Tenets of the Silver Hand in WoW Forever: the paladin libram enchanters make

What Tenets of the Silver Hand is

Tenets of the Silver Hand is a libram, the relic slot item only paladins can equip, and it is one of the things World of Warcraft: Forever added to the game. It has no Classic Era record, so there is no old price or old habit to lean on. The client lists it as rare quality, item level 25, with a level 20 requirement. Its one line of effect reads Equip: Increases your damage against Undead by 1%. The flavour text calls it "A pristine copy of the holy tome."

A libram sits in the relic slot, the small slot beside the weapons on the character sheet. The libram is the paladin's kind of relic, which is why the tooltip names Paladin as the only class that can use it. The slot holds one item and carries no armor, so a relic earns its place through its effect alone.

It is the lowest of the seven new librams Forever brings, counted by item level. The others sit far higher: the Libram of Invocation at item level 45 for level 40, and five at item level 65 for level 60, among them the Libram of Economy, the Libram of Law and the Sentinel's Libram. Tenets is the one a paladin can wear while still levelling, which is why people look it up.

What makes it unusual is not the effect but the way it is made. It is not a drop or a quest reward. It is crafted, by an enchanter, and both the item and the formula that teaches it bind when picked up. The rest of this guide follows from that one fact.

Where the formula comes from

The recipe is taught by an item, Formula: Tenets of the Silver Hand, which is also new in Forever and also rare. Vendors sell it for 32s 50c. Players running the AHledger addon have reported two of them so far: Beneris in the Barrens, and Alynsia in Redridge Mountains at Three Corners. That puts one within reach of each faction's levelling path, though the reports say where the formula was seen, not who may buy it, so check the vendor in game before you travel.

• Sold by Beneris in The Barrens · seen 6 times
• Sold by Alynsia in Three Corners, Redridge Mountains · seen 5 times

Two numbers in the client data do not line up, and it is worth knowing both before you spend the silver. The recipe itself sits at Enchanting skill 100: that is where it turns orange in the skill table, with yellow from 140 and grey from 180. The formula, though, says it requires Enchanting 130 to learn. Both numbers are shown here as the game data has them; plan on needing 130 before the vendor will teach you. The Enchanting page lists the recipe with the rest of the profession.

The formula binds when picked up. Nobody can buy it for you, and it will never appear on the auction house. The enchanter who wants to make the libram has to visit the vendor in person.

What the libram takes to make

• Tenets of the Silver Hand · Enchanting 1005 × Scroll of Protection, 2 × Strange Dust, 1 × Greater Magic Essence, 1 × Large Glimmering Shard

One craft takes four reagents:

• 5 Scroll of Protection, a common scroll from the consumables list that any character can use from level 1.
• 2 Strange Dust, a common enchanting material.
• 1 Greater Magic Essence, an uncommon essence.
• 1 Large Glimmering Shard, a rare shard and usually the dearest line on the list.

Three of the four are enchanting materials, the kind an enchanter collects anyway. The scrolls are the odd one out: a consumable rather than a trade good, and five of them per craft is more than most characters carry by accident. The item pages show where players have found them, and the tables below show what each costs today.

What it costs

Because the libram binds on pickup, it has no auction price of its own and never will. What it costs is the sum of its reagents, plus the formula once. Each reagent trades freely, so their medians are the honest measure:

Scroll of Protection

Strange Dust

Greater Magic Essence

Large Glimmering Shard

Add five times the scroll, twice the dust, and one each of the essence and the shard. In a fresh economy the shard and the essence move the most, because every new enchanter needs them at the same time and few players have the gear to disenchant yet. Watch the 7 day column: if it sits well below today's median, the market is settling and waiting a few days is cheaper.

At the other end, a spare libram disenchants into a Small Glimmering Shard, which is worth far less than the shard that went in. There is no profit in making it to break it down.

Who should make it

Put the two bindings together and the audience is narrow: a paladin who is also an enchanter. Nobody else can use the result, and nobody else can make it for a paladin.

• A paladin enchanter, level 20 or more. Make one for yourself once you can learn the formula. A relic slot that is empty is worth filling, and this is the only Forever libram available below level 40.
• An enchanter who is not a paladin. Skip the formula. You cannot hand the libram to anyone, so the formula would only teach you a recipe you can never use, whatever skill points it gives.
• A paladin who is not an enchanter. There is no way to get it short of taking up Enchanting. If you were choosing a profession anyway, the profession comparison sets out what Enchanting earns against the others.

The effect is modest. One percent more damage against Undead matters only where Undead are what you are fighting. It is a small edge for a modest cost, not a reason to plan a character around.

Where the gold is for everyone else

The libram itself never reaches the market, but its reagents do, and that is the part the rest of the server can trade. Every paladin enchanter who wants one needs five scrolls, two dust, an essence and a shard. None of them can buy the finished item, so all of that demand lands on the inputs.

If you disenchant, your Large Glimmering Shards and Greater Magic Essences have a buyer in this crowd on top of the usual enchanting demand. If you find Scrolls of Protection in your loot, list them rather than selling them to a vendor: five per craft is a real number, and the price tables above show where they sell for the most. Check the deals page for your market before you buy the reagents yourself; a fresh economy lists materials below their median every day.

Timing matters for the buyer too. A paladin who levels Enchanting alongside the character may well reach level 20 before Enchanting 130, and then the formula, not the level, is what they wait on. Buying the four reagents early, while you level the skill, spreads the cost and lets you pick the cheap days. The watchlist can follow all four and tell you when one dips below its 7 day median.

For the seller the pattern runs the other way. Demand for these reagents builds as paladins reach Enchanting 130, which in a fresh economy happens in a wave over the first weeks. Holding a few shards and essences into that wave is a reasonable bet; holding a stack of scrolls is a smaller one, because five per craft is the only fixed demand this guide can point to.

The price tables on this page refresh from player scans. Nothing here quotes a fixed price, because in the first weeks after launch the numbers move by the hour.