So after a month or so of soloing all sorts of instances and finally breaking down and buying a bunch of greater nether essences, I finally made my SMOKING HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN. Armor in bear form maxed out at 11.6k right now. I could easily get it higher with some volcanic stuff, but I dont want to give up all stats.

Now im trying to decide whether to keep working enchanting up to 300, or drop it at 265 and go back to a gathering profession.

Playing in a high end raiding guild as you are the guild enchanters should be more established with the recipes they have accumulated, and there would be little benefit to you also trying to compete with them.

I would go back to gathering.

Playing in a high end raiding guild as you are the guild enchanters should be more established with the recipes they have accumulated, and there would be little benefit to you also trying to compete with them.

I would go back to gathering.

Im not thinking of trying to sell stuff to guildies, but maybe a 30g firey enchant here and there in IF. I am still 300 alch and can currently transmute undeath --> water--> air --> fire, and can farm the shards needed for firey really easily. Though I could make more money selling the water / air essences and shards probably. The only thing keeping me in enchanting atm is being able to DE all the stuff that I dont need as I slowly replace it with epics. Argh. Tough decision.

Is there any 'casual' money to be had in mining? I know dark iron and iridium and some of the stuff used for high end armor / weapons sells really well, but i think most of it is in instances / dungeons?

Currently, I've been at 268 Enchanting for the past 2 month's or so. I've been too lazy/lack a reason to re-raise mining. I think before the expansion I'll go back to mining, since I figure they'll be adding new engineer items/types of nodes to mine... atm sell'n shards gives me enough money to buy any thorium or blasting powder I might need.

You can make money with mining... Arcane Crystals, Thorium sells well and the prices generally go up nicely when the Dark moon Faire is around, even items like lowbie Heavy Stone can sell real well when your the only person with them on the AH.

Gratz :)
I just dropped my 300 herb for enchanting aswell with that trinket in mind, 95 atm, and it's fun to shard blues aswell. I also kept my 300 alch.

"Are you sure you wanna replace +5 health for +5 health on that bracer" ;)

I went from 0 enchanting to 265 (or is it 256) enchanting in 1 day. Took alot of gold to do it but I didnt want to waste time getting my trinket at that point in time.

Lol rockwell, thats exactly what I see myself doing. Really nice to be able to D/E stuff that I get on random runs to give to 300 enchanters for the real enchants. Plus if I need herbs for alchemy (major health/mana pots) I just go farm with my priest. 267 enchanting 300 alchemy ^^

I have kept my enchanting (currently 270), for the single purpose of Disenchanting.

LBRS Stealth Runs + SC Gloves + BS Gloves + 3-4 LBS = Mega Gold