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Comment by tonydizzle

The new enchanting dust of Cataclysm. It's predecessor being Infinite Dust.

Comment by cywang86

Interesting enough, it seemed like they reversed the % between dust and essence for weapons and armors.
I intentionally picked armor rewards over weapons in Hyjal and at the end of the spree, I have 35 hypnotic dusts and 61 lesser celestial essences.

Additional confirmations would be really helpful.

P.S. For some reason hypnotic dust refuses to show up on wowhead searches. Had to click in through the reagent section from enchanting or other chanting mats.

Edit: As of Dec 13 hotfix, Disenchanted green items are now giving more materials as the item levels increase. This change also ensures armor items give dust more often than essence, and that weapons give more essence than dust.

Comment by 706468

as per the hotfix notes posted on December 13:

•Disenchanted green items are now giving more materials as the item levels increase. This change also ensures armor items give dust more often than essence, and that weapons give more essence than dust.

Sounds like the "too much essence and not enough dust" issue just got fixed. I, too, was thinking there was a problem and had similar results to Revenga.

Comment by 735456

Has anyone found a good way to farm these? Via tailoring, JC, BS, etc...

It just appears that we are gonna have to find some cheap way to farm the dusts or enchants are gonna be ridiculously expensive.

As for me, the cheapest thing I can find to craft and then melt for dust are the BS armor items that only require 3 Folded Obsidium to craft. If you can farm the Obsidium, then your dusts are gonna be basically free. Also, the obsidium is a little easier to get now that they have fixed Deepholm to spawn equal amounts or Obsidium and Elementium instead of just Elementium. Also, if you get a lot of Elementium, there are a few BS items that require only a few Elementium Bars. Most of the Elementium stuff is Blue quality and will Melt into shards, but there are a few green recipes that will drop dust.

Hope that this bit of info helps. I am interested in hearing if anyone else has found a more efficient way to farm the dust. Seems that the rarity of Embersilk Cloth is making Tailoring a bad choice for farming the dust atm.

Comment by 778141

This should have been fixed right? Because it's been a couple of days that I've been questing and DEing the items I get to try and get some Hypnotic Dust and I've gotten a ton of celestial essences and very few dusts. This is very frustrating as you need buckets of this dust to level enchanting past 450. As of today this problem still seems to exist.

Comment by halflife

I had a great plan for obtaining Hypnotic Dust while leveling enchanting and that was Justice Points, I have the max on 2 characters so I got to the point where I needed Hypnotic Dust, go to buy stacks of the stuff only to find out that it isn't 200 justice for a stack but rather 200 justice for 1 Hypnotic Dust, I died inside...

In the end I spent around 5,000g on ~520 Hypnotic Dust from the Auction House, I do hope I needed that many then again I can just sell them if I have any left over

I should've kept Leatherworking...

Comment by TCHJ3K

Deathsilk Cowl seems to be the winner in terms of Tailoring - only requires three bolts of Embersilk Cloth (15 raw cloth) which is the least of any of the Tailoring items of the same ilvl, and no Volatiles. Made 40 and DE'd them, yielding 75 Hypnotic Dust and 23 Lesser Celestial Essence.

Comment by 367103

I decided to run a small test to see if disenchanting a cheap-to-make crafted item for Hypnotic Dust is less expensive than buying the dust directly from the AH. I chose to create and disenchant 10 Deathsilk Bracers. Here are my results:

cost Eternium Thread: 20 @ 2.4g/ea = 48g

cost Bolt of Embersilk Cloth: 20 @ 21g/ea = 420 (cheapest AH price to get 20 at the time)

total cost to create 10 Deathsilk Bracers: 468g or ~47g/ea

Disenchanting yielded an average of 2 Hypnotic Dust / Deathsilk Bracers (or 20 Hypnotic Dust). At my auction house, Hypnotic Dust was selling for 2g/ea (bid) or 3g/ea (buy out) = 40g-60g total

The only additional piece of information worth noting is that there is a relatively small chance that Lesser Celestial Essence could drop from the disenchant, which seemed to be worth about 20+g/ea at AH.

My conclusion is that it is much less expensive at this moment of time on my server to buy Hypnotic Dust than to get it from crafting and disenchanting Deathsilk Bracers. In this case, I spent about 10x more (23.5g vs 2.5g) for each Hypnotic Dust obtained than I needed to.

* Remember that just because you can farm materials like Embersilk Cloth, doesn't mean it is "free". It has an opportunity cost of what you could sell it for that you will not realize by crafting it.

Comment by warhowl

the best and cheapest method i found for myself is DEing Jasper Ring , usualy gets me around 2-3 dust(with guild perk)
the material is pretty cheap to get compared to other mats( realm dependant ofc).
i bought like 6 stacks of jasper for 50g-80g(per stack of 20) and got enough dust out of it to keep me going for a while

Comment by 940502

New Enchanting materials in Mists of Pandaria:
*items will show as 'not found' until www.wowhead.com/cata comes up. Names are accurate though.

Hypnotic Dust -> Spirit Dust
Lesser Celestial Essence -> Lesser Mysterious Essence
Greater Celestial Essence -> Greater Mysterious Essence
Small Heavenly Shard -> Small Ethereal Shard
Heavenly Shard -> Ethereal Shard
Maelstrom Crystal -> Sha Crystal

Comment by Samander

Stacks of this on my server are getting as low as 15g per. That's insane. Why? It takes x420 Hypnotic Dust to level enchanting efficiently. When Mists launches (hopefully they announce the date any day now), enchanting is always a leveling favorite for new toons, and there are going to be a lot of leveling pandas. Players are selling off their hypnotic stacks now because they have so many and are worth very little. After Mists launches, that will completely change as people will need roughly 20-22 stacks to level. Once Cata zones become vacant because people are just passing through to get to Pandaria, these dusts will skyrocket in price.

Supply will NOT keep up with demand. Even with players running Cata dungeons for faster leveling, or crafting items to level other profs, etc., 20-22 stacks per leveling enchanter is going to blow supply to pieces.

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