Shadowlands PvP Season 4: PvP Vendors, How to Upgrade PvP Gear, and Rewards (9.2.5)

Season 4 is the final season of Shadowlands, and acts as something of an experiment compared to traditional content seasons before it. Although it features its own share of collectible mounts, titles, and achievements along with a bump in gear item levels, all of the dungeons and raids will be a little more familiar than usual...

Shadowlands Season 4 starts on August 2, 2022. It is expected to end with the prepatch for the upcoming Dragonflight expansion, due out by the end of 2022.

• Aspirant and Gladiator item level rewards are increased by 26. This also applies to rewards chosen from the weekly Great Vault;
• Conquest will have a higher weekly cap than previous seasons;
  • As of the weekly reset on August 16th, 2022, Conquest has no cap and the Spoils of War buff is once again active.
• A new variant of the Souleater mount is available ( Eternal Gladiator's Soul Eater) to be earned for players who can earn the Gladiator: Shadowlands Season 4 achievement.
• A new weapon illusion: Eternal Flux.
• New vicious mounts — Vicious Warstalker/ Vicious Warstalker;
• A new title — "Eternal gladiator" — is up for grabs for the elite few players who will earn Eternal Gladiator: Shadowlands Season 4 at the end of the season.
• The Vessel of Profound Possibilities no longer requires any extra achievements to be purchased on a character, instead requiring 10,000 Cosmic Flux.

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

• Purveyor Zo'kuul sells Rank 1 (Item Level 229) Honor PvP gear.
• Zo'sorg sells Unranked (Item Level 275) 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.

Honor gear starts at Rank 1 (Item Level 229) 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 229 (Rank 1) piece of Honor gear retains item level 229 in PvE, but scales to item level 265 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 268 and only scale up by 17 item levels to item level 285 in PvP situations.

Honor gear starts at Rank 1 (Item Level 229) and can be upgraded up to Rank 7 (Item Level 268) 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 Ranks 4 and 5.
• Renown Level 59 is required to upgrade Unrated PvP equipment to Ranks 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. In the table below you can see how much honor it costs per individual upgrade level depending on the slot, with the total amount of honor required to reach that rank in parentheses.

At the start of the season, Conquest will again have a weekly cap, although this value will be higher than it was in previous seasons.

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

• Head/Chest/Legs cost 875 Conquest;
• Shoulders/Hands/Waist/Feet cost 700 Conquest;
• Back/Wrist/Rings cost 525 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 275 (Rank 1) gear piece would scale to item level 288, but a Rank 9 item level 301 gear piece would scale up in PvP by 10 item levels to item level 311.

Conquest gear starts at Rank 1 (Item Level 275) and can be upgraded all the way to Rank 9 (Item Level 301) with Honor.

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

• Unranked — Item Level 275;
• Rank 2 Combatant I — Item Level 278;
• Rank 3 Combatant II — Item Level 281;
• Rank 4 Challenger I — Item Level 285;
• Rank 5 Challenger II — Item Level 288;
• Rank 6 Rival I — Item Level 291;
• Rank 7 Rival II — Item Level 294;
• Rank 8 Duelist — Item Level 298;
• Rank 9 Elite — Item Level 301.

Please, refer to the table below for more information.

The amount of Honor required to upgrade Conquest items increases with each rank and is different for each armor slot, operating similarly to the aspirant gear table above.

If you complete the Gladiator: Shadowlands Season 4 achievement and become Gladiator in Shadowlands PvP Season 4, you will receive the Eternal Gladiator's Soul Eater mount and the Eternal Gladiator title. Note that Gladiator mounts are account-wide.

Vicious mounts for Season 4 are Alliance and Horde-themed Warstalkers.