Fortified Chain

What is Fortified Chain?

Fortified Chain is an uncommon mail chest armor piece in World of Warcraft: Forever. Sold by vendors for 84s 10c.

Where do you buy Fortified Chain?

Vendors sell it for 84s 10c and buy it back for 16s 82c. 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 Chain cost on the auction house?

About 24s at the median on PvP Horde EU, from the scan at 2026-11-08 23:25 UTC. Across the 17 Forever markets with a price it runs from 19s on Normal Alliance US to 1g 19s on PvP Horde CN.

Is Fortified Chain 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 Chain sell on the auction house?

Sells steadily on PvP Horde EU: about 14 sold a day over the last week, and the current listings clear in about 2 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 Chain 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

Chest

Item level

25

Requires level

20

Vendor sell

16s 82c

Vendor buy

84s 10c

Blizzard item id

9818

How to make gold at level 10 to 20

• Vendors sell it for 84s 10c and buy it back for 16s 82c. That is the ceiling for an auction price while vendors stock it.
• Dropped by
  • creature 36542% of 114 looted
  • creature 6207 in Gnomeregan1% of 69 looted
  • creature 63292% of 52 looted
• Found in Large Iron Bound Chest in Stormwind Stockade (Stormwind Stockade) (seen 2 times).
• Farm it or buy it. The best reported spot is creature 6329 at 2% of 52 loot windows.
• Sources are what 2 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 39c on PvP Horde EU today. Odds below.

Seen inside Stormwind Stockade, Excavation Site: Wetlands, Gnomeregan.

• Strange Dust75% of the time · 4 to 61s
• Lesser Astral Essence15% of the time · 1 to 25s 9c
• Small Glimmering Shard10% of the time5s

Expected value 5s 39c per disenchant at PvP Horde EU medians.

Selling the materials on: Strange Dust about 10,000 a day, listings clear in under a day; Lesser Astral Essence about 250 a day, listings clear in about 2 days; Small Glimmering Shard about 460 a day, listings clear in about 2 days. Expect to wait about 2 days for the Lesser Astral Essence to move.

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