Enchanting appealed to me as the path of choice when first I played Warcraft. I had visions of mass producing magical equipment and ruling the servers from my gold laden lair. Anyone who has played as an enchanter will know it doesn’t work out quite like that. The enchanter profession requires more difficult to gain resources than most of the other classes, and is very time consuming. But the rewards…ahh the rewards…

The first thing you need to know as an enchanter is that you will spend a lot of time gathering magical items. You need these to disenchant. Disenchanting is the first step to enchanting. It destroys the magical item, but creates certain reagents needed to enchant new items. This enchanting can take the form of permanently embuing items with inhanced power, or the creation of oils which creates a temporary increase in the items power(although this increase does Buy wow gold  stack with permanent effects, making it quite a powerful ability).

The first step is to get trained by a journeyman to begin your path down the enchanting path. These include Jhag of Ogrimmar, Mot Dawnstrider of Thunder Bluff, Vance undergloom of Tirisfal Glades and malcoomb Wynn of Undercity for the Horde, and if you are playing for the Alliance you need to look for Lalinna Summermoon of Darnassus, Thonyss Pillarstone of Ironforge, Betty Quin of Stormwind or Alana Raveneye of Teldrassil.

These trainers will allow you to create items up to the 75th level of proficiency, though you must be a level 5 character before you see them, and they will take a small fee of copper for your trouble. Once they have done their stuff you will have two new icons in your skills book(Hotkey for this is P). The first item allows disenchanting of magical items, while the second is used to enchant items. You will also have a few basic enchanting recipes to help you get started. You can obtain more advanced recipes as you go.