Sucks to be a "fresh" 80 ;)

[Greythan]

I knew it was coming, but to go from God status when at the upper 2 levels of sub-80 brackets (78-79, 68-69, etc.) while leveling to a fresh 80 this late in an expac/season is painful.

Its somewhat self inflicted too as I can't summon the internal fortitude to even grind for basic gear, so my 3 fresh shammies are using their heirloom weapon still. ;)

That said, I'm still pretty dangerous if I can stay in the background. Its flat out ugly when I'm the focus of 2+ enemies.

All in good fun. :)

[Morganti]

I agree...my DK/Rets hit 80 last week and I went from God to Gimp rather quickly ;)

[zenga]

I craft the entire iLvL 187 pvp suit for my new lvl 80 toons. It's basically some saronite bars + an eternal per toon. It puts me at 650 resilience, only from crafted gear and the berserker darkmoon card. When solo that might obviously a bit underpowered, but as a boxer ...

[Velassra]

I made an arena team, I'm not a new 80, but have 0 PvP gear.....

My team:

"Just get it over with"


I drop pretty quick, lol. Too fast to even get mad about. When do I get points anyway?

[Greythan]

Zenga, I used all my honor while leveling to buy up what I could. I have four pieces of furious, the 264 trinket and the wrathful wrist. So, my resil on my 3 leveling toons with all the honor is 706. Still get pwned pretty hard.

Seems like everyone I see in a BG is 2k gs of pvp gear ahead of me. My shammies are like 20k hp and the shamans I've seen (for comparison) are 30k with some higher.

Its all good, just pretty pathetic. ;)

[ZooljinX]

I agree, right now everyone and his mother has max pvp gear or close to, I dont pvp that much anymore.. just lvl new teams hah.. i tried going with my locks but ouch they where so squishy! wotlk is no good expansion for Clothboxing :P

[Boylston]

Will be nice to instantly become uber once you do L80-81 quests... :)

[ZooljinX]

Hah, indeed! i really hpe cata improves it for cloth users, i really want to do locks + priest in Cata

[Sbrowne55]

I'm almost 80 with my druid team. I'm planning to just skip the 80 bg and hit cata up. At that point there will be a chance. Stepping into 80 bg with crap gear would suck. Farm badges for pvp will be my firt task. And I'll just start that off when cata rolls through..

[Greythan]

Don't over read the suckiness.

My guys are now about a GS of 4300 with about 700 resil. My main shaman is a 5200 GS but all in PvE stuff.

I won three in a row last night and again, if able to stay in the back (like a larger BG) you can really help out. Also finding I'm surviving a little bit more with each piece of PvP gear I pick up. Farming honor is really fast and this is coming from the Horde side where I won the majority when sub 80 but now lose the majority as an actual 80.