

Do other enchanted items glow; such as shields, bracers, cloaks, etc?

Although quite a few non-enchanted items have their own, dedicated glow, as of the current patch only enchanted weapons give off a glow you have control over. One can only hope that Blizzard will consider having other enchanted items glow in a future patch and/or expansion.





Fiery is more reddish than Demonslaying which should be orange.

This is incorrect and a common misconception. Having compared the two on numerous different weapons, they are in fact the exact same glow.





This guide is stupid... it's the bonus that matters not the glow.

I find this an amusing comment that I get ALL the time... gotta love hate mail. The funny thing is that I couldn't agree with you more. However, if you've leveled enchanting then you've been asked what color an enchant glows at least once. This guide was created so enchanters could have a reference for the players who ask that very question. I think the answer to those that don't understand why people care about the glow is that many players do indeed care about what their character looks like. Afterall, the game is about having fun, right?





What quality of weapon should I enchant?

That's really up to you. Blue and better quality items will glow and most greens will as well. Gray quality weapons will NOT hold a glow. You will also run into weapons that carry their own glow and may or may not be able to carry the enchanted effect in addition or in replacement of the default glow.





I thought there were low-level weapon enchants that didn't glow?

That was certainly the case until Cataclysm, which added faint glows to the low-level enchants. All weapon enchants glow.





So how long did this guide take to create?

As a web developer by trade, I coined the term "glow chart" and created glowchart.com in February 2006 dedicated to the topic (you'll notice other sites such as wowwiki and wowpedia have also adopted the term "glow chart"). Glowchart.com has been featured on WOW Insider (2006 | 2007), Digg, worldofwarcraft.com and numerous other mainstream sites since its conception. I converted the site to a guide on wowhead nearly six years later in August 2011. A big thank you to the developer(s) of wowmodelviewer and fraps which made the videos possible and much nicer (and less time/resource consuming) than had I done them in-game. The original site took well over 100 hours to complete for each version (there were two versions) and because of the videos, I could easily say the same for this guide.





Isn't there a black glow?

There currently is no enchant with a black glow. However, there are a few weapons that carry their own black glow, such as Lord Valthalak's Staff of Command.





How do glows work with transmogrification?

The item you transmogrify will keep the original glow/enchant. You cannot transmogrify enchants (ie-you can't have one enchant transmogrified to look like another... yet).

