Enchanting is one of the most enjoyable and rewarding crafting professions in World of Warcraft. Not only does it let you craft Wands, consumables and reagents – but it lets you enchant weapons and gear applying permanent (and replaceable) buffs to your gear.
This WoW classic enchanting guide will break down how to level up your enchanting, equipping you with everything you need to know to be able to craft the best endgame enchantments in all of WoW Classic.
What is Enchanting?
One of the primary crafting professions, Enchanting is used to apply permanent buffs to weapons and gear. WoW Classic enchanting crafters can also create Wands, consumables and reagents. While gaining access to the Disenchant spell, used to destroy items for materials.
Why Choose Enchanting?
Enchanting is incredibly powerful, especially in the endgame. For many builds, enchanting can be almost essential. Meaning that if you can enchant your own gear, you’ll be in a great position to both equip yourself and sell powerful enchantments on the auction house.
Depending on your goals, enchantment can pair well with other crafting professions.
- Tailoring pairs well, given the ability to loot cloth without a gathering profession, and the ability to disenchant tailored items for enchanting materials.
- Mining, Skinning and Herbalism can also be good choices, especially for those looking to make gold from their crafting professions.
Which Classes is Enchanting Best For?
It’s not rocket science to see that enchanting would be well suited to mages – and it certainly is. Mages, priests and warlocks all can use wands, and crafted wands can be very powerful while levelling.
Tank Druids can also benefit from enchanting, as only enchanters can craft the powerful Smoking Heart of the Mountain trinket.
Getting Started with WoW Enchanting
So, how do you get started?
- Choosing Enchanting
Visit any major city and locate the Enchanting trainer. They’ll allow you to learn the basics of the profession, giving you your first few recipes and skill book. From there you can simply start gathering materials and crafting your own enchantments.
- Enchanting Trainers
For those looking for recipes, trainers can provide a vast variety of them. These can be found across the world. With some of the best enchantment trainers being found in the major cities. While useful, many of the best recipes will not be acquired through these trainers. But need to be found, crafted or bought off the marketplace.
- Learning Recipes
Recipes can be bought from trainers and vendors, dropped from monsters, found while questing, or obtained as quest rewards. Ensure you gather and learn recipes whenever possible, to help boost your level early on. But do not feel obliged to craft every recipe you find. When levelling, focus on recipes with low-tier material costs.
- Materials for Enchanting
There are a number of materials used for crafting. You will want to ensure that you stockpile these whenever you encounter them in the world! When necessary you can also use WoW Classic Gold to buy these items from the auction house.
- Dusts, Elemental Materials and Shards – primary enchanting materials.
- Arcane Crystals and Essences – Higher level crafting materials for endgame enchantments.
- Enchanting Vellums – used for applying transferable enchantments.
- Key Items to Disenchant
Disenchanting is one of the most important things you can do as an enchanter as it provides you with many of the most valuable crafting materials.
You can only disenchant enchanted items which you find or obtain in the world. These are the key types of items you want to disenchant:
- Green-quality items – Best for low-level dust and essences.
- Blue-quality items – Can yield better essences and shards.
- Purple items – Rare and epic items can deliver some of the highest quality materials.
Enchanting Levelling Guide
Getting to max level in crafting is always going to be a bit of a grind. But with these strategies you can make it a hell of a lot easier!
Level 1-75: Getting Started
At the start, focus on crafting low-level enchantments using easy to acquire materials. These can be recipes from trainers. Here, you’re looking for quantity to quickly level up.
Materials to gather:
- Lesser Magic Dust
- Strange Dust
- Minor Mana Potions (optional)
Key Enchants:
- Enchant Bracer – Minor Health
- Enchant Bracer – Minor Deflection
Level 75-150: Early-mid Game
As you progress, be sure to craft level-relevant recipes in order to keep your experience gain worthwhile. Many of these recipes will start requiring more complex materials, requiring you to gather them from enchanted items or buy them off the marketplace.
Materials to gather:
- Greater Magic Essence
- Greater Mystic Essence
- Strange Dust
- Illusion Dust
Key Enchants:
- Enchant Chest – Minor Mana
- Enchant Gloves – Mining
- Enchant Weapon – Minor Beastslaying
Level 150-225: Mid to Late Game
Once you hit level 150, you’ll be able to craft enchantments worth using. This means that you should be using your skills to actually enchant the items and weapons you use to boost your stats and prepare you for endgame. As before, be sure to keep up with level-relevant recipes to ensure efficient gains.
Materials to gather:
- Large Brilliant Shards
- Large Green Essences
- Essence of Air, Fire, Earth, and Water
Key Enchants:
- Enchant Weapon – Crusader
- Enchant Weapon – Fiery Weapon
- Enchant Chest – Major Health
Level 225-300: Endgame Enchants
As you approach max level, enchanting gets incredibly powerful – but also requires more and more complex materials. As these materials can be hard to gather, you can reach out to guildmates to see if they need things enchanting, and if they can donate some materials. Otherwise, the grind remains much the same.
Materials to gather:
- Void Crystals
- Greater Eternal Essences
- Arcane Crystals
Key Enchants:
- Enchant Weapon – Agility
- Enchant Cloak – Greater Resistance
- Enchant Chest – Major Mana
How to Get the Most Out of Enchanting in WoW Classic
- Disenchant everything you can. Don’t sell things – disenchant them. Your enchantment skill will become far more valuable than the small amounts of gold netted from selling to vendors.
- Track AH prices. Enchanting can be profitable, so if you focus on profitable recipes you can actually earn while levelling. Although, prices will only be considerably worthwhile towards the end of your levelling.
- Farm rare materials. Sadly, there’s no getting away from farming for materials. So you can benefit from spending time in dungeons or areas known for dropping high-value disenchanting materials/items.
Equipped with this knowledge, you should be able to quickly level your way through the enchanting profession. Soon, you’ll be able to imbue gear with the best enchantments out there!
If you’re exploring other crafting professions, check out our WoW Classic Leatherworking Guide to learn how to craft gear, level up quickly, and maximize profits. Combining enchanting with leatherworking can open up even more opportunities to enhance your gameplay and economy!