Are the prices of these items going to be reworked next season?
As they currently are they are way overpriced for how bad they are and how ridiculously long it takes to grind honor, whether you are Horde or Alliance. If they remain at these prices when the reputation gear is available, it would just be silly, as the equal rep gear would rule them useless.
As for the weapons… No one has these weapons because they are so monumentally over priced and simply not worth the time and effort whatsoever. Let’s take for example the PvP staff. That would cost ~40k honor and 40 AV marks. It takes a very long time to get 40k honor even if you’re premading. Who in their right mind would get this item when they could just buy a Bringer of Death for 15g off the AH? 15g takes slightly less time to grind than 40k honor…
I’m not really sure what should be done other than cutting the price of these in half. Even if that happened people still wouldnt bother getting the weapons though.
This isn’t a qq or a whine, it just seems like it could do with a rework or it’ll essentially be dead gear. Wondered what people thought.
I was looking forward to PvP in TBC but decided just to PvE instead this time round as I feel the PvP time-sink to get gear is hilarious and just not worth it imo.
I solely PvP’d in original TBC and grinding Honour didn’t feel as long - maybe it was though and it just feels longer now.
Anyway, I don’t have the time to farm for a blue PvP set anymore as I have a career etc and quite frankly I can’t be bothered sitting spending hours upon hours farming it. I’m just going to wait till WoTLK Classic to PVP. I doubt they’ll change anything anyway. (Not that I’m asking them too)
totally agree. S1 is a complete clown fiesta. Doubt it will change much in s2 tho.
Its rediculously overprized dead gear. They could as well delete it from the game if they dont change prizes from the ten thousands to just hundreds. And it probably is even not worth the time it would take to get over rep pvp gear then.
Just stupid tbh
Until a few days ago, those items were still available in the PTR for half the prices (10k and 6k honor vs 20k and 12k honor), but as of now, for some reason, that vendor is selling nothing.
Either way, that set is going to be obsolete because you can just buy the reputation gear, which is the exact same and costs only about 80g.
What they really need to do is lower the price of offset items (ring, neck, belt, boots and bracers).
I imagine some classes will want to get 2 parts of blue PVP set and 2 parts of the rep set for the double +resilience 2set bonus though. So worth having them be grindable.
I’m not saying that’s not a good thing, it’s definitely good to be able to get 2 different sets for double +35 resilience set bonus.
My point is, they stated they’re going to reduce the cost of honor gear in season 2, such a statement implies that most or all gear purchasable with honor will get a discount, but on the PTR only the blue gear (the 5 set items) got a discount.
If they wanted to help out players to get into PvP, why not reduce the cost of all gear? Why would you reduce only the blue gear, when you have it for free with reputations?
Assuming someone is just getting into PvP, I highly doubt they’ll spend their honor points on the blue honor gear JUST to get that extra set bonus, while they could get something much more useful (like the offset pieces).
Ah I didn’t realised that they have said they’re going to reduce the cost of “Honor gear”. If they did then they should indeed reduce the cost of all of it. I don’t have the PTR, are the Season 1 offset pieces the same price as the Season 2 offsets?
Increasing Arena Points distribution at the end of each week.
Reducing costs on Arena Point and Honor Point gear prior to the end of Arena Season 1.
At the end of Arena Season 1, Arena Points will be converted into Honor Points, about 10 Honor Points per 1 Arena Point.
Outland Faction PvP gear will be coming out earlier than expected (which originally came out with Patch 2.4’s Sunwell Patch), as a catchup mechanic for players.
Same-faction Battleground Testing will continue running until Tuesday. Blizzard wants more feedback, which you can share here.
Right now on the PTR, the vendor that should be selling the blue honor gear and the offset pieces (belt, boots and bracers) is selling nothing at all, there’s literally nothing you can buy from that NPC, which wasn’t the case a few days ago, where the blue gear was available for half of the original cost, and the new S2 offpieces (Veteran) were available for the full price.
The S1 items (General) weren’t available at all.
PvP in tbc was a wild west in s1 and still ridiculous for most part in s2 it only really settled for s3-4.
So all these ppl who thought first season will be any different than first season of wotlk (during which we came to use WOTLKD or RESILIENCE WILL FIX IT a lot) simply got a wake up call lol.
Nvm all these retail bots expecting to push hard with little to no gear or leaving teams after 1 week like u can just grab another random from LFG lol.
Just prep for s2 and try to hold out for s3-4 assuming all those ppl who apparently quit daily according to the forums dont leave the servers dead.