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As mentioned in the previous post, this is all about crafting items to disenchant (DE) for profit.

Tella from Hit The Cap! posted a great post on this, and this is not meant to steal his/her thunder, it is just something I want to fully expand upon due to it being my primary method of making money on my yet to be transfered warrior in the past. So definitely check out Hit the Cap! too.

This is not a new idea, or even a ‘secret’. It is a well known and used money making method used by countless people, and you can guarantee there are others on even the lowest population server doing the same thing.

That does not make it useless!

One of the greatest things about enchanting mats is that they are always in very high demand, so much so that even with others doing the same thing you can nearly always turn a profit from this method.

So how does it work? (Beginner primer)

Essentially disenchanting is used to turn a green, blue or epic item in to trade goods which are used to make enchants as well as a few other things. This is done by the wide public via BoE items that drop while they quest, or items that nobody needs during an instance run.

However, a lot of crafting professions have the ability to make items that can be DE’d, which if the materials cost is low enough and the enchanting mats cost high enough allows you to make money just by crafting an item and installing DE’ing it then reselling the goods.

Alchemy, Enchanting, Engineering and Inscription do not have the ability to do this – either at all, or never at a profit.

To fully break it down, the steps are;

1. Get mats, either ones you have stockpiled or purchased from the AH or trade
2. Craft disenchantable items via these mats
3. Disenchant these items
4. Sell the enchanting mats you get from them

You do however need to know what you are crafting, so that you buy the right resources.
You also need to know the cost per craft, and the profit you stand to make from the enchanting materials you will sell.

Very Soon(tm) I am making a spreadsheet to cut out the need to manually work out the cost per craft and profit you stand to make.

Okay so I understand how the system works…but what should I make?

As mentioned before, a few of the crafting professions each have items you can craft to DE for profit, although not all of these will be profitable at any given time depending on the state of your server.

As such the below list of possible crafts does not mean you should make these items no matter what. Take a look at your servers prices, in some case you might be better off waiting for cheaper mats prices or higher enchant mat prices, or just selling the mats you have for a better profit.

Due to a greater amount of people doing heroics, the price of Dream Shards and Abyss Crystals fell on every server – as such the best items to craft are normally those that DE in to infinite dust and cosmic essences.

Blacksmithing : Horned Cobalt Helm (Ensure you also check prospect prices, often more profitable to do that and craft the Jewelcrafting items below)
Jewelcrafting : Crystal Chalcedony Amulet, Crystal Citrine Necklace, Sun Rock Ring and Bloodstone Band
Leatherworking : Arctic Boots
Tailoring : Duskweave Belt

Just ensure that your crafting cost is less than the value of the possible enchanting materials you will get. To do this check the Created By tab for the mats and work out your total cost, including AH cut, and then compare this to the average DE under the Disenchant tab.

This very simple calculation will let you work out if an item is profitable

a * 1.05 – b = c

a = Mats cost
b = Sell value of enchanting mats
c = Profit
The 1.05 is adding the 5% AH cut.

To recap the above

You can craft items using Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking and Tailoring – which can then be disenchant and the enchanting mats sold at a profit. Always ensure your mats cost and AH fee is lower than the sale value of the enchanting mats you will get from doing this however.

If anyone knows of better items to use, for any profession please leave a comment here, and I hope this post has been useful.