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What Are the Valor Upgrade Costs in Patch 9.0.5?

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Blizzard is bringing back Valor in Patch 9.0.5, and the currency is used to upgrade Mythic Dungeon Gear, but what are the upgrade costs?

The Red Rogue discovered the exact upgrade costs of gear with ValorValor in Patch 9.0.5 with a few missing slots, but before we go through them, let's talk about how the whole system works.

Item Ranks and Upgrades

Every item from dungeons in Patch 9.0.5 is given a rank based on their Item Level, as you can see on the tooltip.

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The items go from Rank 1 (Item Level 184) to Rank 12 (Item Level 220).

This also applies to Great Vault loot. For example, if you receive Item Level 200 from the weekly chest, it will be of Rank 6/12.

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Base Mythic Gear (Item Level 184) can be upgraded to Item Level 200 without any requirements. All the higher rank upgrades are gated behind various achievements that require you to complete all Shadowlands Season 1 dungeons at Mythic Level 5, 10, and 15 within the time limit.

In other words, if you want to upgrade Dungeon Gear to Item Level 220, you must complete all 8 Shadowlands Season 1 dungeons at Mythic 15 or above, within the time limit.

We summarized everything explained above in the following table:

Item Rank Item Level Requirements
1 184 No Requirements
2 187 No Requirements
3 190 No Requirements
4 194 No Requirements
5 197 No Requirements
6 200 No Requirements
7 203 Shadowlands Keystone Explorer: Season One Shadowlands Keystone Explorer: Season One
8 207 Shadowlands Keystone Explorer: Season One Shadowlands Keystone Explorer: Season One
9 210 Shadowlands Keystone Conqueror: Season One Shadowlands Keystone Conqueror: Season One
10 213 Shadowlands Keystone Conqueror: Season One Shadowlands Keystone Conqueror: Season One
11 216 Shadowlands Keystone Master: Season One Shadowlands Keystone Master: Season One
12 220 Shadowlands Keystone Master: Season One Shadowlands Keystone Master: Season One

It's important to note that you can't upgrade gear obtained before Patch 9.0.5, which means you must re-farm everything when the patch goes live.

Valor Caps

You can have a maximum of 8,750 ValorValor, but the cap starts at 5,000 and increases by 750 each week. Blizzard also said one character could only hold 1,500 ValorValor at a time, but that may have been scrapped in the end.

  • 9.0.5 Week 1 Maximum Cap: 5,000
  • 9.0.5 Week 2 Maximum Cap: 5,750
  • 9.0.5 Week 3 Maximum Cap: 6,500
  • 9.0.5 Week 4 Maximum Cap: 7,250
  • 9.0.5 Week 5 Maximum Cap: 8,750
  • Weekly Cap: N/A

Upgrade Costs

Now that we know more about item ranks and caps, we are looking at how much ValorValor you will need for upgrades.

All the data is provided by The Red Rogue, who also uploaded a handy video about the whole system. You can follow him on YouTube.

You can upgrade gear by bringing it to Aggressor Zo'dash <Facilitator of Conflict> located in the Enclave of Oribos.

The upgrade process is straightforward and works just like upgrading PvP or Covenant gear.

The upgrade costs are different for each slot.

  • Off-Hands, Rings, Cloaks, Bracers, Necks cost 250 ValorValor per upgrade.
  • Shoulders, Gloves, Trinkets, Boots, Belts cost 400 ValorValor per upgrade.
  • Helms, Chests, Legs cost 475 ValorValor per upgrade.
  • 1-Handed Agility Weapon costs 500 ValorValor per upgrade
  • 1-Handed Intellect Weapon costs 750 ValorValor per upgrade.
  • 2-Handed Weapons cost 1,000 ValorValor per upgrade.
  • The costs of 1-Handed Strength Weapons and Shields remain unknown for now, but based on PvP Upgrade costs, a 1H Weapon + Shield upgrades together should cost the same amount of ValorValor per upgrade just like a 2H weapon, so 500 ValorValor per item per upgrade (needs confirmation).
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Hiya, folks. ^^ Thank you so much for the shout-out/sharing this info with everyone. As a heads up I did find out via one of my patrons the cost for shield upgrades so far on the PTR- 250 valor. Not sure on 1-Handed Strength weapons still, my guess is 500 but I guess we'll find out in a couple days. If you folks need/want any screenshots I had from the testing I'd be more than happy to sent them your way, just not sure who to reach out to about that. Have a great day!

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I'm not really too thrilled to refarm the pieces that I've gotten so far but it is what it is.  Thank you TheRedRogue for the video and explaination.

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1 hour ago, Krimzin said:

I read somewhere 35/50/75 for Green/Blue/Purple Callings.

135 For Mythics, but not sure what level M+ though

 

That sounds pretty crazy just like I imagined. The slow gearing expansion.

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Do we know if the Keystone Explorer achievement will be granted immediately when logging on this week for toons who have previously cleared all the +5s, or will we have to complete them all again now that the achievement exists?

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