WotLK Enchanting Guide: 1 - 450 (WoW Classic Leveling)

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Everyone in WoW has gear, and all that gear needs to be enchanted! Enchanting can be quite a lucrative profession. You can disenchant green, blue, and purple items and sell the mats you get on the auction house, or you can sell enchants to other players. WotLK introduced enchanting vellums which made it possible for enchanters to sell their enchants on the auction house as well. And that made it even more profitable. You can even send enchants to your other characters as well. That’s why I strongly suggest if you have much free time and many alts to train enchanting on at least one of them. Our WotLK enchanting guide will help you get max skill level quickly so you can start making some money.

Not only can this profession be a great source of income, but it also has some useful perks. Enchanters can enchant their own rings to give them additional stats:

x2 Enchant Ring – Assault gives +80 Attack Power
x2 Enchant Ring – Stamina gives +60 Stamina
x2 Enchant Ring – Greater Spellpower gives +46 Spell Power

Enchanting doesn’t have a natural profession pair like some other professions do. You can either pair with a gathering or another lucrative profession if your goal is to make gold, or you can pair with a minmax profession if you want to create a strong character.

Total mats needed for 1 – 450 Enchanting

Classic materials

Classic alternative 1

60x Soul Dust

OR
20x Lesser Mystic Essence

Classic alternative 2

Classic alternative 3

100x Dream Dust

OR

TBC materials

350 – 375 TBC alternative

240x Arcane Dust
20x Greater Planar Essence
34x Large Prismatic Shard
34x Greater Planar Essence or 102x Arcane Dust

WotLK materials

Enchanting guide WoW Classic

Start by learning enchanting from one of these trainers:

Horde trainers

Godan in Orgrimmar.
Lavinia Crowe in Undercity.
Teg Dawnstrider in Thunder Bluff.
Sedana in Silvermoon City.

Alliance trainers

Lucan Cordell in Stormwind City.
Gimble Thistlefuzz in Ironforge.
Taladan in Darnassus
Nahogg in The Exodar.

Apprentice enchanting (1 – 75)

1 – 2
Runed Copper Rod – Copper Rod, Strange Dust, Lesser Magic Essence

You can buy Copper Rod from an enchanting supplies vendor. Rest of the rods mentioned in this guide you will have to buy from the auction house or ask a blacksmithing friend to craft them for you.

2 – 50
48x Enchant Bracer – Minor Health – 48x Strange Dust

Alternatively, you can disenchant green items until 50. However, that is much easier for new characters who are getting extra green gear while they’re leveling up. If you are power leveling enchanting, just do Enchant Bracer – Minor Health.

Don’t forget to train Journeyman enchanting (75 – 150) once you reach skill level 50.

Journeyman enchanting (75 – 150)

50 – 90
55x Enchant Bracer – Minor Health – 55x Strange Dust (This recipe goes yellow at 70, so you might need to make a bit more than 40.)
90 – 100
10x Enchant Bracer – Minor Stamina – 30x Strange Dust
101 – 101
Runed Silver Rod – Silver Rod, 6x Strange Dust, 3x Greater Magic Essence, Runed Copper Rod
101 – 110
9x Greater Magic Wand – 9x Simple Wood, 9x Greater Magic Essence
You can buy Simple Wood from an enchanting supplies vendor.
110 – 135
25x Enchant Cloak – Minor Agility – 25x Lesser Astral Essence

Formula: Enchant Cloak – Minor Agility is a limited supply recipe sold by Horde vendor Kulwia in Stonetalon Mountains and Alliance vendor Dalria in Ashenvale.

When you go visit either of them, also buy Formula: Enchant Bracer – Lesser Strength, another limited supply recipe that you’ll need further down the line. If you can’t be bothered by traveling, you can always check the auction house for those recipes. I strongly suggest you get both these recipes because they provide the cheapest way of leveling.

Don’t forget to train Expert enchanting (150 – 225) once you reach skill level 125.

Expert enchanting (150 – 225)

135 – 155
20x Enchant Bracer – Lesser Stamina – 40x Soul Dust
155 – 156
Runed Golden Rod – Golden Rod, Iridescent Pearl, 2x Greater Astral Essence, 2x Soul Dust, Runed Silver Rod
156 – 165
9x Enchant Bracer – Lesser Strength – 18x Soul Dust
165 – 185
30x Enchant Bracer – Lesser Strength – 60x Soul Dust (You can continue doing this recipe, but it turns yellow at 185, so you might need to make a bit more than 20. )

Alternative – you can also do:

20x Enchant Bracer – Spirit – 20x Lesser Mystic Essence

Base your decision on your server’s economy. Calculate if 20x Lesser Mystic Essence is cheaper than cca 60x Soul Dust.

185 – 219
50x Enchant Bracer – Strength – 50x Vision Dust (This recipe goes yellow at 200, so you might need to make more than 34.)
219 – 220
Runed Truesilver Rod – Truesilver Rod, Black Pearl, 2x Greater Mystic Essence, 2x Vision Dust, Runed Golden Rod

Don’t forget to train Artisan Enchanting (225 – 300) once you reach skill level 200.

Artisan enchanting (225 – 300)

220 – 225
5x Enchant Cloak – Greater Defense – 15x Vision Dust
225 – 230
5x Enchant Gloves – Agility – 5x Lesser Nether Essence, 5x Vision Dust

You can continue doing 7x Enchant Cloak – Greater Defense – 7x Vision Dust. (This recipe goes yellow at 225, so you might need to make a bit more than 5. If Lesser Nether Essence is really cheap on your server, just do Enchant Gloves – Agility)

230 – 235
5x Enchant Boots – Stamina – 25x Vision Dust
235 – 240
5x Enchant Chest – Superior Health – 30x Vision Dust
240 – 245
5x Enchant Boots – Lesser Accuracy – 5x Lesser Nether Essence, 20x Vision Dust
245 – 265
20x Enchant Bracer – Greater Stamina – 100x Dream Dust

This is learned from Formula: Enchant Bracer – Greater Stamina which is a random world drop. Try to buy it on the auction house if you can. However, because of its rarity and importance to leveling enchanting, it can reach a high price.

Alternative – you can also do:

245 – 250
7x Enchant Boots – Lesser Accuracy – 7x Lesser Nether Essence, 28x Vision Dust (This recipe goes yellow at 245, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.)
250 – 260
10x Lesser Mana Oil – 30x Dream Dust, 20x Purple Lotus, 10x Crystal Vial

The Formula: Lesser Mana Oil is sold by Kania in Silithus. It’s not bind on pickup, so you might even be able to find it on the auction house.

260 – 265
5x Enchant Bracer – Greater Intellect – 15x Lesser Eternal Essence
265 – 299
45x Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina – 225x Dream Dust (This recipe goes yellow at 285, so you might need to make more than 34.)

Formula: Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina is a limited recipe sold by Daniel Bartlett in Undercity for Horde players, and by Mythrin’dir in Darnassus for Alliance players.

The Formula is bind on pickup, so you’ll have to buy it with your enchanter character.

299 – 300
Runed Arcanite Rod – Arcanite Rod, Golden Pearl, 10x Illusion Dust, 4x Greater Eternal Essence, Runed Truesilver Rod, 2x Large Brilliant Shard

Enchanting guide TBC

Master enchanting (300 – 375)

Learn Master enchanting (300 – 375) from one of these trainers:

Alliance: Johan Barnes in Honor Hold, Hellfire Peninsula.
Horde: Felannia in Thrallmar, Hellfire Peninsula.

Neutral:

High Enchanter Bardolan – If you are a Scryer.
Zurii – if you are an Aldor.

300 – 301
Runed Fel Iron Rod – Fel Iron Rod, 4x Greater Eternal Essence, 6x Large Brilliant Shard, Runed Arcanite Rod
301 – 310
9x Enchant Bracer – Assault – 54x Arcane Dust
310 – 315
6x Enchant Bracer – Brawn – 36x Arcane Dust
315 – 330
20x Enchant Gloves – Assault – 160x Arcane Dust (This recipe goes yellow at 320, so you might need to make more than 15.)
330 – 335
5x Enchant Shield – Major Stamina – 75x Arcane Dust

Formula: Enchant Shield – Major Stamina is a limited supply recipe sold by Madame Ruby in Shattrath. When visiting her, also buy limited supply recipes Formula: Superior Wizard Oil, Formula: Large Prismatic Shard, and Formula: Superior Wizard Oil.

335 – 345 for Blood elves only:

Blood Elves can abuse their racial ability Arcane Affinity to easily get some points. You can transform three Small Prismatic Shards into a Large Prismatic Shard. Then create 3 Small Prismatic Shards out of a Large Prismatic Shard. Only this one can give you a skill tho. And then back again. This is somewhat of a time-consuming process but it’s definitely worth it.

335 – 340
Every other race should do 5x Enchant Shield – Resilience – 5x Large Prismatic Shard, 20x Lesser Planar Essence
340 – 350
15x Superior Wizard Oil – 45x Arcane Dust, 15x Nightmare Vine, 15x Imbued Vial (At 340 this recipe is yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)

This recipe starts out yellow in your spellbook, so the number of times you have to make it depends entirely on how lucky you are.

350 – 351
Runed Adamantite Rod – Adamantite Rod, 8x Greater Planar Essence, 8x Large Prismatic Shard, Primal Might, Runed Fel Iron Rod

Formula: Runed Adamantite Rod is a limited supply recipe sold by Rungor in Stonebreakear Hold, Terokkar Forest for Horde players, and by Vodesiin in Temple of Telhamat, Hellfire Peninsula for Alliance players.

Now you can go to Northrend and learn Grand Master enchanting. However, if you want to level up the next 25 points still using the TBC recipes you can do this:

351 – 365
20x Enchant Gloves – Major Strength – 240x Arcane Dust, 20x Greater Planar Essence (At 350 this recipe is yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 14.)
365 – 375
17x Enchant Ring – Spellpower – 34x Large Prismatic Shard, 34x Greater Planar (This recipe goes yellow at 370, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)

Formula: Enchant Ring – Spellpower is sold by Alurmi in Caverns of Time and it requires honored Keepers of Time reputation.

Or you can do:

17x Enchant Ring – Striking – 34x Large Prismatic Shard, 102x Arcane Dust (This recipe goes yellow at 370, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)

Formula: Enchant Ring – Striking is sold by Ythyar in Karazhan before the Chess event, and it requires revered The Consortium reputation.

Enchanting Guide WotLK

Grand Master enchanting (350 – 450)

Learn Grand Master enchanting (350 – 450) from one of these trainers: