Short Sabre

Our MoP Classic item table (the Blizzard item records our Auction House scanner has collected) has 10 other main hand sword items between item level 3 and 13; 0 of them carry fixed stats.

• Its 2.6 damage per second ranks 3rd of 11 main hand sword items in this group; Stonesplinter Blade (item level 10, requires level 5) has the most, 3.0.
• Attack speeds among the 11 main hand sword items in this group run from 1.80 seconds (Keen Machete) to 2.50 seconds (Deadman Blade); it swings every 1.90 seconds.
• Cheapest listed main hand sword items at a similar or higher item level: Commoner's Sword at 22 silver50 copper (item level 13, requires level 8), Frostmane Shortsword at 14,999 gold99 silver (item level 8, requires level 3), Rodentia Shortsword at 463,796 gold67 silver (item level 10, requires level 5).
• Other weapon types for the main hand slot within 2 item levels of 9: one-handed mace (10): Copper Mace, Billy Club, Carpenter's Mallet; one-handed axe (6): Copper Axe, Lumberjack Axe, Skull Hatchet; miscellaneous (1): Arclight Spanner.

Item	Item level	Requires	DPS	Fixed stats	Lowest listed
Deadman Blade	3	-	0.8 (2.50s)	none	-
Dull Blade	3	-	1.1 (1.90s)	none	-
Pitted Defias Shortsword	4	-	1.0 (2.00s)	none	-
Keen Machete	6	-	1.7 (1.80s)	none	1,999 gold98 silver
Frostmane Shortsword	8	3	2.2 (2.00s)	none	14,999 gold99 silver
Short Sabre	9	4	2.6 (1.90s)	none	-
Copper Shortsword	9	4	2.4 (2.10s)	none	-
Rockjaw Blade	9	4	2.4 (2.10s)	none	-
Rodentia Shortsword	10	5	2.8 (2.30s)	none	463,796 gold67 silver
Stonesplinter Blade	10	5	3.0 (2.00s)	none	-
Commoner's Sword	13	8	2.6 (2.30s)	none	22 silver50 copper