An Epic Recipe, item level 1, binds when picked up.

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Build history

First seen in build 3.80.2.69874 (Wrath of the Lich King).

Use: Learning
Effect: Blade Ward
Permanently enchant a weapon to sometimes grant Blade Warding when striking an enemy. Blade Warding increases your parry and inflicts damage on your next parry. Lasts 10 sec. Cannot be applied to items higher than level.

Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.

Other versions

Across game versions

In Wrath of the Lich King it is item level 80. In MoP Classic it is item level 75.

Version	Item level	Quality	Binding	Sells for
Retail (Midnight)	1	Epic	Binds when picked up	1g 50s
Wrath of the Lich King	80	Epic	Binds when picked up	1g 50s
MoP Classic	75	Epic	Binds when picked up	1g 50s

Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward Game Data

Teaches

Blade Ward Northrend Enchanting

Using Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward teaches this recipe. The Northrend Enchanting recipe Blade Ward takes 4 Abyss Crystal, 8 Greater Cosmic Essence and 1 Titansteel Bar.

Requirements & Properties

Requires: Northrend Enchanting (75)

Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.

Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward Crafting Costs

What One Craft Returns: Blade Ward

Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward teaches the Northrend Enchanting recipe Blade Ward. At the lowest EU listings, the reagents for one craft cost 408g 24s, and Titansteel Bar is the largest share at 98%.

Reagent	Needed	Lowest listed	Cost
Abyss Crystal	4	1 gold38 silver	5 gold52 silver
Greater Cosmic Essence	8	34 silver	2 gold72 silver
Titansteel Bar	1	400 gold	400 gold
Reagents for one craft			408 gold24 silver

What Else the Reagents Make

Abyss Crystal goes into 18 other recipes across Enchanting and Leatherworking, including Berserking, Tome of Illusions: Northrend, Accuracy and Black Magic.
Greater Cosmic Essence goes into 30 other recipes across Enchanting, Leatherworking and Tailoring, including Tome of Illusions: Northrend, Black Magic, Massacre and Ensorcelled Nerubian Breastplate.
Titansteel Bar goes into 45 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Engineering, Inscription and Enchanting, including Breastplate of the White Knight, Breastplate of the White Knight, Legplates of Painful Death and Mechano-Hog. It is itself made by the recipe Smelt Titansteel.

Prices are the lowest listed prices in the latest EU Auction House snapshot, not sales. Recipes, reagents, yields and skill levels come from the World of Warcraft client build files.

How Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward Compares

Similar Items

The 10 recipes nearest to Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward in required skill among Recipe > Enchanting.

Item	Creates	Required Skill	Lowest Listed Price
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward (this item)		75	Not listed
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Executioner	Executioner	75	Not listed
Formula: Enchant Bracer - Minor Strength	Minor Strength	80	Not listed
Formula: Enchant Bracer - Agility	Agility	65	Not listed
Formula: Enchant Bracer - Major Strength	Major Strength	65	Not listed
Formula: Enchant Bracer - Mighty Intellect	Mighty Intellect	65	Not listed
Formula: Enchant Bracer - Minor Versatility	Minor Versatility	60	Not listed
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Minor Beastslayer	Minor Beastslayer	90	Not listed
Formula: Illusion: Primal Mastery	Illusion: Primal Mastery	50	Not listed
Formula: Illusion: Primal Air	Illusion: Primal Air	50	Not listed
Formula: Illusion: Primal Earth	Illusion: Primal Earth	50	Not listed

Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.

Where Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward Fits

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Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward uses icon file 237018, which 35 other items also use. The 7 closest by item ID:

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