Stockpile your Triumph and Frost emblems

[Mystic]

Edit: Actually, don't bother stockpiling, the frost->JP cost inflation for items is a killer.

Here's the WOW forums post by Bashiok

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...Id=26850245012

Basically, it looks like with patch 4.0 they will convert all triumph and all frost emblems to Justice Points. It is a 1:1 conversion, with a cap of 4000 JPs.

I'd say that is a pretty generous cap. If you have not been stockpiling them (been spending them on gems for AH sale, right?), then it is doubtful you can reach the cap by Cataclysm release. If you can garner 15 emblems per hour, and spend three hours a day, it will take you 88 days to reach the cap. I'm certain Cataclysm will be out before mid December.

So, get to grinding heroics via the dungeon finder and stockpile those emblems (JPs).

[Toned]

Instead of killing yourself grinding you can prob just wait for the JP to come out, and they will most likely be easier to farm, than farming 4000 badges.

[Mystic]

Actually after reading the ensuing discussion on the original WOW blue posting, this "generous cap" isn't really generous after all.

It appears that the JP cost for items is a very large amount of JPs, some items it appears that currently cost X number of frost emblems will cost 10X justice points (judging by their cost on PTR).

Stockpiling for a 1000% inflation, no thanks. Ah well, back to skilling up my 20+ alchemists...

[Zub]

i'm just happy the older badges/emblems convert to gold, i have a crapton of badges of justice from running a few Karas lol

[Zub]

also i'm happy that running older content will still award useful points (albeit less)

[Velassra]

i'm just happy the older badges/emblems convert to gold, i have a crapton of badges of justice from running a few Karas lol

Yeah, me too, I just run Kara and some old heroics for mats for enchants that sell fairly well on AH.

[Fat Tire]

Here's some information on how each of the currencies will be converted in the next content patch. Keep in mind these values may change, and they can get a bit math heavy. Just know that our intent is to appropriately value each mark and provide a conversion we feel is fair.

The following items are immediately converted to gold:

• Emblem of Heroism = 5.5 gold each
• Emblem of Valor = 5.5 gold each
• Emblem of Conquest = 5.5 gold each
• Badge of Justice = 1.833 gold each

Your New Honor Points total will be the sum of the following amounts:

• Old Honor * 0.024
• Old Arena Points * 0.85
• Battleground Mark of Honor * 2.976
• Wintergrasp Mark of Honor * 19.08
• Stone Keeper Shard * 1.6
• Venture Coin * 3
• Spirit Shard * 1

Your Justice Points total will be equal to (Emblems of Triumph + Emblems of Frost ) * 2.75

Again, the softcap for both Honor and Justice conversions is 4000 points. This means that if a character converts to above 4,000 points, it will not be possible for them to earn more until they fall below the 4,000 cap.

A hardcap will be implemented in a following patch before Cataclysm's release. At that time, any excess points above 4,000 will be converted as follows:

• Honor points above 4,000 are converted to gold at a rate of 35 silver per point of Honor.
• Justice points above 4,000 are converted to gold at a rate of 2 gold per point of Justice.

[crowdx]

So the question is, will the Justice points be usable at lvl 85 for something worthwhile or will there be another badge/currency for the Tier11 (or whatever the first epics are) at 85.

[F9thRet]

Morning Guys.

MMO-Champ has a converter up on there site now for those badges, and marks.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/

Gonna play with it a bit myself.

Stephen

[Tehmuffinman]

So the question is, will the Justice points be usable at lvl 85 for something worthwhile or will there be another badge/currency for the Tier11 (or whatever the first epics are) at 85.

There will no longer be badges of any kind, they are switching over to an entirely point based system (including buying tier pieces)