May 16

Easy Starting Money with Disenchanting

Tips & Tricks 4 Comments »

When you are just getting started, lack of money can be a challenge. Since coming to this server just a few weeks ago with zero money I have made over 400g, and none of my toons are over level 20 yet. This method can easily be used by toons as low as level 1 and only takes about 20 minutes to do. You can log you alt, do a little money making, and then log your main for leveling. There is very low risk in this method. You WILL double the money you spend doing it. If you spend 20s you will make 40s+, if you spend 20g you will make 40g++.

Here is what you will need:

Here are the basics of what we will be doing in this method.

  1. Buy up as much of the cheapest green armor and weapons as you can afford
  2. Disenchant them
  3. Sell the resulting enchanting materials on the auction house
  4. Collect all your money :)

First things first. This guide assumes you know the basics of using the Auctioneer addon and how to use the auction house (AH). While I will explain the mechanics of how to quickly do this method, I will not go into the detail on Auctioneer or the AH. This also works best after having scanned the AH daily for at least a week.

Step 1. Buy up items to Disenchant

Start by selecting the armor category in the AH window. Choose uncommon as the filter for results. Hit the search button. You will be given a list of all the items that are green or better currently listed on the AH. Now hit the price heading two times to sort your results from lowest to highest and hit search again. Now you have the same list but with the cheapest items listed first.

Begin going through the list and buying as many items as you want. I generally do not go over 40s on any one item. If you can spend 5-20s each on the items that is even better. Ideally you are looking for items the disenchant into 2.5+ [Strange Dust] or better. Certain items like the [Solid Bronze Ring] are perfect items for this method.

Repeat the steps above with whatever money you have left in the weapons category. For weapons, the best results are ones the disenchant into 1.5 [Greater Magic Essence] or better.

TIP – be sure are leave yourself at least 5s when done purchasing so you have enough money to post your enchant mats.

Step 2. Disenchant all the purchased items.

Now run over to your mailbox and begin collecting your purchases and disenchanting each one. It helps to have at least 8 slot bags in all of your slots. This will only cost you about 40s to buy on the AH and it should be your first purchase with you new income

After working through all your items, depending on how much money you were working with, you should have at least a couple stacks of [Strange Dust], [Greater Magic Essence], and some other misc. mats.

Step 3. Post all the new enchanting mats on the AH.

This is pretty straight forward. Post all the mats you just disenchanted on the AH. I use the “post auctions” tab of Auctioneer for this and generally all the addon to price each auction for me.

If you did not scan the AH before starting this session I generally hit the UIrefresh button before posting the first stack of each item. This will get the current price listing on the AH for just that item. This gives you the most accurate snapshot of what your competition is listed as.

After having posted all your auctions it’s time to logout and do something else for a few hours.

Step 4. Collect all your money!

Depending on the time of day you posted your auctions, you might needs to wait up to six hours for all your auctions to be purchased. You might only need to wait 30 minutes. Almost any time of day is good for this method on the Caelestrasz server since it has players from across the globe (across the timezones)

If you are using the Postal addon, hit the Open All button and laugh all the way to the bank over your newly earned money