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Comment by Mastrcapn

Enchanting can be brutal to level. You are either shelling out literal buttloads of gold to buy and disenchant greens, or farming them yourself to disenchant. Then, you have to go through the grueling process of enchanting the same piece of armor up to 50 times for skillups, selling the rarely-used Old World/BC enchants for a pittance, or casting it on a vellum several times to post them up for sometimes weeks before they sell on the Auction House.

However, at the max skill level, it quickly becomes worth it with the 400 gold+ profits from a single Black Magic. And people will always need an Enchanter. Plus, the ring enchants aren't bad.

Comment by 604609

Enchanting isnt that hard on the pocket even at low levels. It just takes time.

you make a mint from looking for cheap greens on the AH and disenchanting them for profit. Even low level materials you aren't interested in. In this regard it is similar to a gathering profession.

Weapon disenchants get the most profit but armor is slow but sure. for instance you find a weapon green in the 41-45 lvl range this will give you a 75% chance of either 1 or 2 Nether Essences which will sell for 8-15g each. If you picked that weapon up for only 5 gold then woot thats a max 11-25 gold profit (2 NE) or 3-10 gold (1 NE).. if you are unlucky to get some dream dust from the disenchant (20% chance) you wont make a profit but with time you will easily be making enough cash to keep you trucking along and not wanting of money etc.

There are more tricks to get more cash but thats the general gist.

Comment by Little

Enchanting isn't that hard, nor expensive to lvl. But it does take time. In adition to what told, you can easily make money by buying low lvl armor from ah (~ lvl 20), enchanting it and then reselling. Even if a piece of armor is useless, it can get quite powerfull with a proper enchant. Of course it's better to enchant items that are already good...
Well, that worked on the two servers I play on, one of which is highly and the other medium populated.

Comment by Office

My best advice is to take Tailoring aswell, you can buy Linen cloth on AH very cheap and you can make greens at skill 40.. It goes good so your skill is high enough when you go for instances (dungeons).

Comment by QuickBASIC

If you're looking at the comments on this recipe, plan, or quest you might be a collector or completionist.
This is a compiled list of all of the cross-faction recipes in the game.

Most (not all) Cooking recipes on the Alliance side are sold by Kendor Kabonka. The Horde do not have a corresponding NPC, so if you are an Alliance character wanting to create an alt on the opposite side to obtain the recipes for your main, unfortunately you'll have to have a level appropriate character to do the quests to obtain some of these recipes.

All of the recipes except one (Plans: Orcish War Leggings) can be traded cross-faction on the neutral AH.

Alliance Only Recipes

Recipe: Beer Basted Boar Ribs

Schematic: Blue Firework

Pattern: Black Whelp Cloak

Pattern: Bright Yellow Shirt

Item	Quest / Vendor

Blacksmithing

Plans: Golden Scale Gauntlets	The Origins of Smithing
Plans: Ironforge Breastplate	Gearing Redridge

Cooking
Beer Basted Boar Ribs / Kendor Kabonka
Recipe: Blood Sausage	Thelsamar Blood Sausages / Kendor Kabonka
Recipe: Clam Chowder	Kriggon Talsone / Heldan Galesong
Recipe: Crocolisk Gumbo	Apprentice's Duties / Kendor Kabonka
Recipe: Crocolisk Steak	Crocolisk Hunting / Kendor Kabonka
Recipe: Gooey Spider Cake	Dusky Crab Cakes / Kendor Kabonka
Recipe: Goretusk Liver Pie	Goretusk Liver Pie / Kendor Kabonka
Recipe: Loch Frenzy Delight	Khara Deepwater
Recipe: Murloc Fin Soup	Selling Fish / Kendor Kabonka
Recipe: Redridge Goulash	Redridge Goulash / Kendor Kabonka
Recipe: Seasoned Wolf Kabob	Seasoned Wolf Kabobs / Kendor Kabonka
Recipe: Tasty Lion Steak	Costly Menace
Recipe: Westfall Stew	Westfall Stew / Kendor Kabonka

Engineering
Gearcutter Cogspinner / Darian Singh

Leatherworking
Clyde Ranthal
Pattern: Black Whelp Tunic	Amy Davenport
Pattern: Herbalist's Gloves	Harlown Darkweave
Pattern: Moonglow Vest	Moonglow Vest
Pattern: Raptor Hide Belt	Androd Fadran
Pattern: Red Whelp Gloves	Wenna Silkbeard

Tailoring
Danielle Zipstitch

Horde Only Recipes

Item	Quest / Vendor

Alchemy
Recipe: Discolored Healing Potion	Wild Hearts

Blacksmithing
Plans: Barbaric Iron Boots	Trampled Under Foot (Blacksmithing 140)
Plans: Barbaric Iron Breastplate	Barbaric Battlements (Blacksmithing 140)
Plans: Barbaric Iron Gloves	Joys of Omosh (Blacksmithing 140)
Plans: Barbaric Iron Helm	Horns of Frenzy (Blacksmithing 140)
Plans: Barbaric Iron Shoulders	On Iron Pauldrons (Blacksmithing 140)
Plans: Orcish War Leggings*	The Old Ways

Cooking
Recipe: Crispy Bat Wing	Abigail Shiel
Recipe: Crispy Lizard Tail	Tari'qa
Recipe: Heavy Crocolisk Stew	Ogg'marr
Recipe: Roasted Kodo Meat	Wunna Darkmane
Recipe: Scorpid Surprise	Grimtak / Lilly

Enchanting
Formula: Enchant Chest - Lesser Mana	Kithas

Engineering
Schematic: Red Firework	Sovik

Leatherworking
Pattern: Kodo Hide Bag	Kodo Hide Bag (Leatherworking 10)
Pattern: Raptor Hide Harness	Tunkk

* The plan for Orcish War Leggings does not exist in the game, but is instead directly taught by the questgiver.
(Technically this is the only recipe that cannot be learned by the opposite faction because all other recipes/plans can be traded in the neutral AH.)

Comment by draconicman

Here's a list of enchanting materials and what items they are generally disenchanted from (updated for WotLK):

Dust:
Strange Dust: ilvl 5-25 (req. lvl 1-20) greens, more often from armor than weapons
Soul Dust: ilvl 26-35 (req. lvl 21-30) greens, more often from armor than weapons
Vision Dust: ilvl 36-45 (req. lvl 31-40) greens, more often from armor than weapons
Dream Dust: ilvl 46-55 (req. lvl 41-50) greens, more often from armor than weapons
Illusion Dust: ilvl 56-65 (req. lvl 51-60) greens, more often from armor than weapons
Arcane Dust: ilvl 79-120 (req. lvl 57-70) greens, more often from armor than weapons
Infinite Dust: ilvl 130-182 (req. lvl 67-80) greens, more often from armor than weapons

Essences:
Lesser Magic Essence: ilvl 5-15 (req. lvl 1-10) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Greater Magic Essence: ilvl 16-20 (req. lvl 11-15) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Lesser Astral Essence: ilvl 21-25 (req. lvl 16-20) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Greater Astral Essence: ilvl 26-30 (req. lvl 21-25) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Lesser Mystic Essence: ilvl 31-35 (req. lvl 26-30) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Greater Mystic Essence: ilvl 36-40 (req. lvl 31-35) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Lesser Nether Essence: ilvl 41-45 (req. lvl 36-40) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Greater Nether Essence: ilvl 46-50 (req. lvl 41-45) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Lesser Eternal Essence: ilvl 51-55 (req. lvl 46-50) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Greater Eternal Essence: ilvl 56-65 (req. lvl 51-60) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Lesser Planar Essence: ilvl 79-99 (req. lvl 57-63) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Greater Planar Essence: ilvl 102-120 (req. lvl 64-70) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Lesser Cosmic Essence: ilvl 130-150 (req. lvl 67-72) greens, more often from weapons than armor
Greater Cosmic Essence: ilvl 134-182 (req. lvl 73-80) greens, more often from weapons than armor

Shards:
Small Glimmering Shard: ilvl 16-25 (req. lvl 11-20) greens (rarely), and blues
Large Glimmering Shard: ilvl 26-30 (req. lvl 21-25) greens (rarely), and blues
Small Glowing Shard: ilvl 31-35 (req. lvl 26-30) greens (rarely), and blues
Large Glowing Shard: ilvl 36-40 (req. lvl 31-35) greens (rarely), and blues
Small Radiant Shard: ilvl 41-45 (req. lvl 36-40) greens (rarely), blues, and epics (multiple)
Large Radiant Shard: ilvl 46-50 (req. lvl 41-45) greens (rarely), blues, and epics (multiple)
Small Brilliant Shard: ilvl 51-55 (req. lvl 46-50) greens (rarely), blues, and epics (multiple)
Large Brilliant Shard: ilvl 56-65 (req. lvl 51-60) greens (rarely), blues, ilvl 56-60 (req. lvl 51-55) epics (multiple)
Small Prismatic Shard: ilvl 79-99 (req. lvl 57-63) greens (rarely), and ilvl 68-97 (req. lvl 60-63) blues
Large Prismatic Shard: ilvl 102-120 (req. lvl 64-70) greens (rarely), and ilvl 100-115 (req. lvl 65-70) blues
Small Dream Shard: ilvl 130-150 (req. lvl 67-72) greens (rarely), and ilvl 130-163 (req. lvl 69-72) blues
Dream Shard: ilvl 154-182 (req. lvl 73-80) greens (rarely), and ilvl 167-200 (req. lvl 73-80) blues

Crystals:
Nexus Crystal: ilvl 61-92 (req. lvl 56-60) epics
Void Crystal: ilvl 100-164 (req. lvl 65-70) blues (rarely), and epics
Abyss Crystal: ilvl 200-284(?) (req. lvl 80) epics

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