This is true. Buy plate not mail for warriors. It downrates to mail.

Yeah, the Orc in the picture is wearing the wrong Shoulders, get http://www.wowhead.com/item=42949 and http://www.wowhead.com/item=48685 - they will be mail from lvl1 to lvl40 when you learn Plate they'll adjust.

:)

They in fact do down/upgrade, but only if your a hunter/shaman. Same principle for plate versions.

They do, I bought a plate armor for new warrior to wear, when i put it on him turned into mail, at lvl 40 it turns into plate.

ok... I had no idea about this. Boy you talk about those little game mechanic things that everyone else takes for granted, but you somehow missed the memo on?

Jeez... I deliberatly did not buy my shammie BoAs until he learned Mail because I didn't want to get him two sets.

/focus me
/shame

doesn't matter whether you wear the plate or mail heirlooms below 40, or above 40 unless you tank a lot. below 40 the plate ones downgrade to mail, and the mail ones stay mail below 40 if you can wear mail.

While this is true, it's only applicable if you have a single alt. I'd suggest getting Leather Dps gear and Cloth caster gear. Anyone can use it, and the stats don't REALLY matter, unless you're tanking. Even then, you can save your Emblems, and buy the PVP heirlooms with Resilience, Hit rating & extra Stamina instead...

Other Hierlooms - Dagger with agility, sword with crusader, DEotB, SHoJ, Caster mace (hope to get +22 Int). Next I'll be getting a Bone bow, just because I hate hearing gunshots.

That way I could use the same set of heirlooms for my Feral Druid, Priest, Rogue, Mage, and Caster Shaman

My DK went to 80 grinding & questing with leather melee shoulders. Yeah, when I tanked instances I busted out with my Tanking shoulders in my tank gear set, but for everything else, I rocked the PVP leathers.

And before anyone asks, the reason why Rossi has those mail shoulders on instead of the plate ones is...

"thanks in great part to a set of heirlooms I had left over from pushing my orc shaman to 80."

(Meant for Vogie) I too hated the gunshots noise ... Silencer solved that problem.

Comment fail. System deleted the link for Silencer:

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/silencer.aspx