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Comment by Fluxflashor

This is one of the new Heirloom Items introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. The whereabouts of Heirloom Rings is currently Unknown but most likely will be made available through random profession dailies luck. I feel safe enough saying this since our last Heirloom ring was available from Fishing.

The following Heirlooms are unlockable through the Guild system:

Guild Reputation: Friendly

Guild Reputation: Revered

The following Heirlooms have been added during Cataclysm but whereabouts are unknown:

Heirloom Legs

Heirloom Rings

Patch 4.1 Additions
The first Major patch of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm introduced new Heirloom items that were created to help Plate classes obtain the necessary defensive stats to properly Tank dungeons.

For players interested in obtaining the many Heirloom that are available, below is a table of how they can be obtained and the price associated with each one.
Justice Points (JP) Champion's Seal (CS) Honor Points (HP)

┌────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬────────────────┐
│ SLOT │ OBTAINED FROM │ COST │
├────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ Helm │ Guild - Level 20 │ 1500G │
│ Shoulders │ WotLK - Dal/WG Vendors │ 2175JP or 60CS │
│ Chest │ WotLK - Dal/WG Vendors │ 2175JP or 60CS │
│ Legs │ Unknown │ │
│ Cloak │ Guild - Level 10 │ 1200G │
│ Ring 1 │ Kalu'ak Fishing Derby │ Win Tourney │
│ Ring 2 │ Unknown │ │
│ Trinket │ WotLK - Dal/WG Vendors │ 2725JP or 75CS │
│ Weapons* │ WotLK - Dal/WG Vendors │ 2175JP or 60CS │
└────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴────────────────┘

*PVP Weapons can be purchased for 1250HP
List of Heirloom Weapons

Experience Chart
The Following assumes FULL** Heirlooms
┌─────────────┬─────────┬─────────────┬────────────┐
│ LVL RANGE │ GUILD │ MIDSUMMER │ TOTAL XP │
├─────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│ 1-80 │ Y2 │ Y │ 60% │
│ 1-80 │ Y1 │ Y │ 55% │
│ 1-80 │ N │ Y │ 50% │
│ 1-80 │ Y2 │ N │ 50% │
│ 1-80 │ Y1 │ N │ 45% │
│ 1-80 │ N │ N │ 40% │
│ 81-85 │ Y2 │ Y │ 35% │
│ 81-85 │ Y1 │ Y │ 30% │
│ 81-85 │ N │ Y │ 25% │
│ 81-85 │ Y2 │ N │ 25% │
│ 81-85 │ Y1 │ N │ 20% │
│ 81-85 │ N │ N │ 15% │
└─────────────┴─────────┴─────────────┴────────────┘

** As of Patch 4.0.3

And finally, for everyone interested in what pieces of gear you should put together for the Ultimate Leveling Set for that special new alt of yours, I present to you a list of classes and the items that suit them best.

Tanking (Plate) Death Knight Paladin Warrior **New in 4.1**

Physical (Plate) Death Knight Paladin Warrior

Physical (Mail) Hunter Shaman

Physical (Leather) Druid Rogue

Spellcaster (Mail) Paladin Shaman

Spellcaster (Leather) Druid

Spellcaster (Cloth) Mage Priest Warlock

My apologies for some inaccurate information previously. This comment was made during the Cataclysm Beta and I just never got around to updating it. Prices have been fixed and it now looks sexier then ever.

Patch 4.1 Heirloom Update
All Heirloom items have had their bindings changed to bind to a single Battle.Net account instead of a World of Warcraft account. This change will let you transfer your items across factions, realms and even the other active World of Warcraft accounts on your Battle.Net Account.

Blizzard has also implemented Tanking Heirlooms with Patch 4.1. Please see above for their names! Links will not be live until the data is merged to the main Wowhead site.

Comment by redfinale

With all of the +exp heirloom items, you can get up to a 55% increase in experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests.
Helm: 10%
Back: 5%
Chest: 10%
Pants: 10%
Shoulders: 10%
Ring 1: 5%
Ring 2: 5%

Plus, with the other ways to gain extra experience, you can get a grand total of 375% increase in experience!
Rest exp: 100%
Recruit a friend: 200%
Guild perks: 10%
Holiday buffs: 10% (like Fire Festival Dance)
Wow, indeed.

If I'm not mistaken, the 100% exp bonus from rested and the 200% from Refer-a-Friend do NOT stack. You gain from the RaF's 200% when grouped appropriately, and burn your rested bonus of 100% when not grouped with your RaF buddy;

Comment by 36177

You took that quotation out of context ~

Q: What if I'm partied with multiple recruits with whom I'm linked? Do I get quadruple or quintuple the experience?

A: No. Although you may be linked with multiple accounts, the maximum increase you can receive at any given time is 300% —triple the normal amount.

It's actually possible to get over 300%, just not with any combination of RAF and Rested. Heirlooms -DO- work with RAF, multiplicatively, meaning, if you have the full 55% Heirloom bonus, and a 10% holiday bonus you should actually be getting a total of 495% - almost 5x experience, here's hoping it sticks around!

Edit 1: Typos.

Edit 2: Turned the Quote into an actual quote >.>;

Edit 3: Forgot about the holiday bonus too.

Edit 4: Just because. =P

Comment by Jevay

As of patch 4.0.6, neither any of the new legs nor the new rings are obtainable (yet).

Comment by 88677

Great post Flux. Wish Blizz would do a decent job of explaining to people that the heirlooms change armor level. The first heirlooms I got were for my hunter, and weren't aware of the armor change, so I got the leather. Then someone told me about it after I couldn't return it anymore. Opened a GM ticket, and got them exchanged. Was told however, that the item exchange is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, they will not do it a second time.

While the heirlooms let you level faster, and give you the constant "yay I have a blue" feel, which is fine for those of all us that suffer from "been there done that" after years of playing, there are drawbacks to them for those that like to quest.

First of all, if you want to experience the game stories, and do all the quests in a zone, although the heirlooms will make it easier to get through the content, you will very quickly outlevel the zone and doing quests that are no challenge just isn't fun for most. With Cata you already get enough xp without the heirlooms that you outlevel the zones before completing them, the heirlooms add to this and very quickly you're doing green and grey quests. And you end up having to skip zones if you want any decent xp, which ruins the story part.

When you hit the upper half of the LK content (75-80), you will hit the item level restrictions as well (the "you must be this tall to go on this ride" rule) when you try to queue for dungeons. Heirlooms count as ilvl 1, always. At lvl 80, the stats on the heirlooms are similar to ilvl 166-176 blues - the highest blue you can get before hitting the heroic dungeons is 187. Because the items count as ilvl 1, you may not be able to get into the TOC 5-man, and the 3 ICC 5-mans, through the LFD system. On normal (non-heroic) setting, TOC requires 187 avg item level, and FOS and POS require 200, HOR is higher. To get into the original LK heroics you must have avg item level of 187, heroic TOC requires 200, FOS and POS require 210, and heroic HOR requires 219.

With the heirlooms, reaching those avg item levels require you to have non-heirloom items in your gear that are much higher item level than you would need if you didn't wear heirlooms. So if you want into the highest LK dungeons, you will usually have to replace the heirlooms with normal gear.

Edit: spelling and typos

Comment by 740060

This stuff is too expensive! uggghh

Comment by 792196

Patch 4.3 is now, time to search some more for these

Comment by Reflectionize

Heirloom legs will be available with the guild achievement come MoP!

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