Upcoming changes to Enchanting
Dec 23, 2008 Auction House, Investing, Patches, Professions
More opportunities for profit in the next patch have surfaced in a blue post on the official WoW forums:
“In BC we thought that dust was too common and enchants were basically gated by the cost and availability of shards. We wanted to adjust this for LK and in retrospect overcompensated, such that dust is now the rare, limiting reagent.
As Excrusiate points out, this should be better next patch.”
From what I’ve gathered in the post above the blue, some of the enchants that require dream shards will now take a few more than they currently do. Initially, I assumed they’d just be slightly increasing the chance to gain dust/essence from disenchanting, but I guess not. Having just finished collecting all the Wrath enchants, I can tell you the enchants that are likely to change and cause the value and demand of Dream Shards to rise:
- Enchant Gloves - Armsman (currently requires 2 shards)
- Enchant Gloves - Crusher (currently requires 1 shard)
- Enchant Cloak - Major Agility (currently requires 2 shards)
The other few enchants don’t have near the demand (1/100th, if I had to guess) to cause any change in the Dream Shard prices. Of the hundred or two enchants I’ve done, I can remember doing Armsman twice and Major Agility two or three times. I’ve sold one or two scrolls of each flavor as well. So there probaby won’t be a huge increase in shard prices, but perhaps enough to stock up on them now so you can sell scrolls in a few weeks and earn a tad more profit.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I hope they add dream shards to other recipes that don’t currently use them.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 am
You’ve forgotten the two new tanking enchants:
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Titanguard
Requires Enchanting (450)
Use: Teaches you how to permanently enchant a melee weapon to increase Stamina by 75. Requires a level 60 or higher item.
Requires Dream Shard(12)
Formula: Enchant Bracer - Major Stamina
Requires Enchanting (450)
Use: Teaches you how to permanently enchant bracers to increase Stamina by 40. Requires a level 60 or higher item.
Requires Greater Cosmic Essence(4), Dream Shard(4), Abyss Crystal(4)
I expect to see a lot of demand right after the patch for Titanguard in particular. The formulas for each will be available in dalaran for 5 abyss crystals each. (Yeowch!)
January 4th, 2009 at 1:07 am
I’ve been stocking on every dream shard I can buy for 10g and under… I expect to see them spike to at least 17-20 on my server… hopefully more…
The titanguard enchant will definitely help the price spike up some, there are a lot of tanks, and this is hands-down the BEST tanking enchant you can pick up…
January 5th, 2009 at 4:13 am
About time TBH, im sitting with loads of these in my bank.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
[...] some have had Dream Shards added or Dream Shards to replace Abyss Crystals. With the additions of two new tanking enchants, we can definitely expect Dream Shard prices to rise - probably double or triple their current [...]
January 6th, 2009 at 8:35 am
I’ve bought 300 dreamshards and 40 abyss+++ for these ench. The price will raise alot. Maybe up to 25-30g each. I bought my 300 for 5-10g each and the abyss where bought for like 120-160