To date I’ve leveled three enchanters to max skill. Very expensive process. The old way of selling enchants in trade was inefficient and never made much gold in the process. I have resorted to doing all enchants for friends, family, and guildies for free. I have found the only way to reliably make some gold with this profession is to sell enchanting mats. However, I’d guess that I am nowhere even close to covering the cost of leveling even one toon to 450.

Now if everyone can get enchanting mats from unwanted gear the result will be a huge supply of these mats which will cause the price to drop on the AH. Players with two other professions can now make gold with Herb, mining, and disenchanting? Supply will go crazy and demand will drop. Very few will buy mats since everyone will have their own stash that they create.

For the idea that items will be DE’d during the roll process…. I’m sure Blizzard will be very excited to deal with all the noobs that open tickets like “I hit the wrong button, now my Uber Sword of Geekness is a shard! Can you undo this???”

Rolling on shards at end of a raid…. yet we’ve been doing this since 1.0. Is it fair to the enchanter? No. Is it overly fair to non-enchanters? Yes. I don’t ask to roll on skins, herbs, or mined materials…. why not?! This is a game, and as such things like this should be “fair”…. from now on, I won’t give my shards away.

Oh btw, if you need any infinite dust I have tons of it on the AH…. and thanks again for helping me buy 3 mammoths. Booooyah!!!

Phrenzy

Don’t have enchanting? Tough. Take all the money you made from Mining/Skinning and spend it on enchanting mats.

If people can disenchant with their cooking, i want to be able to skin and mine with my Enchanting skill. How? I’m freaking magic. I’m sure i can figure it out.

I would have the ability to disenchant stuff and the Enchanters of the world would have a consumable product that they could sell. Heck, Blizz might even be able to boost the profitability of other professions depending on the ingredients needed to create the oils.

Wohoo, bring on the Grunty!!! … come to think of it, I need to go take a grunty.

Without a filter in trade window, the potential to sabotage from competing class is also pretty big as I don’t want to risk asking for an enchant and suddenly have disenchanted dust and “sucker” painted on my face.

I say Blizzard should create an NPC like they did with Usuri Brightcoin (money changer in the Dalaran Sewers), who will simply disenchant stuff for anyone. They can add a surcharge based on ilevel or something that’s a variation of same mechanic that prevents Enchanters from DE’ing anything higher level then their skill will allow..to help keep goblin-greed in line with Ururi’s.

That’s my $.02

Also, it comes down to a value perspective; yeah, skinners dont offer up the Arctic Furs they get when they are skinning in an instance, but that’s usually because 90% of the time, they dont get any; if it were a situation where if you skin/mine/herb a boss and it always gave you something like an arctic fur or titanium bars or frost lotuses 100% of the time, then I’d think that those professions might be expected to kick in, but it’s hardly the case.

Besides, in my recent experience, after a party leader declares that they can DE, people are starting to ignore that and just greed stuff anyway, regardless of whether or not they can use or DE it. It makes me wonder if these other characters can DE but dont tell the party this and just greed regardless to break later without needing to share with the party.

Also, if you Need for your main spec and Greed for your off spec(s), then no change is currently needed if you’re not going to change the DEing. There should be a distinction between needing something for your main set and all else, but beyond that, Player A greeding to sell a BoE versus Player B greeding for one of their offsets seems perfectly weighted; yeah, Player A may never actually equip the item, but if Player B doesn’t need it for your main spec, then what makes that off spec more important than Player A wanting to support their current gear set by buying new gems/enchants with the money from selling something that they dont necessarily need for their main spec?

NEED
OFFSPEC NEED
GREED

Allowing everybody to shard is a way devalues those with the enchanting profession. I remember many podcasts ago there was a discussion about why everyone assumes that Enchanters have to share what they shard off of boss drops.

Whenever there is a mining or herb node in an Instance, I have never seen people roll, then make the miner mine and then distribute the ore to the highest roller. No, the miner mines and keeps the ore for himself.

That’s my two cents

Randy’s idea of cooking is good. Perhaps using some cloth created item from tailoring and enchanted to ‘cook’ with the item in a pot would produce the DE.

Regardless of the method, I think enchanters need to be included somehow. Enchanters have something special in the game that would be taken away by including a DE button on a loot screen.