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Enchanting leveling guide

Enchanting from 1 to 300

What to make at every skill, what one craft takes, where to train each rank and which recipes to buy before you need them. The beta caps skill at 225 for now; the route carries on to 300.

Beta cap
225
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Trainers

Apprentice Enchanting (1–75)

Any Enchanting trainer teaches Apprentice from character level 5 for 10. Where they stand.

  1. Skill 1–2

    Rod and Mote: the supply vendor beside the trainer.

  2. Skill 2–20

  3. Skill 20–70

    Orange throughout.

    Right-click a Greater Magic Essence: it breaks down to 3 lesser ones.

    Or

    Dust cheaper than essence? Take the dust route from here.

  4. Skill 70–100

    Orange until 90, yellow from 90.

    Train Journeyman by 75. Train Journeyman before 75.

    Or

    Dust route, 70–100; it carries on in the next steps.

Materials for this rank3 items

Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.

Journeyman Enchanting (75–150)

An Enchanting trainer teaches Journeyman from Enchanting 50 and character level 10 for 5.

Recipes to buy for this stretch: Formula: Enchant 2H Weapon - Lesser Intellect. Buy them on your way so you are not stuck at the vendor-sold steps.

  1. Skill 100–109

    Yellow throughout.
  2. Skill 109–110

    Silver Rod: ask a blacksmith, or check the auction house.

  3. Skill 110–130

    Orange throughout.
    Recipe to buyFormula: Enchant 2H Weapon - Lesser Intellect from Alliance: Tilli Thistlefuzz (Dun Morogh); Horde: Kithas (Orgrimmar), Leo Sarn (Silverpine Forest). Pick it up before you get here.

    Formula needed (Lesser Intellect). Grab the Minor Mana Oil and Lesser Wizard Oil formulas at that vendor too.

    Or

    No formula, or on the dust route: cloaks for 110–130.

  4. Skill 130–150

    Yellow throughout.
    Recipe to buyFormula: Enchant 2H Weapon - Lesser Intellect from Alliance: Tilli Thistlefuzz (Dun Morogh); Horde: Kithas (Orgrimmar), Leo Sarn (Silverpine Forest). Pick it up before you get here.

    Or

    No formula, or on the dust route: boots for 130–150.

    Or

    Cheaper than the boots when Soul Dust ×20 undercuts Strange Dust ×80.

Materials for this rank4 items

Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.

Expert Enchanting (150–225)

An Enchanting trainer teaches Expert from Enchanting 125 and character level 20 for 50.

  1. Skill 150–151

    Train Expert first.

  2. Skill 151–165

    Orange until 160, yellow from 160.

    16 × Minor Mana Oil

    Materials: 16 Soul Dust, 32 Maple Seed, 16 Leaded Vial

    Formula needed (Minor Mana Oil). The 201 step wants Lesser Wizard Oil's, so buy both.

  3. Skill 165–185

    Orange until 180, yellow from 180.
  4. Skill 185–200

    Orange throughout.

    Or

    Vision Dust pricey? Stay on boots up to 200.

  5. Skill 200–201

  6. Skill 201–220

    Orange until 210, yellow from 210.

    Formula needed (Lesser Wizard Oil).

  7. Skill 220–225

    Orange throughout.
Materials for this rank11 items

Artisan Enchanting (225–300)

An Enchanting trainer teaches Artisan from Enchanting 200 and character level 35 for 5. The beta caps skill at 225 for now, so this rank waits until it goes up.

Both factions

Recipes to buy for this stretch: Formula: Enchant Shield - Greater Stamina. Buy them on your way so you are not stuck at the vendor-sold steps.

The beta stops at 225: skill cannot go past it for now. The steps below wait for the cap to go up.

  1. Skill 225–262

    Orange until 230, yellow from 230, green from 250.
  2. Skill 262–277

    Yellow throughout.
  3. Skill 277–300

    Orange until 285, yellow from 285.
    Recipe to buyFormula: Enchant Shield - Greater Stamina from Alliance: Mythrin'dir (Darnassus); Horde: Daniel Bartlett (Tirisfal Glades). Pick it up before you get here.
Materials for this rank3 items

Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.

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