Hello, i’m new to TBC, i leave retail bc dead PvP game and i m fresh 70 on tbc. I wanted to know whats the fastest way to gear up in PvP as i want to arena ? i’m SP.
thx !
if you have enought rep with some factions, buy set, looks like faster way than farming honor for set, use honor for veteran offsets. Dont forget daily q and BGweekend bonus.
Eots is fast game so i was doing alot and i had 0 marks so.
AB is tooo long, bad BG for farming honor.
AV fast games are good, but its pve.
Marks can be traded for honor, but i am doing it only if i got 100 from each BG.
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Ok so if i repeat well : i have to do donjon to grind reput thrallmar … to buy resi stuff and for the rest of pieces, i have to do BG eots ?
But it will take like 3 weeks of full grind to be at level no ?
(sorry for my bad english)
Step 1-Do 10 arenas weekly, Step 2-try to rank the team at least in to 1000(easy becouse near to this mark you don’t lose rank) , step 4 wait for the week discount before the next season and take all the gear that you can, this is the easiest way to enter hard into season 3, but on season 3 you are going to be able to buying the season 1 gear by honor but it’s going to be hard if you don’t start now saving honor.
PD. Step 4 is really important if you don’t buy the gear in that week your arena points are going to convert into honor.
Before all the things I wrote you must have the arena blue set from rep at least and the honor off pieces.
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This. Unless you wanna nolife its too late to get serious into season 2 if you didnt even start yet. Play 5v5 ( 600 points for 1500 rating) and watch out for the alterac bonus weekends, thats all you have to do to get rdy for s3. Maybe do a little kara/mag/gruul run now and then, only if your class needs some kind of pve gear obv.
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-Attune yourself to Karazhan and try raid it once per week. PvE epics are still better than the junk you will have upon reaching 70 and still useful until you get enough honor to replace certain pieces. In some cases you ain’t going to get better for a while for example getting a healing weapon from Kara will be a big boost as the only weapon you can get from PvP that is better is the Gladiator weapon which requires arena points and the required rating (something you won’t achieve in blues). Do Gruul and Mag if you have time too.
-Farm honor for the off pieces - AV for Alliance is the fastest honor when solo queuing but remember you’ll need marks from every BG to purchase certain pieces. Try to find people to pre made with to increase your chances of winning
-Crafted gear - If you have the gold look into buying some BoE crafted gear if it’s an upgrade but only do so if you know you won’t get better for a long time if you will replace it within a week or two then obviously save your gold.
Grinding rep with factions doesn’t take too long for example Thrallmar you can do Ramparts (633 rep per run) or Blood Furnace (750 rep per run) while leveling and increase rep to honored then you can either do a bunch of questing in Hellfire once honored or wait till 70 and spam SHH till you hit revered.
The most important thing to do is to grind a ton of honor and buy all your off piece gear for honor and do 10 arena games per week and try buy as many S2 arena pieces as you can you’ll then want to grind more honor and cap yourself so when S3 hits you can buy S1 pieces for honor at this point you’ll be able to compete but you’ll still be at a major disadvantage compared to people in S2/S3 gear.
The joys of the PvP system in TBC - start late and face the near impossible task of catching up in most cases you’ll always be a season behind.
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like @fantashtic said you can mix around with raiding and pvp. just focus one of those two you enjoy the most then put the second on side job 
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Thanks for your response
LOL imagine spending 4 months just preparing to play the game rather than actually playing the game what a joke
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In season 3 you have the option of grind season 1 gear it will take you 8-10h daily during a month… and with this gear you probably can reach better goals without raiding, If someone only can do pvp they only can spend time on bg , when you get blue set by honor points you probably lost 2400 arena points in a month while you are not touching the arena, if you are in a dead realm you can’t farm the rep for the blue set or it will take you more time… Imagine needing 2 moths to get the blue set while you are not touching the arena you will lost 4800 arena points…
my point was that the amount of time spent getting pvp gear is so stupid and a complete turn off for people wanting to play pvp. does blizzard not understand that TBC would be fun if it was alt friendly. The content is easy but so many toxic time sink holes before you can actually play the game.
Thats true. I love TBC so far, the zone, the lore, my class, the community and the game is alive compared to retail but that s SO LONG to catch up the gear for PvP if you want arena, i could go arena without blue honor stuff but i think that i would getting os by every one so far
Yes the bad thing of blizz system is that new players are too away from getting a reasonable “starting set” and some classes benefit more from pve gear respect the blue set so arena at the beginning is not well balanced, pve players have the advantage, and if you are not part from a raid core you get more away.
PD. and if you are in a less active realm when you reach 70 you find less options to get at least a blue set without spending too hours.
and the issue with this is that there is a lower end bottle neck where people just dont have the gear to compete. if there wasnt a huge cap more people would be playing more alts in arena making the ladder more active and people would have more arena partners to play with.
- give up on competing this season
- farm rep + dungeon resilience gear
- cap 75k honor
- cap 5k arena points
- buy full s2 set/ weps with arena points when s2 ends
- buy full s3 offpiece with honor when when s3 begins
7.??? - Vengeful Gladiator
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Get the reputation set from dungeons.
And some PVP offpieces, the epic ones. The cloak is pretty cheap for the stats it gives.
Mix in some PVE epics.
Find a rogue who is willing to play with an SP and end up at a lower ranking than he could when playing with a mage.
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