Where do you buy Stock Shortsword?

Vendors sell it for 25s 7c and buy it back for 5s 1c. 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.

What are the stats on Stock Shortsword?

7 to 14 damage at 1.80 speed, 5.8 DPS.

How much does Stock Shortsword cost on the auction house?

About 6s at the median on PvP Horde CN, from the scan at 2026-11-09 08:49 UTC. Across the 17 Forever markets with a price it runs from 6s on Normal Alliance US to 8s on RP PvP Alliance EU.

Is Stock Shortsword different in Forever than in Classic Era?

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

Stock Shortsword

Poor-quality sword main-hand weapon · item level 19 · requires 14 · id 1817

PvP Horde CNscanned 9 min ago

Unchanged from Classic Era in World of Warcraft: Forever (build 1.60.1.70862): same item level, requirements, quality and vendor price. Every item changed from Classic Era.

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Price history · 30d · PvP Horde CN

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Price history · 7d · PvP Horde CN

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Across markets

Cheapest on Normal Alliance US at 6s; deepest supply on Normal Alliance US with 54 listed. Buying at 6s on RP Horde EU and selling at the RP Alliance EU median of 8s through the neutral house leaves +80c a unit after its 15 percent cut.

Market	Min buyout	Median	Units	30d median
Normal Alliance US	6s	6s	54	6s 31c
Normal Horde US	6s	6s	38	6s 3c
PvP Alliance US	6s	6s	37	6s 32c
PvP Horde US	6s	6s	30	6s
RP Alliance US	8s	8s	6	8s 96c
RP Horde US	8s	8s	1	8s
Normal Alliance EU	6s	6s	31	6s 14c
Normal Horde EU	6s	6s	23	6s
PvP Alliance EU	6s	6s	28	6s
PvP Horde EU	6s	6s	32	6s 10c
RP Alliance EU	8s	8s	1	8s
RP Horde EU	6s	6s	2	7s 67c
Normal Alliance CN	8s	8s	2	8s
Normal Horde CN	6s	6s	10	6s 62c
PvP Horde CN	6s	6s	11	6s
RP PvP Horde US	8s	8s	2	8s
RP PvP Alliance EU	8s	8s	4	8s

About Stock Shortsword

Stock Shortsword is a poor-quality sword main-hand weapon in World of Warcraft: Forever. It has item level 19 and requires character level 14. It hits for 7 to 14 at 1.80 speed (5.8 damage per second). Sold by vendors for 25s 7c, who buy it back for 5s 1c.

Quick answers

What is Stock Shortsword?: Stock Shortsword is a poor-quality sword main-hand weapon in World of Warcraft: Forever. Sold by vendors for 25s 7c.
Where do you buy Stock Shortsword?: Vendors sell it for 25s 7c and buy it back for 5s 1c. 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.
What are the stats on Stock Shortsword?: 7 to 14 damage at 1.80 speed, 5.8 DPS.
How much does Stock Shortsword cost on the auction house?: About 6s at the median on PvP Horde CN, from the scan at 2026-11-09 08:49 UTC. Across the 17 Forever markets with a price it runs from 6s on Normal Alliance US to 8s on RP PvP Alliance EU.
Is Stock Shortsword different in Forever than in Classic Era?: No. Forever keeps the same item level, requirements, and vendor prices as Classic Era.

Classic Era vs Forever

Unchanged from Classic Era: Stock Shortsword keeps the same item level, requirements, stats, and vendor prices in Forever.

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

Details

Class: Weapon
Subclass: Sword
Quality: poor
Slot: Main Hand
Item level: 19
Requires level: 14
Vendor sell: 5s 1c
Vendor buy: 25s 7c
Blizzard item id: 1817
Client build: 1.60.1 (build 70862)

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Where it comes from

Vendors sell it for 25s 7c and buy it back for 5s 1c. That is the ceiling for an auction price while vendors stock it.
Dropped by
- creature 3840 in Wailing Caverns (Pit of Fangs)1% of 1,306 looted
- creature 250618 in Ruins of Lordaeron (Lordamere Overlook)1% of 644 looted
- Grimtotem Sorcerer in Stonetalon Mountains (Grimtotem Post)3% of 199 looted
- Redridge Basher in Redridge Mountains (Redridge Canyons)2% of 246 looted
- creature 5763 in Wailing Caverns (Dreamer's Rock)1% of 282 looted
and 32 more, each on its creature page.
Found in Large Battered Chest in Wailing Caverns (Pit of Fangs) (3% of 118 looted), Battered Chest in Darkshore (Ruins of Mathystra) (9% of 23 looted), Battered Chest in Redridge Mountains (Three Corners) (2% of 57 looted).
Farm it or buy it. The best reported spot is creature 3947 in Deadmines (Ironclad Cove) at 4% of 101 loot windows.
Sources are what 9 players running the addon saw in game, summed across everyone who contributes; a rate needs at least twenty loot windows.

Seen inside Wailing Caverns, Ruins of Lordaeron, Deadmines, Excavation Site: Wetlands.

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