Classic Goldmaking: Disenchanting on an alt (Patreon)

I was recently made aware of a pretty significant change from actual Vanilla. As of right now you can disenchant any item at level 1 enchanting skill. Obviously we can and will profit from this. 

No Changes?

This was not how enchanting used to work. As such this may be an oversight, but it is certainly not an exploit as you just need to train enchanting. Blizzard may patch it out though, I guess it depends on how it impacts the markets or it may just happen as a consequence of it becoming wide spread knowledge. 

What's the big deal?

The big deal is that you can go train enchanting on a level 5 character and start disenchanting. For items like 55+ weapons you get Eternal Essences 75% of the time, and they are selling for huge sums. As such you can get up to 2 times the vendor value of the item if you disenchant your greens. If you run a lot of level 60 instances this will be a lot of potential gold. 

You can also potentially run enchanting shuffles, although they have not impressed me so far, but I may not have found the right recipes. 

Disenchant searches

TSM has a separate search mode that will look for items you can profitably disenchant. Before you do that I would change the maximum search percentage under the shopping settings to 80, and then you can probably go to town. 

Enchanting materials are free to post so the risk is lower. 

Potential effects

IF a lot of people start doing this we could see enchanting material prices falling. We may also see Blizzard patch it out, as I'm pretty sure it never worked like that, but until then you can use it to get some very cheap enchanting materials. 

Posting to the AH

If you want to post the items to the AH, you can just use the settings in my material flipping groups, they work well. There's no rocket science here, but larger volumes is of course much better than smaller ones.