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Making gold with enchanting is either my 1st or 2nd favourite profession to make gold with because once you have a system in place you’re only spending a few minutes a day and raking in a nice profit.

Most of the scrolls that are popular can be bought directly from Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran making it easy to jump into the enchanting market. Unfortunately this also allows new competitors to rapidly set up a business and you’ll be in undercutting wars. One way to pull in a lot more gold with enchanting is to do a little hard work and find the rare and hard to get enchants that not many new enchanters even know about.

Some members in our private gold making forum shared a list recently of super rare items and it gave me the idea for this post.

In this article I will provide a list of formulas for enchants that aren’t sold by Vanessa Sellers which are popular sellers and therefore command a high price and profit margin.

List of Rare Enchanting Formulas

There are two areas we are going to be focusing on here, the heirloom market and enchants that are BoP from raids.

The heirloom market is huge, while most players wouldn’t bother enchanting items they are leveling up with since gear is replaced so rapidly, heirloom enchants can be placed on an item from level one and stay active till 80. Some of these enchants give HUGE bonuses and therefore players are willing to cough up a lot of gold to get that advantage while leveling.

Unfortunately most of these lucrative heirloom enchants are very rare world drops but blizzard made most of them BoE and are sold via the auction house. This is another opportunity for non-enchanters to make gold as you can add these rare BoE enchants to your snatch list and if someone not knowingly posts it at a low price you can snatch it up and resell on the AH for thousands more.

Heirloom Enchants

1. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Fiery Weapon (BoE)

Source: Drop – Blackrock Depths – Pyromancer Loregrain

Farmable, about a 17% drop rate and you could get this in about 30 minutes of farming.

2. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Icy Chill (BoE)

Source: Drop – Winterspring – Anguished Highborne

Farmable, 4% drop

This enchant may seem like garbage on first glance, who cares about snaring a mob and debuffing it’s attack power but this is highly sought after for Hunters to kite with.

3. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Lifestealing (BoE)

Source: Drop – Scholomance – Spectral Researcher

Farmable, 8% drop

4. Formula: Enchant Chest – Greater Stats (BoE)

Source: World Drop (Outlands)

Not Farmable, this is a really rare enchant and you’ll need to add it to your snatch list and hope you find it for sale.

5. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Crusader (BoE)

Source: Eastern and Western Plaugelands – Scarlet Archmage and Scarlet Spellbinder

Very low drop rate, 1.5% chance. You’re best bet is to find this on the auction house.

6. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Spellpower (BoE)

Source: Molten Core – Random Drop

Very low drop rate, <1% chance from bosses only. Find this on the auction house via snatch list.

7. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Healing Power (BoE)

Source: Molten Core – Random Drop

Very low drop rate, <1% chance from bosses only. Find this on the auction house via snatch list.

It’s only 1 spellpower lower than the above enchant and since they are both super rare you’ll be able to sell for a high price.

8. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Agility (BoP)

Source: Reputation – Timbermaw Hold – Friendly

This would be pretty fast to obtain and it’s a popular enchant, go out and get this one right now.

9. Formula: Enchant 2H Weapon – Agility (BoP)

Same as above, Timbermaw Hold – Friendly Rep

Feral druids and hunters particularly like this enchant.

9. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Strength (BoP)

Source: Reputation – Thorium Brotherhood – Friendly

Another fast reputation to grind since you only need friendly, and a popular enchant.

10. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Mighty Intellect (BoP)

Source: Reputation – Throium Brotherhood – Revered

Will take a while to grind this one, some people on wowhead report being able to grind it out within a day.

11. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Mighty Spirit (BoP)

Source: Reputation – Thorium Brotherhood – Honored

Might as well pick this one up too as you’ll have the rep, Warlocks and Priests prefer spirit.

12. Formula: Enchant Chest – Major Health (BoE)

Source: Vendor – Qia in Winterspring

Easiest enchant on the list to get, go buy it and even pick up a couple extra to flip for profit, I have a list of all vendor items to flip for profit if you’re interested in this gold making method.

Bonus

13. Formula: Enchant Chest – Major Resilience (BoE)

Source: World Drop (Outlands)

Very rare drop, this enchant cannot be put onto heirloom items but any PvP twinks above level 35 will want this enchant for 39,49,59,69 BG’s

High Level Enchants

Another market that has high barriers to entry are enchants dropped from bosses. These enchants cannot be put onto heirloom items but the enchant effect they have is sought after by even level 80′s.

1. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Mongoose (BoP)

Source: Drop – Karazhan – Moroes

A level 75+ DK should be able to solo Moroes, and level 80 classes capable of tanking. Otherwise bring a partner with you and grab this recipe. A great seller and 100% drop rate.

2. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Blade Ward (BoP)

Source: Drop – Ulduar – random boss drop

Everyone I talk to says Ulduar is a raid that no one likes going back to, this will be a pretty hard enchant to procure but is a good seller.

3. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Blood Draining (BoP)

Same as above. Drop – Ulduar – random boss drop

I will be picking up as many of these enchants that I can and I’ll report back on the amount of profit I can get from them. It’s important to look for any edge you can get in your professions as a lot of players won’t spend the extra effort tracking down recipes or grinding rep which equals much higher profits for those who do the hard work.

Good luck with getting these recipes, make sure you add the BoE ones to your snatch list and buy them up at a reasonable price, or flip them if you aren’t an enchanter. If you know of any other enchants not included in the list I’d appreciate if you shared it in the comments below so I can add it in.