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Melee and attack orientated enchants

Attack Power
Under level 35:

(nothing)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Bracer: Assault (Attack Power +24)
Enchant Gloves: Assault (Attack Power +26)
Enchant 2H Weapon: Savagery (Attack Power +70)

Hit rating and Haste
Under level 35:

(Enchant gloves: minor haste (increase melee and ranged haste rating by 10)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Boots - Surefooted (Snare and root resistance +5%, Hit rating +10)
Enchant Weapon: Mongoose (Occasionally increases Agility by 120 and attack speed slightly)

Movement
Under level 35:

(Enchant boots - minor speed (increases running by 8%, does not stack with anything)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Boots - Boar's Speed (minor speed and +9 Stamina)
Enchant Boots - Cat's Grace (minor speed and +6 Agility)
Enchant Boots - Surefooted (Snare and root resistance +5%, Hit rating +10)

Enchantments for Weapons

Striking / Impact
Under level 35:

(Enchant weapon: superior striking (damage +5)
(Enchant 2H weapon: superior impact (damage +9)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Ring: Striking (Damage +2) (NOTE: BoP enchant, only for caster)
Enchant Weapon: Major Striking (Damage +7)

Melee Weapon Spells
Under level 35:

Enchant weapon: lesser beastslayer (+6 vs beasts)
Enchant weapon: lesser elemental Slayer (+6 vs elementals)
Enchant weapon: demonslaying (Procs a 5 second stun and does 75-125 Holy damage to demons)
Enchant weapon: fiery weapon (to often strike for 40 additional fire damage.)

Under level 35 but has reduced effect for players above level 60:

Enchant weapon: Crusader (often when attacking in melee it heals for 75 to 125 and increases Strength by 100 for 15 sec)
Enchant weapon: Icy Chill (often chill the target reducing their movement and attack speed).
Enchant weapon: Lifestealing (often steal life from the enemy and give it to the wielder)
Enchant weapon: Unholy Weapon (often inflict a curse on the target reducing their (effective) melee damage (by 15)

Level 35 or better and meant for Raids:

Enchant Weapon: Battlemaster (occasionaly heal nearby party members of 180 to 300 health when an enemy is struck)

Level 60 or better:

Enchant Weapon: Executioner (occasionally ignore 840 of your enemy's armor).

Enchant Weapon: Deathfrost (your damaging spells and melee weapon hits occasionally inflict an additional 150 Frost damage and reduce the target's melee, ranged, and casting speed by 15% for 8 seconds).
(Procs about 3 times a minute on average).

Protection, Defence, Spell Resistance and related enchants

Armour / Absorbtion
Under level 35:

(Enchant chest: lesser absorption (5% chance per hit of giving you 25 points of damage absorption.)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Cloak - Major Armor (+120 armor)

Block
Under level 35:

(nothing)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Shield - Tough Shield (+18 block)

Defence
Under level 35:

Enchant Bracer: deflection (defence +5)
Enchant Cloak: Superior Defense (+70 armor)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Bracer: Major Defence (+12)
Enchant Chest: Defense (+15)
Enchant Cloak: Steelweave (+12 defence)

Dodge
Under level 35:

(nothing)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Cloak: Dodge (+12)

Parry
Under/over level 35:

(nothing, there are no enchants to improve parry, though there are gems for it)

Resistance
Under level 35:

(Enchant cloak: greater fire Resistance (+15)
(Enchant cloak: greater nature Resistance (+15)
(Enchant cloak:- greater resistance (increase resistance to all magic schools by 5)
(Enchant cloak:- lesser shadow resistance (+10)
(Strangely, there is no lesser, nor greater frost resistance enchantmen for cloaks)
(Enchant shield: frost resistance (+8)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Cloak: Greater Arcane Resistance (+15)
Enchant Cloak: Greater Fire Resistance (+15) (as above)
(Greater Frost resistance does not exist, strangely)
Enchant Cloak - Greater Nature Resistance (+15) (as above)
Enchant Cloak - Greater Shadow Resistance (+15)
Enchant Cloak - Major Resistance (increase resistance to all magic schools by 7)
Enchant Shield: Resistance (increase resistance to all magic schools by 5)

Stealth
Under level 35:

(nothing)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Cloak: Stealth (unsure of amount, I believe it is by one level, so +5)

Threat
Under level 35:

(nothing)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Gloves: Threat (increase threat from all attacks and spells by 2%)
Enchant Cloak: Subtlety (decrease threat caused by the wearer by 2%)

Resilience (for PvP)
Under level 35:

(nothing)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Chest - Major Resilience (+15)
Enchant Shield - Resilience (+12)

Spell damage, healing and related enchants for casters

Spellpower: spell hit, spell crit and spell damage
Under level 35:

(Enchant gloves: shadow power (increase shadow damage by up to 20) (very rare enchant)
(Enchant gloves: frost power (increase frost damage by up to 20) (very rare enchant)
(Enchant gloves: fire power (increase fire damage by up to 20) (very rare enchant)
(Enchant weapon: spell power (add up to 30 damage and healing to all spells) (very rare enchant)
(Enchant weapon: winter's might (add up to 7 additional frost damage when casting frost spells.)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Bracer: Spellpower (spell damage and healing +15)

Enchant Cloak: Spell Penetration (+20) NOTE: This is only really useful for PvP (Arena and Battlegrounsds)
(recommended): Enchant Cloak: Subtlety (decrease threat caused by the wearer by 2%)

Enchant Gloves: Blasting (+10 spell critical strike rating)
Enchant Gloves: Major Spellpower (increase damage and healing by up to 20)
Enchant Gloves: Spell Strike (+15 spell hit rating)

Enchant Ring: Spellpower (increase spell damage and healing by up to 12). (NOTE: BoP enchant, only for caster)

Enchant Weapon: Major Spellpower (increase spell damage and healing by up to 40)
Enchant Weapon: Soulfrost (add to 54 damage to frost and shadow spells)
Enchant Weapon: Sunfire (add up to 50 damage to fire and arcane spells) (SHOULD be +54 in my opinion)

Level 35 or better and meant for Raids:

Enchant Weapon: Spellsurge (gives a melee Weapon a 3% chance on spellcast to restore 100 mana to all party members over 10 seconds. Requires a level 35 or higher item.)

Level 60 or better:

Enchant Weapon: Deathfrost (occasionally inflict an additional 150 Frost damage and reduce the target's melee, ranged, and casting speed by 15% for 8 seconds.)

Improving your healing power
Under level 35:

Enchant bracer: healing power (healing spells +24, damage spells +8)
Enchant gloves: healing power (increase healing spells by up to 30 and damage spells by up to 10) (very rare enchant)
Enchant weapon: healing power (add up to 55 points to healing spells and up to 19 points to damage spells) (very rare enchant)

Level 35 or better:

Enchant Bracer: Superior Healing (healing spells +30, damage spells +10)

(recommended): Enchant Cloak: Subtlety (decrease threat caused by the wearer by 2%)

Enchant Gloves: Major Healing (increase Healing by 35 and Spell Damage by 12)

Enchant Ring: Healing Power (increase healing spells by up to 20 and damage spells by up to 7)
(NOTE: BoP enchant, only for caster)

Enchant Weapon: Major Healing (add 81 to Healing and 27 to Spell Damage)

Level 35 or better and meant for Raids:

Enchant Weapon: Battlemaster (occasionaly heal nearby party members of 180 to 300 health when an enemy is struck)
Enchant Weapon: Spellsurge (3% chance on spellcast to restore 100 mana to all party members over 10 seconds)

Crafting and other enchants

Under level 35:

Herbalism primary profession
Enchant Gloves: Herbalism (+2)
Enchant Gloves: Advanced Herbalism (+5)
(Of related interest, the enchantment stacks with leather Herbalist's Gloves (an Alliance pattern). Rather annoying that these are leather, but for those than can use them can give you +10 to picking herbs, +25 if you are a Tauren with a pair!


Mining primary profession
Enchant Gloves: Mining (+2)
Enchant Gloves: Advanced Mining (+5)
(Goblin Engineers can make a Goblin Mining Helmet (BoP) for another +5, giving them +10 to mining.)


Skinning primary profession
Enchant Gloves: Skinning (+5)
(Aside a side note, this stacks with Finkle's Skinner, dropped by The Beast, a boss in Blackrock Spire. The dagger equips for +10 to skinning, giving +15 to skinning for the lucky owner.


Fishing secondary profession
Enchant Gloves: Fishing (+2)
(For some utterly unfathomable reason, there is no (+5) for fishing, those other items can boost fishing)


General skill: Riding
Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill (increase mount speed by 2%)
(There is no Advanced riding enchant, nor does this stack with the Riding Crop)


Class skill: Lockpicking
There are no Lockpicking enchantments, which surprises me.
However, Dark Leather Gloves, a leatherworking pattern, can Increases your lockpicking skill slightly. It increases it by +5 (1 level) actually, which I find handy.


Cooking secondary profession
Strangely, I feel, there are no enchantments to boost cooking, nor, as far as I can tell, any equipment or weapons that will. It's like there's a gap, I feel there though be enchants for weapons and/or headwear for this…
I propose: Chef's hat / apron / spatula from the Daily Cooking quest for a +2 or +5 bonus to cooking, and perhaps enchants to match.
Personally, I was always upset that the wand (Cookie's Stirring Rod) and mace (Cookie's Tenderizer) dropped by Cookie in the Deadmines didn't improve cooking. A lost opportunity, I think!.

Level 35 or better:

(None at present)