DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A BRAGGING POST


I just realized that most arena items no longer require arena rating to obtain (only shoulders + T2 weapon still does).

For a few seconds I lied still and contemplated this before I charged to the arena vendor, nearly slipping on my own drool on the way, and bought gears.

My teams consists of a disc priest and four arcane (after 4.0 lolol) mages.

I bought 4/5 pieces of wrathful gladiator armor, wrathful weapon (staff and wand). The staff replaced ilvl 232 Seethe and ilvl 200 Violet Citadel offhand. The staff was the biggest upgrade.

Alternatively I could have spent my 60,000k honor (12,000 on each char) on 363 epic gems and sold them for 100-200g resulting in a profit of around 34k-64,000 gold.

I went for the arena gear because I was curious to try the feel of playing with well geared characters for a change, and Im glad I did. The gear made a HUGE difference, the upgrade is the biggest Ive had yet - even larger than the lvl 70 UD invasion with all its free epics. Playing battlegrounds and world pvp is more fun then ever, I plow through enemies like knife through butter. If the arcane barrage doesnt kill someone the x5 pyro rockets will.
My main priest having 40,005 HP and around 1600 resilience self-buffed is not easy to kill either.
Actually Im gonna try and solo bjarngrim in HoL normal, a boss I couldnt kill before but with all these upgrades I think it will be piece of cake


The gear will get outdated in 6 weeks but these 6 weeks of awesomeness is totally worth it, if you have honor laying around I wouldnt wait a second before I ran and got some of the best items available

BTW: I noticed I could attach enchant AND engineering-enchant to my cloak, as well as pyro-rocket+armor webbing on gloves. Before the patch adding one would replace the other but now you can have both at the same time apparently - could be a reforging bug? Im gonna try and get a spellpower enchant on the gloves as well.

Obligatory bragging screenshot:


Sweet isnt it?!

What would you have spent 60k honor on, gems or gear?