Blood Guard's Leather Grips

Blood Guard's Leather Grips was changed in WoW Forever: gains +40 Bonus Armor, gains +14 Critical Strike Rating, Equip bonus now a +20 Attack Power stat, loses Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%, and 1 more change. Now item level 66 Rare Hands armor, requires level 60, +18 Stamina, +40 Bonus Armor, +20 Attack Power, +14 Critical Strike Rating. Full tooltip comparison with Classic Era below.

Blood Guard's Leather Grips tooltip: Classic Era vs WoW Forever

The same tooltip players see in-game, side by side, with each changed line marked.

Classic Era Oct 27, 2026

Blood Guard's Leather Grips

Item Level 66

Binds when picked up

Hands · Leather

115 Armor

+18 Stamina

Durability 35 / 35

Requires Level 60

Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%.

Equip: +20 Attack Power.

Sell Price: 83s 73c

Forever Oct 22, 2026

Blood Guard's Leather Grips

Item Level 66

Binds when picked up

Hands · Leather

115 Armor

+18 Stamina

+40 Bonus Armor

+20 Attack Power

+14 Critical Strike Rating

Forever amounts are computed from Blizzard's item budget tables, the way the game client computes them (this engine ships no flat amounts). How we check them.

Requires Level 60

Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%.

Equip: +20 Attack Power.

Sell Price: 83s 73c

changed value added in Forever removed in Forever

Also changed behind the tooltip: setId (not shown in a tooltip line). See the full field diff below for both values side by side.

Raw field diff every changed column

Field	Classic Era	Forever
effects	[ { "categoryCooldownMs": -1, "charges": 0, "cooldownMs": -1, "spellId": 7597, "spellName": "Increased Critical 1", "trigger": 1 }, { "categoryCooldownMs": -1, "charges": 0, "cooldownMs": -1, "spellId": 9331, "spellName": "Attack Power 20", "trigger": 1 } ]	[]
setId	522	none
stats	[ { "amount": 18, "stat": 7 } ]	[ { "amount": 18, "percentEditor": 6429, "stat": 7 }, { "amount": 40, "percentEditor": 14286, "stat": 50 }, { "amount": 20, "percentEditor": 7143, "stat": 38 }, { "amount": 14, "percentEditor": 5000, "stat": 32 } ]

Blood Guard's Leather Grips changes between Forever builds

Differs from Classic Era in every Forever build since Sep 16, 2026

See every changed record in the Oct 22, 2026 build →

Questions about Blood Guard's Leather Grips

Was Blood Guard's Leather Grips nerfed in WoW Forever?

Blood Guard's Leather Grips is listed as changed, not nerfed or buffed: no cast time, cost, cooldown, range, durability or bag size moved one way in WoW Forever compared with Classic Era. What changed: gains +40 Bonus Armor, gains +14 Critical Strike Rating, Equip bonus now a +20 Attack Power stat, loses Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%, and 1 more change.

What changed for Blood Guard's Leather Grips in WoW Forever?

Gains +40 Bonus Armor, gains +14 Critical Strike Rating, Equip bonus now a +20 Attack Power stat, loses Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%, and 1 more change. The Classic Era and WoW Forever tooltips are shown side by side on this page.

Read from the Oct 22, 2026 build (1.60.1.70532), compared against Classic Era Oct 27, 2026 (1.15.9.70576) ·synced Oct 27, 2026 · how we read this → · report a wrong value