Of course, you know of Heirlooms. You can buy them for honor points, justice points, champion’s seal, Darkmoon Prize Tickets and others. If you are in a guild and it has the necessary levels and achievement, you can buy heirloom for gold.
Now, in Cataclysm, Blizzard introduced Archeology Heirlooms. Well, they are not really heirlooms like the one we are used to: they don’t scale with your level. They don’t give extra XP and they will demand a certain level.
They followed up with that in Pandaria. Did you know that you could just pick up weapon, necklace, etc. all around Pandaria?
These objects are bound to account, so you can send them around to the characters who need or want them. They are lying around Pandaria, waiting for you, or for someone else, to pick them up. They are blue items, usable from level 86 and have excellent stats.
Most of them have stats as good as the weapons you get at level 90 from the scenario Arena of Annihilation. My warrior here, on the picture, is using the Swarming Cleaver of Ka’roz (8,382 – 12,575 Damage – 2,910 damage per second – + 797 Strength – + 1,195 Stamina +570 Haste +466 Critical Strike, of course, enchanted with Dancing Steel). When she is over with it, she will send it to my Death Knight (who is only 85 at the moment).
The same object can be generally found different places on Pandaria, but once you have found an object with one character, you won’t be able to see this object anymore. Be very careful: If your bags are filled, and you don’t have any free space, the game will register that you took the object, and you won’t be able to pick it up again after you freed your slot.
In theory, you can pick these objects up with any character able to move around in Pandaria, but of course, it will be best to go hunting with a level 90 who can fly and to defend itself in case of attack by mobs or players of the opposite faction.
I give you here the list of the objects, you can find around and where you can find them. They may not be all in this list, but there are many of them. You will have to have TomTom installed to be able to see these on the map.
Most of these things are part of an achievement called “Lost and Found”. If you want the achievement, you will also have to find different gray items (but most of them can be vendored for about 100 gold).
If you want a more complete list, you can download an add on from curse.com called “LostTreasures”, it will show you the waypoints of all the treasures necessary for the achievement. You will have to have TomTom installed. You can download the add on from your curse client or from http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/losttreasures
Good hunting!
/way The Jade Forest 47.1 67.4 Ancient Jinyu Staff
/way The Jade Forest 46.2 71.2 Ancient Jinyu Staff
/way The Jade Forest 44.9 64.6 Ancient Jinyu Staff
/way The Jade Forest 43.0 11.6 Hammer of Ten Thunders
/way Dread Wastes 66.8 63.8 Blade of the Prime
/way The Jade Forest 46.1 29.1 Ancient Pandaren Mining Pick
/way The Jade Forest 44.1 27.0 Ancient Pandaren Mining Pick
/way The Jade Forest 43.8 30.7 Ancient Pandaren Mining Pick
/way Krasarang Wilds 52.3 88.7 Barrel of Banana Infused Rum
/way Dread Wastes 28.8 41.9 Blade of the Poisoned Mind
/way Dread Wastes 25.9 50.3 Bloodsoaked Chitin Fragment
/way Dread Wastes 30.2 90.8 Dissector's Staff of Mutation
/way The Jade Forest 41.8 17.6 Hammer of Ten Thunders
/way Kun-Lai Summit 51.5 74.0 Hozen Warrior Spear
/way Dread Wastes 33.0 30.1 Amber Encased Necklace
/way Dread Wastes 48.7 30.0 Malik's Stalwart Spear
/way Valley of the Four Winds 15.4 29.1 Staff of the Hidden Master
/way Krasarang Wilds 50.8 49.3 Pandaren Fishing Spear
/way Valley of the Four Winds 17.5 35.7 Staff of the Hidden Master
/way Dread Wastes 56.8 77.6 Swarming Cleaver of Ka'roz
/way Valley of the Four Winds 19.1 37.9 Staff of the Hidden Master
/way Valley of the Four Winds 15.0 33.7 Staff of the Hidden Master
/way Valley of the Four Winds 19.0 42.5 Staff of the Hidden Master
/way Kun-Lai Summit 71.2 62.6 Stash of Yaungol Weapons
/way Kun-Lai Summit 70.0 63.8 Stash of Yaungol Weapons
/way Dread Wastes 54.2 56.4 Swarmkeeper's Medallion
/way Kun-Lai Summit 44.7 52.4 Tablet of Ren Yun
/way Dread Wastes 71.8 36.1 Wind-Reaver's Dagger of Quick Strikes
/way The Jade Forest 39.4 7.3 Wodin's Mantid Shanker
/way Townlong Steppes 66.3 44.7 Yaungol Fire Carrier
/way Townlong Steppes 66.8 48.0 Yaungol Fire Carrier
/way The Jade Forest 39.26 46.65 Jade Warrior Statue
/way Dread Wastes 42.0 62.2 Glinting Rapana Whelk
/way Krasarang Wilds 42.3 92.0 Equipment Locker
/way Dread Wastes 42.2 63.6 Glinting Rapana Whelk
/way Dread Wastes 41.6 64.6 Glinting Rapana Whelk
/way Valley of the Four Winds 45.4 38.2 Ghostly Pandaren Craftsman
/way Valley of the Four Winds 43.5 37.4 Cache of Pilfered Goods
/way Kun-Lai Summit 74.7 74.9 Sprite's Cloth Chest
/way Valley of the Four Winds 46.8 24.6 Ghostly Pandaren Fisherman