Hey all!

I’ve been getting some questions about where to do some good illusion dust grinding lately from people who are leveling enchanting, so I will talk about that for a bit here. This post is not only for people who are skilling up their enchanting though since both illusion dust and eternal essence (and greater eternal essence) are great sources of gold on the auction house. Even if you don’t have enchanting yourself you might find this post useful if you have a friendly enchanter who could disenchant the stuff for you.

Illusion dust, eternal essences and large brilliant shards used to be the highest level of enchanting materials pre-TBC which means that the best places to grind these materials are in the old max level 5-people instances (or 10 people if you consider UBRS, which you should). The instances you should consider for this kind of grind would be: Stratholme, Scholomance, Lower Blackrock Spire, Upper Blackrock Spire and Dire Maul.

Running these old instances every now and then is really a good source of fast gold. You will get quite a lot of greens dropping, however this does vary quite a bit. Even if you are rather unlucky the runs are still going to get you a good deal of gold since you will be looting both silver for the mobs and runecloth. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, runecloth is a steady source of income for several reasons. Apart from the runecloth you will also have the blue items from the bosses that are certain to drop. Even if you are not an enchanter yourself you will make a few gold from each of these blue items.

If you are an enchanter who doesn’t need the materials for leveling up you will be in an even better position. Illusion dust sell for around 1g each, this of course varies a bit depending on what server you play on, but I usually get them sold for 70s-1.5g. Large brilliant shards sell from anywhere around 1.5g up to 7g usually but I’ve noticed that these prices drop or rise quite fast and often. The big money maker from these instances are the essences. A greater eternal essence sell for anywhere between 12g-19g.

If you are not max level and you’re after grinding illusion dust for enchanting while you are leveling you could do this too, it´s a bit slower of course but the bonus is that you get experience while grinding. You want a place with high spawn rate and a bunch of mobs, preferably humanoids so you get cloth at the same time. I personally like to the furbolg villages in Winterspring for this purpose since you also get the rep as an added bonus, why not work on achievements while you can too. Eastern Plaguelands have a few good locations too for grinding. The spots I personally like there are Plaguewood and Zul’Mashar. Certain mobs here drop items that can be used to grind rep with Argent Dawn too so you get the same benefit as from Winterspring.

I hope this helps the people who are looking to make money from enchanting materials as well as those who need it for leveling up their profession. If you know more good spots for grinding these things, please feel free to comment.

Until next time, take it easy grinding.