Originally Posted by 'puppychow',index.php?page=Thread&postID=162469#po st162469
Don't bother with the 70 gear, total waste of honor. Just get the 80 gear. imo the 80 honor-only gear is not that great, unless you really enjoy spending a lot of time in battlegrounds farming honor. You can get crafted gear to start, esp if one of your guys is a LW/skinner -- can craft a lot of the gear just to level up, it ended up paying for itself for me since I was able to craft a bunch extra and sell it on the AH for a small profit.
Just play 10 games each week and lose as soon as you hit 80 (with 0 resil and minimal stats you won't be winning), you'll collect 250-300 arena points and the price diff between honor+arena and honor alone is staggering. For example the savage chest is EITHER 60,000 honor OR 12,000 honor + 350 arena points. Of course if you don't mind farming the 200k+ honor for all the pieces then buying them all with honor is great.
Some of the stuff can be bought with badges as well, so getting heroic/10 and 25 man badges (the latter lets you buy the top level gear) is a good idea too.