As of today’s reset, my level 25 Night Elf hunter Véndis has acquired the PvP rank of Sergeant, as displayed before my in-game name, and on the character equipment panel.
I just purchased the Sergeant’s Cloak (item=213087) from Officer Areyn (npc=12805) in Stormwind City. The item, with the following requirements; Requires level 25, Requires Sergeant, was red on the vendor’s page, but I figured this was a display issue. However, in my bags the “Requires Sergeant” remains in red, and when I try to equip the item I get “You don’t have the required rank for that item”.
I know this and it’s Horde counterpart Sergeant’s Cloak (item=213088) are new additions to Season of Discovery, and neither show a faction restriction, as the regular classic ones do, but I do wonder why the Alliance version is called the same as the Horde version, whereas the regular classic backs are called Sergeant’s Cape.
Is there some hidden requirement I am not aware of, or is this an oversight/bug? If it is the former I would like to know what i’m missing. If it is the latter, please fix this, as it makes no sense to add an item specifically for SoD, only for it to not be usable in SoD.