Turning Old Low Level Alts into Free Gold for Legion: Starting Shirts

[Smitten]

For people that have been playing WoW for awhile, I'm sure you all have what I do - random low level alts scattered across your account. They may be on your main's realm, or one of your alt's realms, or a realm you've never played on beyond creating a level one character to talk shit in whispers or check the server's AH.

If you created those characters before Cataclysm came along, chances are they'll have the "old shirts". These are the starting shirts that most classes/races started with, and stopped being given to new characters since Cataclysm was released.

Depending on the server, these shirts can sell for anywhere from 5k-100k currently, and possibly more in Legion. With Legion coming and shirts becoming part of the account-wide Transmog system, these now unobtainable shirts have basically become free gold to the right buyers. These are the shirts you can look out for on your alts, and where they come from:

Brawler's Harness	Orc, Tauren, Troll and Undead Warriors
Footpad's Shirt	Dwarf, Gnome, Human and Night Elf Rogues
Initiate's Shirt	Blood Elf Paladins
Lookout's Tunic	Blood Elf Rogues
Primitive Mantle	Orc and Tauren Shamans
Primitive Mantle	Troll Shamans
Recruit's Shirt	Draenei Warriors
Recruit's Shirt	Night Elf Warriors
Rugged Trapper's Shirt	Dwarf and Night Elf Hunters
Scout's Shirt	Draenei Hunter and Shamans
Squire's Shirt	Draenei Paladins
Squire's Shirt	Dwarf Paladins
Thug Shirt	Orc and Undead Rogues
Trapper's Shirt	Orc, Tauren and Troll Hunters
Trapper's Shirt	Troll Rogues
Warder's Shirt	Blood Elf Hunters

You can either sell them on the AH, or sell them in trade chat with a unique advertisement stating that these are unobtainable shirts that can be put into the account-wide Transmog system in Legion, allowing them to use these pieces of WoW history on all of their characters... or whatever.

Happy Gold Making!

[solshine2510]

Thanks for this idea. Here is TSM string with those shirts: 6125,49,24143,20897,154,6134,23473,6120,148,23345,23476,6117,2105,127,6136,20901 for anyone using TSM App notifications if they ever show up on Auctioon house as bargains.

[Malzel]

I didn't even know about this, thank you! Logged into my old trial I made in Wrath and I have around 15 characters with these.

[markons]

I have 4 characters with shirts, still need to sell them

[JordanEamonHurley]

Some of these can still be obtained ingame?

[Smitten]

Some of these can still be obtained ingame?

The ones that can still be obtained in Old Hillsbrad dungeon aren't included in the list.

[JordanEamonHurley]

Recruit's Shirt
Squires Shirt

I picked up 20x of each just in case the vendor is removed. Am I not wrong in saying there on your list?

Edited: I see what you mean, different races have different displays that were changed in 4.0.3

I am indeed wrong.

[Smitten]

Am I not wrong in saying there on your list?

There are multiple shirts with the same name but difference appearances.

Recruit's Shirt - Item - World of Warcraft -> Human, Dwarf and Gnome Warrior shirt, sold by Vendor.
Recruit's Shirt - Item - World of Warcraft -> Night Elf Warrior shirt, no longer obtainable.
Recruit's Shirt - Item - World of Warcraft -> Draenei Warrior shirt, no longer obtainable.

Squire's Shirt - Item - World of Warcraft -> Human Paladin shirt, sold by Vendor.
Squire's Shirt - Item - World of Warcraft -> Dwarf Paladin shirt, no longer obtainable.
Squire's Shirt - Item - World of Warcraft -> Draenei Paladin shirt, no longer obtainable.

[res]

I have Thieve's Tools and Empty Poison Vial along with the recipe for Thistle Tea on an old rogue of mine on smolderthorn xD anyone interested!??