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Comment by Ilovemuffins

Also means all ~~battlegrounds~~ will be more competetive becuase not everyone will be in greens. you're going to see alot better geared people fighting to win so they can give the honor to their alts. great idea, blizzard!

EDIT: I think this is only aquirable in Wintergrasp, so this item isnt really to increase Battleground competetiveness, but rather World PvP.
Other Notable Wintergrasp Items, Quests, and Other Things

All these are taken from Wowhead and im not sure what most of them do aside from what they say. I did not list any placeholders.

To add, Wintergrasp offers mobs that drop Crystallized Elements to the holders of Wintergrasp, not only making it the new Elemental Plataeu, but also increasing the incentive to win.

Comment by fantom106

also a good way to store honor for those who can cap their honor points (i believe its 75k max honor? correct me if im wrong.)

Comment by annerajb

this is a 2 folded item its great for gearing up your character but gives a slight disadvantage to somebody that's experience geared for PVPas he can get more PVPgear on his alt easily. compare to somebody that's starting to PVP.

Comment by Stuke

From what I've seen at lower levels honor isn't really a problem, its getting all those marks. They should make all PVP marks Bound to Account as well.

Comment by 138584

I think the heirloom items are a nice idea. Yes the new player with no level 80 will have to play a little harder, but honestly they should. If they haven't seen a raid or how the classes work together, they need to experience that before they should be allowed to speed level an alt.

Comment by 145178

1. Get these.
2. Give them to your low lvl twinks (1000 honor is a lot for them)
3. ? ? ? ? ? ?
4. Profit

Comment by 216193

would this be the same as the other items and receive a different honor amount dependent on the character in which u use it on's lvl? similar to the honor difference from completing the daily pvp quest at 35 compared to 70.

Comment by 214102

nice should save me time on pvp gear

Comment by darkkeijp

the name makes me think that you can only get this one in the wintergrasp pvp zone. aka blizz making sure that people will go there.

Comment by 182073

cool i can go around ganking on my rogue then send honor to my warlock so he can buy some stuff. that rocks

Comment by 212003

lols a lvl 1 with battle standard

Comment by Phurox

So.. THis can be switched between characters on account? How to obtain?=

Comment by 175448

This can be gotten from Stone Guard Mukar. He is the Wintergrasp Quartermaster that spawns when Horde has Wintergrasp Fortress (I do not know the name of the Alliance NPC).

He sells them for 30 Stone Keeper's Shards.

Comment by 156505

I'd think not. The other Heirloom items have 'Requires level 1 to 80 (80)' written on them. Since this doesn't have that, I don't reckon it'll scale with level.

Comment by Extell

What does it take to get a single Stone Keeper Shard? I see there are going to be achievements for collecting them Stone Keeper's Shard Achievements

Comment by ArrantPrac

Stone Keeper Shards are acquired from Northrend dungeon bosses while your side controls Wintergrasp. In Culling of Stratholme (level 80 instance) I got 3 shards per boss, 12 shards total. I imagne the number of shards per boss is determined by the level of the instance.

Comment by 219475

Think of them as Northrend Sprit Shards.

Comment by 229399

Wait these Stone Keeper's Shard can be obtained from any instance when ur faction controls it?

Comment by Huurka

Yep.

Level 80 instances gives 3-4. Heroics gives 3-4. Lesser instances gives 1-2. Per boss :)

Comment by Primax

But actually useful, not just for chucking in your bank.

Comment by Blindguard

Uhm.. can I give this item to a low leveled char?

Comment by thinman25

yep, it's "bind to account" so any one of your characters can use it.

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 AvatarJP

In Patch 3.0.8,these will be purchasable for 9 Wintergrasp Mark of Honor each!

From the official PTR Patchnotes:

* Wintergrasp Commendations can now also be purchased for the low low price of 9 Wintergrasp Marks of Honor. Players can visit their respective Wintergrasp vendors and put those Marks of Honor to use!

Finally something useful to do with those marks =)

Comment by 270589

Can This be used for any factions Reputation?

Comment by 266952

Thats correct, im currently capped at 75k and at the moment I am stacking up Wintergrasp Commendations via:

Wintergrasp Mark of Honor
Stone Keeper's Shard

>Demoo

Comment by 149539

this makes getting the new arena sets way easier the savage sets cost 280k in total.

Comment by Femimid

Just a quick question,since it doesn`t say it scales with level,i presume it gives 2k honor at lvl 1 to? to be honest it should`have been over 20.000 honor instead,30 marks is quite high,its fast 3 HC runs and so on...40 marks and 20.000 honor would be nice for lvl 80***** atleast

Comment by weibe23

is there a limit on these? like unique 10?

if there isn't...i don't see why blizz bothers and worries about a 75K honor cap, or when they bothered to erase my 1873 honor points i had when i popped 71. their rational in a "blue post" for doing this is so players could not go to 80 and insta-pop PVP gear. or have a unfair headstart.....1873 points....lol! with these it looks like it is possible to to exactly what they claimed they were preventing? what a joke. all you need is one 80 doing PVP to gear all your alts before they ever hit 70-80

Comment by Jcez

Does anyone know if these and other items like this (BoA items) are transferrable between factions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comment by Necrolite

Confirmed, the change went live: They now only cost 9 Wintergrasp Mark of Honor.

Comment by Ravensceen

Since it's BoA you will probbably see lots of twinks with https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=18606 / https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=18607 soon.

Comment by Grakkh

As far as I can tell, these can't be bought for shards anymore, only marks.

Comment by 67571

Unfortunately, it seems it was Blizz's intention to do this. Not a bug. Blue Post here
http://www.wowblues.com/us/wintergrasp-commendation-stone-keeper-shard-14697631018.html

Edit: It seems they've reinstated the option to purchase these for the cost of 30 stone keeper's shards

Comment by 314832

you can buy 5 of them and send them to your twink char and buy the pvp shoulder enchant ^^ easy way!:)

Comment by Detolin

Those who have decked-out low-level bank alts can now give them the PvP trinket as well!

Step 1
-Buy 2xWintergrasp Commendation for 60xStone Keeper's Shard = 4,000 Honor

Step 2
-Send the Wintergrasp Commendations to your Bank Alt.

Step 3
-Run your Bank Alt to Stormwind (Alliance) or Orgrimmar (Horde) and head to the Officer's Lounge and talk to the <Officer Accessories Quartermaster>

Step 4
-Purchase your Insignia for 2,805 Honor.

Step 5
- /cackle

Comment by thewrs

The currency change really sucks. I play a protection paladin and use the pvp shoulder enchant for tanking ( farming rep blows ).

Now what am I supposed to do with all these hundreds of shards, nothing thats what. Kinda disappointed :(

Comment by SakuraX222

Its the perfect thing for those who suck at PvP (like me), just gotta at least get the stuff needed to get these.

Comment by Shielda

An added bonus for low levels who leech honor in wintergrasp for pvp gear. I have been fighting in wintergrasp on my 60 pally for extra honor and these make the honor gain all the much faster.

Comment by patrink

not any more, the honor cap is not 100k.

Comment by Skreeran

This shouldn't be in the "Quest" category on Wowhead.

Comment by Ishtar

They are back on the WG vendor for 30 Shards! Just bought 17 of these; season 6 shopping spree here I come!

Comment by AddictedPoi

The honor gain doesn't scale with level. My lvl12 mage received 2k honor.

Comment by 421626

"Lok'tar Ogar" and buffs similar, do NOT affect this.

Comment by 296501

Interestingly enough, these can be used while dead.

Comment by FranklinNoble

There's a bug reported with people using these to powerlevel inside battlegrounds.

Also might be a bannable offense. Just FYI.

Comment by FranklinNoble

No need to down-rate. It's a legitimate issue, and people should know about it. Seeing as how it's already been fixed, I don't think it's a problem anyway.

Comment by 54671

Can now turn 150 Stone Keeper Shards into a raw epic gem

Comment by Vlad

With 500 you can barely get 1 pvp item (39k) and you can farm 40k honor much faster than 500 Stone Keeper's Shard -really waste unless you don't need anything else with the Shards!

Think about it, you get 50 shards of the weekly Wintergrasp quests, ~4 from bosses in dungeons (only when you own the keep) so to earn 75k honor (cap) you would need to do spend 1125 shards, -50 from weekly so you must farm 1075 shards by other means like dungeons. That's a lot!

I may be wrong but playing on a realm where Wintergrasp is practically a Horde zone -you really don't get much shards.

Comment by Daylis

That's exactly the point of it. When you've 2-3 lvl80 toons and they dont need anything from honor anymore, you've probably got 1000+ shards accumulated on them as well. As soon as your alt dings 80, you've a very decent headstart already. Makes bg's less of a nightmare,

Comment by 284530

Why would an item you can only use once have a cooldown?

Comment by Morbanth

This item is useful if you want to roll a character on the opposite faction but on the same server since in 3.3 we can send BoA items cross-faction. Just buy 5 of these, send them to your new char and buy 1 epic gem with them. Instant 4x16 slot bags and some spending money. :)

Comment by Kuja

strangely enough, my draenei does a /train emote (with sound and animations) everytime i use one of these :P same goes with all quests that make the same animation, like most quests where you are on a cannon. heard blood elves have this same bug

Comment by 554192

can you send these marks to a character less than lvl 80?

Comment by 130946

As of Patch 3.3.3 all Marks of Honor obtained from battlegrounds will be removed from the game. Not only is this a major change to the game, but it will also allow you to get PvP gear purchased only with honor (from these) without entering a single Battleground! (I think, this might be prevented somehow..)

Patch notes to confirm:

EDIT: Spelling errors fixed.

Comment by 566172

You can now use these to buy pvp gear for your alt without needing marks first. If you have a low level toon, an 80, and like to play Wintergrasp a lot, you can get enough gear to last your alt till he makes lv80, almost. Plus the stats on the BoA gear reallly is pretty decent for leveling.

Comment by 581578

These are actually quite useful if you want to give an alt of different faction to your main some gold - like the above poster said, use 150 shards to buy 5 of these, then send them over to the character in question. Then, buy an epic gem and sell it. Rinse and repeat as many times as necessary.

Comment by 293304

Are there any items similar items to this, i.e. purchasable with honor or emblems? Wanna transfer honor from one character to another :P

Comment by Jester8652

Weird, but when you use the Commendation, you character does the train animation, but you dont hear any of the noises.

Comment by Ssateneth

You can also buy this for 30 stonekeeper's shards at the same vendor. You do not need marks of wintergrasp for this.

Comment by Kamol

Mailing this item to your alt makes it non refundable, so you can't pass Wintergrasp Mark of Honor or Stone Keeper's Shard to your alt.

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Wintergrasp Commendation

	Phase 1

Item Level 1
Binds to Blizzard account

Use: Grants you 2000 honor. (2 Sec Cooldown)

Max Stack: 250

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