Enchanting is one of the primary professions in World of Warcraft. Anyone who takes up the trade of Enchanting become an Enchanter which means they have the ability to enchant (add stats and effects to) items and the ability to disenchant (destroy items to turn their magical properties into items that can be reused in Enchanting) items. These two abilities work side by side. An Enchanter can take a magical item and then disenchant it to collect the magical properties in the form of a dust or essence. Then they can take the dust, essence, etc. and use it to create additional magical properties on existing items.

It may seem confusing at first but that’s why we have this guide! With a little bit of reading you’ll see Enchanting as one of the easiest trades out there. Not only that, but Enchanting is very profitable even at lower levels. There is always a demand to have items enchanted as it makes them much more desirable. Disenchanting and selling the items gained through destroying an item is also very profitable as a lot of high level recipes require massive amounts of materials.

Enchanting is a primary profession which means that it counts towards the two profession limit. You can unlearn Enchanting at any time; however doing so will reset your skill at zero and you will unlearn any recipes you may have found along the way. It’s inadvisable to do so once you begin collecting the rarer recipes.

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For Experienced Enchanters: Below is the basic information on Enchanting. To continue on the more detailed part of this guide click here.

To begin, seek out an <Enchanting Trainer> who can teach you Apprentice Enchanting. These trainers are located in every major city, like Stormwind and Silvermoon. If you need help finding an Alchemy trainer just speak to any guard in a main city. Choose “Profession Trainer” then “Enchanting” and they will mark your map with the location of a Enchanting trainer. It’ll be a neat little flag you can follow.

There are several ranks to the Enchanting profession. You must get a certain skill level along with your character level before you can advance to the next rank. Opening new ranks allows you to increase your skill and learn newer and more powerful recipes. To advance to a new rank, simply visit the appropriate Enchanting Trainer. The following are the locations of the various enchanting trainers along with the various skill ranks and require levels.

Find out all the best enchants to use to skill up as fast and cheaply as possible here: Enchanting Leveling Guide

Enchanting goes well with a few professions. Enchanting doesn’t rely on a gathering profession for materials, so any kind of gathering profession (Mining, Skinning, Herbalism) or Tailoring are perfect companions for Enchanting. There is one thing to note and that is a lot of people see Talioring as the “perfect” companion as you can make greens then disenchant them. This is true in some situations but not all.

For instance, you can sometimes loose a lot of money this way. You could sell the cloth used to make the green items and buy more green items on the auction house then the cloth could have made. Then disenchant those and sell the materials created to make a lot of your expense back. Although there are times on the market when green items are worth more then cloth, so it’s extremely variable. I always suggest if you go Tailoring, do it for the level seventy bind-on-pickup armor sets. That or the ability to make your own spell thread to constantly change.

Enchanting is for anyone who is social, mostly. Since you are now required to raise Enchanting to disenchant things you might as well utilize the profession. In doing so you’ll need to advertise, work out deals with players, and other social situations. You can take the profession and only disenchant things, but that’s sometimes inefficient giving the market. You can only enchant things for your friends, but then again Enchanting does cost a lot of money to raise up.

There is no class Enchanting is perfect for, although if you’re going Talioring or just want one Gathering profession it’s a good choice. It’s good for those who like to work out figures, work the market, and make a lot of cash.

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