Stored BoP Blues (Enchanting Question)

[HorseBoy]

Hi all. I'm currently a miner/skinner and was thinking about dropping one of these professions for enchanting sometime in the future.

My question is this: I've got a bunch of soulbound blue items (around level 40s-50s) which were Bind on Pickup. Some are old and some are current, but all are not of use to my character (54 Warrior) at this time. Since I can't send them to an enchanting alt I've being holding onto them in the bank and my bags, so that i could disenchant them later on. Do you think this is worthwhile, or should I just vendor them, and acquire new blues should i decide to become an enchanter?

Thanks

[Spennce]

sell them, you can easily get them again solo at higher levels, even if you pick up enchanting you still have to have the appropriate skill to disenchant them. BTW drop skinning if you needed help chosing, mining is a butt load of cash.

[HorseBoy]

Thanks buddy. Yeah, I'll be keeping mining if i go through with this. It was always allowed me to make more money than skinning. The ore and bars seem to be more in demand than the leathers.

I'm leaning towards selling them, as you suggest, but I'm also having a hard time parting with the blue quest rewards that were BoP, seeing as how they aren't available to find again. I know it's stupid but I've only recently developed an unfortunate hoarding obsession. It's causing me all kind of grief. I assume your advice is still the same in regards to the blue quest rewards?

[Spennce]

when im replacing gear I ask myself this, will i ever use this item again...If i can say no then i DE it. Bank space is too precious to hold on to stuff for sentimental (sp) reasons. If you see a situation where you might need the item then hold on to it.

[HorseBoy]

Very true. These items are taking up heaps of room that I really need back. Gah! So hard to bring myself to vendor them.

Thanks for the advice.

[Justinledwards]

Well, actually I'd keep them, if you are going to go enchanting. I'd hold onto every single green and blue I get.

If you go enchanting, you'll want to powerlevel. And you need loads of mats that are expensive to buy. Such as greater / lesser nether essences, greater / lesser eternal essences, illusion dust, dream dust, strange dust, soul dust etc etc. to get from enchant 225 to 250 is 120 vision dust (and you'll want that so you only have to visit the uldaman trainer once to learn all the recipes while you are there)

Level 41-50 blues DE to large brilliant shards. These are worth 10g each at the AH on my server. They are also a major component in a lot of the level 300 enchant recipes (such as crusader). that's also 4 times the return than vendoring them if you choose to AH them. You'll probably be very short of cash after powerleveling. You'd be better off buying another bank bag slot and keeping them - they will pay for that slot!

[Big Guns]

Level 41-50 blues DE to large brilliant shards.

Whilst I appreciate this is an old post, it is also an incorrect post. YOu get large Brilliant shards from blues in the 51 - 60 range.

It is: -

Level 41-45: Large radiant.
Level 46-50: Small brilliant.
Level 51-60: Large brilliant.


http://www.xs4all.nl/~brt/wow/guides/skillupenchanting.html

[Zircor]

(and you'll want that so you only have to visit the uldaman trainer once to learn all the recipes while you are there)

Great thing about TBC is you don't need to visit Ulda for enchanting training anymore. Just get a mage to port you to Shatt, ask a guard where the enchanting trainer is and voila! Probably much cheaper and definitely less dangerous than an Ulda run (not to mention hell of a lot easier getting a group for.....)

[Justinledwards]

Great thing about TBC is you don't need to visit Ulda for enchanting training anymore. Just get a mage to port you to Shatt, ask a guard where the enchanting trainer is and voila! Probably much cheaper and definitely less dangerous than an Ulda run (not to mention hell of a lot easier getting a group for.....)

Except if you are draenei. You start out friendly with aldor and unfriendly with scryer. Which means no enchant trainer in shattrath for draenei until you can pick sides.

[Zachariah]

to get from enchant 225 to 250 is 120 vision dust (and you'll want that so you only have to visit the uldaman trainer once to learn all the recipes while you are there)

The Uldaman trainer vends formulas up to lvl 295.

Sadly not all of us have TBC yet...

[Zircor]

Except if you are draenei. You start out friendly with aldor and unfriendly with scryer. Which means no enchant trainer in shattrath for draenei until you can pick sides.

Oooo I didn't know that. Haven't got any Draenai up that high yet :)

The Uldaman trainer vends formulas up to lvl 295.

Sadly not all of us have TBC yet...

Oh. Well sucks to be you then. I have a copy of the collector's edition still sealed if you want to buy it :afro:

[Exalted Warlock]

sell them, you can easily get them again solo at higher levels, even if you pick up enchanting you still have to have the appropriate skill to disenchant them. BTW drop skinning if you needed help chosing, mining is a butt load of cash.

VERY true, however, on ever-increasingly crowded servers,
I prefer skinning (I do both, mine & skin) for that reason:
* Whatever I kill, I skin --- and no one competes with me for it (a few idiots have tried, but if they are lurking near my kill, I will wait to loot it while telling them off, threatening to report them, 99.99999% they leave saying, "oh uh soryr didn't knwo you were a skinner' however 99% of the time no one tries to skin my kills. I kill, loot/skin, move on - so i don't have any competition there.
* Mining - always some shmuck will wait til i'm enganged a mob then go hit the ore b4 I can get to it - and with more people crowding the servers, ever more a problem.

Sure, you can say that same is true with beast mobs - yeah, but mobs respawn (in my experience) a lot faster than nodes

[Clavina]

when im replacing gear I ask myself this, will i ever use this item again...If i can say no then i DE it. Bank space is too precious to hold on to stuff for sentimental (sp) reasons. If you see a situation where you might need the item then hold on to it.

A bit off topic but .. I recently DE'd all of my hard earned ZG, MC, BWL, AQ epics. All that hard earned T1, T2 etc gear is now a pile of nexus crystals sitting in my bank. It was a painful time, although it was fun putting it all on again for a while before disenchanting..

What I would advise is to keep them until you really need the space in the bank..