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Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing
Item Level 1Recipe
Use: Learning
Effect: Lifestealing
“Teaches you how to perform the Lifestealing enchantment.”
Sell price: 75 silver
Current price
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Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing Price History
Realm Auction HouseSupply & Availability
Not currently listedWe track this item - no active Auction House listings in the latest scan. Prices appear here as soon as one is posted (scans run every 15 minutes).
On Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing's most active realm, the lowest Auction House listing has typically been around 380 gold over the last 30 days, ranging from 80 gold24 silver to 25,000 gold, a wide spread for a 30-day window.
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing Effects
- Use: Learning
- Effect: Lifestealing
Permanently enchant a melee weapon to often steal life from the enemy and give it to the wielder. Has a reduced effect for players above level. Cannot be applied to items higher than level.
Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.
Teaches
Using Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing teaches this recipe. The Classic Enchanting recipe Lifestealing takes 4 Large Brilliant Shard, 4 Essence of Undeath and 4 Living Essence.
Requirements & Properties
- Requires
- Classic Enchanting (300)
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
What One Craft Returns: Lifestealing
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing teaches the Classic Enchanting recipe Lifestealing. At the lowest EU listings, the reagents for one craft cost 396g 96s, and Essence of Undeath is the largest share at 90%.
| Reagent | Needed | Lowest listed | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Large Brilliant Shard | 4 | 25 silver | 1 gold |
 Essence of Undeath | 4 | 89 gold | 356 gold |
 Living Essence | 4 | 9 gold99 silver | 39 gold96 silver |
| Reagents for one craft | 396 gold96 silver | ||
What Else the Reagents Make
- Large Brilliant Shard goes into 44 other recipes across Enchanting, Blacksmithing, Tailoring, Inscription and Jewelcrafting, including Stormwatcher, Darkmaster's Mystical Brazier, Shroud of Forbidden Magic and Blade of the Fallen Seraph.
- Essence of Undeath goes into 46 other recipes across Blacksmithing, Tailoring, Jewelcrafting, Inscription, Engineering, Enchanting, Leatherworking, Alchemy and Cooking, including Shroud of Forbidden Magic, Death's Gamble, Frostwyrm's Frigid Stare and Frostwyrm's Icy Gaze. It is itself made by the recipe Transmute: Water to Undeath.
- Living Essence goes into 36 other recipes across Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, Tailoring, Engineering, Jewelcrafting and Alchemy, including Force Reactive Disk, Living Breastplate, Bleakwood Hew and Heavy Timbermaw Boots. It is itself made by the recipe Transmute: Earth to Life.
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.
Similar Items
The 10 recipes nearest to Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing in required skill among Recipe > Enchanting, all from Classic like Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing.
| Item | Creates | Required Skill | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing (this item) | Lifestealing | 300 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant Weapon - Spellpower | Spellpower | 300 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant Weapon - Healing Power | Healing Power | 300 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant 2H Weapon - Major Intellect | Major Intellect | 300 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant Weapon - Superior Striking | Superior Striking | 300 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant Bracer - Superior Stamina | Superior Stamina | 300 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant 2H Weapon - Major Versatility | Major Versatility | 300 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant 2H Weapon - Superior Impact | Superior Impact | 295 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant Weapon - Unholy | Unholy Weapon | 295 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant Weapon - Icy Chill | Icy Chill | 285 | Not listed |
| Formula: Enchant Boots - Versatility | Versatility | 275 | Not listed |
Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing is in the Classic Era game data, the era World of Warcraft: Forever is built on. Blizzard describes Forever as vanilla World of Warcraft plussed up: its story sits in year one, characters level to 60 and stay there, and it launches November 4, 2026. Blizzard has not said which vanilla items appear in Forever, so nothing here is a Forever claim; it is the Classic Era record for Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing next to the live retail market on this page.
- Is Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing is a Classic Era item and Forever is built on vanilla World of Warcraft with its story set in year one and a level 60 cap, so this page tracks it. Forever launches November 4, 2026.
- What level is Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing is Rare quality, item level 62 with no level requirement.
- What does Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing sell for to a vendor in Classic?
- A vendor pays 75s for one Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing in Classic Era.
Read next: World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4 · Forever's Professions, Legacy, Camping and Honor changes · Classic Era page for Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing
WoW Forever: what our data shows
- Sighted in the WoW Forever beta client
- Build 1.60.1.70245, read from the beta game data we hold
- Also in the Classic Era client
- Yes - this item is in the Classic Era client's data too
A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4