Enchanting Guide 1-450

Welcome to Warcraft Tavern’s Enchanting guide! In this comprehensive guide, we will provide everything you need to max out your Enchanting, from the materials required to level up your profession to the best recipes to follow.

Enchanting is the art of adding buffs to gear of all kinds. By converting dusts, essences, and crystals into enhancements, you can lengthen the lifespan of a weapon or piece of armor, so any player can benefit from picking up the profession. With the addition of Enchanting Vellums in Wrath of the Lich King, you can also load your enchants onto blank scrolls for sale or for trade. This gives you the opportunity to store Enchantments for gear you know you’ll get later or to put them on the Auction House for profits.

In the Endgame, enchanting can grant vital armor enhancements like Enchant Bracer – Major Stamina or essential weapon buffs like Enchant Staff – Greater Spellpower, Enchant Weapon – Blade Ward, or Enchant Weapon – Blood Draining. Aside from Death Knights’ own Runeforging, these are some of the most powerful ways to increase your gear’s potency.

One of the main skills of Enchanting is Disenchanting, which allows you to destroy gear that you have no use for in order to gather your crafting materials. This means that there is no gathering profession that is typically paired with Enchanting. As a result, Enchanters often pick up Tailoring as their second profession in order to create readily Disenchantable gear. Otherwise, purchasing all the mats to level to 450 can become difficult or costly during the later Old World and Outland stages, due to the small amount of essences and crystals that may be available.

Required Materials

Below you can find the materials you will need to level from 1-450, as well as tips to save gold and time.

• Sometimes we will have to craft yellow or green recipes that do not guarantee a level up on every craft, therefore the materials required are estimates, rather than exact figures.
• Specific recipes will require items you have previously crafted, so check the lists before getting rid of crafts!
• Certain recipes come from drops or vendors instead of trainers.

All these things are accounted for in the materials listed below. Listed separately from the material list are those recipes not acquired from a trainer, but rather from a vendor or world drop. Note that total amount will change if you use alternative recipes!

Trainer Locations

If you use TomTom you can copy-paste the location and coordinates provided (after the name) to track down the trainer you need more easily.

/way Orgrimmar 43.6, 28.2

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Training Route

Certain crafts need to be utilized later to further level up the profession, other times the materials can be bought from a vendor instead of the Auction House, or the crafting recipe is not acquired from a trainer. Other times we use recipes that turn yellow and as such do not have a 100% chance to level up your profession with every craft, this means a level of randomness enters the equation when it comes to materials. We indicate all these situations with the following icons to make this guide as clear as possible.

• Keep crafted items for later crafts.
• Buy material from the vendor.
• Craft amount depends on variance.

• Classic (1-300)
• Master (300-350)
• Grand Master (350-450)

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Apprentice (1-90)

Materials

• 96 (± 7 ) Strange Dust
• 1 Lesser Magic Essence

Vendor Items

• 1 Copper Rod

Crafting

• Learn Apprentice Enchanting
• Copper Rod can be bought from Trade Good, Trade Supply, and Enchanting Supply vendors.
• You can disenchant low level greens for the first 50 levels granting you materials for later levels
• Arcane Affinity allows Blood Elves to craft recipes whilst they are orange for longer. In other words, if there is a cheaper low-level recipe it can be worthwhile to keep crafting it for longer.

Level	Amount	Materials
1 ↓ 2	1Runed Copper Rod	1 Copper Rod 1 Strange Dust 1 Lesser Magic Essence
2 ↓ 90	95 (± 7 ) Enchant Bracer – Minor Health ORDisenchant up to level 50	95 (± 7 ) Strange Dust

Journeyman (90-135)

Materials

• 36 Strange Dust
• 1 Silver Rod
• 12 Greater Magic Essence
• 25 Lesser Astral Essence

Vendor Items

• 9 Simple Wood

• Formula: Enchant Cloak – Minor Agility
  • (A) Dalria – Ashenvale 35.1, 52.1
  • (H) Kulwia – Stonetalon Mountains 45.4, 59.3

Crafting

• Learn Journeyman Enchanting
• Silver Rod is crafted by Blacksmiths; it will often be cheaper to get them crafted directly compared to buying from the Auction House.
• If 3 Strange Dust is considerable cheaper than Greater Magic Essence you can consider keep on crafting Enchant Bracer: Minor Stamina up to 110 / 120.
• Formula: Enchant Cloak – Minor Agility and Formula: Enchant Bracer – Lesser Strength can be bought from Kulwia (Horde) in Stonetalon Mountains, or from Dalria (Alliance) in Ashenvale. They are limited in supply, if someone bought it first, you will have to wait or buy it straight from the auction house.
• If 1 Lesser Astral Essence is more expansive than 4 Strange Dust and 1 Small Glimmering Shard consider making Enchant 2H Weapon – Minor Impact instead. Note that the recipe turns yellow at 130 so you might need to do an additional enchant or two to reach 135.

Level	Amount	Materials
90 ↓ 100	10 Enchant Bracer: Minor Stamina	30 Strange Dust
100 ↓ 101	1Runed Silver Rod	1 Silver Rod 6 Strange Dust 3 Greater Magic Essence 1Runed Copper Rod
101 ↓ 110	9 Greater Magic Wand OR10 (± 1 ) Enchant Bracer – Minor Stamina	9 Simple Wood 9 Greater Magic Essence OR30 (± 3 ) Strange Dust
110 ↓ 135	25 Enchant Cloak – Minor Agility OR25 (± 1 ) Enchant 2H Weapon – Minor Impact	1 Formula: Enchant Cloak – Minor Agility 25 Lesser Astral Essence OR100 (± 4 ) Strange Dust 25 (± 1 ) Small Glimmering Shard

Expert (135-225)

Materials

• 114 (± 14 ) Soul Dust
• 1 Golden Rod
• 1 Iridescent Pearl
• 2 Greater Astral Essence
• 58 (± 7 ) Vision Dust
• 1 Truesilver Rod
• 1 Black Pearl
• 2 Greater Mystic Essence

Vendor Items

• Formula: Enchant Bracer – Lesser Strength
  • (A) Dalria – Ashenvale 35.1, 52.1
  • (H) Kulwia – Stonetalon Mountains 45.4, 59.3

Crafting

• Learn Expert Enchanting
• Golden Rod and Truesilver Rod
• If 2 Soul Dust is more expansive than 1 Lesser Mystic Essence then switch to Enchant Bracer – Spirit at 165 Enchanting.
• Formula: Enchant Cloak – Minor Agility and Formula: Enchant Bracer – Lesser Strength can be bought from Kulwia (Horde) in Stonetalon Mountains, or from Dalria (Alliance) in Ashenvale. They are limited in supply, if someone bought it before you will either have to wait or buy it straight from the auction house.

Level	Amount	Materials
135 ↓ 155	20 Enchant Bracer – Lesser Stamina	40 Soul Dust
155 ↓ 156	1Runed Golden Rod	1 Golden Rod 1 Iridescent Pearl 2 Greater Astral Essence 2 Soul Dust 1Runed Silver Rod
156 ↓ 185	36 (± 7 ) Enchant Bracer – Lesser Strength OR (165+)20 Enchant Bracer – Spirit	1 Formula: Enchant Bracer – Lesser Strength 72 (± 14 ) Soul Dust OR (165+)20 Lesser Mystic Essence
185 ↓ 200	15 Enchant Bracer – Strength	15 Vision Dust
200 ↓ 201	1Runed Truesilver Rod	1 Truesilver Rod 1 Black Pearl 2 Greater Mystic Essence 2 Vision Dust 1 Runed Golden Rod
201 ↓ 220	26 (± 7 ) Enchant Bracer – Strength	26 (± 7 ) Vision Dust
220 ↓ 225	5 Enchant Cloak – Greater Defense	15 Vision Dust

Artisan (225-300)

Materials

• 5 Lesser Nether Essence
• 288 (± 78 ) Vision Dust
• 125 (± 5 ) Dream Dust
• 82 Illusion Dust
• 1 Arcanite Rod
• 1 Golden Pearl
• 4 Greater Eternal Essence
• 2 Large Brilliant Shard

Vendor Items

• Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina
  • (A) Mythrin’dir – Darnassus 61, 17.7
  • (H) Daniel Bartlett – Undercity 64, 37.4
• Formula: Enchant Cloak – Superior Defense
  • Lorelae Wintersong – Moonglade 48.2, 40.1

Crafting

• Learn Artisan Enchanting
• If 2 Vision Dust is cheaper than 1 Lesser Nether Essence then craft Enchant Cloak – Greater Defense instead of Enchant Gloves – Agility.
• If Lesser Nether Essence is cheaper than 2 Vision Dust consider crafting Enchant Gloves – Agility up to 235 instead of Enchant Boots – Stamina. Note the recipe will turn green and you will need to do additional enchants.
• Formula: Enchant Bracer – Greater Stamina is a random world drop that can be bought from the Auction House.
• Formula: Lesser Mana Oil is sold in Silithus by Kania.
• Formula: Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina is sold by Daniel Bartlett at Undercity, and by Mythrin’dir at Darnassus. Note that the recipe is Bind on Pickup and in limited supply.
• If Dream Dust is 20 % (4/5) cheaper than Illusion Dust then craft Formula: Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina to 299 instead of Formula: Enchant Cloak – Superior Defense.
• Arcanite Rod is crafted by Blacksmiths; it will often be cheaper to get them crafted directly compared to buying from the Auction House.

Level	Amount	Materials
225 ↓ 230	5 Enchant Gloves – Agility OR5 (± 1 ) Enchant Cloak – Greater Defense	5 Lesser Nether Essence 5 Vision Dust OR15 (± 3 ) Vision Dust
230 ↓ 235	5 Enchant Boots – Stamina OR6 (± 1 ) Enchant Gloves – Agility	25 Vision Dust OR6 (± 1 ) Lesser Nether Essence 6 (± 1 ) Vision Dust
235 ↓ 265	43 (± 13 ) Enchant Chest – Superior Health OR (245+)20 Enchant Bracer – Greater Stamina OR (250+)15 (± 1 ) Lesser Mana Oil	258 (± 78 ) Vision Dust OR (245+)Formula: Enchant Bracer – Greater Stamina 100 Dream Dust OR (250+)Formula: Lesser Mana Oil 48 (± 3 ) Dream Dust 32 (± 2 ) Purple Lotus 16 (± 1 ) Crystal Vial
265 ↓ 290	25 (± 1 ) Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina	Formula: Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina 125 (± 5 ) Dream Dust
290 ↓ 299	9 Enchant Cloak – Superior Defense OR17 (± 3 ) Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina	Formula: Enchant Cloak – Superior Defense 72 Illusion Dust ORFormula: Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina 85 (± 15 ) Dream Dust
299 ↓ 300	1Runed Arcanite Rod	Formula: Runed Arcanite Rod 1 Arcanite Rod 1 Golden Pearl 10 Illusion Dust 4 Greater Eternal Essence 1 Runed Truesilver Rod 2 Large Brilliant Shard

Materials

• 1 Fel Iron Rod
• 4 Greater Eternal Essence
• 6 Large Brilliant Shard
• 316 (± 29 ) Arcane Dust
• 13 Large Prismatic Shard
• 20 Lesser Planar Essence
• 15 (± 5 ) Nightmare Vine
• 1 Adamantite Rod
• 8 Greater Planar Essence
• 1 Primal Might

Vendor Items

• 15 (± 5 ) Imbued Vial

• Formula: Superior Wizard Oil
  • (A) Egomis – The Exodar 39.9, 40.2
  • (H) Lyna – Silvermoon City 70.2, 24.8
  • Madame Ruby – Shattrath City 63.3, 71
• Formula: Enchant Shield – Major Stamina
  • Madame Ruby – Shattrath City 63.3, 71
• Formula: Runed Adamantite Rod
  • (A) Vodesiin – Hellfire Peninsula 24.4, 38.8
  • (H) Rungor – Terokkar Forest 48.7, 46

Crafting

• Learn Master Enchanting
• Fel Iron Rod and Adamantite Rod are crafted by Blacksmiths; it will often be cheaper to get them crafted directly compared to buying from the Auction House.
• At 320 you can enchant Enchant Chest – Major Spirit, depending on the cost (5 Arcane Dust vs 2 Greater Planar Essence) it might be cheaper, note these are also in demand for Demonology Warlocks.
• Formula: Enchant Shield – Major Stamina (330) along with Formula: Superior Wizard Oil (340) can be bought from Madame Ruby in Shattrath City.
• Blood Elves can get 10 cheap levels from 335 to 345. Thanks to Arcane Affinity they can convert Large Prismatic Shard into three Small Prismatic Shard and back again. It is time intensive as you only gain levels creating the Large Prismatic Shard and the recipes being greyed out. Assume it to take up to 15 minutes to reach 345. The recipe for Large Prismatic Shard is sold by the Enchanting Supply vendors in Shattrath, Silvermoon and Exodar.
• Formula: Runed Adamantite Rod is sold by Rungor in Terrokar Forest at Stonebreaker Hold, and by Vodesiin in Hellfire Penninsula at the Temple of Telhamat.

Level	Amount	Materials
300 ↓ 301	185Runed Fel Iron Rod	1 Fel Iron Rod 4 Greater Eternal Essence 6 Large Brilliant Shard 1Runed Arcanite Rod
301 ↓ 310	9 Enchant Bracer – Assault	54 Arcane Dust
310 ↓ 316	6 Enchant Bracer – Brawn	36 Arcane Dust
316 ↓ 330	14 (± 3 ) Enchant Gloves – Assault OR (320+)10 Enchant Chest – Major Spirit	136 (± 24 ) Arcane Dust OR (320+)20 Greater Planar Essence
330 ↓ 335	5 Enchant Shield – Major Stamina OR6 (± 1 ) Enchant Chest – Major Spirit	Formula: Enchant Shield – Major Stamina 75 Arcane Dust OR12 (± 2 ) Greater Planar Essence
335 ↓ 340	5 Enchant Shield – Resilience OR6 (± 1 ) Enchant Shield – Major Stamina	5 Large Prismatic Shard 20 Lesser Planar Essence OR90 (± 15 ) Arcane Dust
340 ↓ 350	15 (± 5 ) Superior Wizard Oil OR13 (± 3 ) Shield – Resilience	Formula: Superior Wizard Oil 15 (± 5 ) Arcane Dust 15 (± 5 ) Nightmare Vine 15 (± 5 ) Imbued Vial OR13 (± 3 ) Large Prismatic Shard 52 (± 12 ) Lesser Planar Essence
350 ↓ 351	1Runed Adamantite Rod	Formula: Runed Adamantite Rod 1 Adamantite Rod 8 Greater Planar Essence 8 Large Prismatic Shard 1 Primal Might 1Runed Fel Iron Rod

Materials

• 751 (± 39 ) Infinite Dust
• 1 Eternium Rod
• 6 Greater Planar Essence
• 6 Arcane Dust
• 10 Crystallized Water
• 47 Greater Cosmic Essence
• 134 Eternal Earth
• 1 Titanium Rod
• 48 Dream Shard

Vendor Items

• Formula: Enchant Cloak – Mighty Armor
  • Vanessa Sellers – Dalaran 38.4, 41
• formula: Enchant Gloves – Armsman
  • Vanessa Sellers – Dalaran 38.4, 41
• Enchant Boots – Greater Assault
  • Vanessa Sellers – Dalaran 38.4, 41

Crafting

• Learn Grand Master Enchanting
• Eternium Rod and Titanium Rod are crafted by Blacksmiths; it will often be cheaper to get them crafted directly compared to buying from the Auction House.
• Formula: Enchant Cloak – Mighty Armor, formula: Enchant Gloves – Armsman and Enchant Boots – Greater Assault are sold by Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran, cost 4 Dream Shard each.

Level	Amount	Materials
351 ↓ 360	9 Enchant Cloak – Speed	54 Infinite Dust
360 ↓ 375	16 (± 1 ) Enchant Bracers – Striking	96 (± 6 ) Infinite Dust
375 ↓ 376	1 Runed Eternium Rod	1 Eternium Rod 6 Greater Planar Essence 6 Arcane Dust 1Runed Adamantite Rod
376 ↓ 380	8 (± 4 ) Enchant Bracers – Striking	48 (± 24 ) Infinite Dust
380 ↓ 385	5 Enchant Bracers – Exceptional Intellect	50 Infinite Dust
385 ↓ 395	10 Enchant Boots – Icewalker	80 Infinite Dust 10 Crystallized Water
395 ↓ 410	16 (± 1 ) Enchant Cloak – Superior Agility	144 (± 9 ) Infinite Dust
410 ↓ 415	5 Enchant Gloves – Expertise	60 Infinite Dust
415 ↓ 420	5 Enchant Boots – Greater Spirit	50 Infinite Dust 5 Greater Cosmic Essence
420 ↓ 425	5 Enchant Shield – Defense	30 Infinite Dust 30 Eternal Earth
425 ↓ 426	1 Runed Titanium Rod	1 Titanium Rod 40 Infinite Dust 12 Greater Cosmic Essence 8 Dream Shard 1Runed Eternium Rod
426 ↓ 430	4 Enchant Shield – Defense	24 Infinite Dust 24 Eternal Earth
430 ↓ 435	5 Enchant Cloak – Mighty Armor	Formula: Enchant Cloak – Mighty Armor 75 Infinite Dust 10 Greater Cosmic Essence
435 ↓ 445	10 Enchant Gloves – Armsman	formula: Enchant Gloves – Armsman 20 Dream Shard 80 Eternal Earth
445 ↓ 450	5 Enchant Boots – Greater Assault	Enchant Boots – Greater Assault 20 Greater Cosmic Essence 20 Dream Shard

Disenchanting

Every enchanter gains the ability based to disenchant uncommen and better items. This provide magical elements (dusts, essences, shards and crystals) but also permenantly destroy the item. These materials are used for enchantments on armor and weapons. For the first 50 levels of enchanting you can also gain level ups in the skill by using the dissenchanting skill, which can be a potential cost effective method to level up the first couple of levels.

What materials you get from disenchanting depend on the type (armor or weapon), item level and rarity.

Uncommon

Shards from uncommon equipment are always granted in a quantity of one.

Armor

Weapon

Rare Equipment

Rare equipment always results in either 1 Shard or Crystal.

Epic Equipment

All equipment except for iLvl 76 – 80 weapons share the same probabilities. All epic items have 100% chance to disenchant into the item listed for their level.

Additionally some times items will be listed cheaper on the Auction House for cheaper compared to their average disenchanted value, making it a lucrative business to buy them, disenchant and put the materials back onto the auction house. Addons such as TradeSkill Master can be a great help for determining the disenchanted value of items compared to the current buy value. Note that magical elements also do not have a deposit cost, but you still don’t want to disenchant items of which the materials will be rarely required (Shards and Crystals from the Old World and The Burning Crusade).

Endgame Enchanting

For Enchanters, most of your endgame recipes will be learned by purchasing them from Vanessa Sellers. Prior to 450, powerful weapon enhancements like Enchant Weapon – Berserking and Enchant 2H Weapon – Massacre are available. Once you reach 450, she’ll also be able to teach you Enchant Staff – Greater Spellpower and Enchant Bracers – Major Stamina, two of the standard raiding enchants in Wrath of the Lich King. Overall, you’ll want to visit the Underbelly as soon as you amass enough Dream Shards to purchase a new formula.

Like other professions, Ulduar will also give you the chance to enhance your Enchanting. All bosses and caches have the chance of dropping the formulas for Enchant Weapon – Blade Ward and Enchant Weapon – Blood Draining. While each does use quite a lot of costly reagents, they can still be put on scrolls, meaning they can be traded or sold for high prices.

Thank you for taking the time to read our Enchanting leveling guide for Wrath of the Lich King. I hope it was helpful, and if you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below.