Banded Gauntlets

What is Banded Gauntlets?

Banded Gauntlets is an uncommon mail hands armor piece in World of Warcraft: Forever. Sold by vendors for 71s 34c.

Where do you buy Banded Gauntlets?

Vendors sell it for 71s 34c and buy it back for 14s 26c. 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 Banded Gauntlets cost on the auction house?

About 18s at the median on Normal Horde US, from the scan at 2026-11-09 08:48 UTC. Across the 16 Forever markets with a price it runs from 18s on Normal Horde US to 78s on PvP Alliance US.

Is Banded 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 Banded Gauntlets sell on the auction house?

Sells steadily on Normal Horde US: about 5 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: Banded 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

31

Requires level

26

Vendor sell

14s 26c

Vendor buy

71s 34c

Blizzard item id

9839

How to make gold at level 20 to 30

• Vendors sell it for 71s 34c and buy it back for 14s 26c. That is the ceiling for an auction price while vendors stock it.
• Dropped by
  • creature 6230 in Gnomeregan (Launch Bay)seen 1 time
  • creature 6226 in Gnomeregan (Engineering Labs)4% of 25 looted
  • creature 64262% of 44 looted
• Found in an object in Scarlet Monastery (1% of 281 looted).
• Farm it or buy it. The best reported spot is creature 6226 in Gnomeregan (Engineering Labs) at 4% of 25 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 Soul Dust, Lesser Mystic Essence, Small Glowing Shard, worth about 15s 54c on Normal Horde US today. Odds below.

Seen inside Scarlet Monastery, Gnomeregan, Excavation Site: Wetlands.

• Soul Dust75% of the time · 2 to 54s 64c
• Lesser Mystic Essence20% of the time · 1 to 28s 87c
• Small Glowing Shard5% of the time14s 13c

Expected value 15s 54c per disenchant at Normal Horde US medians. More than the 14s 26c a vendor pays for it.

Selling the materials on: Soul Dust about 1,000 a day, listings clear in about a day; Lesser Mystic Essence about 3 a day, listings clear in over two months; Small Glowing Shard about 51 a day, listings clear in about 2 days. Expect to wait over two months for the Lesser Mystic Essence to move.

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