Enchanting Guide for Dragonflight

Enchanting in Dragonflight

Enchanting, as usual, will be in charge of disenchanting goods into dust and shards and using those to generate enchants that boost gear stats. They may also craft their own Profession Tool, as well as Wands and cosmetic items.

There are many new enchants, including enchants for Profession Tools, such as  Enchant Tool – Draconic Inspiration. You will still be doing these on  Enchanting Vellum bought from vendors in order to convert them into auctionable items.

Dragonflight offers Crafting Specializations, which you can acquire whenever your career skill reaches level 25. These serve as a vocational skill tree system that is powered by Enchanting Knowledge, which may be gained through weekly tasks, one-time treasures in the Dragon Isles, Draconic Treatises, and first-time crafts.

While you will ultimately be able to unlock all abilities, it will take a long time because knowledge sources are extremely restricted, especially if one-time prizes and first-crafts are spent. 

Best Race for Enchanting in Dragonflight

If you are a Horde player, Blood Elf will grant you +5 skill points, while Alliance players can be Kul’Tiran for +2 skill points.

Crafting UI in Dragonflight

Dragonflight introduces a few new concepts to professions, which can be seen in the annotated Crafting UI screenshot below:

• Most crafting reagents will now have detailed descriptions on how they can be obtained, such as their profession source;
• Quality, depicted by the number of diamonds on the top left corner of most profession items, is a measure of how proficiently the item was made, and how powerful it is. On crafted gear, this translates to extra item levels, while crafting reagents with higher quality contribute some skill towards any craft they are used on;
• Doing the First Craft of an item (as indicated in the UI) grants some  Artisan’s Mettle and one profession knowledge point, as well as significant experience, making it worthwhile to craft every item at least once;
• Crafting Specializations, the second option in the bottom tabs, are a new system which allows you to spend profession knowledge points for various talent-like bonuses to your crafting abilities;
• Crafting Orders, the last option in the bottom tabs, allows you to manage your orders, a new system which allows you to craft gear which requires bind on pickup materials for other players, as long as they provide these materials. You can also recraft equipment, in order to change its optional reagents and quality.

Crafting Stats for Enchanting in Dragonflight

Recipe Difficulty denotes the amount of professional ability required to create the chosen recipe to its utmost grade potential. It begins with your base profession skill and may be enhanced through profession gear, specialty bonuses, the grade of resources used to make, and other unique items.

Under the recipe stats, the Expected Quality bar indicates the quality outcome of making the item under present conditions.

There are four new stats for crafting professions, which can show up on your crafting gear:

• Multicraft provides a baseline (increasable by talents) chance to craft 1 to 2.5 times more items than the usual items a craft produces. A Multicraft proc on a craft that produces 2 items will grant between 1 and 5 extra items, for example. This stat is not used in any relevant Enchanting crafts.;
• Resourcefulness provides a chance to use fewer tradeable crafting reagents when crafting;
• Inspiration provides a baseline (increasable by talents) chance to craft a recipe with bonus skill (33% of Recipe Difficulty for crafts with 3 levels of quality, 16.7% for crafts with 5 levels of quality) added on;
• Crafting Speed increases your craft speed, allowing you to finish your crafts faster.

These stats, when activated, will show up on your Crafting Results panel, as displayed below:

For Enchanting, you should prioritize Inspiration and Resourcefulness to enable large crafts at a lower cost, however Crafting Speed is still an option if you plan on mass-producing enchants for auctioning.

Leveling Enchanting in Dragonflight

In Dragonflight, you can level up by manufacturing things that earn skill points, but the goal of the profession is finding Enchanting Knowledge and applying it to unlock Enchanting Specializations.

Some crafts require special bind on pickup reagents, such as  Artisan’s Mettle or  Spark of Ingenuity. These reagents are heavily time gated in how they can be obtained, and thus caution should be used on what you use them for, especially early on.

We recommend attempting to obtain as many first-craft bonuses as possible while leveling Enchanting, however the precise things to strive for during leveling depend on your server’s material prices and current retail price for anything you are creating. 

Best Enchanting Gear

Enchanters, like most other professions, can use three pieces of gear:

•  Chromatic Focus and  Resonant Focus, made by Jewelcrafters;
•  Wildercloth Enchanter’s Hat and  Master’s Wildercloth Enchanter’s Hat, made by Tailors;
•  Runed Serevite Rod,  Runed Draconium Rod, and  Runed Khaz’gorite Rod, made by Enchanters.

Quality is a key impact in the metrics you may acquire from the gear, as demonstrated in the graphic above. Green variants are bound on equip and from trainer recipes, however blue versions need faction / renown grinding for their recipe and are bind on pickup, necessitating the submission of a Crafting Order.

Also, remember to enchant your primary tool with  Enchant Tool – Draconic Inspiration or  Enchant Tool – Draconic Resourcefulness.

Crafting Orders

To establish a crafting order, just go to the NPC responsible for them in the capital city and access the auction-house-like interface. Enter a portion of the item’s name in the search field and choose the specific item from the list that appears, resulting in the following interface:

You can choose between a Public Order, which requires you to supply all materials but should result in a very quick craft (as long as the gold Commission for the crafter is reasonable) because the entire server will be able to do your order, and a Personal Order, which requires you to specify a character who will then receive this order in their profession crafting log:

You cannot select the quality of the created item while placing a public order. This implies that, regardless of your commission, an untrained crafter is quite likely to pick up the order and manufacture a low-quality item, which would nevertheless offer skill points without requiring materials from the crafter, making it useful even at a 1s commission.

You may define a minimum quality for private orders, and you can always send them to your own alts or trustworthy people, who will then be able to contribute part, or even all, of the crafting materials necessary. This should be the preferred way for all except the most simple crafts, but make sure to talk to the craftsman first and/or place a very big commission, since else your order is likely to be ignored rather than completed.

Recrafting

All professions that make gear may conduct Recrafting, which involves taking an existing item and crafting it from scratch in the hopes of producing a higher quality product with a fraction of the original materials:

The goal of recrafting is to allow you to construct equip improvements as quickly as possible, knowing that you may upgrade the item for much cheaper afterwards. Take notice that if you use poor quality resources to make the initial item, future recrafts of the item will not acquire as much quality as would be expected from using maximum quality components in the recrafting!

While the specific math behind it is still unknown, think of it as having the recraft employ all previously used materials rather than just the freshly provided components.

You may also utilize the work order system to request recrafting, which allows you to recraft goods for which you do not have the profession:

Best Enchanting Specializations and Talents in Dragonflight

Enchanting Specializations are separated into three disciplines, each of which has several sub-specializations that may be unlocked by putting points into their pre-requisite disciplines, similar to talent trees.

The appropriate specialty for you is determined by your goals: are you aiming to increase your loot tables and disenchant anything you come across as efficiently as possible, create fantastic tools and wands, make the greatest enchants on the server, or simply have fun with illusions? We will make recommendations for how to achieve each of these objectives below: 

Best Enchanting Talents for Disenchanting and looting Rousing Elements

1. 10 points into Insight of the Blue for pathing;
2. 40 points into Draconic Disenchantment for added efficiency when disenchanting items;
3. 25 points into Insight of the Blue for further pathing;
4. 40 points into Primal Extraction to unlock the most efficient skill gains possible for these crafts;
5. 15 points into Insight of the Blue for maxing out your chance of looting Mystic items;

Taking these skills allows Mystic goods to drop from foes and treasures in the Dragon Isles, making your ordinary gameplay more profitable by default. The ability to improve at disenchanting goods with Draconic Disenchantment and farming Rousing components with Primal Extraction is the frosting on the cake, making both abilities ideal for passive gold generation. 

Best Enchanting Talents for Wand and Rod Crafting

1. 10 points into Rods, Runes, and Ruses for pathing;
2. 45 points into Rods and Wands for more skill, recipes, and efficiency when crafting rods and wands;
3. 10 points into Rods, Runes, and Ruses for further pathing;
4. 30 points into Inspired Devotion for more Inspiration with your gear crafts;
5. 10 points into Rods, Runes, and Ruses for further pathing;
6. 30 points into Resourceful Writ for more Resourcefulness with your gear crafts.

Following this route will aid you the most when it comes to making the greatest Torch of Primal Awakening or Runed Khaz’gorite Rod, and after you’re done with yours, you may start completing Crafting Orders for Enchanters focusing on other pathways.

Best Enchanting Talents for Armor and Tool Enchant Mass-Production

1. 10 points into Enchantment for pathing;
2. 10 points into Material Manipulation for pathing toward armor and tool enchant nodes;
3. 30 points into Magical Reinforcement, Artistry, or Adaptive for added efficiency when crafting the enchants they focus on;
4. 15 points into Material Manipulation for further pathing;
5. 30 points into your second choice from Magical Reinforcement, Artistry, or Adaptive;
6. 15 points into Material Manipulation for further pathing;
7. 30 points into your final choice from Magical Reinforcement, Artistry, or Adaptive;
8. 20 points into Enchantment for added efficiency.

If you want to focus on enchants that affect armor, such as  Enchant Bracer – Devotion of Avoidance and tools, such as  Enchant Tool – Draconic Inspiration, these talents are the ones that boost efficiency of such crafts the most, and also teach some of the recipes.

Best Enchanting Talents for Weapon Enchant Mass-Production

1. 10 points into Enchantment for pathing;
2. Learn Primal (no knowledge point investment required) for pathing toward weapon enchant nodes;
3. 10 points into Burning, Earthen, Sophic, Frozen, or Wafting for added efficiency when crafting the enchants they focus on;
4. 10 points into Primal for pathing;
5. Pick another category of weapon enchant to focus on, followed by another investment into Primal, and repeat until you have all the weapon enchants you care about;
6. Finish maxing out Primal for skill and efficiency gains when crafting weapon enchants;
7. 20 points into Enchantment for added efficiency.

If you want to focus on enchants that affect weapons, such as  Enchant Weapon – Burning Devotion, these talents are the ones that boost efficiency of such crafts the most, and also teach the high end recipes.

Best Enchanting Talents for Illusion Crafting

1. 10 points into Rods, Runes, and Ruses for pathing;
2. 30 points into Illusory Goods for more skill, recipes, and efficiency when crafting illusion items;
3. 10 points into Rods, Runes, and Ruses for further pathing;
4. 30 points into Inspired Devotion for more Inspiration with your gear crafts;
5. 10 points into Rods, Runes, and Ruses for further pathing;
6. 30 points into Resourceful Writ for more Resourcefulness with your gear crafts.

Illusion specialty creates fun cosmetic effects such as  Illusory Adornment: Air, which will create a glowing effect of the color of the element you enchant yourself with, but only lasts for a few minutes.

You will also learn how to create  Khadgar’s Disenchanting Rod which has an interesting effect when used on a “willing” party member.

Making Gold with Enchanting in Dragonflight

Enchanting, in theory, lets you to turn inexpensive materials or undesired gear into pricey enchants, wands, rods, and other items. Enchants, due to their commodity nature, are extremely likely to flood the market with enchants that are just moderately more expensive than the ingredients required to generate them.

Making gold with Crafting Orders while selling endgame gear is very dependant on your server, how many (and how generous) clients you can obtain for your products, and timing the public Crafting Order market. The finest gold from orders should be obtained around the middle to late portion of the week, since many crafters will have already spent their weekly public crafting order limit, but the rush to spend what is left of the quota before the weekly reset has not yet set in.

Doing orders immediately before popular raid hours might also be a wonderful goldmaking opportunity, as slackers would want their sparkling new gear produced as soon as possible at whatever cost, increasing their commission to assure completion speed.

When mass-producing and selling enchants, most of your profits will come from timing the market in two steps:

1. Figure out your server’s raid days. Wednesday, Sunday, and Tuesday are the typical candidates. On these days it will be easier to sell consumables for higher prices. To make sure, track the worth of your crafts over time in your server with The Undermine Journal website, and sell during high price periods.
2. Before leaving the website, search for the materials used in the crafts. Take note of when they are cheapest, and aim to buy during these periods.

Although it may appear straightforward, most players lack the patience or understanding to capitalize on market timing, and doing it successfully is where your long-term reward will come from. Buying resources to make and selling the crafts at random might result in a loss of money if you purchase high and sell cheap, so spend some time to learn about the market before diving in!