Quality

Quality Type
All items found in World of Warcraft are given a quality rating that falls into one of the following categories:

Poor Quality (Grey)
These items are good for one thing and one thing only: to sell to a vendor. This does not mean they are worthless, since some Poor quality items can sell for multiple.

Common Quality (White)
Most common items are either used for professions, spell reagents, or are quest items.

Uncommon Quality (Green)
Uncommon items are usually dropped by any mob in the game with a frequency of between 1% and 10% of kills. Uncommon items will usually Bind on Equip (see below).

Rare Quality (Blue)
There are two basic types of blue (rare) drops: World drops and drops.World drops are randomly dropped from almost any mob in the world (within a given level range) and as a result cannot really be hunted down; The only effective way to get your hands on one you want is to seek out another player who was lucky enough to find it (the auction house helps a lot with this). These items will usually Bind on Equip.Instance drops are typically found on bosses in instances. Your best resource for information on where to find specific items is Thottbot. These items will Bind on Pickup, so take care when rolling for them.

Epic Quality (Purple)
Epic quality items are quite rare and in general have much better bonuses than other items of their required level. Epic items also usually have some sort of passive or on use effect attached to them or some kind of proc.

Legendary Quality (Orange)
Legendary items are a step up from epic items and are truely exceptional. Items such as Sulfaras, Hand of Ragnaros. These items are extremely rare, and very few people have them.

Artifact Quality (Gold)
Artifact items are objects of unimaginable power and are also NYI. Speculated Frostmourne will be an Artifact.

Binding Type
All items are also classified by how they bind to a player. Item binding types fall into one of three types.


 * Bind on Equip (BoE) : Items of this type are soulbound to the first player to equip the item.
 * Bind on Pickup (BoP) : Bind on pickup items are just that, they bind to a player as soon as they are looted. Players must take great care in instances not to accidentally roll on these items if they do not intend to use it. Using RollSafely can help prevent this.
 * No bind : These items can freely change hands.