It’s sad because the honor path felt really good the first few weeks of the season when it was really the best anyone could have outside of slightly higher M0 gear that probably didn’t have vers. I really enjoyed BGs those first few weeks. It showed that SL could be really enjoyable and engaging if the gear was even, even with the outliers in class balance.
It is also really dumb that I was 187ish between PvE BoEs (cheap on a server with good raiding scene) and the Necrolord campaign and ended up capping at around 200 ilvl with almost all honor gear being irrelevant for me besides like, a neck and a ring on my most recent alt. All I wanted to do with it was PvP in randoms, but trying to gear up that way before 200~ ilvl would be a nightmare and take forever.
Would be nice if I could freely choose my covenant without sacrificing some DPS. For some classes, it would be a serious DPS or Utility loss by not going with the right covenant.
You shouldnt even grind out the honor gear period, it’s pretty much useless. Just grind out a Korthia gear set and use the honor gear to fill in weapons, trinkets, rings & neck.
Looks like blizz forgot something they learned back in MoP
Over time, the gap in power between Honor and Conquest PvP items has widened. This happened, in part, because it’s necessary for us to preserve the balance in power between PvP and PvE gear so that one doesn’t become the most obvious path to victory for the other.
They abandoned this and just made it so that PvP gear is miserable to grind out compared to PvE.
Probably no one is going to talk about this but I remember realm hopping in MoP killing rares getting fully honor geared in about 3 hours. I don’t think it needs to be this fast but honestly I want to play other chars but the endless grind is just about forcing me to play one class only which is completely against how I play and enjoy the game.
I had a similar suggestion but instead of reducing the costs reduce it to 5 tiers instead of 7 which would artificially reduce honor costs. Along with making honor tokens being able to be sent to alts to be traded in for honor. I mean we can already buy them for honor. Why not trade them in for honor?
That reduces the the honor cost for a full set from 89,775 to 53,550 honor points. A 40% decrease, which is nice. But that is still above the WoD costs that we used to have. I would still like to see a nerf to WoD levels.
Also blizzard had technical trouble adding gear ranks to mythic plus gear that was earned before they introduced the valor system. Players that wanted take advantage of the new upgradeable mythic plus gear had to regrind items.
I think they would also have issues trying to remove ranks from gear. They could probably reduce the number of ranks in 9.2 when they add new honor gear, but in the meantime i think a price change would be much easier to implement.
I realize everyone wants the WoD system. I do as well. Again I am trying to work with what we have. Baby steps. Getting them to change anything at this point would be a plus.
Ya there always seems to be issues. But remember, we are live testing the game for the most part at this point.
