This is how the current BFA honor system works. There’s no decay. Everyone eventually gets all the titles and rewards. It’s completely meaningless and no one cares about it.
Whereas if you see a rank 14 in vanilla, you were in awe.
Rank 14 Gear at Vanilla scaling before any modifications stats crunchiness etc, they had the most stamina and base damage outside of Naxx. It was super common to see tanks with a PvP gear once they capped defense rate for the THICC stamina and strength on the gear.
Most DPS could go in up to BWL with minimal resit gear at rank 10 armor (Ony Cloak a must obv) and healers slotted PvP gear for HP boosts and manage easier than with full resist gear, especially with Chromatic Flask.
The system itself is also based on participation, Higher pop and more active servers had a harder time, why generally if you wanted rank 14 you did it with groups in cycles as there could only be one Grand Marshall and High Warlord each week.
Solo queue you could manage rank 10 or 11 but that was about it, system wasn’t a welfare one, if you wanted rank 14 you had to work with others and put in the time. PvP isn’t for everyone, just like Raiding, so only those who are able and willing to should get the gear, not someone that ground out X currency over a month or 2.
I’m called elitist these days because putting in more time & effort over others should reward as such. shrug
That’s the kicker, when people praise blizzard’s ability to decide what is good (the current staff, not those who work on modern WoW), while people are essentially running screaming from blizzard’s current design philosophies and decisions and what they feel is “better”.
Oh dear, clearly we have someone here who has no clue as to how much work, time and effort it takes to get to Naxx in Classic.
It isn’t like we’re gonna be walking into Naxx when it comes out there pal. How about the months of grinding in 5-mans into 10-mans, going into months of AQ20/ZG/MC/Ony, and the months of grinding BWL/AQ40 prior to Naxx.
Going to take just as long to get fully geared with Naxx gear, than it is to get rank 14. Both are equally taxing on people.
PvP gear will be far far FAR superior to everything else prior to Naxx for the most part. Not a lot of people will even get into Naxxramas
If you can’t then don’t worry. Blizz periodically increases the ilvl of all BFA world quest rewards, making huge portions of the game obsolete each time, so you can be the special snowflake that you deserve to be! And for minimal effort!
Depends on your perspective. Best is likely the most accurate term since trying to go back to an older state and then selectively update it is harder than to go to the latest state and correct issues there may have been.
Nah, we just have to grind Argent Dawn rep, get a free attunement, then walk over to the entrance near the Stratholme Front Gate and teleport in. Just don’t touch Mr Bigglesworth…
I fee like “Most consistent” is the ‘most accurate’ description. They accept that its a good build that covered a lot of fixes, but their biggest reason is the fact that they have the entire real database from the patch, so no guessing.