The difference is that back then, next to no guilds were actually able to clear those raids and get a meaningful amount of gear from them, so even though the content was technically out, you’d pretty much never see anyone with that gear in arena anyway, so it didn’t really impact the meta
Now, everyone will have access to that gear, so it definitely will impact the meta
This. #10char
The fact that pve gear is the easiest one to obtain nowadays means that it definitely shouldnt be the clearly superior gear for pvpers.
How did they not get a meaningful amount of gear from clearing SSC for 2.5 months, and farming most of the bosses for over 3 months?
Havent blizzard even said that each season will release with each phase.
We probably looking at shortened season with higher arena points gain and less cost on items which they announced 2 days ago.
No. They originally said they would release s1 alonside SSC/TK, s2 alongside BT/Hyjal, s3 alongside ZA and s4 alongside Sunwell. For good reasons they moved s1 start closer to release, but they have never said anything about moving s2-4 afaik.
I guess they figured that the gear from each season is equal to said tier. So kara/mag/gruul s1. Tk/ssc s2. Bt/hyjal s3. Zulaman mini patxh middle of season 3. Sunwell s4.
Cant see them really doing it any other way if they want season and pve gear to be on equal terms.
If itll go like that, we will be having huge dps meta in s1-s2 and have it calm down a bit for s3-4.
Id have my money on that pattern, but since blizzard does a lot of decision making based on external factors of the game, they might do it different. However I doubt we will be seeing s1 being active when BT is available.
No. They gave in to people complaining about them planning to go months without an arena season at release. Their original plan was ridiculous, about as ridiculous as releasing s2 alongside t5 content would be.
It took them about 24 hours to change their original plan though, so I doubt they put much thought into it at all.
Who’s they? The top 10 guilds in the world?
That’s a pretty small subset of people, all spread across different regions and battlegroups. Gear from t5 content or higher was extremely rare to see in season 1, this isn’t really even up for debate.
That would probably depend on what battlegroup you were in. It sure as hell wasn’t rare in the Conviction battle group.
Better give us armory and arena ladder
Blizz made big mistake like they always do. Now they see what they did and trying to fix.
kekw company.
Season 2 shouldn’t start when SSC and TK come out. Not a single person is fully arena geared yet, it’s mathematically impossible.
noioen, litterly noone forces you to pvp to do pve.
so youd rather make 0.5% of players do pvp for some little % dmg more or youd punish all pvp players with overtuned pve items in pvp
good luck getting the rating for it
exactly this.
nobody understands this hot garbage , apparently pve andys do
its probably 2month or more away. and i bet they will bring the reduced gear cost and increased arena points before releasing season 2 aswell.
i would bet my life that P2 is coming out end of Aug no matter what, its new world release date and we all know Activi$ion
How does recreating the original TBC experience “punish” all pvp players?
Surely that would be easy with a couple of good friends to boost and PvE gear to carry? Or isn’t that pve gear as impactful as some pvp players are saying?
The boost to arena points has already been confirmed to be implemented tomorrow for EU servers. Not a very brave bet.