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Enchanting is one of the (if not THE) most expensive professions to level up. It can however be a good way to make money if you work it the right way. There are a couple basic ways to make gold with Enchanting: selling enchants and selling enchanting supplies.

Disenchanting
The first disenchanting strategy I will discuss involves buying greens and possibly blues if they are cheap enough, disenchanting them, and then selling the enchanting supplies you received. Often times the enchanting supplies you receive sell for more than the item will sell to a vendor or on the Auction House. You can guess by yourself to figure out what pieces of gear you might make gold off of by buying them and disenchanting them or you can use the addon Enchantrix, which will tell you how much an item is worth to you if you disenchant it. I suggest using this addon because it will provide you with a much more accurate number than guessing yourself and it will save you time from researching manually to figure out what items will be worth it to disenchant.

If you choose not to buy items to disenchant then you'll have to simply disenchant all the greens, blues, and purples you loot if you want to sell your Enchanting supplies. If you have a high level character a good way to get gear pieces to disenchant is by doing lower level instances that your character can plow through. If you go to the Instances section of this guide you'll find information regarding some of the best zones to take your character to in order to make gold.

Very basically, and if you are an Enchanter this is no new news, green armor usually disenchants into dust, green weapons usually disenchant into essences, blues usually disenchant into shards,and high level epic gear disenchants into crystals. Also, when you sell Enchanting supplies consider selling them in smaller units for very expensive supplies because for rarer or more expensive supplies players are often just looking to get the mats for one enchant for themselves.

Below is a list of instances and the common types of Enchanting supplies you can get from them. This will help you if you decide you'd like to farm Enchanting supplies.

Instance Instance Level Enchanting Supplies Common in Zone
Ragefire Chasm 13-16 Strange Dust, Glimmering, Shard, Magic Essence
The Deadmines 15-20 Strange Dust, Glimmering Shard, Astral Essence, Magic Essence
Wailing Caverns 15-21 Strange Dust, Glimmering Shard, Astral Essence, Magic Essence
Shadowfang Keep 18-25 Glimmering Shard, Soul Dust, Astral Essence
Blackfathom Deeps 20-27 Glimmering Shard, Magic Essence, Soul Dust, Astral Essence, Glowing Shard, Magic Essence
The Stockade 24-32 Glimmering Shard, Astral Essence, Soul Dust
Gnomeregan 24-33 Soul Dust, Mystic Essence, Glowing Shard, Astral Essence,
Razorfen Kraul 25-30 Glowing Shard, Soul Dust, Mystic Essence, Magic Essence, Glimmering Shard
Razorfen Downs 33-40 Radiant Shard, Glowing Shard, Vision Dust, Mystic Essence, Nether Essence
Scarlet Monastery 34-45 Radiant Shard, Vision Dust, Nether Essence, Glowing Shard, Mystic Essence
Uldaman 39-47 Radiant Shard, Dream Dust, Nether Essence, Glowing Shard, Vision Dust, Mystic Essence
Zul'Farrak 43-47 Radiant Shard, Nether Essence, Dream Dust
Maraudon 43-49 Brilliant Shard, Radiant Shard, Dream Dust, Eternal Essence
Sunken Temple 49-55 Brilliant Shard, Dream Dust, Eternal Essence,
Blackrock Depths 55-60 Brilliant Shard, Dream Dust, Eternal Essence,
Blackrock Spire 58-60 Brilliant Shard, Dream Dust, Eternal Essence,
Dire Maul 58-60 Brilliant Shard, Dream Dust, Eternal Essence,
Scholomance 58-60 Brilliant Shard, Dream Dust, Eternal Essence,
Strathholme 58-60 Brilliant Shard, Dream Dust, Eternal Essence,
Hellfire Ramparts 60-62 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
The Blood Furnance 61-63 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
The Slave Pens 62-64 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
The Underbog 63-65 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
Mana-Tombs 64-66 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
Auchenai Crypts 65-67 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
Old Hillsbrad Foothills 66-68 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
Sethekk Halls 67-69 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
Shadow Labyrinth 70 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
The Black Morass 70 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
The Steamvault 70 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
Magisters' Terrace 70 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
The Arcatraz 70 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
The Mechanar 70 Arcane Dust, Planar Essence, Prismatic Shard
Utgarde Keep 70-72 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
The Nexus 71-73 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
Azjol-Nerub 72-74 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
Ahn'kahet: Old Kingdom 73-75 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
Drak'Tharon Keep 74-76 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
The Violet Hold 75-77 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
Gundrak 76-78 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
Halls of Stone 77-79 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
The Culling of Stratholme 80 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
The Oculus 80 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
Halls of Lightning 80 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard
Utgarde Pinnacle 80 Infinite Dust, Cosmic Essence, Dream Shard


Below are the average selling prices of Enchanting supplies on the Auction House.


Enchanting Supplies Average Price on Auction House (each)
Lesser Magic Essence 50s
Strange Dust 25s
Greater Magic Essence 50s
Small Glimmering Shard 5s
Lesser Astral Essence 20s
Large Glimmering Shard 50s
Greater Astral Essence 50s
Soul Dust 50s
Small Glowing Shard 5s
Lesser Mystic Essence 50s
Large Glowing Shard 1g
Greater Mystic Essence 1g
Vision Dust 1g
Small Radiant Shard 5g
Lesser Nether Essence 3g
Large Radiant Shard 10g
Greater Nether Essence 9g
Dream Dust 50s
Small Brilliant Shard 1g
Lesser Eternal Essence 5g
Large Brilliant Shard 2g
Greater Eternal Dust 15g
Illusion Dust 1g
Nexus Crystal 1g
Lesser Planar Essence 3g
Arcane Dust 1g
Small Prismatic Shard 1g
Greater Planar Essence 10g
Void Crystal 5g
Large Prismatic Shard 5g
Lesser Cosmic Essence 7g
Infinite Dust 5g
Abyss Crystal 100g
Dream Shard 10g
Small Dream Shard 4g


Selling Enchants
Selling Enchants is a bit more time consuming and complicated than simply disenchanting items and selling the supplies. The classic way for selling enchants is to advertise your Enchanting book in the trade channel and hope that some one will message you with an Enchanting request. The main problem with this approach is that it is time consuming. You can also now sell scrolls of enchants but in order to do this you'll need to purchase Vellum from Inscriptionists to enchant. Selling enchants can make you a lot of gold but the key to doing it is to have good enchants to sell. You will make far more gold in far less time if you simply have good enchants that have a strong demand. Often times it is worth spending the time to spend time farming Enchanting formulas for the large amounts of gold you can make selling the enchants later on. Also, if you have the gold you might want to consider investing in some Enchanting formulas that have a good steady demand. If you choose the right formulas this investment is usually recovered very quickly. This strategy also included buying Enchanting recipes with shards off of the vendor. With Enchanting, the more nonstandard formulas you have, the more gold you can make.

Below you will find some Enchanting recipes that you might want to consider investing in or farming. This list is by no means all inclusive and there are tons of enchants that might be very popular on your server that different from the ones listed below. Your best bet is to analyze your own particular server, watch for enchants that people are requesting, and monitor the prices enchants are selling for on the Auction House.

Enchant Average Price on Auction House (each) Where to Obtain Enchant Notes
Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon - Massacre 1200g Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran
Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Berserking 1100g Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran
Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Mighty Spellpower 1000g Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran
Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Accuracy 900g Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran
Scroll of Enchant Chest - Powerful Stats 500g Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran
Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Black Magic 500g Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran
Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Mongoose 375g Drops off of Moroes in Karazhan This is BOP so you will have to farm it if you want it
Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Crusader 100g Eastern/Western Plaguelands (see maps below) This is BOE so you can buy it off the Auction House


This is where you can get the Crusader formula off of Scarlet Spellbinders (levels 57-58) in Western Plaguelands. The drop rate is close to 1%.



Below is where you can get the Crusader formula off of Scarlet Archmages (levels 55-57) in Eastern Plaguelands. These mobs are elites and the drop rate for the formula is about 1%.



Below is a list of profitable enchants that are trained by the Enchanting Trainer. Once again, these are only a few examples and you really need to look at your own server and analyze what there is a demand for and what is currently selling good.

Enchant Average Price on Auction House (each) Where to Obtain Enchant
Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Exceptional Spellpower 120g Trainer
Scroll of Enchant Bracer - Expertise 80g Trainer
Scroll of Enchant Bracers - Greater Spellpower 75g Trainer
Scroll of Enchant Gloves - Exceptional Spellpower 50g Trainer
Scroll of Enchant Gloves - Expertise 25g Trainer
Scroll of Enchant Bracers - Striking 50g Trainer

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