No more gear from BGS :(

[Bradster]

From what I’ve read on the general official wow forums (despite the source) due to the amount of talk I have more reason to believe that there will be “No epics from BGS”. Only arena may you receive epics. At first I figured it was a troll post but more and more people are flooding in making new posts about it, I think this is the real deal.

If I was a single boxer, I would be forced to quit the game if this does go live. The reason being is the times I play. I can never find a group, also I don’t enjoy arena at all. It’s not that it’s a fair fight or anything else it’s just a small duel instanced to me isn’t as fun. There no elements of surprise there is no “war” so to speak just a small duel. There is no war; no creeping up behind some hill and raining down AOE as a caster, none of the stuff that makes wow what it is for me. Blizzard is now forcing everyone in to the arena grind if you want PVP gear.

After reading the very disturbing news, I figured before I jump overboard let me look at this logically. Perhaps this could be a “Buff” for boxers. Outside of arena if no PVP gear exists (other than blues lol) then couldn’t PVE gear be valuable again? Wouldn’t that give boxers an edge in this case since we can farm gear pretty easily? Again I’m trying to look at this from a positive angle.
Pre Battle grounds I remember I used to play a rogue, I’d spend all night LFG only to realize that 50% of the server was rogues, I know because every single reply I received was “Sorry full on Rogues”. My once fun character was no longer fun after people started getting instance gear; while I was in level 45 greens. I was forced to reroll and picked Hunter. I was actually able to get groups once in a while and I found myself able to compete and enjoy the game for a while until Guilds started getting MC and BWL on farm. Which point the problem resurfaced. Long story short to combat this problem I would reroll play till 50 (before any epics entered the picture) Once I hit 50 I’d reroll again, sometimes even the same class. I did this just for the pvp experience leveling up to 50 as it was even experience, and most of all fun!

Today I have means to run almost anything I want (5man). Will that hold some wealth in the future? I really hope so. I or anyone else shouldn't be forced to play something they don't enjoy to advance imo. I enjoy instances so if that works to compete then it works for me.

[Ticks]

I can't confirm this at the moment but I believe the zone pvp stuff they're implementing will award arena points. I'm guessing but I think BGs will die a slow death. But if I had to endure doing AV at level 80 to gear up again, I think I will /wrists.

[Anjuna]

I agree man. That would suck. Welfare pvp gear has been my only means of survival out in the world. I don't like how the whole rock, paper, scissors shit works out. Even though I have at least 1 toon per class, I have no desire to grind arena matches all night and deal with flaky teammates that will leave if you get a losing streak. I'd rather see more war and carnage. Wintergrasp is pretty fun and I hope SoA is too, but its all gonna suck if the gear is so mismatched.

btw, i love your new vid.

IMA FIRIN MAH LAZER!!!

[TheBigBB]

They really need to make more maps for BGs. It's ridiculous that we're still doing the same tired maps. Make 2 or 3 maps per.

As for epics, having all epics in the arena will greatly shorten time spent doing PVP. I can't stand the honor grind. I'd rather do arena, however much I don't like arena battles, sometimes you can get your 10 games in the time it'd take to do a single AV. Also, it shouldn't be the case that getting epics amounts to nothing more than a time sink. You should have to earn them. Right now, only the top top top stuff has to be genuinely earned.

[puppychow]

wow's PVP system is completely and utterly broken, WAR is superior in every imaginable way to WoW with regards to PVP. WOW PVE however is far and away ahead of WAR, with the exception of the innovative Public Quests and Tome of Knowledge in WAR. It pretty much sucks for players - the PVE only crowd loves WoW, the PVP only crowd will vastly prefer WAR, but for those of us who kinda like to do a little of both neither game is very satisfactory anymore.

[Ticks]

I bought, installed and played Warhammer for 4 hours and I don't feel like playing it. I don't know what it is but the combat mechanics are so klunky. It felt like I had to smash my buttons over and over to get one thing to happen. I also can't stand the way characters move. Their straffing movement leans way too much. All in all, it just doesn't feel polished like Warcraft. Perhaps they may get there but for now, I will continue with Warcraft until I see some smoother combat experience.

[Bradster]

I agree man. That would suck. Welfare pvp gear has been my only means of survival out in the world. I don't like how the whole rock, paper, scissors shit works out. Even though I have at least 1 toon per class, I have no desire to grind arena matches all night and deal with flaky teammates that will leave if you get a losing streak. I'd rather see more war and carnage. Wintergrasp is pretty fun and I hope SoA is too, but its all gonna suck if the gear is so mismatched.

btw, i love your new vid.

IMA FIRIN MAH LAZER!!!

Perhaps they will have a Rep grind for PVP gear. Thats what i'm using right now and just recently hitting 70 like 2 weeks again its a large improvement over what I had before. I will admit this recent news for the first time last night I visited the WAR site. Had no interest in the game what so ever because I enjoy wow. But you can't box War per the TOS i've read here

IMMA FIRING MAH LAZERS!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bradster]

They really need to make more maps for BGs. It's ridiculous that we're still doing the same tired maps. Make 2 or 3 maps per.

/agree!

[Rowdysattva]

Source?

Can anyone confirm anything more solid on this?

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[Catamer]

there used to be only pvp epics when you were the top rated teams, and if you didn't play arena for a week you lost your rating and lost your gear.

Sounds like they are trying to roll back the game.

I just want to know how a non-rated team is supposed to ever get a 1650 rating when all of the 1650 rated teams are in epics and the non-rated teams are in blues or greens.
I have a solo warlock with a 1400 rating and lots of pvp epics ( nothing brutal but the gloves ).