Enchanting

Ench

Apprentice Enchanting

1 – Learn your initial Enchanting skill from any of the trainers located in the main cities.

1-2: Runed Copper Rod
1 Copper Rod
1 Strange Dust
1 Lesser Magic Essence

The materials to create this should all be purchasable from basic enchanting vendors as they tend to keep a stock of a dust and essence or two just to get you started. You need a rod as an enchanter for any enchants you wish to do and different enchants require more advanced rods; as you upgrade your rod it will act as all lower quality rods that have preceded it.

2-50: Disenchanting

To begin with you will want to increase your skill purely by disenchanting uncommon items; when you start out you will only be able to disenchant items up to level 15 but by skill 50 you will be able to disenchant items of up to level 25 in quality. This stage should provide you with plenty of materials for a while. After you have disenchanted as many low level items as you can head to your trainer to advance.

Journeyman Enchanting

Increases your maximum Enchanting skill to 150

50-90: Enchant Bracer – Minor Health
50 Strange Dust

From disenchanting you should have plenty of Strange Dust to push this recipe until it turns green; if you don’t want to disenchant then you can just use this recipe from the start which will require another 50 Strange Dust.

90-105: Enchant Chest – Lesser health
20 Strange Dust
20 Lesser Magic Essence

Depending on how much dust you acquired you can make this recipe all the way to 120 skill.

105-106: Runed Silver Rod
Silver Rod
Runed Copper Rod (Provided)
6 Strange Dust
3 Greater Magic Essence

Your first rod upgrade will enable you to enchant more advanced formulas. You will need to purchase the Silver Rod from a blacksmith.

106-135: Enchant Shield – Minor Stamina
25 Lesser Astral Essence
50 Strange Dust

You will need to purchase the formula for Lesser Strength from either Sun Talon Post or Astranaar; then head back to your trainer to learn Expert Enchanting.

Expert Enchanting

Increases your maximum Enchanting skill to 225. You must be level 20 to learn this.

135-155: Enchant Bracer – Lesser Stamina
40 Soul Dust

155-156: Runed Golden Rod
Golden Rod
Iridescent Pearl
2 Greater Astral Essence
2 Soul Dust
Runed Silver Rod (Provided)

Your Expert Rod will again require you to purchase a rod from a blacksmith.

156-195: Lesser Mystic Wand
30 Soul Dust
30 Lesser Mystic Essence
30 Star Wood

If Soul Dust is cheap and plentiful you can continue making this until it turns green at 185 skill. Vendor the wands.

165-185: Enchant Bracer – Spirit
20 Lesser Mystic Essence

195-205: Enchant Bracer – Strength
15 Vision Dust

Artisan Enchanting

Increases your maximum Enchanting skill to 300. You must be level 35 to learn this.

205-206: Runed Truesilver Rod
1 Truesilver Rod
1 Black Pearl
2 Greater Mystic Essence
2 Vision Dust
1 Runed Golden Rod (Provided)

As before you will need a smith to make you the rod; once obtained this rod will last you till 300 skill.

206-235: Enchant Cloak – Resistance
30 Lesser Nether Essence

235-235: Enchant Boots – Stamina
25 Vision Dust

235-240: Enchant Chest – Superior Health
30 Vision Dust

240-245: Enchant Gloves – Strength
10 Lesser Nether Essence
15 Vision Dust

If you can find the formula for Enchant Bracer – Greater Stamina on the auction house for a low price it’s worthwhile for getting cheaply to 265 but more often than not it will be over priced.

245-255: Enchant Bracer – Greater Strength
30 Dream Dust
15 Greater Nether Essence

255-265: Enchant Bracer – Greater Intellect
30 Lesser Eternal Essence

At 265 skill you will want to head to the Undercity or Darnassus to pick up the formula for the next stage.

265-285: Enchant Shield – Greater Stamina
200 Dream Dust

You will now want to head to Moonglade to pick up the formula for the next 2 stages.

285-299: Enchant Cloak – Superior Defense
112 Illusion Dust

But you’re even better off getting yourself up to Winterspring and get the Formula: Enchant Chest – Major Health. Small Brilliant shards are usually incredibly cheap and make those last few points before 300 a breeze. This is a spawn recipe, so you may have to camp it for a while – but well worth the trouble.

299-300: Runed Arcanite Rod
1 Arcanite Rod
1 Golden Pearl
10 Illusion Dust
4 Greater Eternal Essence
2 Large Brilliant Shards
1 Runed Truesilver Rod (Provided)

This rod is expensive to make and ultimately pretty worthless since you barely make use of this rod before upgrading it once more. When you have made this it’s time to head into Outland.

Master Enchanting

Proceed to Outland and learn Master Enchanting from your starting town trainers which will increase your maximum skill limit to 375. You must be level 50 to train learn this.

300-301: Runed Fel Iron Rod
1 Fel Iron Rod
4 Greater Eternal Essence
6 Large Brilliant Shard
1 Runed Arcanite Rod (Provided)

2 rod upgrades in a row is going to be costly but this rod will now see you through till Northrend.

301-310: Enchant Bracer – Assault
54 Arcane Dust

With this and later enchants you might have some luck in selling them either to levelling characters or twinks so it can be worth enchanting onto Vellums rather than a trash item in an effort to sell them. This can be difficult but if you can get Vellums cheaply it is worthwhile.

310-315: Enchant Bracer – Brawn
30 Arcane Dust

315-335: Enchant Gloves – Assault
240 Arcane Dust

You will be doing this enchant until it turns green since everything else uses  essences, which tend to be much more expensive.

335-340: Enchant Shield – Resilience
5 Large Prismatic Shards
20 Lesser Planar Essence

340-350: Superior Wizard Oil
45 Arcane Dust
15 Nightmare Vine
15 Imbued Vial

The vials are bought from vendors while the vines will need to be purchased from a herbalist. The formula for this item is purchasable in Shattrath as well as The Exodar and Silvermoon City. Once made its time to head into Northrend.

Grand Master Enchanting

Grand Master trainers are located in Dalaran, Warsong Hold and Valiance Keep. You must be level 65 to train Grand Master Enchanting and it will increase your skill cap to 450.

350-351: Runed Adamantite Rod
1 Adamantite Rod
8 Greater Planar Essence
8 Large Prismatic Shards
1 Primal Might
1 Runed Fel Iron Rod (Provided)

This rod may be quite difficult to make as it uses some expensive burning crusade materials which you may have to get specially crafted if they are not present on the auction house. Unfortunately, it won’t even last you that long either. You will have to go to Stonebreaker Hold in Terokkar (Horde) and purchase this from Rungor, or Temple of Telhamat in Hellfire (Alliance) where you will purchase this from Vodesiin.

351-360: Enchant Cloak – Speed
54 Infinite Dust

From now on these enchants are definitely worth placing onto Vellums as they should sell to leveling characters.

360-370: Enchant Bracers – Striking
60 Infinite Dust

370-380: Enchant Chest – Super Stats
40 Infinite Dust
20 Lesser Cosmic Essence

380-385: Enchant Bracer – Exceptional Intellect
50 Infinite Dust

After this you will need to upgrade your rod once again.

Runed Eternium Rod
1 Eternium Rod
6 Greater Planar Essence
6 Arcane Dust
1 Runed Adamantite Rod (Provided)

385-395: Enchant Boots – Icewalker
80 Infinite Dust
10 Crystallized Water
Icewalker is a very popular enchant so should definitely sell well.

395-405: Enchant Cloak – Superior Agility
90 Infinite Dust

After this stage you will be able to enchant your rings as well as disenchant all items so you only need to continue if you’re looking to gather the rarer enchants in the game. Generally you can advance in skill at your own pace making enchants as people need them or filling gaps in the auction house but if you want to progress the followings the most efficient means of doing so.

410-415: Enchant Gloves – Expertise
60 Infinite Dust

415-420: Enchant Boots – Greater Spirit
50 Infinite Dust
5 Greater Cosmic Essence

420-429: Enchant Shield – Defense
54 Infinite Dust
54 Eternal Earth

429-430: Runed Titanium Rod
1 Titanium Rod
40 Infinite Dust
12 Greater Cosmic Essence
8 Dream Shard
1 Runed Eternium Rod (Provided)

A very costly rod to make but fortunately this is your final rod and will last you throughout the entire expansion.

From now on recipes must be purchased with Dream Shards from Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran.

430-440: Enchant Cloak – Mighty Armour
150 Infinite Dust
20 Greater Cosmic Essence

440-445: Enchant Gloves – Armsman
10 Dream Shard
40 Eternal Earth

445-450: Enchant Boots – Greater Assault
20 Greater Cosmic Essence
20 Dream Shard

This will put you in a position to create every enchant in the game; albeit at great cost.

Total Materials

If you follow this path exactly the following should be the amount of materials required to raise your skill to the point of being capable of producing all enchants.
1 Copper Rod
1 Silver Rod
1 Golden Rod
1 Truesilver Rod
1 Arcanite Rod
1 Fel Iron Rod
1 Adamantie Rod
1 Eternium Rod
87 Strange Dust
60 Soul Dust
132 Vision Dust
230 Dream Dust
122 Illusion Dust
375 Arcane Dust
728 Infinite Dust
1 Lesser Magic Essence
25 Lesser Astral Essence
20 Lesser Mystic Essence
15 Lesser Nether Essence
30 Lesser Eternal Essence
20 Lesser Planar Essence
12 Greater Magic Essence
2 Greater Astral Essence
2 Greater Mystic Essence
15 Greater Nether Essence
8 Greater Eternal Essence
14 Greater Planar Essence
57 Greater Cosmic Essence
8 Large Brilliant Shards
8 Large Prismatic Shards
38 Dream Shards
1 Iridescent Pearl
1 Black Pearl
1 Golden Pearl
15 Nightmare Vine
15 Imbued Vials
1 Primal Might
10 Crystallized Water
94 Eternal Earth