Prospector's Mitts

What is Prospector's Mitts?

Prospector's Mitts is an uncommon leather hands armor piece in World of Warcraft: Forever. Sold by vendors for 15s 23c.

Where do you buy Prospector's Mitts?

Vendors sell it for 15s 23c and buy it back for 3s 4c. It can also be listed on the auction house, and the vendors and zones players have seen it at are listed on this page as they are reported.

How much does Prospector's Mitts cost on the auction house?

About 5s at the median on Normal Horde US, from the scan at 2026-10-23 16:18 UTC. Across the 3 Forever markets with a price it runs from 5s on Normal Horde US to 2g on Normal Alliance US.

Is Prospector's Mitts different in Forever than in Classic Era?

No. Forever keeps the same item level, requirements, and vendor prices as Classic Era.

Unchanged from Classic Era: Prospector's Mitts keeps the same item level, requirements, and vendor prices in Forever.

Era values from Blizzard's Game Data API; Forever values from Forever's game data.

Class

Armor

Subclass

Leather

Quality

uncommon

Slot

Hand

Item level

19

Requires level

14

Vendor sell

3s 4c

Vendor buy

15s 23c

Blizzard item id

14564

How to make gold at level 10 to 20

• Vendors sell it for 15s 23c and buy it back for 3s 4c. That is the ceiling for an auction price while vendors stock it.
• Dropped by
  • creature 3637 in Wailing Caverns (Screaming Gully)5% of 62 looted
  • Stormscale Myrmidon in Darkshore (Ruins of Mathystra)2% of 82 looted
  • Encrusted Tide Crawler in Darkshore (Cliffspring River)3% of 34 looted
  • creature 3393seen 1 time
  • creature 3636 in Wailing Caverns (Screaming Gully)1% of 76 looted
  and 2 more, each on its creature page.
• Farm it or buy it. The best reported spot is creature 3637 in Wailing Caverns (Screaming Gully) at 5% of 62 loot windows.
• Sources are what 3 players running the addon saw in game, summed across everyone who contributes; a rate needs at least twenty loot windows.
• Disenchants into Strange Dust, Greater Magic Essence, Small Glimmering Shard, worth about 22s 76c on Normal Horde US today. Odds below.

Seen inside Wailing Caverns, Excavation Site: Wetlands.

• Darkshore
• The Barrens
• Kalimdor

• Strange Dust75% of the time · 2 to 3no price yet
• Greater Magic Essence20% of the time · 1 to 275s 87c
• Small Glimmering Shard5% of the timeno price yet

Expected value 22s 76c per disenchant at Normal Horde US medians, counting only the priced materials. That is above the item's own median of 5s, so an enchanter can buy it to shard.

Vanilla disenchant tables by quality and item level; the same estimate the addon shows in tooltips.