While I don’t want to deter you from choosing the professions that you want, I will say that if you want to make a bucket load of gold with your professions choosing Enchanting or Jewelcrafting is highly recommended. While both are expensive to level it is more than worth it in the end.   

  Basics of enchanting profiteering

Disenchanting   

Disenchanting is an awesome way to make alot of gold and falls under 3 catgories:   

• Disenchanting own gear
• Purchasing items to disenchant
• Crafting items to disenchant

Disenchanting own gear   

This includes all unused gear that you pick up from quests, farming, running dungeons and raids.  Disenchanted materials can then be sold on the auction house.

Purchasing items to disenchant   

This is a simple method that involves purchasing items off the auction house for a value which is less then their disenchanting value (you will need auctioneer and enchantrix mods for this). Then all you do is disenchant those items and relist enchanting materials for profit. The best part is these materials canbe listed for free on the auction house.

Items that I normally look for include armor and weapons from level 73 for the highest profit margins.   

Crafting items to disenchant   

This method works in conjunction with any crafting profession and involves creating cheap crafted items then disenchanting those items for a profit. Most crafting professions have an item or two that you can craft and disenchant for a profit. This is where enchanting works great with jewelcrafting. For example a jewelcrafter can make inexpensive stone guard bands, disenchant them and make anywhere between 5-15 gold depending on the server economy. Jewelcrafters have a lot of items that can be crafted very cheaply in order to make a proft from disenchanting.   

Enchanting as a service   

To take full advantage of this profession as a service you will want to have as many of the enchanting formulas as possible. This will keep players coming back to you to get their gear enchants and more importantly keep you making gold. The best part is most of the rare enchants can now be purchased  for dream shards in Dalaran or acquired via reputations.   

Every time you are in a major city, link your enchanting service on the trade channel while you go about doing your daily routine. You will usually be able to pick up some extra gold by pretty much doing nothing.   

  Basics of jewelcrafting profiteering   

Crafting to disenchant   

Simplistic, effective and repetitive. Crafting items to disenchant links back to what was mentioned above for the enchanting profession. You find materials on the auction house for an item that is uncommon or rare within jewelcrafting, craft that item, have it disenchanted and have the value of the disenchanted materials be greater than the costs for inputs. With regards to jewelcrafting there are a few items where this model works really well. For example the stone guard band  mentioned above and the shadow might ring have great disenchanting levels for the price it costs to craft them, especially if the market for buying eternal earth and eternal shaodw in bulk is low on your server. Other lower level items such as the sun rock ring, crystal citrine neck and crystal chalcedony amulet are very inexpensive especially if you are also prospecting because you will have heaps of uncommon gems to use. Determing which of these items to craft will obviously be based on the material costs on your server.   

Prospecting

Prospecting is an awesome way to make gold. You buy saronite and cobalt ore and break it up into gems using prospecting. You then scan the auction house and look for the best items to cut. The profit margins are usually between 150%-300%. One thing to note and watch out for is to make sure your server can support the constant influx of gems you provide. If it can, just keep buying ore and breaking it up. I know servers are starting to get flooded and now I can’t sell the gems as fast as I buy the ore so I only buy ore once a week or so.

Buy uncut gems to cut   

Look on the auction house for cheap uncut gems. For example I normally check out cardinal rubies and if the price is right compared to cuts such as Bright, Delicate, Fractured or Runed cardinal rubies, I’ll purchase a few and normally make between 20-40 gold per cut once sold on the auction house.   

Jewel crafting as a service   

Similarly to enchanting, if you have a large number of jewelcrafting recipes than you can offer your services in a capital city to generate easy revenue.   

Trade skill proft maximization addon   

I recently came across an awesome addon called ProfMax which utilizes auction house scan data to determine price profit margins on your trade skill items, bringing them up in your tradeskill window.   

ProfMax calculates buy prices for materials and sell prices for crafted items to make calculations for potential profits.   

The best thing about it is it quickly determines which is the most profitable item for you to make, instead of you wasting time scanning the auction house.  Make sure you check it out!  

Other useful links:

• Enchanting leveling guide 1-450
• Jewelcrafting leveling guide 1-450