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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 Goregash

Why aren't there any stats on the other items?

Comment by 670083

With these new heirlooms your alts will be getting a huge XP advantage for being in the guild as well.
Helm=10%
Shoulder=10%
Cloak=5%
Chest=10%
Legs=10%
L Ring=5%
R Ring=5%
Total=55% ...... but with being in the guild and being rank20 (needed for helm) then you are guaranteed to have an additional 10% to that amount for getting rank12 in the guild which gives the bonus of 10% XP for kills/quests. So your wonderful new alt will be getting 65% XP normal, 265% rested (almost RaF #s) :D

Comment by 682416

So, here's my question. Do you have to be in the guild when they hit level 10, or do you suddenly gain access to it if you join up with the guild after they hit it. It'd kinda suck to join a guild but then be like, "Oh, you're already level 10. Well, I really want to be able to get the cloak, so see ya later."

Comment by 231881

Besides the +5% XP bonus this cloak has actually 4 additional stats:

+149 Agility
+224 Stamina
+99 Critical rating
+99 Haste rating

Numbers are for level 85.

Comment by 526479

Here are enchants I'd go with as a dps

Stealth - Eight agility makes it best for straight damage

Subtlety - Good while in a group or with a pet

I wouldn't recommend this for a tank over Worn Stoneskin Gargoyle Cape (Edit: Unless you're a druid), but if you use it, there are

Superior Defense

Stealth - After the change, this gives more avoidance than Dodge

Comment by 633348

I wouldn't recommend this for a tank over Worn Stoneskin Gargoyle Cape

For druid tanks the agi cloak is better then the strength cloak. But for plate tanks of course stick with the stoneskin cloak

Comment by 361381

My question is, will I be able to transfer these guild purchased items off a character in the guild?

My Horde guild is unlikely to ever unlock these, but they are real life friends.

My Alliance guild on another server is probable to get these unlocked quickly.

So will I be able to put them on an alt and server transfer them across? Can they be mailed to cross faction alts on the same server?

Comment by evlyxx

For those that are wondering the items Inherited Cape of the Black Baron, Worn Stoneskin Gargoyle Cape and Ancient Bloodmoon Cloak can be sent to all alts and the 5% bonues will apply.

I have an 85 in a level 10 guild and was able to purchase a cloak today and sent this to an unguilded character and was getting 5% extra XP when wearing the cloak to test a 2nd scenario, I sent the cloak to a character in a level 7 guild and also received the 5% XP bonus.

Comment by 22gus

Who was the Black Baron, and who did he inherit this cape from?

Comment by 761221

So, just bought this one and sent it to my alt when I realized that the armor value is way below what it should be for it's itemlvl. Anybody else find 92 armor on lvl 85 for said to be like 333ish itemlvl very low? It should be more like 500+ on lvl 85. Bug or trade-off for the other stats? Didn't see that on other heirlooms though. Any ideas? Filed a report btw just to be sure^^

Cheers

Comment by msturlese

well ... its WORN .... i think its more precisely worn out :-)

Comment by 703510

Anyone have any updates as to why the "armor" to this thing sucks SO BAD! I can understand that it has "+5 xp" but this is a hard earned item, and thus should not be docked with &*!@ty armor!

Comment by AgentMSG

So, haven't tested this with the other embroidery spells, and I'm sure it won't work if I transfer it to another character, but I did manage to get Swordguard Embroidery (rank 2) on this particular cloak. (Screenshot)

Seems to proc normally and such. Regular enchants still won't work. I bet the parachute cloak tinker engineers get would work though.

EDIT: (The character is level 85)

Comment by ilostmahbucket

Probably the best enchants for these heirloom cloaks:
Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense + 70 armor
Enchant Cloak - Dodge + 12 Dodge (this is the harder to find Ahn'Qiraj version, not the Lower City Exalted version which requires ilvl 35)
Enchant Cloak - Lesser Agility + 3 Agility
Enchant Cloak - Stealth from Ahn'Qiraj or
Enchant Cloak - Stealth from Cenarion Expedition Exalted
No good enchants for the caster cloak :(

Comment by Liri

To : Heirlooms are built to be scaled to a good blue of that item level right?
<GM> whispers: only weapons, chest pieces and shoulders.
<GM> whispers: additional BoA items are not designed to be of the same quality, this may change later in the expansion, however presently they are only intended to speed the leveling process.
To : really? When was that changed and where was that announced?
<GM> whispers: This was not announced for the additional items. However it was also not announced that they would be the same quality as the chest, shoulders and weapons either.

Comment by Bozanimal

"BEST" HEIRLOOM CLOAKS AND ENCHANTS

Physical DPS - Strength - Worn Stoneskin Gargoyle Cape
Death Knight, Paladin, Warrior

There are no Strength enchants, so Enchant Cloak - Stealth is the best available enchant for PvE, PvP, and questing, but can also be expensive or difficult to find (or both) since the formula requires exalted with Cenarion Expedition. Unfortunately, the next-greatest DPS enchant, Enchant Cloak - Lesser Agility, is vastly inferior. If you want a cheap alternative consider the defensive benefits of Enchant Cloak - Greater Resistance or Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense.

Physical DPS - Agility - Inherited Cape of the Black Baron
Druid, Hunter, Rogue, Shaman

The Enchant Cloak - Stealth enchant is the best available enchant for PvE, PvP, and questing, but can also be expensive or difficult to find (or both) since the formula requires exalted with Cenarion Expedition. Unfortunately, the next-greatest agility enchant, Enchant Cloak - Lesser Agility, is vastly inferior. If you want a cheap alternative consider the defensive benefits of Enchant Cloak - Greater Resistance or Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense.

Spellcasters - Ancient Bloodmoon Cloak
Druid, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Warlock

Currently there are zero cloak enchants that will increase your DPS. As a result, the following are your best options as a caster leveling via...

...questing, Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense. You will be taking more damage from physical attacks, on average, and it yields the largest damage reduction versus other available options as you are leveling. Best of all: It's cheap! The recipe is bought off Lorelae Wintersong, a vendor in Moonglade.
...PvP, Enchant Cloak - Greater Resistance, as you take greater magical damage in PvP than you do a PvE leveling environment. It is disproportionately good at lower levels, as well. Also: Cheap and learned from the trainer!
...random dungeon finder, Enchant Cloak - Subtlety, as it will limit your threat in a group where the tank has no idea where he is going, and thinks "cc" means "carbon copy."

Tanks - Ripped Sandstorm Cloak
Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, Warrior

If you're using a Tank cloak, odds are you are not looking to level via questing, though you may enjoy some PvP on the side. The following are your best optionsfor enchants as a tank...

...random dungeon finder, Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense is going to mitigate the most damage, is inexpensive, and readily available from most any enchanter. That said, Enchant Cloak - Stealth will benefit both your ability to generate threat and gives you a defensive bonus, if you have deep pockets.
...PvP, Enchant Cloak - Greater Resistance, as spellcasters can really dish out some pain, and the enchantment will be somewhat helpful against casters in dungeons. There is no "best" choice here, though, and what you use will depend heavily on your style of play, as the prior two suggestions would also be excellent for leveling in battlegrounds.

Comment by sandreid87

So my cloak says ingame:

"Equip: Experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 5%."

But I've just tested it, and that is NOT correct:
Mining a Saronite Vein in Scholozar Basin as a level 72 Druid (with Heirloom Helm, Chest and Shoulders, while rested) I get 5.740 exp. But if I equip this cloak and mine the exact same kind of Saronite Vein, I get 5.944 exp instead (204 exp more).

This heirloom, along with all other heirloom cloaks, should say "Equip: Experience gained is increased by 5%." instead.

...Unless herbing and mining is considered "killing", and veins and herbs are considered monsters, of course ^^

Comment by 835551

It's black and looks longer than your average cape of the black baron

Comment by 616859

The cloak says:

"Equip: Experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 5%."

whereas, the helm and the chest pieces say something like:

"Experience increased 10%"..

So. I'm wondering if the cloak gives an extra 5% xp in battlegrounds.. There's no question that the helm and chest give an xp bonus in bg's, but do you see why it is confusing because of the way things are worded?

This would be good to know because I would want to get a pvp cape if I couldnt get an xp bonus from this cape in battlegrounds.

Comment by 980812

Hi,
Do i have to have cata instaled to buy this item?

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Inherited Cape of the Black Baron

Item Level 1
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573 Armor
+149 Agility
+224 Stamina

Requires level 1 to 85 (85)
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 99.
Equip: Improves haste rating by 99.
Equip: Experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 5%.

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This item can be purchased in Thunder Bluff (6), Ironforge (5), The Exodar (5), Darnassus (4), Shattrath City (4), Undercity (4), Dalaran (3), Orgrimmar (2), Silvermoon City (2), and Stormwind City .

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