This item is acquired in-game. See its sources below.
An Uncommon Plate Shoulder, item level 13, requires level 10, binds when picked up.
First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight (patch 12.0.7)).
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
Plate is the armor type Death Knight, Paladin and Warrior wear. With Strength or Intellect, Nightforged Shoulderguards suits Arms, Fury and Protection Warrior; Holy, Protection and Retribution Paladin; Blood, Frost and Unholy Death Knight.
Nightforged Shoulderguards is part of the transmog set Nightforged Felplate (Warrior, Paladin and Death Knight only). The other 16 pieces:
Cloak of the White Prowler
Petrified Husk Girdle
Vambraces of Fel Crust
Tenderized Breastplate
Two-Toed ThrashstompersDread Commander's Pauldrons
Shadowed Grips of the Nathrezim
Helm of Domatrax
Felguard Destroyer's LegplatesNightforged HandguardsNightforged ArmplatesNightforged GreatbootsNightforged WargreavesNightforged WaistguardNightforged ChestpieceNightforged WarhelmBuilt from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Nightforged Shoulderguards uses icon file 1536645, which 23 other items also use. The 8 closest by item ID:
Xorothian Shoulderguards ID 240545 · Armor - Plate · item level 13Moonshatter Mantle ID 240655 · Armor - Plate · item level 13Ensemble: Cruel Combatant's Scaled Armor ID 147694 · ConsumableEnsemble: Cruel Combatant's Scaled Armor ID 147693 · ConsumableEnsemble: Cruel Combatant's Plate Armor ID 147692 · ConsumableEnsemble: Cruel Combatant's Plate Armor ID 147691 · ConsumableEnsemble: Cruel Combatant's Dreadplate Armor ID 147678 · ConsumableEnsemble: Cruel Combatant's Dreadplate Armor ID 147677 · ConsumableBlizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 240281 (240276 to 240286) were usually added in the same batch as Nightforged Shoulderguards: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.
Nightforged Armplates ID 240276 · Armor - Plate · item level 13Nightforged Greatboots ID 240277 · Armor - Plate · item level 13Nightforged Wargreaves ID 240278 · Armor - Plate · item level 13Nightforged Waistguard ID 240279 · Armor - Plate · item level 13Nightforged Chestpiece ID 240280 · Armor - Plate · item level 13Nightforged Warhelm ID 240282 · Armor - Plate · item level 13
Bloodforged Handguards ID 240283 · Armor - Plate · item level 13
Bloodforged Vambraces ID 240284 · Armor - Plate · item level 13
Bloodforged Sabatons ID 240285 · Armor - Plate · item level 13
Bloodforged Wargreaves ID 240286 · Armor - Plate · item level 13The raw ItemSparse values for item 240281 in the current client build.
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files: Item, ItemSparse, Lock, Holidays, AreaTable and CollectableSourceVendor.
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