Current Gold Total: 2,500g
Working on: Paladin leveling (72)

Yesterdays video has been re-uploaded with a voiceover! On to the actual post…

So we all know that disenchanting, prospecting and milling take a considerable amount of time – and can’t be automated like creating Frostweave Bolts or smeling Saronite Bars can.

Yet there is a way to cut out at least some of the work. This quick video shows you how.

If you need the commands or macros used, you can find them below the video

To bring up the Enchantrix configuration type
/enchantrix config

The macro you can make to auto click yes type
/click AutoDEPromptYes

This same macro works for disenchanting, prospecting and milling – even though it says DE. There is no seperate macros for each one!

Hope you found this useful, if so please leave comments either here or on YouTube – I will cross post comments on YouTube here if I feel that is required.

Current Gold Total: 2,000g
Working on: Away from home

Auctioneer is a great addon, and some would call it near essential for anyone seriously trying to compete on the AH now. While you can get by using no addons at all, it certainly does make things a lot easier if you do!

One of the brilliant features of Auctioneer over other AH addons is it has “Searchers” which are predesigned to find specific items for certain uses. This sounds broad, but that’s because there are a whole host of available searches. The one we will be focusing on today is the Disenchant Search, although I will be using DE instead of disenchant throughout this post.

What is the Disenchant Search?

The disenchant search checks through your latest scan data* to find items that can be DE’d for profit.

Now that is still rather broad – what is scan data? How much of a profit? What if I don’t have the ability to DE high level items or don’t want to deal with low level enchanting mats? How do I actually do it!?

Scan Data?
Auctioneer, as well as other addons, have the ability to ‘scan’ all of the items on the AH and add them to a database. This allows them to do lots of complex things with them, but most importantly it allows them to keep average prices of all items seen for sale on there.

There is an additional bonus post before this one which details exactly how to scan the auction house using Auctioneer, so if you don’t understand this part, worry not – check out Scanning the Auction House!

It is important to remember however that scan data is not necessarily what is in the auction house. For example if you haven’t scanned for a day, the data Auctioneer searches through will be a day old! As such, anytime you are going to do any kind of search on Auctioneer it is advisable to scan first.

How much profit?

Auctioneer gives you the ability to set price limits on the search. For example the default is to only show items which will give you 50% profit, provided they sell for full price once you have DE’d them.

This can be adjusted fully, so you can either set this lower if you don’t mind spending time for less of a profit, which is great if you have spare time on your hands, or if there is little on the AH that will make such a massive profit.

I don’t have max Enchanting skill / I don’t want to deal with low level enchanting mats!

You can customise Auctioneer so that it will only show you items from a certain level of enchanting skill needed to disenchant them.

This might sound more confusing than it really is. Say for example you are fairly new to enchanting and only have 100 skill. Simply change the defaults to only show items that require a maximum of 100 skill to disenchant, and then that is all it will search for.

If you don’t want to deal with lower level items, then simply adjust the minimum to a higher number so that they don’t show up. If you set your minimum to 325 skill then you will see only items that disenchant in to Northrend enchanting materials (needs to be tested in game, fairly certain however!).

How do I actually do it!?

It’s a fairly simple process in reality, especially once you have adjusted all your settings for the first time. I will post a quick video on how to do this, however for now the process is a simple seven step system

1. Scan the auction house
2. Switch to the Search Tab
3. Click ‘Disenchant’
4. Click ‘Search’ and then wait
5. Buy the items using the Purchase Button
6. Go collect the items from your mail box and disenchant them
7. Sell them!

So essentially Auctioneer allows you to search for great deals on BoE items which you can buy, disenchant and then resell the enchanting mats at a profit. It is all very customizable to make sure you are getting the ROI you are after, and is fairly simple to use once it is setup.

Now we know how to Use Auctioneer to Search for BoE’s to DE and yesterday we learnt about Disenchanting Crafted Items for Profit. What comes next?

Now we learn how to disenchant hundreds of items with even less effort! Look forward to that post tomorrow.

P.S. As mentioned there is a bonus post, before this one, that explains about scanning the AH – it is a really basic primer for people who have never used Auctioneer before, so check it out if you don’t know what scanning is!

Current Gold Total: 2,000g
Working on: Away from home

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.