Hi,
There was no patch notes on the removal of Conqueror’s Astral Varnish and Conqueror’s Astral Lacquer. Can we have some clarification on if this is intended or an accident?
I got tier gear from the vault and I have this sinking feeling that as soon as I make my purchase we are going to get a server restart or something and its going to be on the vendor and I won’t be able to refund my conquest.
Assuming (hoping) it’s a bug because the varnishes were amazing!
also hoping its a bug cause I used my charge on pve
Hoping it’s a bug because it’s gonna stink for most of the season if I gotta split pve and pvp
Yeah, I would rather not need to have separate toons for PvE and PvP. This will just further incentivize people to wait until late season to que PvP content.
Noticed that missing from the vendor earlier today, too.
Wondered if it was an oversight or intentional, but then thought maybe they’re holding it off the vendor for a week or two just so 4pc couldn’t be cheezed week 1? Granted one of those pieces couldn’t have a 720/723 PvP ilvl, but if that one piece was like a Hero-track tier piece from Vault @ 694ilvl+ then you wouldn’t really care too much about the small hit in ilvl if you really wanted to PvP in 4pc like now.
Just a possible alternative idea on the laquers not being on vendor atm, but your guess as to why is probably better than mine tbh.
Thinking this is probably it, but really should be communicating it.
Why not? Some raiders probably have 4 piece by now.
Still looking for confirmation! 
There’s no possible way to cheese it week 1.
Maybe not cheese, but when blizz added these items they were specific about intending it to be used on a pve piece after you used a catalyst charge on it. They did not really seem to consider the extra value of pvpers using it on pieces that are already tier, from either the vault or raid drops. Pvpers can save the catalyst charges for bloody token gear, so they can get pvp-ilvl 4 piece a couple weeks sooner.
I dont really think this is a huge advantage, but it would be nice to know if the removal of the items is intentional or not.
Well what’s wrong with that? PvE can get 4set first week.
I guess if you get lucky with vault it could create an unfair advantage.
Couldn’t you get a piece from vault, and another from LFR to get up to 4 set this week?
Edit: I see where I went wrong here; you wouldn’t have enough conquest to do 4, but you could do 3 in week 1
Does this overwrite the pve tier and turn it into pvp tier? Or could I use this on my pve tier and it would function in both pvp and pve?
The only thing that changes about it is that it scales in PvP to 723.