Tabard

A tabard refers to a type of clothing bearing a symbol or design and worn in the tabard equipment slot over a character's chest armor. Originally a purely cosmetic item intended to add individuality to a character's look, similar to a shirt, they now often signal an adventurer is championing a cause and thus offer reputation for wearing one in a dungeon.
==Overview==
Historically, a tabard serves both as a sleeveless shirt or coat (often over armor), and as a means of displaying heraldry (as livery). For players, it can show membership in a guild or (for roleplay purposes) allegiance to a particular group, boast of deeds performed, or simply be decorative.
The only tabard available to players upon the release of World of Warcraft was the guild tabard. The release of battlegrounds and the honor system saw a variety of new tabards introduced, identifying a player's rank or standing with a particular battleground faction. The Scourge Invasion also added a small number of tabards. In World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, each faction in Outland was given its own tabard, available at status. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King continues this trend, but has lower (or no) reputation requirements and instead utilizes faction tabards in a system known as championing for farming reputation.
Patch 3.0.2 introduced the achievement system, which includes rewards for tabard collectors. The following Collections achievements are granted for obtaining 1, 10, 25 and 30 tabards respectively: Represent, Ten Tabards, Twenty-Five Tabards and Thirty Tabards, with the Twenty-Five Tabards achievement granting the Tabard of the Achiever. Blizzard has voiced a desire to alleviate the amount of bag space taken up by tabards as has been done with mount and non-combat pet collections (which grant similar achievements), but has said that tabards with on-use effects are an issue.Greg Street on Twitter: "Agree. We just have to solve a few that have a clicky effect like teleports." However, keeping tabards is not required for the achievement; only equipping them. You can equip and sell or delete each tabard as you get it, and it will still count toward the achievement. Some tabards can be discarded and repurchased or reacquired at a tabard vendor. These generally include rewards from non-repeatable quests and achievements (such as the Green Trophy Tabard of the Illidari).
==Reputation==
Throughout The Burning Crusade, tabards were ways to exhibit the fact that you had achieved Exalted reputation with the various factions. When Wrath of the Lich King was released, tabards changed modes. The Northrend faction tabards were purchasable at Friendly reputation and enabled players to gain reputation while defeating monsters in high-level dungeons.
Northrend faction tabards award reputation while defeating monsters in Northrend heroic-mode dungeons and a few normal dungeons that had been tuned for level 80 characters.
In Cataclysm, the city tabards that had been introduced with the Argent Tournament were given reputation-enhancing abilities as well. The various factions introduced with Cataclysm also had tabards which could be used to gain reputation by defeating monsters in high-level Cataclysm dungeons.
==Tabard vendors==
There are, generally, two types of vendor that tabards can be purchased from.
Tabards associated with a faction are almost always available from the Quartermasters for that faction.
Visitor's Centers in most major cities have tabard vendors who sell Guild tabards. They also sell:
*Burning Crusade faction tabards
*Honor rank tabards
*Battleground tabards
These additional tabards have the same purchase restrictions and costs from the visitor's center vendor as they do from the relevant quartermaster.
==Guild tabards==
Guild tabards can be purchased for from a guildmaster in the Visitor's Center of any faction capital city. Guild leaders can customize the symbol and color scheme of the guild's tabard for .
See below for web-based tabard design tools.
Once your tabard crest has been created, it will take another every time you wish to make a change to it.
==Honor rank tabards==
Honor rank tabards are an honor reward for PvP fighting under the Honor System (battlegrounds).
Enlisted tabards were available for at rank one Private (Legacy) and Scout (Legacy)).
*Private's Tabard is blue with a gold lion design on the front of it, essentially what Stormwind guards wear.
*Scout's Tabard is red (more accurately a very deep orange) with the Horde's emblem and white trim.
Private's Tabard and Scout's Tabard are purchasable from all tabard vendors (except Dalaran's) for . 
Private's Tabard.jpg|Private's Tabard
Scout's Tabard.jpg|Scout's Tabard
Officers' tabards were available for at rank six Knight (Legacy) and Stone Guard (Legacy)). Somewhat more glorified, these look similar to the enlisted tabards, but are significantly more detailed.
*Knight's Colors
*Stone Guard's Herald
Similarly, these tabards are now purchasable for .
Knight's Colors.jpg|Knight's Colors
Stone Guard's Herald.jpg|Stone Guard's Herald
==Battleground tabards==
Battleground tabards can be obtained at various reputation with each faction through vendor purchase or quest completion. These tabards have a unique appearance.
Alterac Valley tabards are purchasable from all tabard vendors (except Dalaran's) and the Supply Officers at the entrance to either BG for . 
*Stormpike Battle Tabard has a red backdrop with golden trim. It bears an emblem of a spear with a golden bolt at the bottom. 
*Frostwolf Battle Tabard has a blue backdrop with silver metallic trim. It bears a stylized white wolf's head inside a white circle.
Stormpike Tabard.jpg|Stormpike Battle Tabard
Frostwolf Tabard.jpg|Frostwolf Battle Tabard
Arathi Basin tabards are available upon attaining reputation with League of Arathor or Defilers and completing Control Five Bases or Take Five Bases.
*Arathor Battle Tabard
*Battle Tabard of the Defilers
League of Arathor Tabard.jpg|Arathor Battle Tabard
Defilers Tabard.jpg|Battle Tabard of the Defilers
Warsong Gulch tabards are purchasable from all tabard vendors (except Dalaran's) and the Supply Officers at the entrance to either BG for .
*Silverwing Battle Tabard
*Warsong Battle Tabard
Silverwing Tabard.jpg|Silverwing Battle Tabard 
Warsong Tabard.jpg|Warsong Battle Tabard 
The Tabard of Conquest is awarded to players who complete the Master of Isle of Conquest achievement.
Tabard of Conquest (Alliance).jpg|Tabard of Conquest (Alliance)
Tabard of Conquest (Horde).jpg|Tabard of Conquest (Horde)
==Arena tabards==
During the Relentless, Furious and Wrathful seasons, arena tabards appropriate to the current season could be obtained from arena vendors upon earning a sufficiently high arena/battleground rating, and had a unique appearance. Arena tabards were removed from the game in patch 4.1.
*Relentless Gladiator's Tabard had a blue backdrop with bronze trim, bearing an ivory sword with a green gem in the center of the hilt. 
*Furious Gladiator's Tabard had a brown backdrop with bronze trim, bearing a copper sword with a red gem in the center of the hilt. 
*Wrathful Gladiator's Tabard
Relentless Gladiator's Tabard.jpg|Relentless Gladiator's Tabard
Furious Gladiator's Tabard.jpg|Furious Gladiator's Tabard
==Other tabards==
*Tabard of Brilliance, Tabard of Flame, Tabard of Frost, Tabard of Fury, Tabard of Nature, Tabard of the Arcane, Tabard of the Defender, and Tabard of the Void are rewards from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.
*Tabard of the Scarlet Crusade is a drop from Armsmaster Harlan on both Normal and Heroic difficulties of Scarlet Halls.
*Tabard of Summer Flames and Tabard of Summer Skies are rewards from Shards of Ahune (quest) during the Midsummer Fire Festival.
Tabard of Brilliance2.jpg|Tabard of Brilliance
Tabard of Flame.jpg|Tabard of Flame
Tabard of Frost.jpg|Tabard of Frost
Tabard of Fury2.jpg|Tabard of Fury
Tabard of Nature2.jpg|Tabard of Nature
Tabard of the Arcane2.jpg|Tabard of the Arcane
Tabard of the Defender2.jpg|Tabard of the Defender
Tabard of the Void2.jpg|Tabard of the Void 
Scarlet Tabard.jpg|Tabard of the Scarlet Crusade 
Midsummer Fire Blue Tabard.jpg|Tabard of Summer Skies
Midsummer Fire Red Tabard.jpg|Tabard of Summer Flames
==Past event tabards==
These tabards were available for a limited time, and cannot be obtained currently. Some of these tabards may be reacquired from tabard vendors if the player had previously owned them.
*Competitor's Tabard was a reward from the Spirit of Competition event.
*Contest Winner's Tabard was a reward from the Test of Honor Contest.
*Tabard of the Argent Dawn was purchasable for 10 Necrotic Runes from the Argent Outfitter during the Scourge Invasion.
*Tabard of the Protector was a reward from Into the Breach (Blasted Lands) during the Before the Storm event. It has the same appearance as the Tabard of the Argent Dawn, above.
Competitor's Tabard.jpg|Competitor's Tabard
Contest Winner's Tabard.jpg|Contest Winner's Tabard
ArgentTabard.gif|Tabard of the Argent DawnTabard of the Protector
==The Burning Crusade tabards==
Unless otherwise stated, reputation with the respective faction is needed to purchase their tabard. These faction tabards are purchased from the faction's quartermaster for , after discount.
*Blood Knight Tabard is a reward from the blood elf paladin's level 50 class quest chain.
*Tabard of the Hand is a reward from the draenei starting zones' quest chain.
*Green Trophy Tabard of the Illidari and Purple Trophy Tabard of the Illidari are rewards for completing the Battle of the Crimson Watch in Shadowmoon Valley.
Blood Knight Tabard.jpg|Blood Knight Tabard
Hand of Argus Tabard.jpg|Tabard of the Hand
Honor Hold Tabard.jpg|Honor Hold Tabard
Thrallmar Tabard.jpg|Thrallmar Tabard
Cenarion Expedition Tabard.jpg|Cenarion Expedition Tabard
Sporeggar Tabard.jpg|Sporeggar Tabard
Kurenai Tabard.jpg|Kurenai Tabard
Mag'har Tabard.jpg|Mag'har Tabard
Lower City Tabard.jpg|Lower City Tabard
Aldor Tabard.jpg|Aldor Tabard
Scryers Tabard.jpg|Scryers Tabard
Sha'tar Tabard.jpg|Sha'tar Tabard
Consortium Tabard.jpg|Consortium Tabard
Skyguard Tabard.jpg|Skyguard Tabard
Ogri'la Tabard.png|Ogri'la Tabard
Keepers of Time Tabard.jpg|Keepers of Time Tabard
Green Trophy Tabard of the Illidari.jpg|Green Trophy Tabard of the Illidari
Purple Trophy Tabard of the Illidari.jpg|Purple Trophy Tabard of the Illidari
Shattered Sun Tabard.jpg|Tabard of the Shattered Sun
==Wrath of the Lich King tabards==
*Loremaster's Colors is an Achievement reward for the achievement The Loremaster.
*Tabard of Brute Force is an Achievement reward for the achievement Brutally Dedicated.
*Tabard of the Achiever is an Achievement reward for the achievement Twenty-Five Tabards.
*Tabard of the Argent Crusade is purchasable from the Argent Crusade with reputation.
*Tabard of the Ebon Blade is purchasable from the Knights of the Ebon Blade with reputation.
*Tabard of the Explorer is a Achievement reward for the achievement Northrend Explorer.
*Tabard of the Kirin Tor is purchasable from the Kirin Tor with reputation.
*Tabard of the Wyrmrest Accord is purchasable from the Wyrmrest Accord with reputation.
The Argent Tournament Tabards are available from each faction once you become their Champion. They each cost .
With the release of Cataclysm the faction city tabards are also available for purchase from vendors in the capital cities (for ) and enable reputation gains in dungeons.
*Darnassus Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of Darnassus.
*Exodar Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of the Exodar.
*Gnomeregan Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of Gnomeregan.
*Ironforge Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of Ironforge.
*Stormwind Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of Stormwind.
*Orgrimmar Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of Orgrimmar.
*Darkspear Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of Sen'jin.
*Silvermoon City Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of Silvermoon City.
*Thunder Bluff Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of Thunder Bluff.
*Undercity Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament for champions of Undercity.
*Argent Crusader's Tabard will warp you to the Argent Tournament Grounds.
*Silver Covenant Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament when with the Silver Covenant.
*Sunreaver Tabard is purchasable at the Argent Tournament when with the Sunreavers.
*Tabard of the Lightbringer is a quest reward from The Lightbringer's Redemption.
Loremaster's Colors.jpg|Loremaster's Colors
Tabard of Brute Force.jpg|Tabard of Brute Force
Tabard of the Achiever.jpg|Tabard of the Achiever
Tabard of the Argent Crusade.jpg|Tabard of the Argent Crusade
Tabard of the Ebon Blade.jpg|Tabard of the Ebon Blade
Tabard of the Explorer.jpg|Tabard of the Explorer
Tabard of the Kirin Tor.jpg|Tabard of the Kirin Tor
Tabard of the Wyrmrest Accord.jpg|Tabard of the Wyrmrest Accord
Darnassus Tabard.jpg|Darnassus Tabard
Exodar Tabard.jpg|Exodar Tabard
Gnomeregan Tabard.jpg|Gnomeregan Tabard
Ironforge Tabard.jpg|Ironforge Tabard
Stormwind Tabard 3.jpg|Stormwind Tabard
Orgrimmar Tabard.jpg|Orgrimmar Tabard
Sen'jin Tabard.jpg|Darkspear Tabard
Silvermoon Tabard.jpg|Silvermoon City Tabard
Thunder Bluff Tabard.jpg|Thunder Bluff Tabard
Undercity Tabard.jpg|Undercity Tabard
Argent Crusader's Tabard.jpg|Argent Crusader's Tabard
Silver Covenant Tabard.jpg|Silver Covenant Tabard
Sunreaver Tabard.jpg|Sunreaver Tabard
Tabard of the Lightbringer.jpg|Tabard of the Lightbringer
==Cataclysm tabards==
*Tabard of the Guardians of Hyjal is purchasable from when with the Guardians of Hyjal.
*Tabard of the Earthen Ring is purchasable from when with the Earthen Ring.
*Tabard of Therazane is purchasable from when with Therazane.
*Tabard of Ramkahen is purchasable from when with Ramkahen.
*Tabard of the Wildhammer Clan/Tabard of the Dragonmaw Clan is purchasable from / when with the Wildhammer Clan/Dragonmaw Clan.
*Baradin's Wardens Tabard/Hellscream's Reach Tabard is purchasable from / when with Baradin's Wardens/Hellscream's Reach.
*Gilneas Tabard/Bilgewater Cartel Tabard are available from their respective quartermasters. Also, all city tabards from Wrath now grant rep and are now available in much the same way.
Tabard of the Guardians of Hyjal.jpg|Tabard of the Guardians of Hyjal
Tabard of the Earthen Ring.jpg|Tabard of the Earthen Ring
Tabard of Therazane.jpg|Tabard of Therazane
Ramkahen Tabard.jpg|Tabard of Ramkahen
Tabard of the Wildhammer Clan.jpg|Tabard of the Wildhammer Clan
Tabard of the Dragonmaw Clan.jpg|Tabard of the Dragonmaw Clan
Baradin's Wardens Tabard.jpg|Baradin's Wardens Tabard
Hellscream's Reach Tabard.jpg|Hellscream's Reach Tabard
Gilneas Tabard.jpg|Gilneas Tabard
Bilgewater Cartel Tabard.jpg|Bilgewater Cartel Tabard
==Mists of Pandaria tabards==
*Apron is a reward from A Present for Teacher or purchased from for 
*Anglers Tabard is purchased from Nat Pagle in Krasarang Wilds when with the Anglers
*August Celestials Tabard is purchasable at with August Celestials from in Shrine of Two Moons or in Shrine of Seven Stars
*Golden Lotus Tabard is purchasable at with Golden Lotus from in Vale of Eternal Blossoms
*Kirin Tor Offensive Tabard is purchasable at with Kirin Tor Offensive from on Isle of Thunder
*Klaxxi Tabard is purchasable at with Klaxxi from in Dread Wastes
*Lorewalkers Tabard is purchasable at with Lorewalkers from in Vale of Eternal Blossoms
*Order of the Cloud Serpent Tabard is purchasable at with Order of the Cloud Serpent from in The Jade Forest
*Shado-Pan Assault Tabard is purchasable at with Shado-Pan Assault from in Townlong Steppes or on Isle of Thunder for 
*Shado-Pan Tabard is purchasable at with Shado-Pan from in Townlong Steppes
*Sunreaver Onslaught Tabard is purchasable at with Sunreaver Onslaught from on Isle of Thunder
*Theramore Tabard - Alliance only; available in mail after completing the Theramore's Fall scenario a week before the release of Mists of Pandaria
*Tillers Tabard is purchasable at with The Tillers from in Valley of the Four Winds
*Huojin Tabard is purchasable from in Orgrimmar for (prior to Patch 5.2 it was sold by )
*Tushui Tabard is purchasable from in Stormwind City for (prior to Patch 5.2 it was sold by )
==Warlords of Draenor tabards==
*Vol'jin's Spear Tabard and Wrynn's Vanguard Tabard are Ashran tabards, purchasable for from Dazzerian and Crafticus Mindbender within the zone.
==Unobtainable tabards==
These tabards are worn by NPCs but cannot be obtained by players, though some can be approximated with certain guild tabard designs.
Dalaran Tabard.jpg|DalaranAlthough the actual tabard is not obtainable, you can appear to wear one by wearing Dalaran Wizard's Robe; a cloth chest armor that drops randomly from Dalaran NPCs in Silverpine Forest. Only Horde can obtain the robe, as these NPCs are Friendly to Alliance. However, they can be sold at neutral Auction Houses. In addition, the Tabard of the Kirin Tor is available for sale.
Tiras.jpg|Kul Tiras
Hillsbrad Tabard.jpg|Lordaeron
Scarlet High Tabard.jpg|Scarlet CrusadeThis particular Scarlet Crusade tabard is unobtainable. It is worn by many of the higher ranking members of the organization. The Tabard of the Scarlet Crusade, which is worn by the lowest-ranking members of the Crusade, is obtainable by players. See the Other Tabards section above.
Crimson Legion.jpg|Scarlet Crusade and Crimson Legion
Stormwind Tabard.jpg|StormwindThere is a tabard similar to this that can be obtained through the Argent Tournament.
Stormwind White.jpg|Stormwind
Stromgarde Tabard.jpg|Stromgarde
Darkmoon Faire Tabard.jpg|Darkmoon Faire
B.O.O.M. Tabard.jpg|B.O.O.M. 
7th Legion Tabard.jpg|Valiance Expedition 
Hand of Vengeance Tabard.jpg|Hand of Vengeance 
Warsong Offensive Tabard.jpg|Warsong Offensive 
Brannexpedition-tabard.jpg|Explorers' League's Ulduar expedition
Reliquary tabard.jpg|Reliquary 
==References and footnotes==
==External links==
*Merciless' JavaScript-based tabard designer
*WoWIGN Flash-based tabard designer
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