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Frost-Etched Dagger

Item Level 1
Binds when picked up
One-HandWeapon
1 - 1 DamageSpeed 1.80
(0.6 damage per second)
+ Agility or Intellect
“A cruel blade knapped from impossibly hard glacial ice and etched with runes of hatred.”
Sell price: 22 copper
Not sold on the Auction House

This item is acquired in-game. See its sources below.

Not sold on the Auction House Weapon

A Common Dagger One-Hand, item level 1, binds when picked up.

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Sold By the Trading Post

The game's Trading Post catalog lists Frost-Etched Dagger for 90 Trader's Tender in the Transmog category.

Price and category come from the client's Perks vendor tables (PerksVendorItem). The monthly rotation is not in the client data.

Build history

First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight (patch 12.0.7)).

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Frost-Etched Dagger Game Data

Appearance

In the Appearances collection, Frost-Etched Dagger is listed as Trading Post. Appearance ID: 18703.

Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.

How Frost-Etched Dagger Compares

Who It Suits

In their in-game specialization descriptions, these specs name daggers among their preferred weapons:

  • Survival Hunter: Polearm, Staff, Axe, Dagger, Sword
  • Assassination Rogue: Daggers
  • Subtlety Rogue: Daggers
  • Discipline Priest: Staff, Wand, Dagger, Mace
  • Holy Priest: Staff, Wand, Dagger, Mace
  • Shadow Priest: Staff, Wand, Dagger, Mace
  • Elemental Shaman: Mace, Dagger, and Shield
  • Restoration Shaman: Mace, Dagger, and Shield
  • Arcane Mage: Staff, Wand, Dagger, Sword
  • Fire Mage: Staff, Wand, Dagger, Sword
  • Frost Mage: Staff, Wand, Dagger, Sword
  • Affliction Warlock: Staff, Wand, Dagger, Sword
  • Demonology Warlock: Staff, Wand, Dagger, Sword
  • Destruction Warlock: Staff, Wand, Dagger, Sword
  • Balance Druid: Staff, Dagger, Mace
  • Restoration Druid: Staff, Dagger, Mace
  • Devourer Demon Hunter: Warglaives, Swords, Axes, Fist Weapons, Daggers
  • Devastation Evoker: Staff, Sword, Dagger, Mace
  • Preservation Evoker: Staff, Sword, Dagger, Mace
  • Augmentation Evoker: Staff, Sword, Dagger, Mace

Similar Items

The 10 items nearest to Frost-Etched Dagger (item level 1) in item level among Weapon > Dagger.

ItemItem LevelRequires LevelStatsLowest Listed Price
Frost-Etched Dagger (this item)10.6 DPS, Agility or Intellect. Trading PostNot listed
Twilight Ritualist's Stiletto10.6 DPS. World Drop500 gold on 52 realms
Cultist's Sacrificial Kris10.6 DPS. World Drop500 gold on 56 realms
Daggerspine Trident Tine10.6 DPS. World Drop771 gold on 57 realms
Glistening Sin'dorei Twinblade10.6 DPS. World Drop125 gold on 65 realms
Frostdeep Spider's Fang10.6 DPS. World Drop999 gold on 50 realms
Forest Tiki Twinblade10.6 DPS. World Drop500 gold on 62 realms
Adherent's Wriggling Backstabber10.6 DPS. World Drop222 gold on 61 realms
Twilight Scout's Sticher10.6 DPS. World Drop222 gold on 61 realms
Hal'hadar Shadowripper's Blade10.6 DPS. World Drop999 gold on 44 realms
Forgotten Fel-Shard Talon1800.4 DPS. World Drop550 gold on 46 realms

The lowest listed price among them is Glistening Sin'dorei Twinblade at 125 gold in the US Auction House.

Next item levels up from Frost-Etched Dagger among Weapon > Dagger: Goblin Screwdriver (item level 12), Vendetta (item level 20), Howling Blade (item level 21), Stonevault Shiv (item level 22) and Searing Golden Blade (item level 22).

Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.

Where Frost-Etched Dagger Fits

Items That Share Frost-Etched Dagger's Icon

Frost-Etched Dagger uses icon file 237507, which 5 other items also use. The 5 closest by item ID:

Items Numbered Next to Frost-Etched Dagger

Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 229811 (229805 to 229816) were usually added in the same batch as Frost-Etched Dagger: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.

Frost-Etched Dagger Client Record

The raw ItemSparse values for item 229811 in the current client build.

Vendor buy price
1 silver12 copper
Vendor sell price
22 copper
Material
Metal
Equip slot
One-Hand
Flags
134250496 / 143360 / 8388608 / 65536 / 0

Read from the World of Warcraft client build files: Item, ItemSparse, Lock, Holidays, AreaTable and CollectableSourceVendor.

3D Model

First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.