Shimmering Trousers

What is Shimmering Trousers?

Shimmering Trousers is an uncommon cloth legs armor piece in World of Warcraft: Forever. Sold by vendors for 46s 3c.

Where do you buy Shimmering Trousers?

Vendors sell it for 46s 3c and buy it back for 9s 20c. 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 Shimmering Trousers cost on the auction house?

About 12s at the median on PvP Horde US, from the scan at 2026-11-09 07:40 UTC. Across the 18 Forever markets with a price it runs from 10s on Normal Alliance US to 44s on PvP Alliance EU.

Is Shimmering Trousers different in Forever than in Classic Era?

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

How fast does Shimmering Trousers sell on the auction house?

Sells slowly on PvP Horde US: about 13 sold a day over the last week, and the current listings clear in about 4 days. AHledger estimates it from consecutive scans of the auction house; a cancelled listing can look like a sale, so the figure is a guide.

Unchanged from Classic Era: Shimmering Trousers 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

Cloth

Quality

uncommon

Slot

Legs

Item level

24

Requires level

19

Vendor sell

9s 20c

Vendor buy

46s 3c

Blizzard item id

6568

How to make gold at level 10 to 20

• Vendors sell it for 46s 3c and buy it back for 9s 20c. That is the ceiling for an auction price while vendors stock it.
• Dropped by
  • Hillsbrad Footman in Hillsbrad Foothills2% of 264 looted
  • creature 3859 in Shadowfang Keep (Shadowfang Keep)2% of 100 looted
  • Pridewing Patriarch in Stonetalon Mountains (Mirkfallon Lake)seen 1 time
  • Shadowhide Gnoll in Redridge Mountains (Galardell Valley)1% of 178 looted
  • Starving Mountain Lion in Hillsbrad Foothills0% of 956 looted
  and 5 more, each on its creature page.
• Farm it or buy it. The best reported spot is creature 3859 in Shadowfang Keep (Shadowfang Keep) at 2% of 100 loot windows.
• Sources are what 4 players running the addon saw in game, summed across everyone who contributes; a rate needs at least twenty loot windows.
• Disenchants into Strange Dust, Lesser Astral Essence, Small Glimmering Shard, worth about 5s 33c on PvP Horde US today. Odds below.

Seen inside Shadowfang Keep, Excavation Site: Wetlands, Wailing Caverns.

• Hillsbrad Foothills
• Stonetalon Mountains
• Redridge Mountains
• The Barrens

• Strange Dust75% of the time · 4 to 694c
• Lesser Astral Essence15% of the time · 1 to 26s 14c
• Small Glimmering Shard10% of the time4s 24c

Expected value 5s 33c per disenchant at PvP Horde US medians.

Selling the materials on: Strange Dust about 8,500 a day, listings clear in under a day; Lesser Astral Essence about 220 a day, listings clear in about 4 days; Small Glimmering Shard about 500 a day, listings clear in about 2 days. Expect to wait about 4 days for the Lesser Astral Essence to move.

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