Enchanting Leveling Guide, 1 to 300

At a glance

Enchanting turns disenchantable equipment into dust, essences and shards, then spends them on enchants and crafted items. It is a primary profession. Tailoring pairs naturally because cloth needs no gathering slot and can produce disenchantable gear, but crafted gear is not automatically cheaper than buying the resulting dust.

The main table uses current Forever recipe costs. Upper training and formula acquisition remain conditional where the beta cannot yet establish access. This is public-source research, not our own game test.

Annora appears after her surrounding room is cleared. Bring a group, gold and enough materials to gain skill while there so you can learn later recipes before leaving. The rank unlock at 200 does not mean all her 230-250 recipes are learnable immediately.

Rods and recipe preparation

Buy the plain Copper Rod from an Enchanting supply vendor. Plain Silver, Golden, Truesilver and Arcanite Rods are Blacksmith crafts; buy or commission them. You then craft the Runed versions yourself with the appropriate enchanting materials. Buying a plain rod alone does not satisfy recipes that require its runed version.

Buy Formula: Enchant Bracer, Lesser Strength from Dalria in Ashenvale for Alliance or Kulwia in Stonetalon Mountains for Horde before the 151 step. Formula: Enchant Shield, Greater Stamina comes from Mythrin'dir in Darnassus or Daniel Bartlett in Undercity. Buy Formula: Runed Arcanite Rod and Formula: Enchant Cloak, Superior Defense together from Lorelae Wintersong in Nighthaven, Moonglade. Binding and limited stock can prevent buying these on an alt for later delivery.

Keep an appropriate item to re-enchant. Replacing an enchant still awards skill, but consumes the full reagents again. You do not need to buy a different pair of bracers for every cast. Match the target slot and any equipment restrictions to the recipe.

The Forever route by skill range

Counts are approximate crafts, including a working allowance for yellow recipes. Stop when you reach the next bracket and check the new recipe before consuming the remaining materials.

Mote of Magic is a vendor item. Crafted common or uncommon wands vendor for 1 copper under the October 15 beta rules. A wand can still award skill, but its input cost is almost entirely spent unless a real player buys it. Minor Agility requires a vendor formula from Dalria or Kulwia; buy it with Lesser Strength on the same trip.

The displayed enchant route needs roughly 19 Motes, 133 Strange Dust, 4 Lesser Magic Essence, 20 Lesser Astral Essence, 57 Soul Dust, 131 Vision Dust, 212 Dream Dust, 20 Purple Lotus, 20 Crystal Vials and 50 Illusion Dust, plus the rods, gems, greater essences and shards explicitly listed in their rows. Keep a buffer for unlucky skill-ups. These are calculated for this route, not the original Classic costs.

Lesser Mana Oil comes from Kania in Silithus. If unavailable in your version or content phase, Annora's Enchant Bracer, Greater Strength is an alternative while it still awards skill. Obtain the formula before travelling with a bag of the wrong materials.

Recipes worth buying or farming

Druid Enchanters have a current personal relic option at 130: Mystic Mushroom, a level-20 Idol with 5% Spirit. Both formula and relic bind on pickup. Buy the formula for 45 Merchant's Favor from Alynsia at Three Corners for Alliance or Beneris outside the Crossroads' west gate for Horde. The craft uses 1 Small Glimmering Shard, 2 Greater Magic Essences, 5 Strange Dust and 1 Red-speckled Mushroom, with your Runed Silver Rod. A non-Enchanter Druid cannot buy the soulbound finished relic. Other classes' relics have their own requirements; the new recipe guide explains this distinction.

Reputation formulas have their own gates. Argent Dawn sells healing and mana-regeneration enchants; Timbermaw Hold sells Agility formulas; Thorium Brotherhood sells high-end weapon formulas; Zandalar Tribe sells Brilliant Oils. Inspect the exact reputation and skill before farming or paying for an item advertised as an unlock.

Inherited later formula leads include Crusader from Scarlet Spellbinders in Western Plaguelands. Fiery Weapon comes from Pyromancer Loregrain in Blackrock Depths; Spell Power and Healing Power weapon enchants are Molten Core drops. Confirm their current Forever acquisition before treating these later targets as farms; they are not required purchases for the route. Do not assume a random world-drop formula will appear during one evening of farming.

Tips and Forever checks

Disenchant only after comparing the item's sale value with the value of its possible materials. A useful BoE upgrade can sell for more than its dust; a personal equipped item may not be replaceable. Do not destroy every green automatically. Disenchanting is irreversible and yields are probabilistic, so the route's reagent list is not a guaranteed list of items to destroy.

Train before the cap, bring the correct slot to re-enchant and learn Annora's available recipes before leaving Uldaman. Check actual recipe costs, binding and colors before buying its final 75 points of materials.

Forever also adds profession camp objects and new enchanting item categories. Use the camping guide for station access. New ring, neck or relic recipes do not imply you can enchant every other player's item in every slot: read the formula's personal-use and slot restrictions.

In Forever, the October 16 public data lists Working Overtime as an increase to tradeskill skill-up chance. That can change expected material use on yellow or green recipes; it does not mean an exact 20% reduction in every shopping list. The route budgets do not assume that perk. Bartering discounts vendor items under its current rules, not training or repairs, so do not subtract it from every profession expense.