Enchanting

What changed in Forever

A cheaper start. wow-professions.com says a few new low-level recipes make the first 70 points cheaper than in Classic. They use the Mote of Magic, which Enchanting Supply vendors sell. The new Dust to Motes recipe splits one Strange Dust into three Motes (ForeverDB). Starting-zone trainers have no supply vendor beside them, except on Zephras Isle, so you buy Motes and your first rod in a capital. Disenchant now lives in the Professions window rather than your spellbook.

More things to make. The trade-camp vendors sell formulas for Merchant's Favor (Wowhead), including staves, orbs and relics, which Wowhead and Icy Veins present as new work for enchanters:

• Staves: Glimmering Staff, Soulstaff, Dreamstaff and Radiant Staff.
• Off-hand orbs: Orb of Souls and Orb of Mystic Insight.
• Class relics: for example Tenets of the Silver Hand, Libram of Invocation, Totem of Ancestral Protection and Idol of the Dream.
• Necklace enchants at skill 210: Agility, Strength, Spell Power, Healing Power and Deflection.
• At skill 300: two-hand Mighty Spell Power, Mighty Healing Power and Spellblasting enchants, plus several glove, bracer and cloak enchants.

The same vendors sell the Brilliant Wand (skill 275), which Icy Veins notes binds on pickup.

ForeverDB lists two new Lesser two-hand enchants, Agility and Strength at +15 each, against +5 for the older Lesser ones. It also flags two crafted items as notable crafts within the level-30 bracket: the Lesser Magic Wand for most casters, and the Orb of Souls for Holy and Discipline Priests and Restoration Druids.

Gatherers will want the gathering-glove enchants. Icy Veins lists +2 and +5 versions for Herbalism and Mining, and +5 and +10 for Skinning. The Lotus Claw glove enchant gives a chance at Death Lotus when picking herbs in Hyjal (Wowhead).

Skill ranges barely moved. Unlike Blacksmithing, Leatherworking and Tailoring, almost every Enchanting skill range is unchanged from Classic, according to wow-professions.com.

Levelling, in brief

From wow-professions.com's route, which is tested to 225:

wowtbc.gg prices a simpler route from Auction House scans. It makes stamina and protection enchants on bracers, chest, cloak and boots, then boots with Lesser Agility to about 200.

The trainers are unusual:

• Expert: one trainer per faction. Horde train with Hgarth at Sun Rock Retreat in Stonetalon; Alliance train with Kitta Firewind at the Tower of Azora in Elwynn.
• Artisan: needs level 35 and skill 200, and only Annora inside Uldaman teaches it. She appears once her area is cleared, and she alone teaches several recipes from 230 up, so learn them before you leave (wow-professions.com).

Where the gold is

• Enchanting for others: Icy Veins says the rarer enchants command the higher prices.
• Disenchanting your own crafts: Tailoring's green items keep you in materials. Icy Veins warns that Enchanting is expensive if you buy everything, while Tailoring is cheap to level.
• Strange Dust: it comes mainly from disenchanting greens from about levels 5 to 25, and vendors stock only small amounts (ForeverDB).
• Wands: since the 1 October build, crafted common and uncommon wands sell to vendors for 1 copper, so make them to use, not to sell (ForeverDB).
• Title: at 300 you can buy an Enchanting Certification and the title "the Enchanter" for 1,000 Merchant's Favor (Wowhead).

Open questions

• Where the Arcane Forge blueprint drops. The Arcane Salvager blueprint drops from the Shade of the Archmage in the City of Dalaran (wow-professions.com).
• How much "more efficient" the Salvager makes disenchanting. No source gives a number.