What does it cost to level Enchanting right now?

632g in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 134 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 632g.

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 16:57 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 · US · prices as of 16:57 UTC

Enchanting leveling 1 → 75 · Cataclysm Enchanting

632g in reagents over about 134 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 632g.

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

Maelstrom Crystal×1842

Total632

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 50

Orange→Green

Heavenly Shard

trainer

About 109 crafts.285

per skill point5

Maelstrom Crystal×109

Step 2 · Skill 50 → 75

Orange

Peerless Stats

needs the recipe item

About 25 crafts.346

per skill point13

Heavenly Shard×75

Maelstrom Crystal×75

Skill 75 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Heavenly Shard0/2180

0/2180

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

Back in your pocket632

What's worth crafting with Enchanting right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Enchanting right now?: 632g in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 134 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 632g.
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 16:57 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.