So with the new addition of season 1 Arena gear for Honor i thought “why not let me grind the sets/weapons so i can comfortably queue into arenas with playable gear”
But here i am, 3 Days later with over 30 hours played and 85 BGs queued mostly AV which is considered the best honor per hour; ONLY SITTING AT 18K HONOR!!!
Blizzard seriously consider doubling the honor gain and giving the loser of the BG some honor. This is unbearable and with how little activity there is in coming phases besides raiding people will start quitting if they wont enjoy PvP.
It’s actually crazy how much people try to cope with the terrible honor gained per BG, i cant post screenshots but i’ve done many games so far with less than 150 honor for almost 20-30 minute battle ground.
And if it’s Russian players its most likely less than 50 or near 0.
Just get the reputation set (blue quality pvp set) and get some off-pieces. You are really good to go arena with the set, the pvp cloak and the isignia. These items give best reward per honor.
I guess you could also buy like 1 arena item for 18K, perhaps not the chestpiece, but like shoulders or so?
Thats a pretty good deal still.
However grinding honor for the old arena set, if you got no gear at all… I wouldnt do it. Just get the reputation set and use your honor for the off-pieces.
I am OK with the amount of time it takes to farm honor.
I am explaining you that using honor for the old arena set, is not the way to go and you better invest your honor in off-pieces and combine those with the reputation set.
You should get at least 1k honor per hour doing AVs. If it is Russians you have two options, leave the bg (15 min desterter) or convince everyone to concede it asap and try to grab some solo, double or triple kills while waiting for the loss. This will at least net you some honor for staying in the game, but if Alliance are prolonging the loss just leave and grab a coffee and wait for next.
Most russians are geared but bad at the game so you can usually solo a few of them.
It was never inteded for you to play a few bg’s over 2-3 days and walk out in full s1 gear and off pieces.
It’s a long run effort.
What’s next? Should the pve people also start complaining that bosses only drop 2 items? I mean it does take hours and hours and there are 25 people who want stuff?
And to not forget my favorite comment that I see … “But it’s a 15 year old expansion, why should I have to do stuff? I deserve do it only once and have full gear”
This is one of classic’s biggest problems … the tourists and raidloggers … who don’t want to actually play the game … who knows what the hell they want.
If you raid and clear every reset in a phase, you have a chance, but far from guarantee, that you may be close to BiS geared towerd the end of it. Why should PvP be any different? If you play PvP, you should be close to full honor gear toward the end of phase.
Because original WoW (and Burning Crusade too) were built on top of grind.
That «issues» were fixed in later expansions, but that led to Retail.
In Classic/TBC, you need to invest time in game to be better than others.
It’s a MMO, not a MOBA.
But there is a little remark: if you have esl skill, you could win even in reputation set and honor offset, which take you 2-3 days ingame to obtain.
(your 17k honor is enough to get bracers, cloak and necklace, plus reputation set, plus AH waist, plus justice badge trinket and you’ll be fine)
Blue rep gear + epic pvp off sets already is “playable gear” and if you wanted more u shouldve either capped 5s for 50k honor (or to spend on s2 price reduced gear) OR if u dont wanna do that (shocker) then grind the honor before new season starts…
Instead of waking up at the beginning of new season and thinking u can just get stuff in 1 day like those are retail sets lol
And you will be. I PvP somewhat casually. Don’t play WoW at all a couple of days, and 2 evenings where I only raid. I do PvP a lot in weekends, gotta admit that.
I have 2 chars (who bought all the offpieces this season too) sitting at 60K honor ready to go, to buy new stuff.
Thats very casually gathering honor, next to that, I did my 10 games of arena about 80% of the time, playing with -whoever- had time, hanging out at around 700-1000 rating.
Have the full S2 set on this priest and my alt now.
I see the complaints, but by my standards gear come very easy now.
It’s kinda funny how slow it is, I think it’s faster in wotlk or at least I remember it that way. Still, I don’t think they should start messing with this just to make the game more convenient for players.