TBC Classic Enchants Guide

Enchants are permanent stat upgrades applied to gear in The Burning Crusade Classic. This guide covers which slots can be enchanted, where head and shoulder enchants actually come from, and the common best enchant for each slot by role — with the exact per-spec choices linked at the bottom.

Which slots can be enchanted

You can enchant: head, shoulders, back, chest, wrist, hands, legs, feet, weapon, two-handed weapon, shield, and rings (ring enchants can only be applied by an Enchanter to their own rings). Hunters add a scope to ranged weapons. You cannot enchant neck, trinkets, off-hand held items, wands, thrown weapons, or relics.

Head & shoulders come from reputation

These two are not from the Enchanting profession:

• Head — an Arcanum bought from various reputation vendors (the best ones usually at Revered/Exalted).
• Shoulders — an inscription from your chosen faction, Aldor or Scryers; the Greater versions unlock at Exalted.

Legs: leg armor vs spellthread

The leg slot uses a crafted item rather than a profession-locked enchant — anyone can apply them:

• Physical DPS / tanks — leg armor (Nethercobra Leg Armor for DPS, Nethercleft Leg Armor for tanks), from Leatherworking.
• Casters / healers — spellthread (Golden Spellthread, or Runic Spellthread at level 70), from Tailoring.

Browse every enchant

Every recommended TBC enchant below — filter by slot or stat, or switch to Recommended by spec to see the suggested enchant for each slot, for any class and spec. Hover any enchant for its Wowhead tooltip.

The right enchants for your spec

Our per-spec Best in Slot pages list the recommended enchant for every slot, by phase:

• Warrior · Paladin · Hunter · Rogue · Priest
• Shaman · Mage · Warlock · Druid

See also our TBC gems guide.