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Polished Spaulders of Valor

Item Level 187
Binds to Battle.net account

Shoulder	Plate

55 Armor
+25 Strength
+25 Stamina
+17 Critical Strike (0.96% @ L80)

Equip: Experience gained is increased by 10%.
Requires level 1 to 80 (80)

This item is part of the following transmog set: Battlegear of Valor

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Comment by Scettzvill

it seems the plate gear variant is mail up untill level 40.

http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/september/upgradeitem_11.jpg

it seems there isnt any leather gear that transfers to mail gear at level 40 for the shaman/hunter.
and if what the developrs state is final then there probably wont be any.

Comment by elitenls

Cloth stays cloth, plate turns in to mail from 1-40 and then back to plate at 40 upon training the skill, and mail turns in to leather 1-40 and then back to mail at 40 upon training the skill.

Comment by Tonarin

wow +10% exp? imagine that plus the RAF x3 exp bonus...
wow.

Comment by brez711

How do u get it?

Comment by Bandyto

Is it possible to enchant these items?

Comment by Davethesloth

This item is also one of the many new Bind to Account items.
This means you can send it to any character on your Realm/Faction.
When using a Character Realm Transfer these items will also follow you.

Comment by 1Beachcomber

L19 warrior stats:

148 armor
+6 strength
+6 stamina
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 4.

Comment by Juber

For a badge dump it's not bad. Naxx and other raids on both 10 and 25 are stupid-easy, my Hunter quickly out-geared any available badge gear that I could buy.

There's basically heirlooms and 200 emblem mammoth.

I don't see how anyone could complain about heirlooms, I'd love to have me some gear that I don't out-level and have to worry about replacing.

Comment by Ragnarok1983

Has anyone tried the ZG shoulder enchants on heirloom items?

Comment by YuriElite

I can see these as being used by 19 Warrior/Paladin twinks since there are no mail shoulders with stats at that level bracket.

Comment by zanlol

For those curious i have purchased these and the 2H axe from level 80 badges and passed them down to my alt which i am now going to attempt to transfer realms and see if it will allow me to keep the items, it should being as they are bind on account items and not bind on realm but i will continue with a follow up post.

Comment by shodaime

This item does not take durability damage.

Comment by czokalapik

You can enchant BoA items with enchants that require ilvl 1 item, or don't have requirements of ilvl and do not bind item after enchant (rep/profession-only "soulbounding enchants" cannot be used on BoA items).

Also 10% bonus stack with rested state:
<base xp>*<rested>*<shoulders>
or simply <base xp>*2,1

Additionaly every Heirloom item will change category with profession, for example you can buy Plate shoulders, and send them to warrior on 30 lvl, shoulders will "change" into Mails, and after reaching 40lvl again into Plate.

Comment by Lighter

Thinking of Leveling a Warrior / Ret Paladin / Death Knight in style?

Shoulder:

(PvE) Polished Spaulders of Valor - 40 Emblem of Heroism
(PvP) Strengthened Stockade Pauldrons - 200 Stone Keeper's Shard

Trinkets:

(PvE) Swift Hand of Justice - 50 Emblem of Heroism
(PvP) Inherited Insignia of the Horde - 250 Stone Keeper's Shard

Weapons:

All Three
(PvE) Bloodied Arcanite Reaper - 65 Emblem of Heroism
(PvP) Reforged Truesilver Champion - 325 Stone Keeper's Shard

Death Knight + Warrior Only
(PvE) Venerable Dal'Rend's Sacred Charge - 40 Emblem of Heroism
(PvP) Battleworn Thrash Blade - 200 Stone Keeper's Shard

Ranged

Warrior + Death Knight Only
(PvE) Charmed Ancient Bone Bow - 65 Emblem of Heroism
(PvP) Upgraded Dwarven Hand Cannon - 325 Stone Keeper's Shard

The alt in question must be on the same realm realm as the character you will be buying the items with. They must also be on the same faction.

Comment by Ancarma

As the situation is now, health points gained from stats on heirloom items won't get restored upon leveling up. Mildly annoying, i know. Check this yourself before downrating.

Comment by Roran

So does the 10% exp increase work with recruit-a-friend? I assume it would give you the normal bonus from monsters, can someone correct me if i'm wrong?

Comment by futcher

For those who consider buying these or any of the other "Experience gained from killing monsters increased by 10%." shoulders, I would suggest buying one of the Binds to Account weapons instead. Since the weapons are better than most equialent weapons attained at whatever level you're at, you will kill things faster and therefore it'll result in better experience gained.

Comment by tinytotz

Here's a question, could I put Heavy Knothide Armor Kit on these shoulders with my main, and send em down to an alt? It requires a lvl to use, but does not make it soulbound.

Comment by Returner99

"Interesting" maybe, but completely useless unless you plan to level several alts of the same armor class on one account and one server

It states nowhere that you're only able to buy 1 set of Heirlooms. Personally I love doing heroics, and I've gotten myself a set for my Mage, a set for my Rogues and am now farming for a set to my new Warrior.

The badge dumps of TBC(epic gems) also resulted in an awful lot of money for just a few heroics, which I don't think that Blizzard is interested in, seeing as how they've nerfed the gold drops from Pre-TBC bosses. Myself, I was able to farm heroics for a few weeks, then bought a lot of gems and sold them to one of the Black Temple(nobody had gotten further than Brutallus in SWP back then) for 4.000 gold. Which was quite a lot back then.

Besides, when I leveled my Paladin(which is now my main) in Burning Crusade, I actually bought twink gear for every 10 level for it. This is a LOT cheaper than doing that, and I can just put a few Libram enchants on the shoulders and so on.

Comment by Elfcraig

Can u send it to different realm?

Comment by Dweia

Currently, BoA shoulders can be enchanted with Greater Inscription of the Gladiator, adding 30 stamina and 15 resilience. Unknown if this is intended (probably it's not), so hurry up before it's patched away.

Comment by plopper09

Anyone knows how to end this item to another account, i've bought it with my 80 death knight on Shadowsong, but I want it on my level 9 hunter on Ravenholdt, please help me someone..

Comment by Liri

The Chromatic Mantle of the Dawn is another option if you have the rep for it. Or one of the lesser enchants.

Comment by Arnen

I'm leveling a prot paladin with a friend's priest, and I was looking at buying some heirloom gear for her. Since I tank either for a small group or in instances most of the time when I play on her, I was wondering: would I be better off with the emblem or WG items (considering I have nothing left to spend either on)?

Comment by WindsOfMarch

Anyone else have and idea who had the brilliant concept to make these the only heirloom shoulders which can't be purchased with Stone Keeper's Shards? For the love of all that's good, pure, and holy, WHY?

Comment by M4573RC

Would these stay mail for a hunter or shaman after level 40 or would they change to plate and keep them from using the shoulders?

Comment by Qtpi

As of 2/14/09, I can confirm that the 30stam 15 resil shoulder enchant currently DOES work Greater Inscription of the Gladiator. Just 10k honor, slap it on there with your main and mail it to your alt.

I know there's been discussion of this throughout this thread, but there it is. Also, you can check - Manapause on US Andorhal, she is currently using it.

Comment by Madjuh

As of Patch 3.0.9, these shoulders are no longer enchantable with the Zandalar shoulder enchants.
Just bought these and tried to use the +30 Attack power enchant and got the "Target is too low level" error message.
Contacted a GM about this and he confirmed that of the latest patch, the heirloom shoulders can no longer be enchanted with the Zandalar shoulder enchants.

Comment by Krellmax

The 10% XP bonus stacks with rest bonus.

Comment by segma

To further expand on this, the Heirloom shoulders as of patch 3.0.9 will not accept any enchant with a level requirement, save for the Greater Inscription of the Gladiator. This also applies to Inscription enchants. When you attempt to do so, it gives you the error, "Item is too low level."

Comment by Glaciusz

Right now you can enchant any heirloom shoulders with Greater Inscription of the Gladiator.
They'll probably change this later on.

Edit: didn't read the post from over a week ago

Comment by fukitsu

uhh how do these work, does the item lvl req go up as you gain lvls including def and all stats?

Comment by boodin

How much is the armor in lvl 55?

Comment by Zahabe

What happens if I enchant this with one of the Inscription shoulder enchants?

Comment by Riddel

These shoulders didn't actually gain any armor when I trained plate and they changed armor classes. I'll report back how much of a jump you get at 41.

Comment by nagala

This item changes to mail on a Warrior / Paladin below level 40

Comment by Cooperr

which enchant can be used for it?

Comment by danroe

Leeroy Jenkins aproves this item

Comment by Mylora

These now (3.1) affect Quest XP as well as kill.

Comment by eris

As of the current patch (3.1), the XP bonus from all heirloom shoulders extend to quests, so you get 10% extra experience points from both mob kills and quests. Yay!

Comment by Corgyll

You can use any shoulder-enchant on BoA-shoulders now since the change in the 3.1 patch.
But you need to fit the required lvl to gain the benefit, for example last night i enchanted my Polished Spaulders of Valor with the Scryer shoulder-enchant and it got on just fine,
but i needed to be lvl70 to gain the extra attackpower and crit.

Comment by siccvisions

the pvp 30 stam 15 resil will go on but wont work till 70, I knew it was to good to be true

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4792/lvl70.jpg

Comment by orunin

Use this macro to find the item stats at any level.
/script for i=1,80 do DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Level "..i..": \\124cffe5cc80\\124Hitem:42949:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:"..i.."\\124h\\124h\\124r"); end

Comment by XICryptoIX

Does the +xp% stack?

Comment by Bikey

Is there any chance to send it to opposite side? For example I'm ally and I want to send this to my horde alt, will it work?

Comment by powerglo

can u mail it 2 a difrent server?

Comment by Krylsia

@XICryptoIX - Only the shoulder Heirloom items grant the +10% XP gain, weapons do not. It does stack with Rested XP, however.

@Bikey and @powerglo- No, think of Heirloom items as BindToSameFaction/Server items.

Comment by Wincraft

can i send heirloom items on my other chars on same server?(ofc same faction)

Comment by Linty

This can also be bought from Dame Evniki Kapsalis for 60 champion seals. Though you have to be a Crus ader to purchase from her.

Comment by dDontMe

My friend has this Shoulder in Retail WoW. And he can solo Onyxia, and Karazhan

Comment by daihe

When I reach lvl 40, do i have to buy the plate ''skill'' to be able to wear them or do they stay mail until I buy the skill?

Comment by Grdian

lol 1/2 these items say that they give 343 SP...
I love these items tho <3
O you can also buy the PvE items with champion seals, HOWEVER u need the crusader title which means u need to be a champion/exalted with each main faction and exalted with the argent crusade (ull get 7 titles in total and alot of gold in the end if u go for it though)

Comment by Jonbino

This is a GM item.

Comment by Ejikazuma

Anyone know if it's safe to enchant these with Inscription of the Axe before passing them to an alt? Stupid question I'm sure, but I just wanna be safe before blowing my 200 SKS.

Comment by SirMelifaro

Looks extremely bad with the gear dks get from their starting zone. Makes me willing to vomit every time i have to quest in hellfire peninsula and witness that horrible mix.

Comment by JamesThePaladin

It's great to have a nice, silver set of armor while leveling through the rainbow fest that is Outland and the brown fest that is Northrend.

Comment by ni4kata

LEEROOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEEEENKINS !
I just had to add this ^^

Comment by Choumaro

Just bought:

Polished Spaulders of Valor, 40x Emblem of Triumph

Total cost of 145 emblems, send these to level 1 human paladin, enchant arcanite reaper with crusader and then just enjoy your 20% experience. I think these does stack with RaF so It'll be around 320% experience gained.

Comment by Lurelina

These look ridiculous on a level 5 female gnome warrior.

Comment by Joemeatballs

The right shoulder guard could open one giant bottle of beer....

Comment by Redbalrog

Would anyone know why these shoulders, on a Level 82 Blood specced Death Knight, give me more armor than Rescuers Shoulderguards ?

The latter shoulders are superior in every stat except crit...but crit doesn't grant me armor

The BoA shoulders have no enchants or anything...

It's just weird. Could the BoA's armor scale beyond 80?

Comment by Kuru

Just checked it in game myself. 83 fury warrior:
15278 armor with Sanctified Ymirjar Lord's Shoulderplates +20/24 STR
15486 armor with heirloom
Some WoW geek come explain this, now.

Comment by IronIron

For those that are wondering how these bind to accounts and how enchantments work here are my experiences (patch 4.2):

When you buy them from a vendor you can sell them back within a limited time like other justice/honor point items.

The item is restricted to characters on your battle.net account not just your account.

i.e. if you have two accounts within your battle net account, the item can be traded/posted to any characters on either account

If you trade the item to another character on your battle.net account (using trade window) it does not end the sell-back timer on the item. If you trade it back to the character that originally bought the item you can still sell it back to the vendor and recoup your points (if still within time).

However, posting the item does end the sell-back timer. If you only have one account this wont matter to you as you only have the option of posting. You can't trade between your own characters by using a guild bank if you were wondering.

If you have characters on both faction sides, they can post heirloom items to each other using the in game mail.

When enchanting the shoulders you want to look for the line on the enchant description that say ‘Requires Level X’. You will find you can happily inscribe the shoulders with level 85 enchants (e.g. Greater Inscription of Jagged Stone )

However, when you equip this on your alt (if they are below the ‘Requires Level X’ the enchantment text will change to red and the enchantment wont be active.

A few of the enchantments to consider are:
Inscription of the Blade
Greater Inscription of the Blade

Edit: Forgot to mention that when enchanting the items it will say that it will cause the item to bind to the character. This is not true, you can still trade/post it after enchanting it – you can even sell it back to the vendor for a refund if still within the timer.

Comment by Ishtenari

BOA Gear:
I have talked to a GM and found out the following from them...

Can not be transferred to ther Servers even though it is Binds to Battle.net Account
You can transfer it between the opposing, as long as it is the same Server
If you have multiple WOW accounts you can transfer them to another one of you Characters as long as it is the same Server

I wish since it was BOA you could move you BOA gear to another Server, the only was to do so is to have it on your Character and transfer them ($25.00 US) to the Server that you desire to have them on.

Comment by Shakzor

Does the 10% exp bonus work after 80?

Comment by frela

Anyone know why these show up red (not equipable) for my lvl 20 paladin at the Darmoon Faire vendor? Thanks. Edit: they are described as mail, usable by levels 1 to 80, and other comments indicate they convert to plate when the wearer is able to use plate. Do you already have to use plate to equip them? If so, why the 1 to 80 level description?

Comment by Oneknight1984

So, is lvl 80 wotlk boa gear viable to wear until lvl 85? I have been told many times that it works beyond lvl 80 (only the bonus xp part).

Comment by Gusstavv

For those of you asking, the +10% bonus XP doesn't work above level 80. Only the heirloom Helm, Cloak and Legs XP bonuses are available thru level 85 only.

Comment by Mookosh

As of 5.2, the Level 80 Heirloom weapons and armor can be upgraded to scale up to level 85

Cost is the original item and either Darkmoon Faire Prize Tickets, JP (for heirlooms purchasable with JP) or Honor (for PvP itemized heirlooms purchased with honor)

1-H Weapons: 2175 Honor/JP or 110 Darkmoon Faire Tickets
2-H Weapons: 3500 Honor/JP or 130 Darkmoon Faire tickets
Armor: 2175 Honor/JP or 110 Darkmoon Faire tickets
Trinkets: 2725 Honor/JP or 130 Darkmoon Faire Tickets

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