When you apply a Weapon Enchant in IdleWorlds, you are not enchanting your weapon slot. You are enchanting that specific sword. The enchant becomes bound to the item and travels with it wherever the item goes. If you unequip the sword and switch to a different one, the new sword has no enchant. The original sword — sitting in your inventory or bank — still carries its enchant with the timer still running down. This is a deliberate design decision. Enchants are investments in specific pieces of gear, not generic slot bonuses that float from item to item.
The 7-day duration starts the moment you apply the scroll. After 7 days the enchant expires and the item returns to its base stats. You can re-enchant the same item as many times as you like. Each application resets the timer to a fresh 7 days. The tier of enchant you apply does not need to match the tier of the item — a Copper Weapon Enchant can technically be applied to a Stormglass sword, though that would be a poor use of the much-weaker scroll. In practice, players aim to match or exceed their sword's tier when choosing which scroll to apply.
Weapon Enchants add a flat ATK bonus equal to the scroll tier. A Stormglass Weapon Enchant (tier 17) gives +17 ATK to the bound weapon. A Kingssteel Weapon Enchant (tier 18) gives +18 ATK. These numbers may sound modest compared to the weapon's base attack power, but in the higher zones where ATK thresholds are tight, +17 or +18 ATK can push a loadout from barely meeting the recommended stats to comfortably above them. Ring Enchants follow the same pattern but add XP per task instead of ATK, which makes them especially valuable for players grinding a specific skill.
The market interaction is straightforward but worth understanding. If you list an enchanted item on the market, the enchant is removed before the listing goes live. Enchanted items cannot transfer between players in their enchanted state. This protects the Spellcrafting economy: the scrolls themselves are tradeable, but the buff on a specific item is personal. If you want to sell your sword, sell it clean. If you want the enchant to stay alive, keep the sword and craft or buy a new scroll when the timer runs out.
For Ring Enchants specifically, the XP bonus applies to every task you complete while the enchanted ring is equipped. Zone Control hits, mining loops, dungeon floors, gathering runs — anything that grants XP per action benefits. A Tier 17 Ring Enchant adds 17 XP per task. That may sound small but it compounds across thousands of loops. In a skill like Mining where the loop count is enormous over a long session, a high-tier ring enchant can meaningfully accelerate the leveling curve across every active skill simultaneously.
The practical takeaway: decide which sword and which ring you are committing to for the next week before applying an enchant. If you are about to upgrade your weapon anyway, wait until you have the new sword equipped. If you are happy with your current loadout and just want to extend the enchant on an existing piece, apply the scroll and get a clean 7-day window. The 7-day duration is generous enough that responsible reapplication can keep your loadout permanently enchanted without heavy material cost.