What does it cost to level Enchanting right now?

7.3kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 84 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 7.3kg.

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 03:54 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Cataclysm Enchanting · TW · prices as of 03:54 UTC

Enchanting leveling 1 → 75 · Cataclysm Enchanting

7.3kg in reagents over about 84 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 7.3kg.

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Hypnotic Dust×29118

5,238

×2915,238

Maelstrom Crystal×2875

2,100

×282,100

Total7,338

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 5

Yellow

Earthen Vitality

About 6 crafts.216

per skill point54

Hypnotic Dust×12

Step 2 · Skill 5 → 10

Yellow

Lesser Power

trainer

About 7 crafts.378

per skill point75

Hypnotic Dust×21

Step 3 · Skill 10 → 32

Orange→Yellow

Heavenly Shard

trainer

About 28 crafts.2,100

per skill point95

Maelstrom Crystal×28

Step 4 · Skill 32 → 75

Orange

Major Strength

needs the recipe item

About 43 crafts.4,644

per skill point108

Hypnotic Dust×258

Skill 75 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Heavenly Shard0/560

0/560

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket7,338

What's worth crafting with Enchanting right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Enchanting right now?: 7.3kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 84 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 7.3kg.
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 03:54 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.