Defender Gauntlets
Defender Gauntlets is an Uncommon Mail Hands armor piece (item level 23, requires level 18) in the WoW Forever client. Where it comes from: Drops from Shadowhide Brute (seen in WoW Forever); Drops from Black Slime (seen in WoW Forever).
- Item level 23
- Binds when equipped
- Slot: Hands (Mail)
- 110 Armor
- Requires level 18
- Sells to vendors for 6s 49c
Revealed 5 November 2026: one of the items Blizzard hid from dataminers until a player found it (hidden items). Auction house (lowest buyout each, from players' ForeverDB addon scans): 7s on CAMWOW EU5 Realm 7 PvE (Alliance), 74 listed, from one player's scan on 2026-11-15; 7s on CAMWOW US2 Realm 5 PvE (Horde), 55 listed, from 4 scans by 2 players on 2026-11-15; 9s on CAMWOW EU5 Realm 3 PvE (Alliance), 53 listed, from one player's scan on 2026-11-15; 6s 48c on CAMWOW EU5 Realm 6 PvP (Alliance), 37 listed, from one player's scan on 2026-11-14; 7s 88c on CAMWOW EU4 Realm 7 PvE (Horde), 27 listed, from one player's scan on 2026-11-14; 10s on CAMWOW US2 Realm 11 RP (Horde), 5 listed, from one player's scan on 2026-11-14. Price over time on CAMWOW EU4 Realm 7 PvE (Horde): 30s on 2026-11-06, 9s 95c on 2026-11-14 (the median, else the lowest buyout; 7 days with scans). All auction house prices
Where to get it
- Drops from Shadowhide Brute (seen in WoW Forever)
- Drops from Black Slime (seen in WoW Forever)
- Drops from Young Black Ravager (seen in WoW Forever)
- World drop from level 18–26 creatures (Classic data)
- Drops from Edwin VanCleef (boss) in Deadmines, 0.02% (Classic data)
- Drops from Cookie (boss) in Deadmines, 0.01% (Classic data)
- Drops from Targorr the Dread (boss) in Stormwind Stockade, 0.01% (Classic data)
- Found in Large Iron Bound Chest, 0.5% (Classic data)
- Inside Ornate Bronze Lockbox (Classic data)
- Inside Minor Darkmoon Prize (Classic data)
- Inside Ahn'Qiraj War Effort Supplies (Classic data)
Drops, quest rewards and vendors marked Classic data come from Classic (CMaNGOS classic-db) until someone sees them in Forever.
Disenchanting
Disenchants into: (Classic data)
- Strange Dust: 75%, 4-6
- Lesser Astral Essence: 15%, 1-2
- Small Glimmering Shard: 10%, 1
Data from the WoW Forever client, build 1.60.1.70938, extracted .