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Strange Dust
Item Level 10Trade Goods
Current price
32 silver
A Common Trade Goods, item level 10.
- Right now 259,260 units listed across 22 price tiers.AH scan
- Listings cluster between 38 silver and 99 silver: a 133% spread reads as a volatile market.AH scan
- Listings are down 19% from their 7 day average (259,260 vs 319,846 units).AH scan
- Today's price is cheaper than 69% of recorded snapshots.AH scan
Strange Dust Price History
EU Region (Commodity)Supply & Availability
EU Region (Commodity)259,260Units listed
121Sellers
32 silverCheapest now
Deep supply
Strange Dust is listed at 32 silver in the latest EU region commodity Auction House snapshot, about 58% below its typical price of 76 silver60 copper. Across its tracked history (Sep 2022 to Jul 2026) it has ranged from 28 silver35 copper to 1 gold93 silver. About 259,260 were available in the latest snapshot.
The current lowest price is 58% below typical, against a All-Time typical of 76 silver60 copper.
Background
First seen in build 1.15.9.68940 (Classic).
- Used in 15 recipes across Enchanting: Lesser Health, Minor Absorption, Minor Agility and more.crafting
In WoW Forever it is sells to vendors for 1c.
| Version | Item level | Quality | Sells for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail (Midnight) | 10 | Common | - |
| WoW Forever | 10 | Common | 1c |
| Classic Era | 10 | Common | - |
| The Burning Crusade | 10 | Common | - |
| Wrath of the Lich King | 10 | Common | - |
| MoP Classic | 10 | Common | - |
Used In
The 15 recipes below use Strange Dust, all from Classic Enchanting. The largest single use is 6 for Minor Agility.
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
Similar Items
The 10 items nearest to Strange Dust among Trade Goods > Enchanting; 9 of them also come from Classic.
| Item | Item Level | Details | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strange Dust (this item) | 10 | Used in 15 recipes (Classic Enchanting), including Runed Copper Rod and Minor Wizard Oil | 30 silver |
 Light Illusion Dust | 10 | Used in 36 recipes, including Lesser Mystic Wand and Greater Mystic Wand; Use: Rich Illusion Dust | 85 silver |
 Rich Illusion Dust | 10 | Used in 43 recipes, including Enchanted Thorium Bar and Greater Arcane Protection Potion; Use: Light Illusion Dust | 77 silver |
 Lesser Magic Essence | 10 | Used in 10 recipes (Classic Enchanting), including Runed Copper Rod and Lesser Magic Wand; Use: Greater Magic Essence | 70 silver |
 Greater Magic Essence | 10 | Used in 7 recipes (Classic Enchanting), including Greater Magic Wand; Use: Lesser Magic Essence | 95 silver |
 Lesser Eternal Essence | 10 | Used in 26 recipes (Classic Enchanting), including Lesser Mystic Wand and Greater Mystic Wand; Use: Greater Eternal Essence | 11 gold |
 Greater Eternal Essence | 10 | Used in 36 recipes, including Enchanted Leather and Enchanted Runecloth Bag; Use: Lesser Eternal Essence | 35 gold |
 Small Brilliant Shard | 10 | Used in 14 recipes (Classic Enchanting) | 51 silver |
 Large Brilliant Shard | 10 | Used in 48 recipes, including Smoking Heart of the Mountain and Bottomless Bag | 25 silver |
 Sha Crystal Fragment | 32 | Use: Create Sha Crystal | 4 gold |
 Arcane Dust | 15 | Crafted with Outland Enchanting; Used in 50 recipes, including Bolt of Imbued Netherweave and Arcanoweave Bracers | 1 gold |
The lowest listed price among them is Large Brilliant Shard at 25 silver in the EU Auction House.
Across Regions
Strange Dust has a current Auction House listing in 2 regions. The lowest listed price is in Europe.
| Region | Lowest Listed Price | Listed On | Cheapest Realms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | 30 silver | Region-wide | |
| United States | 78 silver | Region-wide |
Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Items That Share Strange Dust's Icon
Strange Dust uses icon file 132858, which 17 other items also use. The 7 closest by item ID:
- Neutralizing Agent ID 22955 · Quest
- Sablemane's Sleeping Powder ID 31403 · Quest
- Glowing Soil ID 53135 · Quest
- Crushed Nightstalker Leg ID 57181 · Quest
- Essence of the Life-Totem ID 65900 · Quest "Light and fine, like powdered silk."
- Kaja'mite Dust ID 67256 · Miscellaneous
- Flitterling Dust ID 84239 · Quest "Nearly impossible to hold on to - it almost dances out of your hands."
Items Numbered Next to Strange Dust
Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 10940 (10920 to 11020) were usually added in the same batch as Strange Dust: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.
Empty Poison Vial ID 10920 · Consumable · item level 17 "A leftover poison vial, predating Rogues' discovery of replenishable toxin pouches."- Empty Poison Vial ID 10921 · Consumable · item level 21 "A leftover poison vial, predating Rogues' discovery of replenishable toxin pouches."
- Empty Poison Vial ID 10922 · Consumable · item level 23 "A leftover poison vial, predating Rogues' discovery of replenishable toxin pouches."
- Lesser Magic Essence ID 10938 · Trade Goods · item level 10
- Greater Magic Essence ID 10939 · Trade Goods · item level 10
Nida's Necklace ID 10958 · Quest
Demon Hide Sack ID 10959 · Container · item level 28
Ironfel ID 10999 · Quest "Etched into the face of the hammer are the letters: F.F.F."
Un'Goro Soil ID 11018 · Quest
Evergreen Pouch ID 11020 · Quest
Strange Dust Client Record
The raw ItemSparse values for item 10940 in the current client build.
- Vendor buy price
- 8 silver
- Stacks to
- 1,000
- Material
- Wood
- Flags
- 0 / -2147475456 / 0 / 0 / 0
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files: Item, ItemSparse, Lock, Holidays, AreaTable and CollectableSourceVendor.
Strange Dust in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever
Strange Dust is in the Classic Era game data, the era World of Warcraft: Forever is built on. Blizzard describes Forever as vanilla World of Warcraft plussed up: its story sits in year one, characters level to 60 and stay there, and it launches November 4, 2026. Blizzard has not said which vanilla items appear in Forever, so nothing here is a Forever claim; it is the Classic Era record for Strange Dust next to the live retail market on this page.
- Is Strange Dust in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Strange Dust is a Classic Era item and Forever is built on vanilla World of Warcraft with its story set in year one and a level 60 cap, so this page tracks it. Forever launches November 4, 2026.
- What level is Strange Dust in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Strange Dust is Common quality, item level 10 with no level requirement.
- What is Strange Dust used for in WoW Classic?
- Strange Dust is a reagent in 28 Classic Era recipes, including Blackfathom Mana Oil, Enchant 2H Weapon - Lesser Spirit, Enchant 2H Weapon - Minor Impact, Enchant Boots - Minor Agility and 24 more.
- How much is Strange Dust on the auction house right now?
- 32s on the EU region auction house, on live retail servers, from the latest Blizzard auction house snapshot. Blizzard publishes no Classic Era auction house feed, and Forever has not launched, so those two have no price here yet.
Read next: World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4 · Forever's Professions, Legacy, Camping and Honor changes · Classic Era page for Strange Dust
WoW Forever: what our data shows
- Sighted in the WoW Forever beta client
- Build 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
- Also in the Classic Era client
- Yes - this item is in the Classic Era client's data too
A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4