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Formula: Enchant Weapon - Potency

Item Level 27
Recipe
Use: Learning
Effect: Potency
“Teaches you how to perform the Potency enchantment.”
Sell price: 2 gold
Current price 35,000 gold
Verified
All-Time typical 20,692 gold
69% above typicalFlat over 7 days
Alexstrasza Auction House Enchanting
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Formula: Enchant Weapon - Potency Price History on Alexstrasza

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On Formula: Enchant Weapon - Potency's most active realm, the Auction House minimum price has typically sold around 20,692 gold across its tracked history (Sep 2022 to Jun 2026), ranging from 10,819 gold71 silver to 98,983 gold45 silver. Only 1 was available in the latest snapshot.

Adventure Guide

Formula: Enchant Weapon - Potency Effects

  • Use: Learning
  • Effect: Potency

    Permanently enchant a melee weapon to increase Strength by $ec1. Cannot be applied to items higher than level $ecix.

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

Comments

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20342+25via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

That's because it's not an enchanting-only BoP drop like some other enchants are. The drop rates there are listed as very low because of all the non-enchanters killing the mobs, whereas here the .2% is the actual droprate. You're not going to be able to really farm this.

16203-6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I just got this last night. I'm an enchanter, so I'm not gonna sell it. My problem is that I really don't sell enchants much. Just do it to help guildies and friends. I don't see this often in the enchant spams, so I'm thinking I can make some decent money selling this enchant. How much do you think I could sell this enchant for? I've never played a melee char, so i don't have a good way to gauge how useful an enchant this. The green glow certainly seems it'll be worth something.

37560-6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

There is a lot of demand for this to be done in my server. This should be quite powerful for a dual-wielding fury warrior with this enchanted on both hands. For two-handed though you would most likely want Savagery, +70 attack power.

32729-6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I had to buy mine off the AH for 300g. It's worth it IMO, as not only does it get my enhancement shaman an extra 80 AP, but it helps my guild as well. Have it on Ilmater on Windrunner server if anyone is in need.

69030-6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I guess I just dont understand why people are paying so much for this. This shouldnt even be BoE. Its pretty much only usable for fury warriors and maybe enhance shammy. I laughed when a guy on our server was asking 2k for it. As an enchanter I get screwed out of tips on a regular basis. I spent a ton of gold on leveling this skill and now people expect me to pay that much for a crappy chant. No thanks.

Sportzplaya4lfe-6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Dropped in Slabs for me, everyone had passed, surprisingly. Bright greenish glow aka neon. Pretty neat. I've sold a few of these enchants for 150+G each, sometimes about 75g just to level enchanting. No one really goes for this enchant on my server though anymore.

134691-6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

was farming +15 spell damage to bracers in blade's edge mountains for a week (annoying.. so annoying). got potency to drop off of a skirmisher (had to kill skirmishers to be able to get geomancers to spawn and drop my spellpower enchant..). talk about lucky, right? ps those of you now interested in farming for +15 sp dmg to bracers.. the mats suck and you don't sell it much.. but if you're one of those collecters like myself you'll probably ignore this and get it anyway, and if so good luck! i've seen the potency formula sold in between 900 and 1100g on the AH

Sportzplaya4lfe+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I'm sure you could sell it for 1,000g. I had found http://wowhead.com/?item=28280#comments and put it up on the Auction House with a 5,000g buyout, I was surprised that it actually sold within minutes for that price. This enchant isn't very common, I've had it drop for me once in an instance where everyone passed, I don't think anyone knew what it was worth though at that time. It's not going to cost you much to put it in the AH and let it sit on the price you want or just curious to see if you can get. Anything can happen, people do get desperate if they want to get every enchant in the gam

153228-1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Got it in Underbog 3 days ago. Since i'm high level enchanter i did consider learning this, but then again i thought maybe i should auction it for a rediculous price. Sold yesterday for [b][u]2300G[/u][/b] in Kilrogg-EU. Halfway to epic flying mount !

125930-6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

ok, im leveling my enchanting atm and its REALLY expensive, im at 350, and all the patterns that i know require ridiculous mats, could someone tell me a recipe to farm for that can help me level my enchanting without spending so much?

Oniah+0via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Enchanting is one of the most expensive professions to level simply because of the average price of the materials involved. I would suggest using Google to search for a WoW enchanting guide (there are many). These guides generally lay out the quickest and easiest way to get to 375, using formulas you may not know about. One of the newer formulas to appear is from the Shattered Sun Offensive - [url=http://www.wowhead.com/?item=35500]Formula: Enchant Chest - Defense[/url]. This will allow you to get from 360 to 375 relatively easily, provided you have the rep (which is easy to obtain).

99433+2via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Are you retarded or just so desperate to correct someone that you dont check the date of the post? Back in 2.4.1, there was no berserking enchant. Seriously, think before you type so i dont need to post at all.

Tontel+4via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

"2h version" translates to "a different enchantment with the same general properties, but improved and restricted to weapons of the two-handed variety." So, I will repeat his rather eloquent question. [quote]Does there exist a 2hand version of this? Or will that be the Savagery enchant?[/quote]

7037+2via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

There was not a 2H version of this during TBC and now the new Greater and Superior Potency enchants are Attack Power rather than strength (sadly) so I would say this and crusader are the only strength related weapon enchants, 2H or otherwise.

203397-5via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Also dropped for me from http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=22323 during dailies. Seems to be an extremely rare drop. At the time I got it, AH price was 1500g buy out. This chant is extremely useful for dual-wield melee classes as you get double the bonus having it on both weapons, as compared to a 2H weapon having it. Savagery would appear to be the closest chant for a 2H. Potency - +20 Str = +44 Atk Pwr @ 70 (x 2 if dual wield = +40 Str / 80 Atk Pwr) Savagery - +70 Atk Pwr 2H

dustdog+0via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Best is a little over the top considering no enchants that are suitable for a tanks weapon are particularly stellar; blood draining or blade ward would probably trump this overall. A small amount of threat and mitigation it provides yes; whether it trumps 26 agi or anything else is subjective depending on what you need.

Dragnis-6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Well I'm looking to buy this enchant or if I get super lucky get it when I randomly kill a low level creature. I will say this for its "Level" it's a good enchant. Come on +20 str for a twink war or pally at lv 39 that sounds pretty good to me. With anything that have to procs that's the problem it have to proc and there is delay's. Depending on what class you chosen and how many procs you can get like Mongose. After it procs there a 45 sec delay and I mean if it procs. Considering you hardly get any hit bonus at lv 29 or lv 39 and I don't recall seeing much gear with expertise bonus either. Everyone in PvP is stacking up there resilence rate so more damage could be better in PvP, so you can break even on dps like you did before updates lol. Also as they install new update there will be better and better enchants that comes out. One more thing if you duel weld +40 str that a lot for how low of level you use it this enchant at.