

Check the gear you find and compare the relevant numbers. In these levels, mobs drop poor quality gear, and bosses drop common quality gear that is only slightly better. If you are just starting World of Warcraft, from level 1 through about level 10, poor quality gear that drops is pretty good. You will probably find that you are better off vending these items. Even when a poor quality item has comparable stats to a Common quality item, often buyers will pass it by due to the stigma of 'poor quality'. However, poor quality weapons and armor sell slowly at auction and have a high listing fee. Poor quality equipment typically does not bind, and has the advantage that it can be used, then traded. Poor quality items cannot be disenchanted. For example, poor quality weapons and armor have no stat bonuses. Poor quality pieces of equipment will generally have a minimum level to be able to be equipped, but the benefits that come from them are usually less than those of better quality items, even of a slightly a lower level. Poor quality items only drop from mobs or similar looting, such as chests they are never sold by vendors (except buy-back), are never crafted by professions, and very rarely awarded by quests.

(A few exceptions exist, such as which is uncommon and has five stats.) It also determines the number of different stat bonuses: in general, a common or poor item has no stat bonuses, an uncommon item has one or two, and a rare or better item has two, three or four.

All items found in World of Warcraft are given a quality rating that is defined by the item's text color.įor equipment, the quality determines the relationship of the item level (which determines the sizes of the stat bonuses on it) to the required level to equip it.
