Battle for Azeroth Enchanting Guide

BfA EnchantingThis guide provides an overview of the additions and changes to Enchanting in World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth.

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New in Patch 8.3

The Uncanny Combatant's Sorcerous Scepter (ilvl 400 wand) is the only new recipe in this patch.

The tooltip is bugged in the profession window for some of these new recipes. They show the wrong NPC name where you can buy these. They are sold by Jinxy Blastwheel / Bragni. These new NPCs are right next to the old ones: Ozgrom Ragefang in Zuldazar / Leedan Gustaf in Boralus.

New in Patch 8.2

  • 4 new ring enchants. They give 60 of a secondary stat (old was 37). (Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery, Versatility)
  • Force Multiplier - Permanently enchant a weapon to occasionally increase Intellect by 500 for 15 sec. While active, you restore 500 mana per second.
  • Machinist's Brilliance - Permanently enchant a weapon to occasionally increase Intellect by 500 for 15 sec. While active, your offensive spells and abilities sometimes increase your Mastery, Haste, or Critical Strike by 100, stacking up to 5 times. Your highest stat is always chosen.
  • Naga Hide - Permanently enchant a weapon to occasionally increase Strength or Agility by 500 for 15 sec. While active, your offensive spells and abilities sometimes increase your Mastery, Haste, or Critical Strike by 100, stacking up to 5 times. Your highest stat is always chosen.
  • Oceanic Restoration - Permanently enchant a weapon to occasionally increase Strength or Agility by 500 for 15 sec. Additionally, while active, your skin is covered in thick scales, allowing you to absorb 15000 damage.
  • Light-Step Hoofplates - New mount equipment provides +20% mount speed.
  • Notorious Combatant's Sorcerous Scepter - ilvl 370 Wand

Learning BfA Enchanting

The new BfA Enchanting skill is named differently for the two factions, but the name is the only difference between them.

Kul Tiran Enchanting is the Alliance version and Zandalari Enchanting is the Horde version.

Enchanting Trainers:

You can walk up to a guard in Dazar'alor or Boralus then ask where the Enchanting trainer is located. This will place a red marker on your map at the trainer's location.

Leveling Enchanting

Professions skills are split between expansions now, you'll have a separate skill bar for each expansion. This means you can level the new Battle for Azeroth skill tier without putting any point into any of the previous expansions tiers, you don't have to level Enchanting with older materials to be able to craft the new BfA items. The new Battle for Azeroth Enchanting has a maximum of 176 skill points. You can read more about this in my BfA Profession overview.

Every BfA recipe will require different Enchanting skill levels, so it's very different from what we had in Legion where you could make most high-level enchants with Enchanting skill 1. You will have to level your BfA Enchanting skill up if you want to make high-level enchants.

Check out my BfA Enchanting Leveling Guide 1-175, if you are looking for a more in-depth leveling guide with exact numbers and reagents needed

Acquiring Recipes

Most recipes still have ranks just like in Legion, but there are no profession quests for crafting profession in BfA, you will learn most rank 1 and rank 2 recipes from your trainer. They are gated by profession skill, so you have to level your Enchanting up to get every recipe.

  • Rank 1: Allows you to craft the item.
  • Rank 2: Reduces the materials required to craft an item.
  • Rank 3: Greatly reduces the materials required to craft an item.

Reputation Vendors

You can buy most Rank 3 recipes from vendors, but none of them require Exalted reputation, only Revered, so it's pretty easy to get them. (A few rank 3 recipes come from World Quests)

Horde:

Alliance:

Neutral:

Enchanting Perks

Tools of the Trade - Iwen's Enchanting Rod

If you level your character to level 120 and your Battle for Azeroth Enchanting to 150, then you can unlock a special questline to craft Iwen's Enchanting Rod. This rod will give you more materials when you disenchant items, and you can also spend 1 Veiled Crystal to power up an inert golem, which is a small guardian pet that will follow you around and helps you fight mobs.

The questline will take you through the process of creating your tool and give you some backstory on where the recipe comes from. Most of the quests are really straightforward and easy so I'll skip explaining each quests. Just follow your quest log and check the markers on your map.

To get started on your profession quest line, speak with your profession trainer Pin'jin the Patient (Horde) in Dazar'alor or Daniel Brineweaver (Alliance) in Boralus. You can walk up to a guard in Dazar'alor or Boralus then ask where your profession trainer is located. This will place a red marker on your map at the trainer's location.

After you complete the quest chain, you will get the Recipe: Iwen's Enchanting Rod recipe. To craft this item, you need:

Wrist Enchants

There are three new wrist enchants to buff your heathstone while in Kul Tiras or Zandalar. Only the enchanter's bracers can be enchanted, and doing so will cause them to become soulbound.

Crafting Materials

New materials: Gloom Dust Umbra Shard Veiled Crystal

There are also 5 soulbound crafting materials:

Expulsom is obtained primarily from scrapping armors and weapons using the Scrap-o-Matic 1000 (Alliance), or the Shred-Master Mk1 (Horde). These tools work like disenchanting, you can break down any gear obtained that is from the Battle for Azeroth expansion, including dungeon/raid drops, quest rewards, world drops, and crafted gear. You can read about this in more detail if you visit my Expulsom Farming Guide.

Tidalcore is a guaranteed drop from the last boss in a Mythic dungeons and from the chest at the end of any level Mythic Plus Dungeon. They can also drop from the last boss of a heroic dungeon, however, this is not a guaranteed drop.

Breath of Bwonsamdi drops from bosses in the new raid Battle for Dazar'alor and is used for crafting epic 400 and 415 item Alchemy trinkets. (1 from each LFR wing, 1 from a Normal boss, 10 from a Heroic boss, 20 from a Mythic boss)

Sanguicell drops from raid bosses in Uldir. (1 from each LFR wing, 1 from a Normal boss, 10 from a Heroic boss, 20 from a Mythic boss)

Hydrocore used to drop in Mythic dungeons, but it no longers drops since path 8.1, and you can only get it by using Transmutes.

Utility and Miscellaneous Items

Recipe Skill Description
Aqueous Invocation 1 Convert Tidalcore into Hydrocore
Sanguinated Invocation 1 Convert Breath of Bwonsamdi into Sanguicell
Sanguinated Expulsion 1 Converts 20 Sanguicell, 5 Gloom Dust, 1 Umbra Shard into 1 Expulsom
Enchanted Tiki Mask 1 Creates Enchanted Tiki Mask battle pet. The recipe is dropped by King Rastakhan the sixth boss in Battle of Dazar'alor raid.
Disenchanting Rod 60 A follower equipment that gives your champions a chance to bring back enchanting dust from successful missions. (very low chance)
Umbra Shatter 40 Shatters an Umbra Shard into 3 Gloom Dust.
Veiled Shatter 85 Shatters a Veiled Crystal into 2 Umbra Shard.

Glove Enchants

Wands

Recipe Skill Rank 3 recipe
Enchanter's Umbral Wand 10 -
Enchanter's Sorcerous Scepter Rank 1: 85
Rank 2: 100 		The Honorbound / 7th Legion - Revered
Honorable Combatant's Sorcerous Scepter 85 Rank 2 and 3 sold by Ozgrom Ragefang (Horde) / Leedan Gustaf (Alliance)
Sinister Combatant's Sorcerous Scepter 130 Rank 2 and 3 sold by Ozgrom Ragefang (Horde) / Leedan Gustaf (Alliance)

Weapon Enchants

There is a couple of new weapon enchants. There are three unique ones that give increased attack speed, elemental damage buff, or a heal over time effect on the target. Six of them gives stats: Leech, Crit, Master, Haste, Armor, Versatility

(Heal over time effect) (Elemental damage) (Attack speed) (Leech) (Crit) (Armor) (Mastery) (Haste) (Versatility)

Recipe

Enchanting skill

Rank 3

Rank 1 Rank 2
Weapon Enchant - Coastal Surge 40 95 World Quest
Weapon Enchant - Torrent of Elements 40 95 World Quest
Weapon Enchant - Gale-Force Striking 40 95 Voldunai / Order of Embers - Revered
Weapon Enchant - Siphoning 40 95 Talanji's Expedition / Proudmoore Admiralty - Revered
Weapon Enchant - Deadly Navigation 60 125 Zandalari Empire / Storm's Wake - Revered
Weapon Enchant - Stalwart Navigation 60 125 Zandalari Empire / Storm's Wake - Revered
Weapon Enchant - Masterful Navigation 60 125 Talanji's Expedition / Proudmoore Admiralty - Revered
Weapon Enchant - Quick Navigation 60 125 World Quest
Weapon Enchant - Versatile Navigation 60 125 Voldunai / Order of Embers - Revered

Ring Enchants

Pact and Seal are the two new type of ring enchants. Pact enchants give slightly more stat than Seal enchantments, but require more reagents and a higher skill level to learn.

Recipe

Enchanting skill

Rank 3

Rank 1 Rank 2
Seal of Critical Strike 1 35 Tortollan Seekers - Revered
Seal of Haste 1 35 World Quest
Seal of Mastery 1 35 World Quest
Seal of Versatility 1 35 Tortollan Seekers - Revered
Pact of Critical Strike 75 100 The Honorbound / 7th Legion - Revered
Pact of Haste 75 100 Zandalari Empire / Storm's Wake - Revered
Pact of Mastery 75 100 Talanji's Expedition / Proudmoore Admiralty - Revered
Pact of Versatility 75 100 Voldunai / Order of Embers - Revered