World of Warcraft Shadowlands reintroduced PvP vendors to the game, and it's definitely worth checking out earn and upgrade PvP gear on the offer. Since there are no more dedicated PvP stats, many items in PvP can be used in PvE, and vice-versa. This means you can harvest honor and even conquest points from “casual” PvP, then use them to upgrade your loadout and gear up for content of your choosing.
Earn PvP gear in Shadowlands by spending honor or conquest points and upgrade it with honor.
PvP gear in Shadowlands can be purchased from Oribos vendors, which are located at the western end of town in the Enclave. PvP gear is silly and simple to earn – participate in PvP to earn honor or conquest points, then spend those points at the vendor to buy the gear you want. There is a catch to PvP Conquest gear, however.
Conquest points mostly come from rated PvP. Daily skirmishes and brawls in the Arena provide a total of 30 points, but that's only a total of 210 Conquest Points for the week. This is less than half of the weekly cap of 550. Speaking of the cap, it will increase each week by another 550, but the Conquest Points you have on hand will still count towards the cap. So if you have 550 in week 550 and don't spend it, you can only earn another 2 in week XNUMX.
Honor points can be farmed without limit, so you can acquire Honor PvP gear at any rate that suits you. Keeping Honor uncapped has another benefit: it's used to upgrade both Honor and Conquest PvP Gear. So, once you have earned your conquest gear, you can use regular old honor to increase its item level. This not only creates a more robust endgame and leveling path for PvP players, but it ensures that normal PvP modes remain populated.
Upon launch, Honor PvP gear starts at item level 158 (rank 1) and conquest at 200 (unranked). Honor Gear caps out at Rank 5, but Conquest Gear can technically be upgraded without limit starting in Season 1 Week 2. The amount of Honor required to upgrade PvP Honor Gear and conquest increases with each rank, so while conquest gear may not have a superior. limit, the amount of Honor needed will eventually act as a soft wall.
With the reintroduction of PvP gear vendors, it's easier than ever to be a dedicated PvP player and keep up with the PvE crowd. Hell, this is an equally viable way to catch up on gear if you're a raider or a mythic dungeon, as earning and upgrading PvP gear is an almost braindead process (winning your side matches).
Remember that you need a party to queue in Ranked PvP, but that's what the party finder and communities are for. If that's a bit too much, you can always clear your Daily Skirmish and Brawl for some Conquest Points. Alternatively, new players or alts can access PvP in normal and mythic raid dungeons when regular dungeons prove too stingy.
