Enchanting 525 Illustrious – Levelling And Selling

Up until the introduction of the profession of inscription, selling you enchants was a very time consuming affair.

Before this, after gathering your materials, it was a case of spamming the trade channel to sell you wares directly to other characters using the personal trade GUI. This could take hours, and seriously detracted from game play.

Inscription bought with it “vellums” on which you can put your enchants which can then be marketed at the auction house like any other item. Thank goodness. Enchanting 525 Illustrious will bring yet more changes.

Inscription, therefore, might seem a decent second choice for a profession. Allowing you to make your own “media” as it were. Patch 3.2 has made inscription a very decent choice all round, adding some very desirable crafted items to this profession.

Not that I would advise having two crafting professions, especially for a first character. This is a very expensive way to play, and you may well spend most of your time grinding mobs for cloth or decent greens or blues to sell on.

My main tactic for making a profit with this profession is to make a small spreadsheet with ten or twelve high level enchantments on, and check the availability of these in the auction house.

Next I compare this with the materials I have at hand and the cost of some of the ingredients and reagents currently also at the auction house.

It’s sometimes possible to just buy most of the items you need to make an enchantment you can sell for far more than the cost of the ingredients.

If this is not the case, then I see what’s in short supply, and consider sending out a character with two gathering professions to get what you need. Remember to level these up to, It’s not just Enchanting that needs to be level 525 Illustrious.

At the end however, you may still need to disenchant blue or even epic “purple” items for the ingredients you need. So having a guild mate who can make disenchant-able items with a crafting profession – can save a lot of time and effort.

If this sounds far more complex than most crafts in Warcraft, then you are right. But it might well be the most rewarding and profitable in the long run. Good luck on reaching Enchanting 525 Illustrious.

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