Shadowlands PvP Season 3 Guide: PvP Vendors, How to Upgrade PvP Gear, and Rewards

As of June 2, 2022, Au'Dara the Heirloom broker located in Oribos next to the Flight Master sells the following bind-on-account item:

• Cosmic Equipment Chest — Contains one piece of item level 249 Unranked PvP gear. The chest can only be purchased with Conquest by a character with a 1,400 or higher rating in any PvP bracket. One chest costs 375 Conquest.

• A new Solo Shuffle PvP Brawl has been added.
• Gladiator's Distinction trinket bonus has been redesigned — Increases your Primary Stat by 175 and Stamina by 350 when in Arenas, Battlegrounds, and War Mode.

Shadowlands PvP Season 3 started on March 1, 2022.

No end date for Season 3 has been announced yet.

The Solo Shuffle brawl pits 6 players (2 healers and 4 damage dealers) against each other in exciting 3v3 Arena matches. You can only queue for the brawl solo. Play a series of short matches as teams are shuffled and earn rewards based on your performance. Solo Shuffle is permanently available and not on a rotating schedule.

You can queue up for Solo Shuffle by pressing H and picking the Solo Shuffle option and clicking on Join Battle.

The reward for winning a round of Solo Shuffle is 160 Honor and 15 Conquest, making it quite efficient for Honor farming.

You can buy gear from PvP vendors in Oribos, at 36, 57.

• Purveyor Zo'kuul sells Rank 1 (Item Level 203) Honor PvP gear.
• Zo'sorg sells Unranked (Item Level 249) Conquest PvP gear.
• Aggressor Zo'dash can upgrade Unrated PvP gear (up to Rank 7) and Rated PvP gear (up to Rank 9) for Honor.
• Strategist Zo'rak offers a couple of quests that you can complete each week:
  • Observing Arenas: Obtain 250 Conquest in Arenas to receive 2 Multi-Modal Anima Container and 500 Honor.
  • Observing Skirmishes: Obtain 250 Honor from Arena Skirmishes to receive 1 Multi-Modal Anima Container and 350 Honor.
  • Observing Teamwork: obtain Honor in Rated Battlegrounds for 1 Multi-Modal Anima Container, 175 Conquest and 750 Honor.
  • Observing the Chase requires you to enable War Mode and slay 1 player within the world for 1 Net-o-Matic 5000, 50 Conquest and 200 Honor.
  • Solo Mission: Complete 5 rounds of Solo Shuffle for 2 Multi-Modal Anima Containers, 175 Conquest, and 500 Honor.
• Zo'sorg offers a new War Mode quest called A New Deal in Patch 9.2. To complete it, you must enable War Mode and collect 150 Protoplasmic Threads in Zereth Mortis from Annelid Mudborers located at 56, 76. Upon completion, you will be given an Item Level 249 Gladiator's trinket and 500 Honor.

Honor gear starts at Rank 1 (Item Level 203) and the item cost depends on the slot.

• Amulets/Back/Wrist/Rings cost 525 Honor;
• Shoulders/Hands/Waist/Feet cost 700 Honor;
• Head/Chest/Legs cost 875 Honor;
• One-Hand Weapons cost 1,325 Honor;
• Off-Hand items cost 425 Honor;
• Two-Hand Weapons cost 1,750 Honor;
• Trinkets cost between 525 and 700 Honor.

In War Mode, Arenas, and Battlegrounds, Unrated PvP (Honor) gear scales up by 17-36 item levels.. For example, an item level 203 (Rank 1) piece of Honor gear retains item level 203 in PvE, but scales to item level 239 in PvP. However, at higher ranks, the item level increase in PvP combat and War Mode decreases. If you upgrade Honor gear to rank 7 it will have item level 242 and only scale up by 17 item levels to item level 259 in PvP situations.

Honor gear starts at Rank 1 (Item Level 203) and can be upgraded up to Rank 7 (Item Level 242) with Honor.

The upper limit of this kind of upgrade is determined by your Renown level, and players can hold a maximum of 15,000 Honor.

• Renown Level 44 is required to upgrade Unrated PvP equipment to Rank 4, and 5.
• Renown Level 59 is required to upgrade Unrated PvP equipment to Rank 6 and 7..

Talk to Aggressor Zo'dash and drag an item to the window to upgrade it. There, you will see stats of the next rank and the upgrade cost.

For better illustration, we include a table with all the information mentioned above.

The amount of Honor required to upgrade PvP items increases with ranks. The cost also depends on the armor slot of the upgraded item.

• Head, Chest, Leg Slots
  • Rank 2 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (210) and costs 500 Honor Points.
  • Rank 3 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (216) and costs 575 Honor Points.
  • Rank 4 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (223) and costs 650 Honor Points.
  • Rank 5 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (229) and costs 775 Honor Points.
  • Rank 6 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (236) and costs 900 Honor Points and the item's quality changes from Rare to Epic.
  • Rank 7 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (242) and costs 1,025 Honor Points.
• One-Hand Weapons
  • Rank 2 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (210) and costs 750 Honor Points.
  • Rank 3 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (216) and costs 875 Honor Points.
  • Rank 4 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (223) and costs 975 Honor Points.
  • Rank 5 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (229) and costs 1,175 Honor Points.
  • Rank 6 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (236) and costs 1,350 Honor Points and the item's quality changes from Rare to Epic.
  • Rank 7 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (242) and costs 1.550 Honor Points.
• Two-Hand Weapons
  • Rank 2 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (184) and costs 1,000 Honor Points.
  • Rank 3 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (190) and costs 1,150 Honor Points.
  • Rank 4 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (197) and costs 1,300 Honor Points.
  • Rank 5 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (203) and costs 1,550 Honor Points.
  • Rank 6 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (210) and costs 1,800 Honor Points and changes the item's quality from Rare to Epic.
  • Rank 7 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (216) and costs 2,050 Honor Points.
• Off Hand Items
  • Rank 2 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (184) and costs 250 Honor Points.
  • Rank 3 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (190) and costs 275 Honor Points.
  • Rank 4 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (197) and costs 325 Honor Points.
  • Rank 5 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (203) and costs 375 Honor Points.
  • Rank 6 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (210) and costs 450 Honor Points and changes the item's quality from Rare to Epic.
  • Rank 7 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (216) and costs 500 Honor Points.
• Amulets, Rings, Trinkets, Cloak, Wrists
  • Rank 2 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (210) and costs 300 Honor Points.
  • Rank 3 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (216) and costs 350 Honor Points.
  • Rank 4 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (223) and costs 375 Honor Points.
  • Rank 5 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (229) and costs 450 Honor Points.
  • Rank 6 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (236) and costs 525 Honor Points and changes the item's quality from Rare to Epic.
  • Rank 7 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (242) and costs 600 Honor Points.
• Shoulders/Hands/Waist/Feet
  • Rank 2 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (210) and costs 400 Honor Points.
  • Rank 3 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (216) and costs 450 Honor Points.
  • Rank 4 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (223) and costs 500 Honor Points.
  • Rank 5 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (229) and costs 600 Honor Points.
  • Rank 6 Upgrade adds +7 Item Levels (236) and costs 725 Honor Points and changes the item's quality from Rare to Epic.
  • Rank 7 Upgrade adds +6 Item Levels (242) and costs 825 Honor Points.

On May 10, 2022, the Conquest cap was removed.

Unranked Conquest gear starts at Item Level 249 and item costs depend on the item slot.

• Back/Wrist/Rings cost 525 Conquest;
• Shoulders/Hands/Waist/Feet cost 700 Conquest;
• Head/Chest/Legs cost 875 Conquest;
• Trinkets cost 525 and 700 Conquest;
• One-Hand Weapons cost 1,350 Conquest;
• Off-Hands/Amulets cost 450 Conquest;
• Two-Hand Weapons cost 1,800 Conquest.

Conduits on the vendor are of item level 239 and appear on the vendor automatically when your rating increases and cost 200 Conquest each.

Rated PvP (Conquest) gear scales only up by 10-13 item levels in PvP situations. For instance, an item level 246 (Rank 1) gear piece would scale to item level 259, but a Rank 7 item level 275 gear piece would scale up in PvP by 10 item levels to item level 285.

Conquest gear starts at Rank 1 (Item Level 249) and can be upgraded all the way to Rank 9 (Item Level 275) with Honor.

The upper limit upgrade is determined by your current highest rating bracket in Arenas or Rated Battlegrounds:

• Unranked — Item Level 249;
• Rank 2 Combatant I; Item Level 252;
• Rank 3 Combatant II; Item Level 255;
• Rank 4 Challenger I; Item Level 259;
• Rank 5 Challenger II; Item Level 262;
• Rank 6 Rival I; Item Level 265;
• Rank 7 Rival II; Item Level 268;
• Rank 8 Duelist; Item Level 272;
• Rank 9 Elite; Item Level 275.

Please, refer to the table below for more information.

The amount of Honor required to upgrade Conquest items increases with and is different for each armor slot. This section will be updated with the exact upgrade costs in the near future.

If you complete the Cosmic Gladiator: Shadowlands Season 3 achievement and become Gladiator in Shadowlands PvP Season 3, you will receive the Cosmic Gladiator's Soul Eater mount and the Cosmic Gladiator title. Note that Gladiator mounts are account-wide.

Vicious mounts for Season 3 are Alliance and Horde-themed Warstalker and Croaker.

You can learn more about these mounts in our collection guides for 9.2 below.