WoW Forever Enchanting leveling guide 1-300: route, recipes, and trainers

An enchanter permanently improves their own gear and everyone else's, whether it's Agility on bracers, spell power on a weapon, or Fire Resistance on a cloak. Every class wants enchants, from the first dungeons to raids, and only an enchanter can turn loot nobody wants into materials. So you've got work both while leveling and at 60.

In Forever the profession got bigger. There are necklace enchants, which Classic never had, new wands for casters, and the Enchanted Lute for your camp, which gives everyone sitting nearby a buff a lot like Mark of the Wild. And when raids open on December 9, enchanters get something nobody else has, because Malleable Essence of Nature only comes from disenchanting raid items.

You don't gather anything for this profession, since your own loot supplies the materials. That's why people often pair it with Tailoring. A tailor sews cheap greens to disenchant, and in Forever the new tailoring patterns call for essences and shards too, so your materials won't sit around. If gold matters more to you, take a gathering profession as your second. It makes money from the first levels, while early Enchanting costs more than it brings in.

• The first points run on Motes of Magic. Mote of Magic is a new Forever reagent. The item description says enchanting supply vendors sell it, and Dust to Motes turns one Strange Dust into three motes. Motes go into the Runed Copper Rod, the first enchant, Enchant Bracer - Inferior Stamina, and the Novice's Practice Wand. In Classic the rod and the first enchants needed Strange Dust and Lesser Magic Essence, and now you don't have to disenchant anything until skill 23.
• Rods got cheaper. The silver rod takes 3 Strange Dust and 4 Lesser Magic Essence instead of 6 dust and 3 Greater Magic Essence, and the golden and truesilver rods take one essence and one dust each instead of two. The metal blank still comes from a blacksmith. There's more in the rods section.
• Camp items. The Enchanted Lute unlocks at skill 20, and you can learn it from the trainer for 1 silver or from the Camping 101: Enchanting quest. At the campfire, the lute gives everyone sitting nearby armor, all stats, and all resistances, like Mark of the Wild, and it doesn't stack with it. Later you swap it for the Arcane Salvager, which its description says makes disenchanting more efficient. The recipe unlocks at skill 140, but you can only make the salvager with a Runed Truesilver Rod. At 300 you get the Arcane Forge, and some of the new relics can't be made without it. All camp items share a 1-hour cooldown.
• Necklace enchants and new formulas. Formulas for five necklace enchants, new weapon and bracer enchants, staves, orbs, and relics are sold for Merchant's Favor. There's more further down.
• Malleable Essence of Nature from raids. Malleable Essence of Nature only comes from disenchanting items from Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps, and 97 recipes across five professions need it. That's the main reason to bring an enchanter to a raid.
• Legacy. You get a Legacy point the first time you reach 150, 225, and 300, and the Working Overtime perk in the professions branch adds up to 20% to your skill-up chance. You can set its rank in the profession calculator.

Our calculator built this route from the beta client data, and it's 360 crafts in total, rods included. Each stretch uses the cheapest enchant that gives a point on at least every other craft. Craft counts are averages. While an enchant is orange, every craft gives a point, but as it fades toward green you'll get some misses, so buy extra materials. Almost every step is an enchant rather than an item. Put it on any piece of gear of the right type you own, and the item isn't used up.

Up to 23 you cast Enchant Bracer - Inferior Stamina, which comes with the profession and costs one Mote of Magic per cast. Then Enchant Bracer - Minor Deflect, also learned with the profession, takes you to 82, and Enchant Chest - Minor Absorption, 1 silver from the trainer, takes you to 111. Both need one Lesser Magic Essence per cast, 98 in total. From 111 to 130 you use Enchant Cloak - Minor Protection, which is 27 casts at two Strange Dust each.

At 130 you need the silver rod, and from there mid-level dust carries you. Enchant Bracer - Lesser Stamina takes you to 160, and after the golden rod Enchant Boots - Lesser Agility takes you to 201. Both need one Soul Dust per cast, 81 in total. Then you cast Enchant Bracer - Strength five times, and at 205 it's time to make the truesilver rod. With it, Enchant Cloak - Greater Defense takes you to 227 and Enchant Gloves - Agility to 251. These three enchants need one Vision Dust per cast, 61 in total.

After 251 you move up to higher-tier materials, and they cost a lot more. Enchant Boots - Agility takes you to 276 at one Greater Nether Essence per cast. Then you cast Enchant Gloves - Minor Haste 23 times to get to 291, and each one needs one Large Radiant Shard and one Wildvine. Wildvine doesn't come from disenchanting (herbalists gather it), so look for it on the Auction House. At 291 the route switches from trainer enchants to a formula sold by a vendor, and Sigil of Flowing Waters takes you to 300 at one Illusion Dust per sigil. All told, 251-300 takes 34 Greater Nether Essence, 23 Large Radiant Shards, 23 Wildvine, and 9 Illusion Dust.

There's a catch with the sigil. In the client its formula needs Revered with the Hydraxian Waterlords, and hardly anyone will have that rep while leveling. If you don't, take the sigil out in the calculator, and Conductive Shield Coating and Enchant Shield - Greater Stamina will cover the last points instead. Their formulas cost gold with no rep requirement, and the detour takes six more crafts. The coating needs two Illusion Dust per craft, a Firebloom from an herbalist, and a Crystal Vial from a vendor, and the shield enchant needs six Dream Dust.

Rods show up in the route as separate "First" steps right before the enchants that need them, and they count toward the craft total. What they're made of and what to order from a blacksmith is in the rods section. If you're missing some enchants or want to price the route for your realm, open it in the calculator. You can start from your current skill, take a recipe out, and pick the cheapest or the fastest path. The fastest one is shorter, about 330 crafts, but it costs more.

The route above levels your skill but doesn't make money, since almost every step is an enchant on your own gear. Enchanters make their gold other ways. They sell materials from disenchanting, make reagents for other professions, and enchant other players' gear. The buyer puts the item in the trade window, you enchant it right there, and the two of you work out who brings the materials and what the job costs. Here's what will definitely sell in Forever, and why.

You won't find prices here. The beta was capped at level 30, so nobody has seen real level 60 prices yet, and after launch your realm's Auction House will show them. Before you take an order or craft a batch, check what the materials cost.

Every Enchanting trainer in the capitals and starting towns teaches Apprentice (up to 75), and on Zephras Isle so do Eaysaa Brightgust and Nasalanna Windsinger. Journeyman unlocks at skill 50 and character level 10, Expert at skill 125 and level 20, and Artisan at skill 200 and level 35. Check the title under a trainer's name, because each one teaches up to the rank below their own. A Journeyman Enchanter only teaches Apprentice, and an Expert Enchanter teaches Journeyman too.

Only Annora teaches Artisan, and she's inside the Uldaman dungeon in the Badlands. She teaches both factions, but you have to fight through the dungeon to reach her, so at level 35 you're better off going with a group. If your character falls behind, your skill stalls at the rank cap, so it's easiest to level Enchanting alongside your character.

You can only cast enchants with a runed rod in your bags. Each new rod replaces all the old ones, so you only carry the best one and can vendor the rest. You can't sell a rod to another player, since it binds on pickup.

The base for the first rod is a Copper Rod. Vendors sell it, and in Forever blacksmiths make it from a single Copper Bar. The blanks for the others (Silver Rod, Golden Rod, Truesilver Rod, and Arcanite Rod) only come from blacksmiths, at Blacksmithing 75, 125, 175, and 250. Order them early and pick up the gem for each rod at the same time: Shadowgem, Iridescent Pearl, and Black Pearl, plus a Golden Pearl for the arcanite rod.

In the route, each rod is a separate "First" step right before the enchants that need it. That's the silver rod at 130, the golden rod at 160, and the truesilver rod at 205. At that point the recipe is still orange or yellow, so the rod usually gives a point itself. You don't need the arcanite rod to level, but without it you can't cast the best enchants at 300, including the Fire Resistance cloak enchant for Onyxia.

Rod	Needed on the route	Learn at skill	Recipe cost	Materials
Runed Copper Rod	From skill 1	Right away	Free	Copper Rod, Mote of Magic
Runed Silver Rod	By 130	100	10s	Silver Rod, 3 × Strange Dust, 4 × Lesser Magic Essence, Shadowgem
Runed Golden Rod	By 160	150	25s	Golden Rod, Iridescent Pearl, Greater Astral Essence, Soul Dust
Runed Truesilver Rod	By 205	200	40s	Truesilver Rod, Black Pearl, Greater Mystic Essence, Vision Dust
Runed Arcanite Rod	For enchants at 300	290	Formula: Runed Arcanite Rod from a vendor	Arcanite Rod, Golden Pearl, 10 × Illusion Dust, 4 × Greater Eternal Essence, 4 × Small Brilliant Shard, 2 × Large Brilliant Shard

Most of Forever's new formulas are sold for Merchant's Favor by Alynsia at the Alliance camp in Redridge Mountains and Beneris at the Horde camp in the Barrens. They include five necklace enchants, new weapon and bracer enchants, staves, orbs, and relics. Simple formulas like Formula: Mystic Mushroom and Formula: Enchant Weapon - Revelation cost 45 Favor each, and some of the others need trading company rep too. How to earn Favor and rep is in our Merchant's Favor guide.

A lot of the new formulas need reagents only an alchemist makes: Cerulean Dye, Magenta Dye, and Sulfuric Acid. Enchant Necklace - Spell Power, for example, takes four of each dye per cast, Cerulean Dye and Magenta Dye. So you'll need an alchemist friend or the Auction House.

We don't know yet where the formulas for the new wands, some of the bracer enchants, the three Heart of the Mountain items, and the epic relics come from. The Hearts of the Mountain can only be made at the Black Forge, too. You don't need Favor formulas to level. Up to 291 the route uses trainer enchants, and the last 9 points come from Sigil of Flowing Waters, whose formula needs rep (see the route). The calculator only pulls in recipes from items when the trainer has no enchants left with a decent skill-up chance, and it rates rep and drop formulas as pricier than regular ones because they're harder to get. The sigil still comes out cheaper than the shield coating, since it needs one Illusion Dust and the coating needs two, plus a Firebloom and a vial.

Disenchant works on green, blue, and epic weapons and armor. The item disappears and leaves materials behind. Greens give dust and essences, with dust more often from armor and essences more often from weapons. Blues give shards, and epics give a Nexus Crystal. The higher the item's level, the higher the material tier. Strange Dust comes from items of level 5-25, Soul Dust from 26-35, Vision Dust from 36-45, Dream Dust from 46-55, and Illusion Dust from 56 and up.

We don't list material prices. There are none before launch, and after that they'll change every day. As a rule, dust and essences from the start of the route drop from everything and are usually cheap, shards are rarer because there are fewer blues, and materials from the end of the route cost the most, especially the Large Radiant Shard. The only new material on the route is the Mote of Magic. Enchanting supply vendors sell it, usually near the trainers, and the client lists it at 10 copper each.

Essences come in lesser and greater versions. Three lesser ones combine into one greater, and a greater one splits back into three, right from your bags. That helps when the route needs a Greater Nether Essence and all you've got is Lesser Nether Essence. The full ladder of materials is in the table below.

Material	Comes from	Tiers, lowest to highest
Dust	Green, mostly armor	Strange Dust, Soul Dust, Vision Dust, Dream Dust, Illusion Dust
Essences	Green, mostly weapons	Lesser Magic Essence and Greater Magic Essence, Lesser Astral Essence and Greater Astral Essence, Lesser Mystic Essence and Greater Mystic Essence, Lesser Nether Essence and Greater Nether Essence, Lesser Eternal Essence and Greater Eternal Essence
Shards	Blue	Small Glimmering Shard and Large Glimmering Shard, Small Glowing Shard and Large Glowing Shard, Small Radiant Shard and Large Radiant Shard, Small Brilliant Shard and Large Brilliant Shard
Crystal	Epic	Nexus Crystal

• Vendoring greens. Every green or blue is enchanting material, and the route uses around 370 dust, essences, and shards. Disenchant everything you don't need, even if you've got nothing to spend it on right now.
• Putting the profession off until 60. Materials from disenchanting your own loot are free, but at 60 you'll have to buy them. Each rank needs a character level too, so it's easier to level Enchanting as you go.
• Not ordering a rod blank ahead of time. At 130, 160, and 205 the route needs a new rod, and only a blacksmith makes the metal blank. Wait until the last minute and your leveling stalls.
• Forgetting about ranks. Your skill caps at 75, 150, and 225 until you learn the next rank, and each rank needs a character level: 10 for Journeyman, 20 for Expert, and 35 for Artisan. Only Annora inside Uldaman teaches the last one, so put a group together ahead of time.
• Leveling with the new Favor formulas. They give the same point per craft but need many times more materials. Enchant Weapon - Insight, for example, needs 10 Strange Dust, 4 Large Glimmering Shards, 4 Greater Astral Essence, plus 4 Pyrite and 4 Frilled Lichen. Get them for the enchants themselves, and level with the route.