Season 2 Reward Changes

[Aribeth-arygos (Aribeth)]

RNG in action.

[Talbyy-tichondrius (Talbyy)]

So what happens to players who make alts or weren’t currently active during season 1. Will they have to do all of the weeks of 345-370 gear of season 1 to finally get to season 2 weekly?

Or are all alts / new players just screwed because now their guaranteed progression slots are locked behind a weekly quest again, completely void of catchup mechanics or choice.

That’s 20 some odd guaranteed slots that just disappear for PvP alts next week. Forcing us to yet again farm mythics or run more crappy and boring Warfronts.

This is the base starting point for everyone. It is explained in a previous Blizz post. If you have alts this would be a good time to get them on a somewhat even playing field over the first couple of months of season 2.

I was under the impression the Season 1 conquest reward caps would be updated with the season 2 rewards. I.e if you were 6 weeks into S1 cap it was still going to restart you at s2 week1 with everyone else. Similar to how the item level of rewards from max-level Normal, Heroic, and Mythic dungeons will go up by 30 for the next season of Mythic+. I’ll try to get a more clear answer if I can.

Do you have the post by any chance you were referring to Hexxes?

[Rethumtv-tichondrius (Rethumtv)]

That was my issue. If they do a full reset of the weekly rewards they remove the catch up mechanics at the same time. Seeing as the drop rate for PvP gear is now terrible, that’s gonna make it hard to gear up alts since we are gonna lose 20 weeks worth of S1 gear

[Hexxes-malganis (Hexxes)]

I am basing that off of this post:

What's Changing (and Not!) in Season 2

Hi all, We have a series of blogs accompanying the release of the upcoming Battle of Dazar’alor raid, the new Mythic Keystone season, and the new PvP season, offering deep dives into each of those features. But in the meantime, the community clearly has a ton of questions (and some confusion) about exactly what is and isn’t changing. Should you be spending or saving your bonus rolls? What should you expect from the weekly Mythic Keystone cache next week? What’s up with the Azerite vendor? For …

Specifically this:

•End-of-match rewards will be capped at 385 during the first week of the season, to maintain parity with other endgame systems until Mythic Battle of Dazar’alor becomes available.

So first week rewards that are drops can’t be higher than ilvl 385. Certainly that means the direct conquest reward which is always the lowest ilvl reward will not be higher than that either. So that means they can’t start people off where they are in the system as many are past week 9 and would immediately get ilvl 400 gear. They’d most likely just reset them to week 1 rather than some arbitrary number like week 2 or week 5.

[Zhoron-whisperwind]

Yeah no kidding. I think I’ve legit gotten maybe two post-win items since 8.1. Drop rate is abysmal. PvE or don’t play if you aren’t already geared