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Shadow Guard
Item Level 25Binds when picked up
Miscellaneous
Requires Level 23
Use: Shadow Guard
Not sold on the Auction House
This item is acquired in-game. See its sources below.
Shadow Guard Effects
- Use: Shadow Guard
Permanently adds $ec1 shadow resistance to a leg slot item. Does not stack with other enchantments for the selected equipment slot. Cannot be applied to items higher than level $ecix.
Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.
Shadow Guard is not traded on the Auction House, so it has no live market price. Its first-party game data (identity, effects and sources) is read from the official World of Warcraft client build.
Similar Items
The 10 items nearest to Shadow Guard among Miscellaneous > Junk, all from Classic like Shadow Guard.
| Item | Item Level | Details | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Guard (this item) | 25 | Not listed | |
 Huge Ogre Cache | 1 | Use: Convert to Garrison Resources | 4,999 gold on 82 realms |
 Bulging Barrel of Oil | 1 | Use: Convert to Oil | 10 gold on 80 realms |
 Plain Letter | 1 | 1 silver on 58 realms | |
 Nat Pagle's Guide to Extreme Anglin' | 1 | 500 gold on 80 realms | |
 A Thoroughly Read Copy of "Nat Pagle's Guide to Extreme Anglin'." | 1 | 900 gold on 81 realms | |
 Dark Iron Baby Booties | 1 | 400 gold on 52 realms | |
 Very Unlucky Rock | 1 | 418 gold on 80 realms | |
 Faded Treasure Map | 1 | 8,000 gold on 58 realms | |
 Damp Note | 1 | 8,000 gold on 55 realms | |
| Faded Note | 1 | 8,000 gold on 59 realms |
The lowest listed price among them is Plain Letter at 1 silver in the US Auction House.
Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Shadow Guard in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever
Shadow Guard 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 Shadow Guard next to the live retail market on this page.
- Is Shadow Guard in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Shadow Guard 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 Shadow Guard in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Shadow Guard is rare quality, item level 60 and requires level 55.
Read next: World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4 · Classic Era page for Shadow Guard
WoW Forever: what our data shows
- Sighted in the WoW Forever beta client
- Build 3.80.2.69874, 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