Fortified Gauntlets

What is Fortified Gauntlets?

Fortified Gauntlets is an uncommon mail hands armor piece in World of Warcraft: Forever. Sold by vendors for 41s 29c.

Where do you buy Fortified Gauntlets?

Vendors sell it for 41s 29c and buy it back for 8s 25c. 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 Fortified Gauntlets cost on the auction house?

About 33s at the median on PvP Horde US, from the scan at 2026-11-09 04:22 UTC. Across the 18 Forever markets with a price it runs from 9s on Normal Alliance EU to 41s on Normal Horde CN.

Is Fortified Gauntlets different in Forever than in Classic Era?

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

How fast does Fortified Gauntlets sell on the auction house?

Sells steadily on PvP Horde US: about 8 sold a day over the last week, and the current listings clear in about 3 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: Fortified Gauntlets 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

Mail

Quality

uncommon

Slot

Hand

Item level

25

Requires level

20

Vendor sell

8s 25c

Vendor buy

41s 29c

Blizzard item id

9813

How to make gold at level 10 to 20

• Vendors sell it for 41s 29c and buy it back for 8s 25c. That is the ceiling for an auction price while vendors stock it.
• Dropped by
  • creature 3863 in Shadowfang Keep (Shadowfang Keep)5% of 84 looted
  • Hillsbrad Footman in Hillsbrad Foothills (Hillsbrad Fields)1% of 264 looted
  • creature 260796 in Excavation Site: Wetlands (Lost Marsh)6% of 36 looted
  • Giant Moss Creeper in Hillsbrad Foothills (Hillsbrad Fields)2% of 58 looted
  • Skeletal Fiend in Duskwood (Raven Hill Cemetery)0% of 208 looted
  and 5 more, each on its creature page.
• Farm it or buy it. The best reported spot is creature 260796 in Excavation Site: Wetlands (Lost Marsh) at 6% of 36 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 55c on PvP Horde US today. Odds below.

Seen inside Shadowfang Keep, Excavation Site: Wetlands, Stormwind Stockade.

• Hillsbrad Foothills
• Duskwood
• The Barrens

• Strange Dust75% of the time · 4 to 61s
• Lesser Astral Essence15% of the time · 1 to 26s 14c
• Small Glimmering Shard10% of the time4s 24c

Expected value 5s 55c per disenchant at PvP Horde US medians.

Selling the materials on: Strange Dust about 8,100 a day, listings clear in under a day; Lesser Astral Essence about 160 a day, listings clear in about 5 days; Small Glimmering Shard about 400 a day, listings clear in about 2 days. Expect to wait about 5 days for the Lesser Astral Essence to move.

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