Free PvP Gear?

[blast3r]

What? Free? Is this a new feature or a bug?

[Littleburst]

What? Free? Is this a new feature or a bug?

bug.

[Gadzooks]

The 3 hour maintenance today is to remove it all. I took some, I wanted to see if I could keep it, for my lock, I liked the idea of him running around in full S2, when he's never PvPed.

Oh well, he was semi-uber for a while, I guess he'll have to suffer in his Frozen Shadoweave epics for a while longer...

[Malekyth]

The 3 hour maintenance today is to remove it all. I took some, I wanted to see if I could keep it, for my lock, I liked the idea of him running around in full S2, when he's never PvPed.

Oh well, he was semi-uber for a while, I guess he'll have to suffer in his Frozen Shadoweave epics for a while longer...

I loaded my three locks and priest up on season 2 and decided, "now! Now I will be able to finish MgT! It'll probably be rolled back tomorrow but I will finally get the pleasure of multibox-killing Delrissa and her merry band!" Went to MgT, got slaughtered as badly as I ever do. In fact, I wiped twice on Vexallus because I decided that season 2 PvP gear trumped lame-ass blue arcane resist gear. It does not. PvE gear seems better for PvE than even really good PvP gear anyway ... maybe obvious to some, but not to me, until now. Frozen Shadoweave and Primal Mooncloth ftw! I don't miss the PvP stuff.

[Xar]

Wow, for people who claim to hold yourself up to high standards you all who took gear suck. Really...thank you very much for contributing to the servers being down again. Go ahead and tell me you really thought Blizzard was meaning to give away that gear for free...OMG. Asstards. I can understand idiots who don't multibox doing this and thinking they are going to get away with it but you know better and come here boasting about it, GTFO. I didn't donate to this site to see this shit.

Yeah, I'm in a bad mood from all the server downtime.

[TheBigBB]

Wow, for people who claim to hold yourself up to high standards you all who took gear suck. Really...thank you very much for contributing to the servers being down again. Go ahead and tell me you really thought Blizzard was meaning to give away that gear for free...OMG. Asstards. I can understand idiots who don't multibox doing this and thinking they are going to get away with it but you know better and come here boasting about it, GTFO. I didn't donate to this site to see this shit.

Yeah, I'm in a bad mood from all the server downtime.

Blizzard would have taken the servers down to fix this whether anyone "took" anything or not. The multiboxing community has high standards in terms of hacks and cheats and botting. Blizzard accidentally making certain epic gear cost nothing doesn't fall into any of those categories. I'm pretty sure they don't manually remove each item from every person. The rollback would be a global action.

[elsegundo]

i didnt really care about it too much when i heard about it. i figured it would be fixed eventually anyway and i would have wasted time picking out gear that will disappear in a day.

now i wished i did buy some gear. at least to take screen shots of me wearing them if nothing else! lol.

[kadaan]

Wow, for people who claim to hold yourself up to high standards you all who took gear suck. Really...thank you very much for contributing to the servers being down again. Go ahead and tell me you really thought Blizzard was meaning to give away that gear for free...OMG. Asstards. I can understand idiots who don't multibox doing this and thinking they are going to get away with it but you know better and come here boasting about it, GTFO. I didn't donate to this site to see this shit.

Yeah, I'm in a bad mood from all the server downtime.

The bug with PvP gear has nothing to do with the server downtime, and seeing how the servers didn't crash with thousands of people getting "free PvP gear," it didn't affect anything afterward either.

We knew they didn't mean to give it away free, but in the slim chance they wouldn't delete the items (they didn't delete the Mojo pet from everyone who got it from the bug) I didn't want to be left out.

People who were obviously abusive and filled their inventory with multiple copies of the item, I agree with you about them .

[Nitro]

I'm a dick.

I popped my earth then fire ele's on the vendors

Thats exactly what i did, and i made fun of them all for trying to get free stuff even though i knew they would all get rolled back. so much QQ.

[Xar]

Wow, for people who claim to hold yourself up to high standards you all who took gear suck. Really...thank you very much for contributing to the servers being down again. Go ahead and tell me you really thought Blizzard was meaning to give away that gear for free...OMG. Asstards. I can understand idiots who don't multibox doing this and thinking they are going to get away with it but you know better and come here boasting about it, GTFO. I didn't donate to this site to see this shit.

Yeah, I'm in a bad mood from all the server downtime.

Blizzard would have taken the servers down to fix this whether anyone "took" anything or not. The multiboxing community has high standards in terms of hacks and cheats and botting. Blizzard accidentally making certain epic gear cost nothing doesn't fall into any of those categories. I'm pretty sure they don't manually remove each item from every person. The rollback would be a global action.

It does matter, each item has to be removed then the honor/tokens/arena points added back to the toon (if it wasn't one of the totally free items). Each of those database operations takes a small amount of time. Multiplied by hundreds of thousands and may millions of times it adds up contributing to longer down time. Yes it would have happened anyway because of others taking the gear but why come here boasting about taking some yourselves and looking like asshats?