Enchanting - Arcanite Rod

[:1]Guys,

Sorry to bother you, but do I still need a runed arcanite rod for Enchanting?

I ask, as theres none (ever) on the AH on my server :)

Ive started buying Arcanite bars (2 so far) on the off chance I may get a blacksmith to make one....

Real annoying - enchanting about 280, and no rod yet :)

Kevman|||If you plan to make a runed fel iron rod, you'll be needing a runed arcanite rod ;).

The old rods are now consumed when making the next level of rods.

So yes, you need it ;).|||Thats pretty annoying.

Its almost impossible to buy one on the AH.

Looks like Ill have to do the

"/2 WTB Arcanite Rod transmute - can provide mats"

Really hate doing that :)

So if the old rod is used up - what happens when you try to do the earlier enchants???

Kevman|||Each Rod that replaces a previous one serves for all before it; so the Fel iron rod serves as an Arcanite, Truesilver, etc.|||So why have I still got the previous ones??

Blizzard bugged it again?

Kevman|||They only started consuming the old rods when the expansion came out. You can destroy them...|||Well thats some space saved.

Still leaves me with problems getting the arcanite rod :)

Im on Scarshield Legion (Euro) if anyone wants to contact me.

Char is called Lezz :)

Kevman|||hmmm the hell i had to go through for the runed golden rod :( ... first actually fiding the golden rod, and than that damm friggin pearl ...

i'm currently lvl 25 and i've lost all my savings with leveling enchanting to lvl 180 ... can you guys give me some pointers on how to make some silver or gold as an enchanter?

i mean all i do is break down items and enchant others for friends and guildies free of charge ... but i'm getttttttttttttttttttting real poor .. down to my last gold T_T|||is there a level requirement to use a runed fel iron rod? my enchanting alt is at 180 and i already have a fel rod from my bs friend... can i just skip the arcanite one?|||Quote:








hmmm the hell i had to go through for the runed golden rod :( ... first actually fiding the golden rod, and than that damm friggin pearl ...

i'm currently lvl 25 and i've lost all my savings with leveling enchanting to lvl 180 ... can you guys give me some pointers on how to make some silver or gold as an enchanter?

i mean all i do is break down items and enchant others for friends and guildies free of charge ... but i'm getttttttttttttttttttting real poor .. down to my last gold T_T




Well, it's clear that if you're just breaking down items for materials for free enchants for your guildmates, then you're not going to make any money.

The best way for enchanters to make money, I've found, is one of two ways.

Sell yourself and what high-level enchants you have on the Trade channel. This of course requires some salesmanship, and a bit of luck in finding people who want your enchants. The downsides to this is that you're competing with any other enchanters out there, and like your guild, a lot of people can get free enchants through their own guild enchanter. Another thing to do, though, is to just watch the Trade/General channels, as often people will advertise looking for an Enchanter, and you can send them /tells to see if you can help them out. You will often get tips this way.

A more methodical way is to sell excess enchanting material on the Auction House. Granted, I'm level 69 now, so my materials are very expensive, but I've made a good 300 gold on selling materials the past couple of weeks, with another 100 sitting on the AH right now.

If you don't have excess material, you can get it two ways. Nudge all your guildies into taking you on a Disenchant run (or you could even solo low-level instances). Make it known what your plan is, that your looking for things to disenchant. You could maybe still roll on greens, but definitely snag blues. If it's an easier run, maybe even reset and go again. Then disenchant everything and get thee to an Auction House.

The second method involves scouring the Auction House for cheap green+ items, and bidding/buying them out to disenchant. Using an Auction House mod like Auctioneer helps here, and it provides the mod Enchantrix, which will tell you what the chances are for items to disenchant into. (Not yet updated for Burning Crusade). Be sure to do manual searches too for various shards, essences and dusts, to get an idea of what the current market is for materials. Sometimes you will find someone is really underselling a certain material, so you may have to wait until yours sell for a reasonable amount. After a few days of searches, you should start getting an average idea of what things will sell for (as well as using Auctioneer).

From the start though, just post up your materials for how much you think they will sell. If they do, great! If not, well, there is no deposit for posting enchanting materials, so just keep at it. The important thing to remember is that they _will_ sell. But like with any market, if you undercut and sell low, you will sell fast, but not make as much profit. You sell high, you may eventually sell one day, but it will be slow.

You can also buy cheap enchanting materials yourself, and relist them at your own, higher price.

Even Strange Dust sells well. I can sell it for 5 silver each. Doesn't sound like much, but I have bidding on items for 1 silver, gotten 2-5 pieces of dust for disenchanting it. Selling that gives 10-25 silver. But even buying out such items for 5-7 silver, you're still making a profit. Yes, one item is hardly worth the effort, but get 10, 20 items? Even if I only get 2 dust each, that's 1-2 gold right there. Reinvest that money in items that give you bigger cash materials. Shards usually give the biggest payoff, especially Radiant Shards, Large Brilliant Shards, and the newer Large Prismatic Shards.


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is there a level requirement to use a runed fel iron rod? my enchanting alt is at 180 and i already have a fel rod from my bs friend... can i just skip the arcanite one?




I'm not sure. I had thought that the rod was a BoP item. Are you sure that the Fel Iron Rod you have is actually Runed? Or am I misreading, and you only have the Fel Iron Rod? I believe the formula for the Runed Fel Iron Rod is at skill 325 to make, learned from the trainer, requiring your Arcanite rod and a Fel Iron Rod, plus other materials.

~~~Larissa