WoW Disenchanting Stats - TheMouseNest/Auctionator GitHub Wiki

I couldn't find this documented anywhere else online, so I'm putting it here in the hope that it will be useful for someone else, after I've finished with it.

What affects drops (WoD/Legion/BfA)?

  1. Expansion
  2. Rarity. Can only disenchant uncommon (green), rare (blue) and epic (purple) items.
  3. NOT inventory slot (head/hand, etc)

How can I detect that from an item link

Using GetItemInfo (docs)

  1. expacID (values docs)
  2. itemRarity (values docs)

Can try using ID blocks to split by expansion by checking the ItemSearchName database and filtering the ExpansionID column https://wow.tools/dbc/?dbc=itemsearchname&build=8.3.0.33369#search= to find them for a given expansion.

Record of drops and drop rates for each expansion

Number in () is the mean drop. If the number is missing we haven't calculated it yet.

Vanilla

  • Strange Dust
  • Light Illusion Dust
  • Illusion Dust
  • Rich Illusion dust
  • Lesser Magic Essence (Combine 3 to create a Greater Magic Essence)
  • Greater Magic Essence
  • Lesser Eternal Essence (Combine 3 to create a Greater Eternal Essence)
  • Greater Eternal Essence
  • Small Brilliant Shard
  • Large Brilliant Shard

Burning Crusade

  • Arcane Dust (unsure which drops this)
  • Greens give lesser (less common) or greater plannar essence
  • Blues give small or large prismatic shards
  • Purples give void crystals.

Wrath of the Lich King

  • Infinite Dust
  • Lesser Cosmic Essence (Combine 3 to create a Greater Cosmic Essence)
  • Greater Cosmic Essence
  • Small Dream Shard (Combine 3 to create a Large Dream Shard)
  • Large Dream Shard
  • Abyss Crystal

Cataclysm

  • Hypnotic Dust
  • Lesser Celestial Essence (Combine 3 to create a Greater Celestial Essence)
  • Greater Celestial Essence
  • Small Heavenly Shard (Combine 3 to create a Heavenly Shard)
  • Heavenly Shard
  • Maelstrom Crystal

Mists of Pandaria

  • Spirit Dust
  • Mysterious Essence
  • Small Ethereal Shard (Combine 3 to create an Ethereal Shard)
  • Ethereal Shard
  • Sha Crystal Fragment (Combine 3 to create a Sha Crystal)
  • Sha Crystal

Warlords of Draenor

  • Greens give Draenic Dust (2.5)
  • Blues give Draenic Dust (8.1) and Luminous Shards (0.1)
  • Purples give a Temporal Crystal (1)
  • Fractured Temporal Crystal (Combine 10 to create a Temporal Crystal)

Legion

  • Greens give Arkhana (5)
  • Blues give a Leylight Shard (1)
  • Purples give a Chaos Crystal (1)

BfA

  • Greens give Gloom Dust (5)
  • Blues give an Umbra Shard (0.731) and sometimes Gloom Dust (0.554)
  • Purples give Veiled Crystals (0.994) and sometimes an Umbra Shard (0.398)

Need to look at factoring the profession tool into the drop rates

Special Thanks

Thanks to Vandiel and Ookami313 on the discord for help putting this together :)

Thanks to WoWHead for putting the stats up on disenchants (and saving the tokens otherwise needed to buy items to test). There isn't any aggregated stats, so you have to aggregate the stats of multiple items to get the overall data.