Starting enchanting

[Valimir]

Finally got everything I'll ever need gold for so I'm dropping herbalism which was a great money maker and I'm picking up enchanting. I have a good skill-up guide but I'm looking for the best dungeons to solo to get enchanting mats. My plan was to hit Dead Mines and Shadowfang Keep for the 1-125 mats, then maybe go for SM. So any hints/tips from people who have skilled-up at level 70?

[Barghbq]

I managed to stockpile on the way to 70, before I switched, then bought what I needed off of the AH.

Your biggest hurdle will be Illusion Dust and Greater Eternal Essence. Other than that, I'd say farm the gold and buy the mats - it'll be faster.

[Naellaar]

My level 70 human rogue was a level 1 enchanter back when you could DE anything with that, after the changes that made certain levels required I had to actually skill it up and I did so by farming the mats in instances, It took forever and I never did end up maxing it.

Recently after coming back out of retirement and making a lock on horde on another server, I made a rogue alt now hes not level 70 hes only level 25 atm but his chanting is maxed atm at 225. I got every skill up by DEing every tailor item my warlock skilled up on (changed him to tailoring same time I made rogue a chanter), and it was very quick and relatively inexpensive.

Now maybe that isn't an option you wish to take if you don't have another guy that you want to skill up a tradeskill with, but it worked so well with me figured I'd mention it.

[RomaGoth]

I am at 260 enchanting with my warlock, I got most of my mats from farming instances with my 70 hunter. The best ones are Deadmines, Stockade, Gnomeregan, and Scarlet Monastery up until around level 50 with 275 enchanting. I have had a difficult time obtaining Lesser/Greater Nether Essence and Lesser/Greater Eternal Essence. Finally tailored some stuff to DE, but didn't get the mats I wanted from it. My hunter is a LW, so I will make some stuff with him to DE as well.

My advice, since you are at 70, is to just farm some gold and buy the mats, with an occasional instance run. A lot depends upon the amount of time/money you want to invest.

[dogwatch]

364 enchanting here.

I would say places mentioned DM, stockades, Gnomer, SM they are fine to a certain point. But once you get up into the higher levels 300 to 350 these places won't help you much.

at 364 the kind of encants now that raise my skill mostly require like large prismatics and arcane dust. If you haven't done so check out this add on called enchantrix that will show you what an item will DE into. Personally I use my 375 tailoring skill to keep a steady flow of Large Prismatics in my arsenal.

Best word of advice... USE THE SKILL GUIDES do the enchants that they suggest for leveling. Enchanting is actually very crappy until you hit 300+ then you can actually do the enchants you would Actually want on your gear. The last 25 points are brutal because every enchant you can do to raise yoru skill level might be hundreds of gold in mats so you basically have to whore your skill out for free hoping someone will give you the mats and let you do it for them.

[RomaGoth]

Originally Posted by dogwatch

364 enchanting here.

I would say places mentioned DM, stockades, Gnomer, SM they are fine to a certain point. But once you get up into the higher levels 300 to 350 these places won't help you much.

at 364 the kind of encants now that raise my skill mostly require like large prismatics and arcane dust. If you haven't done so check out this add on called enchantrix that will show you what an item will DE into. Personally I use my 375 tailoring skill to keep a steady flow of Large Prismatics in my arsenal.

Best word of advice... USE THE SKILL GUIDES do the enchants that they suggest for leveling. Enchanting is actually very crappy until you hit 300+ then you can actually do the enchants you would Actually want on your gear. The last 25 points are brutal because every enchant you can do to raise yoru skill level might be hundreds of gold in mats so you basically have to whore your skill out for free hoping someone will give you the mats and let you do it for them.

I also use Enchantrix. It is a great addon, showing you what the required skill level requirement for disenchanting is for every green/blue/purple. I have found that a good method of obtaining higher level mats is to find cheap greens from outland and DE them.

The thing that bugs me about the Enchanting profession is that Disenchanting does not offer skill up points. Mining has smelting that offers some skill ups, Tailoring has the creation of bolts of various cloth that offers some skill ups. Why doesn't disenchanting offer some skill up points as well?

It is a very painful profession to level up.....

[Meiyo]

Originally Posted by Barghbq

I managed to stockpile on the way to 70, before I switched, then bought what I needed off of the AH.

Your biggest hurdle will be Illusion Dust and Greater Eternal Essence. Other than that, I'd say farm the gold and buy the mats - it'll be faster.

Assuming you have tailoring and you don't mind farming Ironweb Spider Silk to make Runecloth Shoulders, you can typically disenchant into 2-5 Illusion Dust and have a chance to DE into Greater Eternal Essence.

[Valimir]

Originally Posted by RomaGoth

I also use Enchantrix. It is a great addon, showing you what the required skill level requirement for disenchanting is for every green/blue/purple. I have found that a good method of obtaining higher level mats is to find cheap greens from outland and DE them.

The thing that bugs me about the Enchanting profession is that Disenchanting does not offer skill up points. Mining has smelting that offers some skill ups, Tailoring has the creation of bolts of various cloth that offers some skill ups. Why doesn't disenchanting offer some skill up points as well?

It is a very painful profession to level up.....

You get some points for DE'ing but I'm not sure when they stop. I'm sure one of the guides says you can get your first 50 points just by DE'ing. Thanks for all the other replies. I have the gold to buy the mats but there's also some instances I've never seen that I could run through (RFK, Gnomer, etc) and I'd like to see those. Forgot about Stocks as well

[Corpboy]

Originally Posted by Valimir

Finally got everything I'll ever need gold for so I'm dropping herbalism which was a great money maker and I'm picking up enchanting. I have a good skill-up guide but I'm looking for the best dungeons to solo to get enchanting mats. My plan was to hit Dead Mines and Shadowfang Keep for the 1-125 mats, then maybe go for SM. So any hints/tips from people who have skilled-up at level 70?

Let me ask you this: what is your other profession? I had Herbalism / Alchemy for a long time, eventually dropping herbalism for tailoring.

I now routinely drop 4-500g a weekend on plants alone just to fuel my raid consumable needs. In an attempt to stop the gold hemorrage I have been power leveling herbalism on an alt (got to 300 last night) with the intent of using her to pick my flowers.

My point being: if you dropped herbalism thinking you would just buy your alchemy mats at the AH, you may be in for a shock when you discover just how much that is going to cost you.

[dogwatch]

Originally Posted by Valimir

You get some points for DE'ing but I'm not sure when they stop. I'm sure one of the guides says you can get your first 50 points just by DE'ing. Thanks for all the other replies. I have the gold to buy the mats but there's also some instances I've never seen that I could run through (RFK, Gnomer, etc) and I'd like to see those. Forgot about Stocks as well

Even trolling stockades I rarely come across greens that don't require atleast 50 skill in enchanting to DE.