Besides your gear and talents, there are 3 additional ways you can increase your character’s power: gems, enchants, and consumables, which make your character significantly more powerful when combined correctly. Many guilds and raid groups may not invite you at all if you don’t have the correct gems, enchants, and consumables — but worry not, this guide will help you avoid that problem!
Gems
Note that non-Jewelcrafting epic gems are added to the game in Phase 4.
Meta Socket
Red Socket
- Jewelcrafting: Delicate Chimera’s Eye
- Epic: Delicate Queen’s Garnet
- Rare: Delicate Inferno Ruby
Yellow Socket
- Epic: Adept Lava Coral
- Rare: Adept Ember Topaz
Blue Socket
- Epic: Glinting Shadow Spinel
- Rare: Glinting Demonseye
Enchants
Armor
- Head:
- Arcanum of the Ramkahen (Ramkahen – Revered)
- Shoulders:
- Swiftsteel Inscription if you have Inscription
- Greater Inscription of Shattered Crystal if not (Therazane – Exalted)
- Cloak:
- Swordguard Embroidery, if you have Tailoring, is strictly better than Enchant Cloak – Major Agility
- Enchant Cloak – Major Agility for all else
- Chest:
- Bracers:
- Draconic Embossment – Agility if you have Leatherworking
- Enchant Bracer – Agility otherwise
- Plus Socket Bracer if you have Blacksmithing
- Gloves:
- Synapse Springs if you have Engineering
- Enchant Gloves – Major Agility
- Plus Socket Gloves if you have Blacksmithing
- Waist:
- Ebonsteel Belt Buckle
- Plus Grounded Plasma Shield if you have Engineering
- Legs:
- Dragonbone Leg Reinforcements, if you have Leatherworking, is a discounted version of Dragonscale Leg Armor with the same stats
- Dragonscale Leg Armor otherwise.
- Boots:
- Rings:
- Enchant Ring – Agility if you have Enchanting
Weapons:
- Main-Hand:
- Off-Hand:
Consumables
Potions
- Potion of the Tol’vir for huge Agility spikes on potion cooldown
Flasks & Elixirs
Food
About the Author
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Thrall is the best Warcraft character; tell me I'm wrong. Long-time Blizzard fan who thinks that gnomes are the worst type of people and rogues don't tip (except into your spine). Flying mounts should never have been added to the game, and playing 12 hours of WoW a day just makes you "dedicated."