Don't Always Auto Disenchant

This is an issue that I even caught myself doing. I auto disenchant everything while running random heroics. Since LFD came out there has been a drastic drop in prices of enchanting materials. There is always plenty of supply on the auction house nowadays.

Due to this price drop have you ever thought that maybe you might get more just by selling the item? Think of this, you may have a chance of disenchanting an uncommon item and only receiving two or three infinite dust. That same green may sell for much more than those two or three dusts. Unless it's an item that has a high chance of breaking into an greater essence it might just not be worth it.

Pay attention to vendor sales as you may make a higher profit. Even some epic weapons will sell for much more than an abyss crystal. You can look at some of the epics that drop in H ToC that fall into this category.

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Disenchanting Halaa Vendor Items

Halaa is a rather annoying place to get into. In my experience, any time you want to get into it, it will be in the other faction's control. However, if you can get into it, and you're an enchanter, here's something worth your time.

The blade merchant for each faction (Aldraan for Alliance, Coreiel for Horde). They sell a limited quantity (3) green throwing item, the Avenging Blades or the Sharp Cookie, for Alliance and Horde respectively. Aside from being very decent green items for Rogues or other DPS melee classes, they disenchant into items worth rather more than the cost of buying them (2g21s). Disenchant them into Arcane Dust or Greater Planar Essences, and occasionally a Large Prismatic Shard!

This won't make you rich, folks, but it's a good way to level up Enchanting, and a good way to turn a quick profit if you're in Nagraand.

Tag Team Blacksmith/Enchanter

There's a lot of waste produced when raising crafting skills. When I was grinding up Blacksmithing, I had more Fel Iron Breastplates and other items than I knew what to do with! I couldn't sell them reliably, so I ended up just vendoring them for a little under 5g each, which is only a little less than they went for on the AH.

Still, there are much better ways to deal with the waste you get from Jewelcrafting, Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring, or Engineering. All you need is an enchanter friend or alt. What I recommend doing is when you begin leveling a trade skill, roll an alt as an Enchanter.

Now, as you grind out endless greens and occasional blues to level up your craft, send them to your enchanter to disenchant. Not only does your enchanter get skill ups for doing this, they also get tons of enchanting material. Now, they can keep it, or do what I recommend and SELL it. Enchanting supplies sell far more reliably, and often for more money than what was disenchanted to get it. So, that Fel Iron Plate may not sell well, but the Arcane Dust and occasional Planar Essence or Large Prismatic Shard sure will!

This can be a huge money spinner, or not so huge, depending on how much crafting you do. Still, this is better gold than you're going to get by wasting these items, and it will add up!

Easy Disenchanting For Easy Gold

Most people tend to consider Enchanting a money sink. Well, if you're trying to get to 375, it is. ALL professions are money sinks, if you want to get them to 375. But you don't need to be a high level Enchanter for this to work!

Enchanting materials are always in demand. Not only are they used in Enchanting, but some of the materials are used to transmute cloth, or in various other professions. The key is being efficient!

One of my favorite runs for disenchant able items is Scarlet Monastery. Across the 3 areas, there are quite a few bosses! So, this is simple enough. Run the sections as fast as you can, kill the bosses, disenchant their higher-level drops, especially any blues. Rinse, repeat. Obviously, this is best when done by a stealth class, but any high level character can do it. Between Archanist Doan, Commander Mograine, High Inquisitor Whitemane and Herod, there's a lot of potential for profitable disenchanting!

Since this is so easy to do, don't be afraid to undercut the competition more than you might otherwise. You can get more of this stuff more easily than a lot of them probably are, who are only selling the materials they HAPPEN to come across!