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What is Enchanting?
Enchanting is the ability to permanently augment armor and weapons with magical and enhancements. Enchanters do not create the original item, they need to have an item first to enchant. They need to disenchant magical items in order to gather the necessary ingredients to use when enchanting other items.
As the magical item is destroyed in the process this is the hungriest of Professions as far as resources are concerned, especially when you take into account you can not sell the dusts, essences or shards you get from items to vendors.
Enchanting is a Primary Service Profession. You may have two primary professions only.
How do I become an Enchanter?
You will need to train with an Enchanting Trainer and listed below are the known locations of Trainers and Suppliers of ingredients.
You can train to four levels of proficiency and each has certain prerequisites that need to be met before you can train to the next level.
Proficiency Enchanter Requires Char Level Required
Level potential level Enchanting Level
Apprentice 75 0 5
Journeyman 150 50 10
Expert 225 125 20
Artisan 300 200 35
Once trained you will find two icons in your Skills & Abilities book {Hotkey P} as seen on the left. Drag these down to your action bar for easy access. The first one disenchants a magical item and produces reagents {dusts, essences or shards} and the second icon you use when you are enchanting another item using those dusts or essences {amongst other reagents}.
When you train as an Apprentice Enchanter you will be given a few basic formulae (recipes) to set you on your way.
What materials do I need and how do I get them?
Enchanters need dusts, essences and shards {reagents} gained by disenchanting magical items. Obviously the better the item the better grade of dusts & essences you will receive.
Uncommon Quality {Green}
Rare Quality {Blue - guaranteed a shard}
Epic Quality {Purple - guaranteed multiple shards}
To disenchant you simply click the Disenchant icon which will make your cursor glow and then click on the item you wish to disenchant. You can be anywhere to disenchant. Once the item has disenchanted a loot box will appear with the reagents. Once a disenchant has completed you can't undo it. Whether you click on the loot to move it to your bag or not is irrelevant, simply closing the loot box will automatically move the reagents to your bag and the item will disappear. Be absolutely sure you don't wish to sell or use the item before you disenchant.
You can disenchant other people's items as long as they are not soulbound.
You can trade for these reagents from other Enchanters too, reagents are not soulbound. Some can also be bought at vendors. They all stack to 20 of a single type.
You can see that there are 'lesser' and 'greater' variations of essences and in all cases three lesser essences of one type can be combined to make a single greater essence of that type. Simply right click on the stack of lesser essences to automatically turn three to one greater or right click on the greater essence to change it to three lesser of that type.
You will require other reagents which are not gained from disenchanting items and these are listed below together with how you can get them.
Items required for enchantments gained from other sources
Item From Item From
Aquamarine Miner or Drop Ichor of Undeath Drop
Blackmouth Oil Alchemist Iron Ore Miner or Drop
Black Pearl Drop, Vendor, Fishing Iridescent Pearl Vendor, Drop, Fishing
Breath of Wind Drop Kingsblood Herablist or Drop
Core of Earth Drop Large Fang Drop
Elemental Earth Drop Rugged Leather Skinner, Drop
Elemental Fire Drop Shadowgem Miner or Drop
Elixir of Demonslaying Alchemist Shadow Protection Potion Alchemist
Fire Oil Alchemist Simple Wood Vendor
Globe of Water Drop Sungrass Drop, Vendor, Herbalist
Green Whelp Scale Drop Thorium Bar Miner
Heart of Fire Drop Wildvine Drop, Herbalist
You will also require Rods to be kept in your bag to perform Enchantments. These can be bought from Blacksmiths {players} and runed by yourself - either copper, silver, gold or arcanite depending on the level of Enchantment. You don't need to equip them to use in Enchanting, they just need to be in your bag, not your bank. Rods are the only tool Enchanters will require. Rods don't disappear after performing an enchantment as it's a tool not a reagent.
How and where do I learn enchanting formulas?
Your first port of call are the Enchanting Trainers. They will have a selection for sale and the better the trainer i.e Expert, Artisan the better the formulae on sale. Lower level ones can be bought from Enchanting Suppliers too. You can also find rarer ones from drops or trade for them with other players.
How can I get items to disenchant?
It can be a costly process in time and finances keeping a constant stream of items to disenchant. Some methods are:
Find the item
Quest rewards (you can disenchant soulbound items you own, not other players' soulbound items)
Tradewith other players
Making them with another profession such as Tailoring
Gifts from friends or guildmates
In exchange for enchanting other items another player wishes to use.
How do I enchant my items?
Unlike Blacksmiths who need a forge, Enchanters do not need to be anywhere in particular to enchant. You will need a rod {which one will be detailed in the formula you wish to follow} in one of your bags and all the reagents listed in the formula and an item to enchant.
Select the formula you wish to follow and hit 'Enchant'. You cursor will glow. Click the item you wish to enchant and that's it. You can enchant an item in any of your bags or that you are wearing.
How do I enchant other people's items?
You can enchant other people's items by using the Trade window. Get the other person to place the item in the "Will not be Traded" portion of the trade window. Perform the enchant as you would normally. Hover your cursor over the item and it will show the altered statistics and a message to say the item will not be traded {to you}. Both press 'Trade' and the newly-enchanted item will go back to the other person.
If, in payment for this service, the other person is giving you world of warcraft gold or another item which they've placed in the trade window, it will be swapped to you when you both hit 'Trade'.
Caution. If you have agreed a price either currency or another item in return for enchanting, after you've done the enchantment but before hitting the 'Trade' button they can remove the currency or item but the enchantment will not be removed. So exercise a bit of caution to make sure you don't end up giving enchantments for free for naughty scamming scumbags.
What exactly can I and can't I enchant?
You can enchant your own items in your inventory and other people's items via the trade window {weapons, gloves, boots, cloaks, and chest pieces}. They can be enchanted as many times as you want. Each enchantment will replace the previous and you will be prompted by an 'Accept/Decline' box before performing it. You can not stack Enchantments with other permanent item enhancements such as armour patches {from leatherworking}, again you'll be prompted if you wish to replace the existing one.
You can place Enchantments on items that have been imbued as imbues are temporary such as the Rogue's poison weapon imbues. Also items that have inherent magical properties can be enchanted.
As stated previously you can enchant items multiple times and this is a good way of increasing your skill. Try keeping a cheap pair of bracers, gloves and boots in your bag and repeatedly enchant them to increase your skill level. It's much quicker than trying to work your way through other players, although there's no world of warcraft gold to be made from it.
Enchanting is the ability to permanently augment armor and weapons with magical and enhancements. Enchanters do not create the original item, they need to have an item first to enchant. They need to disenchant magical items in order to gather the necessary ingredients to use when enchanting other items.
As the magical item is destroyed in the process this is the hungriest of Professions as far as resources are concerned, especially when you take into account you can not sell the dusts, essences or shards you get from items to vendors.
Enchanting is a Primary Service Profession. You may have two primary professions only.
How do I become an Enchanter?
You will need to train with an Enchanting Trainer and listed below are the known locations of Trainers and Suppliers of ingredients.
You can train to four levels of proficiency and each has certain prerequisites that need to be met before you can train to the next level.
Proficiency Enchanter Requires Char Level Required
Level potential level Enchanting Level
Apprentice 75 0 5
Journeyman 150 50 10
Expert 225 125 20
Artisan 300 200 35
Once trained you will find two icons in your Skills & Abilities book {Hotkey P} as seen on the left. Drag these down to your action bar for easy access. The first one disenchants a magical item and produces reagents {dusts, essences or shards} and the second icon you use when you are enchanting another item using those dusts or essences {amongst other reagents}.
When you train as an Apprentice Enchanter you will be given a few basic formulae (recipes) to set you on your way.
What materials do I need and how do I get them?
Enchanters need dusts, essences and shards {reagents} gained by disenchanting magical items. Obviously the better the item the better grade of dusts & essences you will receive.
Uncommon Quality {Green}
Rare Quality {Blue - guaranteed a shard}
Epic Quality {Purple - guaranteed multiple shards}
To disenchant you simply click the Disenchant icon which will make your cursor glow and then click on the item you wish to disenchant. You can be anywhere to disenchant. Once the item has disenchanted a loot box will appear with the reagents. Once a disenchant has completed you can't undo it. Whether you click on the loot to move it to your bag or not is irrelevant, simply closing the loot box will automatically move the reagents to your bag and the item will disappear. Be absolutely sure you don't wish to sell or use the item before you disenchant.
You can disenchant other people's items as long as they are not soulbound.
You can trade for these reagents from other Enchanters too, reagents are not soulbound. Some can also be bought at vendors. They all stack to 20 of a single type.
You can see that there are 'lesser' and 'greater' variations of essences and in all cases three lesser essences of one type can be combined to make a single greater essence of that type. Simply right click on the stack of lesser essences to automatically turn three to one greater or right click on the greater essence to change it to three lesser of that type.
You will require other reagents which are not gained from disenchanting items and these are listed below together with how you can get them.
Items required for enchantments gained from other sources
Item From Item From
Aquamarine Miner or Drop Ichor of Undeath Drop
Blackmouth Oil Alchemist Iron Ore Miner or Drop
Black Pearl Drop, Vendor, Fishing Iridescent Pearl Vendor, Drop, Fishing
Breath of Wind Drop Kingsblood Herablist or Drop
Core of Earth Drop Large Fang Drop
Elemental Earth Drop Rugged Leather Skinner, Drop
Elemental Fire Drop Shadowgem Miner or Drop
Elixir of Demonslaying Alchemist Shadow Protection Potion Alchemist
Fire Oil Alchemist Simple Wood Vendor
Globe of Water Drop Sungrass Drop, Vendor, Herbalist
Green Whelp Scale Drop Thorium Bar Miner
Heart of Fire Drop Wildvine Drop, Herbalist
You will also require Rods to be kept in your bag to perform Enchantments. These can be bought from Blacksmiths {players} and runed by yourself - either copper, silver, gold or arcanite depending on the level of Enchantment. You don't need to equip them to use in Enchanting, they just need to be in your bag, not your bank. Rods are the only tool Enchanters will require. Rods don't disappear after performing an enchantment as it's a tool not a reagent.
How and where do I learn enchanting formulas?
Your first port of call are the Enchanting Trainers. They will have a selection for sale and the better the trainer i.e Expert, Artisan the better the formulae on sale. Lower level ones can be bought from Enchanting Suppliers too. You can also find rarer ones from drops or trade for them with other players.
How can I get items to disenchant?
It can be a costly process in time and finances keeping a constant stream of items to disenchant. Some methods are:
Find the item
Quest rewards (you can disenchant soulbound items you own, not other players' soulbound items)
Tradewith other players
Making them with another profession such as Tailoring
Gifts from friends or guildmates
In exchange for enchanting other items another player wishes to use.
How do I enchant my items?
Unlike Blacksmiths who need a forge, Enchanters do not need to be anywhere in particular to enchant. You will need a rod {which one will be detailed in the formula you wish to follow} in one of your bags and all the reagents listed in the formula and an item to enchant.
Select the formula you wish to follow and hit 'Enchant'. You cursor will glow. Click the item you wish to enchant and that's it. You can enchant an item in any of your bags or that you are wearing.
How do I enchant other people's items?
You can enchant other people's items by using the Trade window. Get the other person to place the item in the "Will not be Traded" portion of the trade window. Perform the enchant as you would normally. Hover your cursor over the item and it will show the altered statistics and a message to say the item will not be traded {to you}. Both press 'Trade' and the newly-enchanted item will go back to the other person.
If, in payment for this service, the other person is giving you world of warcraft gold or another item which they've placed in the trade window, it will be swapped to you when you both hit 'Trade'.
Caution. If you have agreed a price either currency or another item in return for enchanting, after you've done the enchantment but before hitting the 'Trade' button they can remove the currency or item but the enchantment will not be removed. So exercise a bit of caution to make sure you don't end up giving enchantments for free for naughty scamming scumbags.
What exactly can I and can't I enchant?
You can enchant your own items in your inventory and other people's items via the trade window {weapons, gloves, boots, cloaks, and chest pieces}. They can be enchanted as many times as you want. Each enchantment will replace the previous and you will be prompted by an 'Accept/Decline' box before performing it. You can not stack Enchantments with other permanent item enhancements such as armour patches {from leatherworking}, again you'll be prompted if you wish to replace the existing one.
You can place Enchantments on items that have been imbued as imbues are temporary such as the Rogue's poison weapon imbues. Also items that have inherent magical properties can be enchanted.
As stated previously you can enchant items multiple times and this is a good way of increasing your skill. Try keeping a cheap pair of bracers, gloves and boots in your bag and repeatedly enchant them to increase your skill level. It's much quicker than trying to work your way through other players, although there's no world of warcraft gold to be made from it.
