[WoW] Level 80 PVP gear info and screenies

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Main link, or link 2 , or link 3. Looks like the info was from Sept. 18, so might not be news to some of you. :P

Note that the screenie I saw with the Blue starter PVP set showed a hunter with about 22k HP, 10k mana and 3100AP with the dual-wielded "Savage Gladiator" weaps (blue).

Yeah, remember people saying that stamina wasn't going up as much as it did in BC?

+447STA/+222RES for the blue 1st-tier (Savage Gladiator's) 5-pc + dw weapons on a hunter. <--- same gear the guy with 22k HP posted above.
+643 stamina for the purple 3rd-tier (Deadly Gladiator's) 5-pc + dw hunter weapons.
versus today's:
+378 stamina for S4 hunter 5-pc + dw weapons
+317 stamina for S2 hunter 5-pc + dw weapons
And for a frame of reference, the Arena 6 beta gear for locks has:
+644 stamina _just_ for the 5-pc set.

[Dominian]

Disapointing that all wepons look the same just with different colour.. Well atleast the blue pvp set is not the same as the two epic ones?

What is required to get the deadly gear compared to the hateful gear btw?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Disapointing that all wepons look the same just with different colour.. Well atleast the blue pvp set is not the same as the two epic ones?

What is required to get the deadly gear compared to the hateful gear btw?

Check the links.

[merujo]

its all the same sh!t in different colours. but the worst imo, its how ugly the sets can get, i mean, theres not a single set, from blue to best epic, nothing looks nice.

it was said that pve and pvp sets would get different skins... if this is the idea, gz to the designer.

[Baía]

I'm amazed on how Blizzard is lacking creativity when making new gear sets for WotLK. Come on, they all look like sets you get when u're leveling... it's ridiculous.
Where are all those glowing effects that make you drool each time you see someone with a high level gear set? I've seen green pieces with better look than the ones belonging to all these Gladiator sets.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'll agree on the armor. Ever since T3, IMO, the armor sets have looked like the artists were running out of ideas except for weapons and shields.

[FtGeno]

Wow, no imagination whatsoever in designing the appearance of these armor sets. At least the stats are good but still, they look completely uninspired. If they're having this hard a time designing these sets why not hold a contest, put the artists to work? At the very least they could hold a poll (on the log in screen) and let us pick our favorites of previous sets, maybe put a new spin on them? Nice find though.

[Ken]

Damn this really sucks ...
If you compare the level 80 gear that requires no arena ratings with the gear that requires the highest ratings, you see that the second is about a third more powerful in stats!
This means that better players aren't just better, they also get a +-50% gear stat advantage. It's good that people are being rewarded because of their effort, but 50% is just rabid in my opinion.
Another Blizzard balancing fail... This is almost as worse as introducing the 'resilience' stat after they failed to fix their "critical hit" system. :thumbdown:

[edit] When you consider that the current difference in gear (blue vs best epic pvp gear) is already 20% and imo way too much, I don't understand why they made the difference even bigger.

[edit2] And on that note: Isn't it sad that you don't have any chance in an Arena when you're wearing a full blue PvE set?

[bugilt]

You have to give it to them though. Designing that much crap for a game is just amazing. If you have 1,000,000 things to design in a game I'm sure you'd reuse some models to save time. With that being said, I'm glad they take the time to make the high level stuff new models. I'm sure if anyone could come up with one good idea and posted it they would more than likely implement it. I was the guy who knew everything about my class and everything related to it when I was getting in my t1-t6, but Just seeing all the content they have put into these games is to time consuming for me. I can look through it on MMO over a few days, but that doesn't do it justice for the amount of work put into it.

They also typically add more models into the game at the release of the patch or xpac.

[pixelimp]

Ugliest set ever ?

Not looking forward to seeing my shamans in that