MoP Classic item

Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets

Item 40952 on MoP Classic (Mists of Pandaria progression realms), client 5.5.4.70631

Item Level 154
Binds when equipped
HandsPlate
658 Armor
+45 Strength
Durability 40 / 40
Requires Level 73
Equip: Increases your hit by 19.
Equip: Increases your critical strike by 26.
Sell Price: 2 gold3 silver

About Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets

Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets is an uncommon piece of plate armor for the hands slot on MoP Classic at item level 154, usable from level 73. It binds when equipped. Its primary stats are +45 Strength, with Hit (19) and Critical Strike (26) as secondary stats. It gives 658 armor and has 40 durability. Other plate hands pieces listed on the MoP Classic Auction House closest to it in item level include Bloodmar Gauntlets (154), Grizzlemaw Gauntlets (150) and Jormungar Gauntlets (158). The latest scan finds it on 2 MoP Classic realms (EU 1, US 1); the cheapest buyout is 45 gold on Galakras, Immerseus, Lei Shen, Nazgrim, Pagle, Ra-den (US). A vendor pays 2 gold3 silver for it.

MoP Classic Auction House prices

Cheapest realm45 goldGalakras, Immerseus, Lei Shen, Nazgrim, Pagle, Ra-den (US)

Typical market (US)45 gold

Median min buyout72 gold50 silver

Realms with listings2EU 1, US 1

Latest snapshot2026-11-03 07:08 UTCBlizzard Last-Modified

Prices across MoP Classic realms

Realm	Min buyout	Market (median)	Qty	Listings	Snapshot
Galakras, Immerseus, Lei Shen, Nazgrim, Pagle, Ra-denUS · Active	45 gold	45 gold	1	1	2026-11-03 06:29 UTC
Garalon, Hoptallus, Mirage Raceway, Norushen, Shek'zeerEU · Active	100 gold	100 gold	1	1	2026-11-03 07:08 UTC

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Where it comes from

Crafted	Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets	Recipe

Plate hands items near item level 154

Our MoP Classic item table (the Blizzard item records our Auction House scanner has collected) has 24 other plate hands items between item level 130 and 179; 8 of them carry fixed stats.

+45 Strength ranks 1st of 6 plate hands items with Strength, the most in this group (level with 1 other item).
+19 Hit ranks 2nd of 2 plate hands items with Hit; Hard Khorium Battlefists (item level 159, requires level 70) has the most, +23.
+26 Critical Strike ranks 5th of 5 plate hands items with Critical Strike; Sunblessed Gauntlets (item level 159, requires level 70) has the most, +36.
Sunblessed Gauntlets has the most fixed stat points in this group, 154 against 90 here.
Next plate hands items up with Strength: Gauntlets of Disembowelment (item level 158, requires level 76), Hard Khorium Battlefists (item level 159, requires level 70), Tempered Saronite Gauntlets (item level 179, requires level 78).
Its lowest listed price, 45 gold, ranks 16th of 21 listed plate hands items in this group.
Cheapest listed plate hands items at a similar or higher item level: Brilliant Saronite Gauntlets at 5 gold (item level 167, requires level 75), Tempered Saronite Gauntlets at 10 gold (item level 179, requires level 78), Golem Gauntlets at 12 gold (item level 174, requires level 78).
Other armor types for the hands slot within 6 item levels of 154: cloth (7): Duskweave Gloves, Hands of Eternal Light, Sunfire Handwraps; leather (6): Gloves of Immortal Dusk, Leather Gauntlets of the Sun, Taunka Gloves; mail (6): Fletcher's Gloves of the Phoenix, Sun-Drenched Scale Gloves, Shoveltusk Gauntlets.

Item	Item level	Requires	Armor	Fixed stats	Lowest listed
Cobalt Gauntlets	142	70	622	+37 Strength, +39 Stamina, +25 Dodge	7 gold
Halgrind Gloves	146	71	634	none	6 gold
Grizzlemaw Gauntlets	150	72	646	none	10 gold
Perforated Plate Gloves	150	80	581	none	39 gold60 silver
Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets	154	73	658	+45 Strength, +19 Hit, +26 Critical Strike	45 gold
Bloodmar Gauntlets	154	73	658	none	30 gold
Gauntlets of Disembowelment	158	76	671	+38 Strength, +36 Stamina, +28 Critical Strike, +36 Haste	-
Jormungar Gauntlets	158	74	671	none	15 gold
Crystalbark's Toenail	159	70	1,129	none	148 gold
Hard Khorium Battlefists	159	70	1,247	+45 Strength, +45 Stamina, +23 Hit, +36 Haste	12,392 gold39 silver
Sunblessed Gauntlets	159	70	1,247	+60 Stamina, +38 Intellect, +20 Spirit, +36 Critical Strike	-
Frostpaw Gauntlets	162	75	684	none	72 gold

More Spiked items

Spiked Cobalt Belt item level 158
Spiked Cobalt Chestpiece item level 150
Spiked Cobalt Legplates item level 158
Spiked Cobalt Shoulders item level 150
Spiked Cobalt Boots item level 146
Spiked Cobalt Bracers item level 162
Spiked Cobalt Helm item level 142
Spiked Titansteel Helm item level 200
Spiked Titansteel Treads item level 200
Spiked Deathdealers item level 232

Where Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets Fits

Items That Share Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets's Icon

Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets uses the same icon art, which 13 other items also use. The 8 closest by item ID:

Righteous Gauntlets ID 41356 · Armor - Plate · item level 187 · lowest 118g on 2 realms
Conqueror's Gauntlets ID 25009 · Armor - Plate · item level 114 · lowest 18g on 3 realms
Felfury Gauntlets ID 23531 · Armor - Mail · item level 105 · lowest 7,495g on 3 realms
Ragesteel Gloves ID 23520 · Armor - Plate · item level 115 · lowest 4,375g on 2 realms
Timbermaw Brawlers ID 19049 · Armor - Leather · item level 64 · lowest 750g on 1 realm
Flarecore Gloves ID 16979 · Armor - Cloth · item level 62 · lowest 500g on 2 realms
Gauntlets of Valor ID 16737 · Armor - Plate · item level 59 · lowest 1,500g on 2 realms
Devilsaur Gauntlets ID 15063 · Armor - Leather · item level 58 · lowest 481g on 2 realms

Items Numbered Next to Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets

Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 40952 (40942 to 40957) were usually added in the same batch as Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.

Spiked Cobalt Helm ID 40942 · Armor - Plate · item level 142 · lowest 79g on 1 realm
Spiked Cobalt Legplates ID 40943 · Armor - Plate · item level 158 · lowest 17g on 2 realms
Spiked Cobalt Boots ID 40949 · Armor - Plate · item level 146 · lowest 5g on 3 realms
Spiked Cobalt Shoulders ID 40950 · Armor - Plate · item level 150 · lowest 4g on 2 realms
Spiked Cobalt Chestpiece ID 40951 · Armor - Plate · item level 150 · lowest 28g on 2 realms
Spiked Cobalt Belt ID 40953 · Armor - Plate · item level 158 · lowest 80g on 1 realm
Spiked Cobalt Bracers ID 40954 · Armor - Plate · item level 162 · lowest 20g on 3 realms
Horned Cobalt Helm ID 40955 · Armor - Plate · item level 162 · lowest 11g on 3 realms
Reinforced Cobalt Shoulders ID 40956 · Armor - Plate · item level 154 · lowest 999g on 1 realm
Reinforced Cobalt Helm ID 40957 · Armor - Plate · item level 162 · lowest 999g on 1 realm

Built from Blizzard's Game Data API item documents for this game version and recorded Auction House snapshots.

Across game versions

Item 40952	MoP Classic	Retail (Midnight)
Item level	154	33
Required level	73	73
Binding	Binds when equipped	Binds when equipped
Armor	658	868
Strength	45	-
Hit	19	-
Critical Strike	26	-
Sell price	2 gold3 silver	1 gold63 silver

Retail recipe Spiked Cobalt Gauntlets: 12x Cobalt Bar.

MoP Classic price history

First seen in a scan: 2026-10-04 08:00 UTC
Realms that have listed it: 5
Lowest buyout seen: 4 gold50 silverGaralon, Hoptallus, Mirage Raceway, Norushen, Shek'zeer (EU), 2026-10-13 07:00 UTC
Highest realm minimum seen: 499 goldGaralon, Hoptallus, Mirage Raceway, Norushen, Shek'zeer (EU)
Realm-hours listed, last 30 days: 1,016

US median, latest 45gEU median, latest 100g
Each line is one region's daily median of the cheapest buyout on every realm that listed it, from our hourly scans.

Last 7 days

Day (UTC)	EU low	EU median	EU realms	US low	US median	US realms
2026-11-03	100 gold	100 gold	1	45 gold	45 gold	1
2026-11-02	100 gold	100 gold	1	-	-	-
2026-11-01	50 gold	100 gold	1	39 gold99 silver	39 gold99 silver	1
2026-10-31	15 gold	15 gold	1	39 gold99 silver	39 gold99 silver	1
2026-10-30	15 gold	319 gold78 silver	1	19 gold	19 gold	1
2026-10-29	319 gold78 silver	333 gold97 silver	1	29 gold99 silver	29 gold99 silver	1
2026-10-28	15 gold	30 gold	1	29 gold99 silver	29 gold99 silver	1

Comments

Connected realms with a listing in the latest MoP Classic scan: EU 1 of 25, KR 0 of 5, TW 0 of 8, US 1 of 23.

Item data: Blizzard's MoP Classic Game Data API (static data 5.5.4.67732). Prices: per-unit buyouts from one Blizzard Auction House snapshot per connected realm per hour; market is the quantity-weighted median of a realm's listings. Retail column: the retail client datamine.

Quick facts

Item ID	40952
Game version	MoP Classic (client 5.5.4.70631)
Type	Armor
Subtype	Plate
Slot	Hands
Item level	154
Requires level	73
Binding	Binds when equipped
Max stack	1
Vendor sell	1 gold63 silver
Data source	Blizzard static API (wow_classic)