Hopefully my experience as a returning player to retail wow will help improve the gearing experience.
I really appreciate that blizzard implemented BoE pvp gear. Getting that from the auction house has helped the experience drastically. However, the auction house gear is essentially insignificant in the current meta.
Honor is required to get the honor gear, but the grind to get the honor gear is a current hell. AH gear is essentially ineffective in the outcome of most (not all) battlegrounds. Therefore getting honor is mostly random for quite a few games.
New players are forced to cross their fingers and hope they queue into a team of good players with good gear. And they must do this consistently for far too many battlegrounds.
This subjects players to consecutive torturous games where their impact on the game is small at best.
There are better ways of doing this.
Make the pvp gear gap smaller
Make pvp gear easier to obtain
Make battlegrounds a viable way to earn conquest.
P.S. I’ve always hated that arena is so much faster to gear conquest than random bgs. I want gear to pvp in battlegrounds, not arena. Why make players like me focus on arenas?
Hopefully someone with the power to change is listening. You might not agree about conquest, but it’s hard to deny the hell that is rolling the dice for good groups to get honor for gear.
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grind the honor while leveling.
its the end of the expansion welcome back but there isnt a catch up for the last 3 weeks.
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100% agree. Should be 5 iLvl difference imo. Plus the set bonus already helps out people who have full 528
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Gearing realistically doesn’t get much better than this.
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Or just even make it free to get. No need to have a cost since it will be irrelevant in a few weeks
In about 14 hours of play on week one of the season you can have a mixture of Honor, World PvP, and Conquest gear…and you are not undergeared compared to your competitors, because you started gearing when they did. You can also mail honor and Conquest loot boxes with Conquest gear in them to your alts. I feel a lot of your concerns are solved if you start playing at the beginning of the season.
As you alluded to, gear progression matters, knowing what gear is BiS matters, embellishments, enchants, and Gems matter, just like smart talent choice matters. Gear Progression, even time gated progress for gear, is part of the MMO process, and it is easier than ever.
I am sympathetic that day two of playing pvp you are not as powerful as week 2 or week 6, but no one can earn BiS gear and all Gem slots in 2 days or even 4 weeks, and thats ok.
We’ll be able to transfer honor when TWW launches. It is currently disabled because people were getting honor levels by transferring honor between their warband
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Well unless you are trying to gear up 20 alts then that could be a challenge.
Have you seen how horrific low level pvp is as of late?
It’s fun if you play 1-2 characters regularly from the start of the season, but it’s a drag when you start your first character mid-season without conquest boxes. Definitely opportunity to make it better in that aspect.
something about evokers in gear that didn’t get scaled down when changing their starting level to 10?
who actually cares about that? just let people exploit that and revert it or ban them
Wow people be getting desperate huh