Enchanting in World of Warcraft
Enchanting improves equipment with permanent magical effects and recovers materials by disenchanting items. Its self-contained material loop makes it compatible with many other professions.
How popular is Enchanting?
Percentages use successfully analyzed public character profiles, not unique players or subscriber counts. A character can have two primary professions, so profession shares do not add up to 100%. Read the methodology.
Enchanting history
Enchanting has existed since World of Warcraft launched. Individual effects, material tiers and equipment slots have evolved, yet the profession has always connected unwanted gear with upgrades through the disenchanting and enchanting cycle.
What Enchanting offers
Enchanters turn suitable equipment into reagents and apply enhancements to gear. This makes the profession useful throughout an expansion, although the strongest demand often follows new seasons, raids and equipment upgrades.
Professions commonly paired with Enchanting
Tailoring is a familiar partner because crafted cloth items can provide disenchanting material without a dedicated gathering profession. Enchanting can also accompany almost any activity or trade that generates surplus equipment.
Popular Enchanting profession pairs
These are the most frequently observed two-profession combinations containing Enchanting in the current global sample.