Enchanting Overview: Perks, Tools, & Formulas

The Enchanting profession provides a means to buff your equipment with powerful effects. Enchants are always in demand as every new piece of gear obtained will require a fresh enchantment to reach its full potential. Enchanters can apply enchantments to their own gear, to other characters’ items through the trade window, or to vellums that can be traded or sold on the Auction House.

What You Get From Enchanting

Every profession has an exclusive endgame perk that you can only access if you have the profession. For Enchanting, that perk comes in the form of ring enchantments, which allow you to add 320 of any primary stat to your rings.

Enchanters can also enchant other items for themselves and other players, and they can Disenchant unwanted Uncommon, Rare, and Epic items for valuable enchanting materials.

Below you’ll find all of the new Enchanting recipes in Mists of Pandaria. Some old formulas will still be relevant as well for leveling or specific stats builds.

Ring Enchants

Ring enchantments can only be applied to your own gear.

• Enchant Ring – Greater Agility
• Enchant Ring – Greater Intellect
• Enchant Ring – Greater Stamina
• Enchant Ring – Greater Strength

Cloak Enchants

• Enchant Cloak – Accuracy
• Enchant Cloak – Greater Protection
• Enchant Cloak – Superior Intellect

Chest Enchants

• Enchant Chest – Glorious Stats
• Enchant Chest – Mighty Spirit
• Enchant Chest – Super Resilience
• Enchant Chest – Superior Stamina

Gloves Enchants

• Enchant Gloves – Greater Haste
• Enchant Gloves – Superior Expertise
• Enchant Gloves – Superior Mastery
• Enchant Gloves – Super Strength

Bracer Enchants

• Enchant Bracer – Exceptional Strength
• Enchant Bracer – Greater Agility
• Enchant Bracer – Major Dodge
• Enchant Bracer – Super Intellect

Boots Enchants

• Enchant Boots – Blurred Speed
• Enchant Boots – Greater Haste
• Enchant Boots – Greater Precision
• Enchant Boots – Pandaren’s Step

Weapon Enchants

• Enchant Weapon – Colossus
• Enchant Weapon – Dancing Steel
• Enchant Weapon – Elemental Force
• Enchant Weapon – Jade Spirit
• Enchant Weapon – River’s Song
• Enchant Weapon – Windsong

Shield & Off-Hand Enchants

• Enchant Off-Hand – Major Intellect
• Enchant Shield – Greater Parry

Disenchanting

Along with enhancing equipment, characters with the Enchanting profession can Disenchant other items to obtain Enchanting materials. This basically gives the profession its own built-in gathering skill.

There are several new types of Enchanting materials in Mists of Pandaria. You have some special crafting recipes that will allow you to convert one type of material into another, making the profession a little more flexible than it has been in the past. There are also 3 Spirit items that can be disenchanted from each tier of raid gear.

Tools

The only tool that is required (or available) for Enchanting is Runed Copper Rod, which should be the first thing you craft when you learn the skill. You will need to have this item in your bags any time you want to do any enchanting. All of the other rods have been removed and higher level recipes now require the same one.

Vellums

If you want to be able to save your enchantments for later or sell them on the Auction House, you will need to apply them to a piece of Enchanting Vellum. This will create a scroll of the appropriate enchantment that can then be stored or traded.

Enchanting Bags

There are several bags in the game that can be used specifically to store your Enchanting materials. These bags are larger than other bags of their level, but cannot store anything outside of Enchanting supplies.

• Enchanted Mageweave Pouch – Made with Tailoring. Pattern can be purchased from many Enchanting Supplies vendors.
• Enchanter’s Satchel – Sold by Bag Vendors in major cities.
• “Carriage – Exclusive” Enchanting Evening Purse – Sold by Dawn Radue, Bag Merchant in Stormwind City.
• Enchanted Runecloth Bag – Made with Tailoring. Pattern sold by Kania at Cenarion Hold in Silithus.
• Big Bag of Enchantment – Made with Tailoring. Pattern drops from Magister Kalendris in Dire Maul.
• Spellfire Bag – Made with Tailoring. Pattern sold by Lalla Brightwaeve in Dalaran and Gidge Spellweaver in Shattrath City.
• Mysterious Bag – Made with Tailoring. Pattern sold by Cielstrasza at Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight.
• Otherworldly Bag – Made with Tailoring. Pattern taught by any Tailoring Trainer.

Racial Bonuses

Blood Elf characters gain the Arcane Affinity passive ability, which gives them a +10 bonus to their Enchanting skill. This bonus can allow you to craft higher level items a little sooner while leveling, but it loses its usefulness when you reach the skill cap since there are no formulas that require more than 600 Enchanting skill.

Where to Get New Enchanting Formulas

Most Enchanting formulas at the Zen Master level will be learned from your Enchanting Trainer. There are also a few that require reputation with the Shado-Pan (weapon enchantments) or The August Celestials (bracer enchantments).

Lower-level formulas that are not taught by trainers can be found as loot drops and from reputation vendors.

Disenchanting Macros

When using your Disenchant ability, you have to click on the items you want to disenchant in your inventory every single time. This can make the process quite tedious. Luckily, macros can help, but only if you’re disenchanting a lot of the same item. These macros are especially useful if you have Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, or Tailoring and are crafting a lot of the same item specifically to disenchant it.

Here’s a macro that will disenchant any Brown Linen Pants in your inventory. It will disenchant one pair of the pants each time you click the button. If there are no more of the item in your inventory, it will work just like the regular Disenchant ability, allowing you to click on other items to disenchant them manually. You can change this macro to name any item that you want to disenchant in bulk.

#showtooltip Disenchant
/cast Disenchant
/use Brown Linen Pants