So, I’ve been leveling enchanting on Elisse just to have one, because hell, I’ve never had a high level enchanter.

I’ve realised this was a bad decision.

No, not that enchanting doesn’t make any money.

It’s more the level of self-whoring involved in making said gold, and the amount of stupid people an enchanter has to put up with. I never knew there were such varying levels of stupid involving enchanting.

You get the “can you enchant my legs/shoulders/helm” people. This is the mildest stupid you can put up with, and they usually go away after I explain. Bonus points if I can link my tailoring and convince them to pay me mats + 10g for a leg patch.

You get the “come to whatever obscure city I’m in, do this enchant that no longer gives you any skill points, and don’t charge me for it” people.

No really. People invite you to groups, and expect you to leg it to whatever city they are. They don’t even say anything.

*group invite*
*5 minutes pass*
“Come on, hurry up, aren’t you coming?”

People seem to have it the wrong way. YOU go to crafters, not the other damn way around. If you make me come to you, I’ll charge you, skill point or not.

Do you ask the drugstore clerk to come to your house to bring you your stuff, and not charge you for it? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Then there’s the trend that some retarded crafter at one point of time has dreamt of starting, that has ruined the entire economy of crafting, but mostly enchanting.

Yes, it’s the “no fee with your mats” trend. And then there’s its doubly retarded sister, “I pay you if I skill up”.

What next? How about doing it with your mats for free? And pay the customer on top of that?

You roll professions to make gold from them, not to encourage the entitlement mentality of 12 year olds.

What this has accomplished is that now 90% of customers expect every enchanter to not charge, regardless of the enchant’s skill level. Yup, just have mats, expect the enchanter to come to you, and spam trade wondering why she isn’t trading on her end. It’s not at all like this profession cost any money to level.

A thankfully smaller percentage expect payment for themselves, because their mats that cost all of 20g on the auction house just made me get a skill-up.  A SKILL-UP, FOLKS. ALERT THE PRESSES.

On my second day of being above 350, I just paid a scribe to make me two stacks of Armor Vellum, and got a hold of a scribe friend for a stack of Weapon Vellum.

What I’ve learned is that you can sell scrolls of certain enchants on AH for twice the mats’ cost. That’s 30ish gold profit per scroll. Which happens to be triple what I charge per enchant.

Peddling self in trade for 10g per enchant, and the occasional skill point if I’m lucky?

What’s that?

Wow, I’ve been missing for about two months now.

Two main things that have happened are: I’ve leveled a human priest to 80, and our raiding alliance fell apart.

On the raiding alliance front, we’ve had a visible attitude change ever since a paladin alt from one of the server’s top guilds joined us. Going from “we don’t have the greatest group makeup, but we can damn well do this, and we will” to expecting people to switch their roles so that we’d have that elusive ideal makeup (which said paladin insisted we absolutely need) didn’t sit well with some of us. This plus getting introduced to elitism, snarked over small mistakes, each player getting too princessy, and such problems spelled the end of the group.

While I feel sad that the group fell apart, the real source of my disappointment is the realisation that this group I considered myself friends with were never my real friends.  We genuinely liked and respected these people. It was really sad to see they didn’t feel the same way.

As for my human priest – meet Elisse (I wanted a name similar to, but not the exact same, as my beloved priest). She’s been disc since she got her first talent point, and I’m thoroughly enjoying the spec.

I like the playstyle – there is no rest to it, no stopping to cheat the FSR, no big heals that take years to cast. It’s all very fast paced, and the most crucial casts are either instants or very short time ones. Borrowed Time is up for the majority of the time. Penance into PWS, then a GHeal, is a massive burst that typically takes around 4-5 seconds to deliver (currently 5.5k absorption, then a 9-10k Penance, then a 8k GHeal with my gear). I’ve also never had any problems AOE healing at any point.

People seem to think that I’ve only chosen disc because I’m a fresh 80, and that when I have better gear I’ll be legging it over to the, eh, light side. That’s not true – I find holy right now pretty /yawn, even if it scales better. It’s always relied on long casts and cheating the FSR, although the new Serendipity fixed that a bit. I’m quite bored of that playstyle after three years of it, so disc suits me best.