WRITTEN ARTICLE · ENCHANTING AND LEVELING COSTS
WoW Forever Enchanting wand nerf: vendor prices and leveling
Crafted common and uncommon wands now sell to vendors for 1 copper. See what changes for Enchanting, early caster weapons and your leveling budget.
Why does my crafted wand only sell for 1 copper?
Blizzard’s October 1 notes set the vendor value of all crafted common and uncommon wands to one copper. This changes the return from crafting a wand and selling it to an NPC.
It does not set the price another player will pay. A vendor sale and an Auction House sale are different decisions, and old vendor-flipping advice needs to be recalculated.
In this article
Game data and icon © Blizzard Entertainment. Database tooltip via Wowhead.
Which early crafted wands should casters check?
Wowhead’s current report lists these four examples. Match the required level to your character, then compare the tooltip with your equipped wand before buying ingredients or a finished weapon.
| Wand | Required character level | Listed weapon DPS |
|---|---|---|
| Lesser Magic Wand | 5 | 11.33 |
| Greater Magic Wand | 13 | 17.50 |
| Lesser Mystic Wand | 26 | 25.38 |
| Greater Mystic Wand | 30 | 29.00 |
Should you still craft wands to level Enchanting?
Craft for a purpose. A wand you will equip, give to a friend or use to gain profession skill can still have value to you. A pile made only for its former vendor return is a different proposition.
Treat gathered or disenchanted materials as having a cost too. Using them in a wand means you cannot keep them for another recipe or sell those same materials. Compare the alternatives before clicking Create All.
| Your goal | A useful decision rule |
|---|---|
| Equip the wand | Compare the finished item price with the cost of crafting it. |
| Gain profession skill | Check your current skill and recipe difficulty, then make a small batch. |
| Sell to players | Check recent actual sales if available. Listings alone do not prove demand. |
| Sell to an NPC | Subtract every material cost from the new one-copper return. |
- Illustrative calculation: if one craft costs 40 copper in total, a one-copper vendor sale loses 39 copper. Your actual recipe costs may differ.
Keep the craft from swallowing your questing budget
Decide how much you want to spend before buying materials. Leave enough for training, repairs and supplies, then stop crafting when you reach the skill or item you wanted.
Keep only the next recipe’s materials on your shopping list. The game’s profession tracker can help with that. Wisp’s free beta supplies quest steps and navigation for supported starting routes, while profession-guide integration remains in development.
Related reading and guides
Sources and review notes
- Blizzard: October 1 beta development notes
- Wowhead: crafted wand vendor prices reduced
- Forever database: Lesser Magic Wand
Checked October 2 against Blizzard’s October 1 notes, Wowhead’s current wand report and the Lesser Magic Wand item entry. The cost example is illustrative, not a claim about live market prices.
