To answer a question we’ve seen from players who are planning to focus on ranking up in Season of Discovery — we’re adding caps to the rank you can achieve during each phase. We want to enable everyone to push rank at a reasonable pace without worrying about rushing to earn highly lucrative PvP rewards.
To start in the first phase of Season of Discovery, at level 25, the cap will be rank 3. Our current plan is to then increase the cap with each new phase, so that rank will cap at 9 for the first few weeks of level 60. Thereafter, we’re planning to increase the rank cap every few weeks along with the release of level 60 content such as Blackwing Lair, finally reaching rank 14 with the opening of The Temple of Ahn’Qiraj.
We’re looking forward to seeing the PvP action in Season of Discovery!
We don’t even legit know how many servers we’re getting in NA. I don’t think they’re going to confirm or deny anything until launch and we see the servers.
Would it be possible to restrict the gear instead of restricting rank? That would give people more time to hit their target ranks and still keep some of the more powerful gear locked until an appropriate time.
No idea where you figured that the Chest+Legs combo was bis for most classes but this is just wrong. Warriors favor SGC as their chest, Mages favor Robes of the Archmage and Warlocks favor Robe of the Void just to name a few. Now the rank 10 shoulder and rank 7 boots are usually the go to combo for most classes but as ranking is capped at 9 we don’t have to worry about that now do we doom sayer…