Enchanting is the practice of creating a magic item, either adding an enchantment to an existing item or creating one from scratch with an enchantment built into it. See the or Magic Items pages for a complete list of the items you can craft via Enchanting.

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PLEASE NOTE: There is no mechanical difference between “crafting a magic item” and “adding an enchantment to an item.” Being an Enchanter lets you both craft magic items from base materials and add enchantments to an unenchanted item. Which your character does is up to you and the circumstances you find yourself in. If you’re given a sword and paid to enchant it, then you’re adding the enchantment to the sword; if you’re given a pile of metal and magical resources and asked to make an enchanted suit of armor, you craft the armor itself along with building the enchantment into it. There is no mechanical difference between the two processes.

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How To Enchant An Item

If you wish to craft an item, you need three things:

• Knowledge of the item’s formula, or how to craft or enchant it.
• The resources necessary to craft the enchantment.
• Time, whether the extended period of Downtime between events or a full night of frenzied crafting spurred on by a ritual.

Formulae are learned via the Enchanter, Enchanting Training, and Master Enchanter abilities. Enchanter teaches your character all of the Apprentice-level formulae, every level of Enchanting Training teaches you all of the non-Master-level formulae contained in one formulae list of your choice, and Master Enchanter teaches you all of the Master-level formulae contained in the formulae lists you’ve learned via Enchanting Training.

The resources necessary to craft an item are listed in its entry, and usually consist of some combination of Mine and Forest resources, though Aether Crystals and Herbs are sometimes required as well.

The time required to craft an item is normally one third of the time between events, i.e. you can craft up to 3 items during a single Round of Downtime.

There is an exception to the Downtime requirement for crafting, in that some things can allow your character to rapidly enchant an item overnight in a fugue state of creativity and magic. During each Confluence, while an Enchanter is in Veilguard they can craft one item overnight. This effect can also be achieved via the O-Del’s Ironbound Focus and Anvil, Forge, And Grindstone rituals, which allow an Enchanter to craft items overnight, either in addition to the one they can craft thanks to Veilguard’s magics or when they are outside of Veilguard in Mundus.

These are the steps you need to go through to craft an item:

1. Ensure you have the required ingredients for the item you wish to craft in your possession or that of someone who is accompanying you.
2. Go to Wheelhouse (and specifically the Crafting Tent, if there is one) and fill out a request form (listing your Character ID#, which item or items you wish to craft, and the Character ID# of the person who you wish to receive the item(s), if it isn’t yourself).
3. Present the form to whoever’s manning the Wheelhouse desk, along with all of the ingredients needed to craft what you’ve requested.
4. If everything’s in order, Wheelhouse will log that you are crafting the item(s) you’ve requested, and they will be in the welcome packet of the person you designated at the start of the next event.
5. If you wish to craft an item overnight, whether using Veilguard’s magics or a ritual, go to Wheelhouse and fill out the form as usual, but tick the “Overnight Crafting” box and notify the Wheelhouse staff that you’re doing so. Once the request has been logged, you can return to Wheelhouse the next morning to pick up the card for your new enchanted item.

Enchanted Item Durability

Enchanted items do not last forever; in fact, they only tend to last a few years. Whenever you craft an enchanted item, it will have four (4) events’ worth of charge in it. At the end of the fourth event, it loses its power and becomes a mundane version of the item. Another enchantment can be applied to it at that point, but the old enchantment is gone.

The only way to intentionally make an enchanted item permanent is to use Orichalcum in its construction. Some particularly spectacular or holy feats may imbue an item with power, causing its enchantment to last much longer than usual, but these instances are incredibly rare and totally unpredictable. Items with permanent enchantments are referred to as Artifacts.

Disenchanting

Enchanters can break down enchanted items, recovering some of the resources that were used to make them. You can only Disenchant an item if you know its crafting formula (you do not need to be the person who actually crafted that specific item, however). Once you have Disenchanted an item its Enchantment is gone forever.