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Holy Paladin PvP Gear - Patch 3.1

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There have been a number of changes to how we obtain PvP gear in Patch 3.1 and an entire new tier of gear we can obtain.  In this post, I’ll go over the different PvP gear we have available, how to get them, and then what order I’m going to get them in.

Archavon

Archavon can drop 3 pieces of PvP gear and is the easiest source of this gear in the game.  He also drops some great PvE gear.  Make sure to kill him every week for your chance at the loot.

10-man

25-man

Emalon

If your group is capable of downing him, Emalon is also the easiest source of some of the best PvP gear in the game and should be killed every week.  He drops a large number of off-set PvP gear.

10-man

25-man

Spending your Emblems of Heroism

The gear you can get with Emblems of Heroism haven’t changed at all, but I’ll list it here for completeness.  These are blue PvP items.  I would buy the shoulders and head first, since they don’t come from Archavon.

Spending your Emblems of Valor

You get Emblems of Valor from 25-man Naxxramas and 10-man Ulduar.  This gear hasn’t changed in 3.1 either.  Again, I would buy the shoulders and head first.

Spending your Emblems of Conquest

Emblems of Conquest can only be obtained from 25-man Ulduar.  However, if you’re really awesome and have a ton of these lying around, you can get some awesome PvP gear to go with your awesomeness.

Spending your Honor Points

Honor Points are one of the easiest PvP resources to get and there’s a ton of stuff to buy with them.  Most of us get Honor Points just by doing the occasional Wintergrasp or Battleground and completing the quests.  If you’re serious about PvP, you can spend all day in battlegrounds and accumulate quite a lot.  Here’s a list of the ways you can spend them without needing any Arena Rating.  If you have at least a 1250 Rating, you can buy many of the equivalent Deadly pieces for only a bit more honor.  If you have a 1400 Rating, you can start buying Furious Gladiator items for Honor alone.  Most of these can be purchased from the Officer’s Barracks in Stormwind or Ogrimmar.  The set pieces can be purchased from the Dalaran sewers.  Think of this as your shopping list.  Below is the list of items that require no Arena Rating.

Spending your Arena Points

Below is the list of gear you can get with an Arena Rating of 1500 or less.  If you can get above a 1500 Arena Rating, then you can get the remaining Furious Gladiator PvP gear not listed here from the Officer’s Quarters and the Dalaran Sewers.

Spending your Stone Keeper’s Shards

Stone Keeper’s shards are obtained by running dungeons while your faction has control of Wintergrasp and from Wintergrasp quests.  They are mainly used to buy PvP enchants for your head and shoulders, to buy your PvP meta gem, and to buy yellow PvP Resilience gems.  You can also get your PvP Trinket using these shards.   There’s also a couple pieces of gear you can get, but they’re not really very good.  You can use your shards to help gear your alts if that’s your thing.  The best use for them though is to turn in 30 for 2000 extra Honor Points.  If you’re a jewelcrafter, you can also buy a number of recipes.  These or Honor can be purchased from the Wintergrasp Quartermaster in Wintergrasp.

Spending your Marks of Honor

You can exchange your Marks of Honor for Honor Points using the Concerted Efforts quest.  You can also use them to purchase mounts in Stormwind or Ogrimmar.  You can actually get a nice off-set PvP head, foot, belt, and chest piece and trinkets (or replace the classic PvP trinket) from Wintergrasp Marks of Honor.

Gearing Strategy

Here is what my gearing strategy for PvP will be:

  1. Run Archavon and Emalon every week, both 10 and 25-man.
  2. Do at least 10 Arena matches each week.
  3. Run Wintergrasp as much as possible.
  4. Spend the rest of my free time in various battlegrounds (if I have any free time).

I’m going to save up my Wintergrasp Marks of Honor for Flow of Knowledge.  After I get that, I’ll consider purchasing the belt and boots, then the chest and head.  For honor, I’m mainly just going to go down the list, purchasing the cheapest items first.  I’ll buy the set items once I get enough Arena Points.  Once I get above 1250 Rating, I’ll start buying the improved set and off-set items.  If I get lucky and get an item in VoA, I’ll just skip over what I was planning on buying (or toss out what I have if it was an upgrade).  That’s my gear strategy.  Enjoy your PvP adventures!

Related Links

  • Holy Paladin Arena Rating Gear
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    7 Responses to “Holy Paladin PvP Gear - Patch 3.1”

    1. whats the PvP spec u use?

    2. I use a 49/2/20 build. You can see the details in this post:

      http://www.holypaladin.net/index.php/holy-paladin-31-pvp-talents

    3. Seriously, Thanks for the time and effort in putting this together…It’s been really helpful. Just wondering if you have considered mentioning the new JC craftable non unique rings and neckpieces in there for filler spaces. With the low cost of mats required to make any of them it seems like they would be a great alternitive to purchasing them with honor immediately allowing players to focus on other pieces first. Just a thought. Thanks again for the guide.

    4. What gems do you suggest for healing in PvP?

    5. We talk about gems/enchants a little more in the PvP Healing Guide article, but you should start off gemming and enchanting all your PvP gear with Resilience and Stamina, or possibly Resilience and Spell Power. If you get to the point where you can’t be burned down and the main reason you’re losing is because your partner died or you are running out of mana, then you can start gemming more spell power/crit/intellect.

      In general, you want to gem and enchant for your weakness. If you’re dying a lot, go for stamina and resilience. If you’re running out of mana, go for Intellect and crit. If your partner is dying, go for spellpower and crit. If you haven’t done arenas before, go for resilience first and then stamina and maybe some spell power.

    6. Greetings. Excellent article, thank you for writing it. I am seriously doing arena for first time this season ( only dabbled in past ) in 2’s. My question is how much resiliance do you consider acceptable before switching to spellpower/stam/crit? ( not nec in that order ) I am not being bursted down by any means but as you said, soon as match opens, I have dps right on my tail and I am attempting to LOS them while keeping my pet DK up….

      I have 750 resil now with 1950ish spellpower, 20k health and 14k mana. Hopefully soon I am going to start getting the earned arena gear and looking to chant and gem them properly. Thanks for your time!

    7. I think your stats are pretty normal, Franchi. I personally have more resilience and health, but I think I may have too much. My spell power is lower than yours, although my mana is slightly higher.

      Your stats will probably need to change as you increase your arena rating. You’re going to need even more resilience and stamina as you increase, but hopefully your spell power and mana are also going up, or at least not going down much. At the higher rankings, the game becomes more about skill and less about gear - knowing when to break and use CC, who to target, when to blow your mana and when to save it, avoiding mana burns, etc. Resilience and stamina are always important stats though.

      It also really depends on how you play. If you’re a little more offensive oriented and want to get matches done quickly, you’re going to want to increase your healing stats more so you have more mana to burn and your shocks and judgements hit harder. If you’re willing to stick it out though through 10 - 30 minute matches, stack more resilience and stamina at the cost of not being able to help as much bursting someone down and drawing out the match.

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