Enchanting (& disenchanting) are great in any group if nothing else than for the shards.
I sometimes, though not all that often, sell my higher mats in the AH for extra cash when I need it. That works well also.
Post by
Lorkin
My 70 hunter does Herbalism/Enchanting. Great combo!
Which would you say generated more gold?
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Post by
cms2k
It's a toss up. Alchemy, though I sell the mats periodically, I find I can have the Elixirs and Flask made rather than buy them for 30-60 gold a pop. A stack of Mana Thistle goes for 18g, where a stack Ancient Lichen goes for 60g, single Fel Lotus around 25g. A stack Terrocone is around 40g. The money I save by having them made goes more to paying any repair bill that would otherwise get eaten up by purchasing the mats or potions myself.
Enchanting. I honestly don't make much doing enchants, though disenchanting seems to be more lucrative. We do heroics on a regular basis (two or three per day) and with rare exception with disenchant blues and purples. We pass them out via rolls which ends up being one possibly two and everyone seems happy. Large Prismatic Shards go for about 30g on our server and Void Crystals around 40g. When I need a little extra cash, I sell them on the AH.
After reflecting, I don't see a super difference between either one in the long run. It is easy to do herb picking just about anywhere and may be done solo, however we run heroics (in a group of course) so much that shards are usually plentiful. Please take note, I do not spend my time selling stuff at the AH unless I really need the cash. I do not treat it like a profit center.
If I had to choose between the two for usefulness in end-game raids, I would go with herbalism
Post by
Lorkin
Thanks for the replies. I was mainly focusing on DIS-Enchanting rather than selling enchants. One of my other characters was an enchanter and they never really made that much money to be honest. I guess I'm still thinking about farmable blues that a lvl 70 can do and sell in the AH rather than spaming the trade channel looking for people to buy enchants.
Also Herbalism is strictly for selling mats. I guess Herblism has more potential and an easier time making gold.
Post by
sugarzombie
After 4 hrs /played on my disenchanter, I turned 465g into 1070g.
151g per hour
Keep in mind, 1/2 that time was spent AFK while I let auctioneer scan. so, arguably, 300 gold/hour
Plus, I had actioneer set wrong (I was scanning Everything, instead of just Armor+Weapons+Material categories)
So what's the gold-per-hour you can earn from flying around picking flowers? (assuming you're a paladin using crusader aura on an epic flying mount)???
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Post by
sugarzombie
U need to have enchanting at a high lvl to make profit to disenchat stuffl
lies!
bid & buy lvl 10-15 green armor for 5s or less. DE into 2 dust each (min). sell for 2g per stack (that's 10s each). double your money (a few silver at a time). at skill 25 u can DE 11-20 greens. many items DE into 5 strange dust.
first 50 pts come from DEing. as you get more profits, skim off mats to skill up with. then start DEing soul and vision dust.
once you can DE for the better dust, you won't want to waste your time DEing for the low dust. the profit-per-click isn't worth your time. the big money is in illusion dust
use auctioneer and enchantrix to find good deals
Post by
GenXCub
I agree with sugar, What you need to do is scan each day for each dust, essence, and shard type. Get to 200 enchanting (which you can do after level 20). This will allow you to DE anything below outland gear. Illusion Dust, Brilliant Shards (and Large Radiants) and Eternal Essence sell for really good gold. Nether essences are good too.
I do a daily scan of armor 51-56 (the 57-60 is mostly outland stuff, and you're better off as a higher enchanter searching for 65-70's doing that), and weapons 51-56. The weapons have a great chance of giving you 2 Greater Eternal Essences, which, on my server, would net you about 40g, and there it is on the AH for 10g... 30g profit (as DE mats don't cost anything to auction) with no work.
It starts low at the strange dust like Sugar says. First get an idea on what Strange dust and Magic Essence sells for, and then look for the gear that DE's into it, to see what those are selling for. Enchantrix + auctioneer is great for this.
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Post by
Lorkin
I did enchanting (up to 300) on one of my alts before TBC. It's pretty easy to level up really, just run your high level guy through the low level instances and DE everything. Save all the dust till you DE 50 items then enchant stuff for skill up. You'll be at the minimal DE level you need for the higher level stuff in no time.
The issue is that later on you sorta have to run instances or kill mobs (unless you use AH) to get Enchanting materials. Herbalism you just fly around in your epic flyer and look for them. I know you can scan the AH for green items or whatnot, but isn't that the same as buying and selling? I'd rather not be tied to the AH too much, as I know that can be very time consuming.
I guess I'm just goign to stick to Mining and Herbalism. I've been just raising my skill in both as I level and its making me a good deal of money. I just want enough for an epic once I ding 70 again.
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sugarzombie
The issue is that later on you sorta have to run instances or kill mobs (unless you use AH) to get Enchanting materials. ... I know you can scan the AH for green items or whatnot, but isn't that the same as buying and selling? I'd rather not be tied to the AH too much, as I know that can be very time consuming.
i have 2 high-level enchanters, and i have NEVER ran a low-level instance to gather items to DE. buying from the auction house is faster. 15 minutes of running between AH & mailbox earns me more gold than an hour of flying around picking herbs and mining nodes.
buying from AH is also cheaper. calculate the gold value of your time: how long does it take you to complete a low-level dungeon? how many apropriate-level quests could you complete in the same amount of time? why aren't you just questing and using the gold from the quests to buy the items? why spend hours killing gray mobs?!
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Lorkin
why aren't you just questing and using the gold from the quests to buy the items? why spend hours killing gray mobs?!
Well I was talking about powerleveling (dis)enchanting by just running RFK, VC, WC or any of the lower instances for quick greens. One run takes like 10-15 mins and you come out with a bag of greens that can all be DE'ed. Since I leveled Mining and Herbalism, I'd have to PL enchanting up quickly if I drop one.
I see your point about scanning the AH and such. I just hate using auctioneer.
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