The game's collection data lists Deep Earth Grips as sold by 2 vendor NPCs in Townlong Steppes and Isle of Thunder. The first vendor stands at 38.0, 64.6 on the Townlong Steppes map.
Vendor NPC, zone and position come from the client's collection source tables (CollectableSourceInfo and CollectableSourceVendorSparse); coordinates are the in-game map readout.
Build history
First seen in build 5.5.4.69585 (Mists of Pandaria).
(2) Set: Feral: Ferocious Bite now refreshes the duration of your Rip on targets with 60% or less health. Guardian: Reduces the rage cost of your Savage Defense by 5.
(4) Set: Increases the duration of Barkskin by 3 seconds and decreases the cooldown of Tiger's Fury by 3 seconds.
Deep Earth Grips is one of 5 pieces of Deep Earth Battlegarb, alongside Deep Earth Raiment, Deep Earth Headpiece and Deep Earth Legguards and others. Bonuses activate at 2 pieces and 4 pieces equipped.
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files (JournalEncounterItem, JournalEncounterCreature, Achievement) and the Blizzard Game Data quest API.
How Deep Earth Grips Compares
Who It Suits
Leather is the armor type Demon Hunter, Druid, Monk and Rogue wear. With Agility or Intellect, Deep Earth Grips suits Assassination, Outlaw and Subtlety Rogue; Brewmaster, Mistweaver and Windwalker Monk; Balance, Feral, Guardian and Restoration Druid; Havoc, Vengeance and Devourer Demon Hunter.
Transmog Sets
Deep Earth Grips is part of the transmog set Deep Earth Vestments (Druid only). The other 16 pieces:
2 other items in the current build are also called Deep Earth Grips. Same-name entries are usually a different rank, faction, quest stage or reward track of the same object.
Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 77014 (77009 to 77019) were usually added in the same batch as Deep Earth Grips: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.