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by Matthew Rossi 
Dec 23rd 2008 at 3:15PM
Are you an enchanter? Have you started tearing out your hair at how hard it is to get things to DE to Infinite Dust or Greater Cosmic Essence, while Dream Shard after Dream Shard piles up in your bank even after you've bought all the enchants? In my case it's Essences that are the issue. Nothing I disenchant seems to want to turn into them, while even lowly greens keep turning into shards. I have all the enchants to learn, I simply can't get enough essences to do any enchants.Turns out this is being retuned in 3.0.8 although I'm not sure I like how it sounds. See, the solution of jacking up how many shards enchants need would certainly make shards more valuable on the AH, but I don't sell mine anyway. Meanwhile, am I going to be getting essences from DEing now? Dust isn't that hard to get in my opinion (certainly not as hard as GC seems to think it is) - it's essences I can't get enough of, and essences that limit the enchants I can and can't do. On my server a Greater Cosmic Essence can run you 50g for one, and when I need 10 for an enchant and only have 1 after DEing two days worth of farmed/quested greens, that's a problem for me. I don't see how making it take more shards to do an enchant would be any great favor unless those shards somehow took the place of Greater Cosmic Essence, and if they do, what's the point of GCE at all? Here's hoping I'm just being reactionary and the changes coming in make it easier to level this profession.
Filed under: Enchanting, Analysis / Opinion, Economy, Enchants
Reader Comments (Page 5 of 5)
Archion Dec 24th 2008 11:20AM
I'm not going to post my secret here but lets just say that if you have a blacksmith friend, there is a recipe drop out there that only cost 4 cobalt bars and DEs into 2-5 dust or 1-2 GCE. I get a very good mix of both DEing this one item and have had no problem getting the matts..
Rob Douglas Jan 2nd 2009 1:37AM
same way i've made 50k since launch on chanting mats alone.. i go thru 12 stacks a day minimum.. ;)
Chri Dec 30th 2008 7:20PM
To all you smug AH players, not all servers price their greens so low.
Lvl 71 greens (disenchanting to 1 or 2 dust) sell for minimum of 6g on Barthilas. Dust is about 5g which seems to be fairly common server to server. So there's no real money to be made there.
All I see in trade channel are enchanters paying their customers 50g if they get a skill up. I don't see this with any other profession.
My other profession is Tailoring which I wanted to level first, so like many others i'm experiencing a severe shortage of dusts. Unfortunately Duskweave Belt is a good cloth -> dust pattern, but the mats are somewhat expensive (it's 7 bolts of Frostweave, just over a stack of cloth).
ATM I'm farming Frostweave from humanoids and selling the raw cloth for 1g a piece. Then buying dust on AH. This is currently more profitable/reliable on Barthilas then crafting cloth items in order to disenchant them. Cloth is too valuable.