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WoW Disenchanting Guide

This WoW Disenchanting Guide will help you to level your Enchanting. The Table below shows all the information you need.

Disenchant - "Extracts the magical elementals from good quality (Green) or better weapons or armor. Destroys the weapon or armor in the process."

After you disenchant an item, you'll receive a loot box and you can pick up the items you have created by disenchanting. You receive the Disenchant ability when you acquire enchanting.

The type and quantity of materials produced from disenchanting varies by item type (armor or weapon), item Level and quality. The following general rules can be used:

  • Dusts usually come from green armor (75%) and weapons (20%)
  • Essences usually come from green weapons (75%) and armor (20%)
  • Shards come from blue equipment (97-100%), epic equipment iLevel 55 or less (100%, 2-4x), and rarely from uncommon equipment (3-5%)
  • Crystals come from epic equipment item Level 56+ (100%) and extremely rarely from rare equipment (~0.5%)

Dusts and Essences

Note that there are some items at the 57-60 item range, which are not from the the Burning Crusade expansion, so those items won't give you Arcane Dust nor Lesser Planar Essence. Same goes for 67-70, some items are from the Burning Crusade expansion and not from the Wrath of the Lich King, so you will get Arcane Dust instead of Infinite Dust.

Skill: 1 - Levels 1-10 - (1-3) [Strange Dust] or 1-2 [Lesser Magic Essence]
Skill: 25 - Levels 11-15 - (2-5) [Strange Dust] or 1-2 [Greater Magic Essence]
Skill: 50 - Levels 16-20 - (2-5) [Strange Dust] or 1-2 [Lesser Astral Essence]
Skill: 75 - Levels 21-25 - (1-3) [Soul Dust] or 1-2 [Greater Astral Essence]
Skill: 100 - Levels 26-30 - (2-5) [Soul Dust] or 1-2 [Lesser Mystic Essence]
Skill: 125 - Levels 31-35 - (1-3) [Vision Dust] or 1-2 [Greater Mystic Essence]
Skill: 150 - Levels 36-40 - (2-5) [Vision Dust] or 1-2 [Lesser Nether Essence]
Skill: 175 - Levels 41-45 - (1-3) [Dream Dust] or 1-2 [Greater Nether Essence]
Skill: 200 - Levels 46-50 - (2-5) [Dream Dust] or 1-2 [Lesser Eternal Essence]
Skill: 225 - Levels 51-55 - (1-3) [Illusion Dust] or 1-2 [Greater Eternal Essence]
Skill: 250 - Levels 56-60 - (2-5) [Illusion Dust] or 2-3[Greater Eternal Essence]
Skill: 275 - Levels 57-65 - (1-3) [Arcane Dust] or 1-3 [Lesser Planar Essence]
Skill: 300 - Levels 65-70 - (2-5) or [Arcane Dust] or 1-2 [Greater Planar Essence]
Skill: 325 - Levels 67-74 - (1-3) or [Infinite Dust] or 1-3 [Lesser Cosmic Essence]
Skill: 350 - Levels 73-80 - (2-5) or [Infinite Dust] or 1-2 [Greater Cosmic Essence]

At 350 skill, you will be able to disenchant every blue and green items. However, if you want to disenchant epic items, you will need an Enchanting skill of 375.

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