Patch 10.2.5 Trading Post Datamine and What Actually Shipped

Key Takeaways

This list came from a Wowhead datamine on 24 January 2024, pulled from the Patch 10.2.5 PTR, not a confirmed February shop reveal.
The "explosive armament" is Forgehand's "Stable" Fuel Cell, a lit-dynamite offhand, joined by the Steamwheedle Artifact Extractor.
Both steampunk offhands actually landed in the January 2024 Trading Post under the Steam-Powered Fun theme, a month before the post claimed.
February 2024 was the Love and 1-year-anniversary refresh, so most of these transmog ensembles did not appear that month.
The plate ensembles and the Void-Bound sets trickled into later 2024 refreshes instead.
The Prototype Farstrider Sniper Rifle was datamined here but still sits in Wowhead's Unreleased category, so it never shipped.
Roughly half the original 29 rows carried placeholder "0 Trader's Tender" costs, which are datamine nulls rather than real prices.

Here is the corrected story of that datamine, which items were real, and when each one actually reached the shop.

A January 2024 Datamine, Not a February Shop List

The original post framed these as upcoming February Trading Post items. The source was actually a Wowhead datamine posted on 24 January 2024, built from files added to the Patch 10.2.5 PTR. Patch 10.2.5 "Seeds of Renewal" had gone live on 16 January 2024, and a fresh PTR datamine like this one previews cosmetics that Blizzard may rotate into the shop over the following months. It is a wishlist, not a shipping manifest, which is why the timing in the old version does not hold up.

For context, the Trading Post launched with Patch 10.0.5 in February 2023 and refreshes every month with a themed set of rewards bought using Trader's Tender. You earn Tender from a monthly activity log, and unspent Tender rolls forward, so the interesting question with any datamine is never just "is this real" but "which month did it actually show up."

The Explosive Armament: Two Steampunk Offhands

The marquee find, and the source of the "explosive armament" hook, is Forgehand's "Stable" Fuel Cell, an offhand frill that lets your character carry what looks like a lit stick of dynamite. Its steampunk sibling is the Steamwheedle Artifact Extractor, a goblin gadget offhand. The old post listed the Fuel Cell at zero cost and the Extractor as "cost revealed soon," both of which were just datamine gaps at the time.

Here is the twist the original missed entirely: these two offhands did not wait for February. They headlined the January 2024 Trading Post under the Steam-Powered Fun theme, with the Steamwheedle Artifact Extractor priced at 60 Trader's Tender. So the "explosive armament" was already buyable a full month before the post said to watch for it.

Datamined Transmog Ensembles and Weapons

The transmog side of the datamine was genuinely large. The standouts were Ensemble: Battleplate of the Honored Valarjar, a plate set drawn from the Valarjar of Legion, and Arsenal: Ruby Felfire Armaments, a fel-red weapon bundle. Alongside them sat Ensemble: Val'sharah Protector's Battleplate and the cloth Ensemble: Void-Bound Raiment, the visible face of a whole Void-Bound armor family datamined together.

Mixed in were a gun, the Prototype Farstrider Sniper Rifle, plus a spread of one-off axes, polearms, and daggers. Those single weapon rows are exactly where a raw datamine gets noisy, and it is worth knowing how to read that noise before trusting any of it.

What Actually Reached the Shop

Grading the datamine against what the shop really did is where this becomes useful rather than a stale rumor. The outcomes split cleanly by month:

January 2024 (Steam-Powered Fun): the two dynamite and gadget offhands landed here, the Steamwheedle Artifact Extractor at 60 Tender.
February 2024 (Love and 1-year anniversary): the actual February shop leaned into Love-themed sets, the X-53 Touring Rocket, and the Fur-endship Fox mount. On the datamine list, only the leather Ensemble: Battlewraps of the Honored Valarjar at 600 Tender and the Ruby Felfire weapons at 400 each showed up, not the plate ensemble or the Arsenal bundle.
Later 2024 refreshes: the plate Battleplate of the Honored Valarjar, Val'sharah Protector's Battleplate, and the Void-Bound family rotated in across subsequent months.
Never shipped: the Prototype Farstrider Sniper Rifle remains in Wowhead's Unreleased Trading Post category to this day.

One more correction worth flagging: the Watcher of the Huntress owl pet was tagged like a shop item in these files, but it ultimately released as a Twitch drop in late 2024, never as a Trader's Tender purchase. And that "0 Trader's Tender" price on so many rows, plus a literal "Do not use" placeholder in the list, are the fingerprints of an early PTR pull. A live Trading Post item always has a real Tender cost, so any zero is a null to ignore rather than a bargain to chase.

Frequently Asked Questions

Were these really February 2024 Trading Post items?

No. They came from a Patch 10.2.5 PTR datamine posted 24 January 2024. The dynamite offhands shipped in January 2024, and February 2024 was the Love and 1-year-anniversary refresh instead.

What is the "explosive armament" in the title?

It is Forgehand's "Stable" Fuel Cell, an offhand cosmetic that displays a lit stick of dynamite. Its sibling is the Steamwheedle Artifact Extractor.

How much did the Steamwheedle Artifact Extractor cost?

It shipped in the January 2024 Trading Post for 60 Trader's Tender. The original datamine had listed its cost as "revealed soon."

Did the Prototype Farstrider Sniper Rifle ever release?

No. It was datamined in January 2024 but never rotated into the shop, and Wowhead still lists it under Unreleased Trading Post items.

Why did so many items show a cost of 0 Trader's Tender?

Those are datamine nulls from an early PTR build, not real prices. A live Trading Post reward always has a genuine Tender cost, so a zero simply means the value had not been set yet.

Where did the Void-Bound ensembles end up?

The Void-Bound cloth, mail, and plate sets were datamined together in January 2024 and rotated into the Trading Post across later 2024 refreshes rather than in February.

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