Season 10 honor gear ...

[Shodokan]

crap... Guess i gotta figure out which bg is on for this weekend and farm again.

wsg

[Atrocious]

wsg

I died a little when I saw that. I hate WSG. Especially since I don't want the abuse for multiboxing, so I only single box wsg. Might try to do a bit with my priest or pally single boxing tho.

[Emo?]

Wsg is nice, pritty much 90% winrate in it with my 4 DKS when i bring a healer friend

[RSM72]

Upgraded my 5 mages to full vicious last weekend
Now I'm somewhat happy that I went with cheap gems and almost no enchants but still see a noticeable increase in dps and res. Will probably keep it that way until the next AV weekend hits and upgrade once more.

[Littleburst]

I really don't get where all this fuzz is about. New season = new gear. Always happens. So you know that if you farm the weekend before the new season starts, new gear will be availible in a couple of days. Now instead of releasing new gear, they upped the stats on the old one.

So where is all the fuzz about really? I guess normally you can't buy the new sets with honor?

[zenga]

I really don't get where all this fuzz is about. New season = new gear. Always happens. So you know that if you farm the weekend before the new season starts, new gear will be availible in a couple of days. Now instead of releasing new gear, they upped the stats on the old one.

So where is all the fuzz about really? I guess normally you can't buy the new sets with honor?

Since you are a dutchie i'll explain it slow and gentle:

In previous season: 352 was honor (random bg's) gear, 365 conquest (arena, rated bg's).
Withe 4.2 they made 365 available for honor.
Yesterday they changed their mind, removed the 365 gear from the game and replaced it with better itemized 371 gear, also available from honor.
Yesterday the new conquest gear, with ilvl 384 was also released.

So people were under the assumption that last week 365 was the gear to farm for alts, or for mains who were missing pieces from the previous season. But blizzard basically removed the gear from the previous season and replaced it with a new line of honor gear, together with a new line of arena gear.

[Littleburst]

Since you are a dutchie i'll explain it slow and gentle:

In previous season: 352 was honor (random bg's) gear, 365 conquest (arena, rated bg's).
Withe 4.2 they made 365 available for honor.
Yesterday they changed their mind, removed the 365 gear from the game and replaced it with better itemized 371 gear, also available from honor.
Yesterday the new conquest gear, with ilvl 384 was also released.

So people were under the assumption that last week 365 was the gear to farm for alts, or for mains who were missing pieces from the previous season. But blizzard basically removed the gear from the previous season and replaced it with a new line of honor gear, together with a new line of arena gear.

the 365 gear is still availible at vendor in orgrimmar?
The 371 gear is sold in dalaran for the same costs I think, which has no requirement either?

Oh and I farmed a full vicious set the last week. all 365. Knowing that atleast neck/cloak/wrist/belt/feet/rings/trink would be upgraded in a week, since new season = better gear availible.

[zenga]

the 365 gear is still availible at vendor in orgrimmar?
The 371 gear is sold in dalaran for the same costs I think, which has no requirement either?

Oh and I farmed a full vicious set the last week. all 365. Knowing that atleast neck/cloak/wrist/belt/feet/rings/trink would be upgraded in a week, since new season = better gear availible.

Orgrimmar vendor is bugged iin eu. Should be fixed soon (i hope), can go to tanaris(?) in ghadgetzantezananananananonanenenanannen (or something)

[Tonuss]

the 365 gear is still availible at vendor in orgrimmar?

Nope, it's gone.

What bugged players is that this was a change from the way they normally do it, which was compounded by the recent screw up with the conquest-->honor conversion. Based on a blue post from yesterday, it was supposed to go like this:

1- A week before the new season, conquest would be converted to honor and allowed to go over the honor cap of 4,000. Season 9 conquest gear would be made buyable with honor.

2- When the new season began, all previous season's gear would be removed and replaced with new honor/conquest gear, and any remaining honor past the 4,000 cap would be converted to gold.

3- Thus, players who were building up conquest points during the previous season would have been able to buy any pieces that they had missed for the previous season, and everyone would start farming honor/conquest for the new items.

What actually happened was this:

1- A week before the new season, conquest points were converted to honor and any points over the 4,000 cap were converted to gold.

2- Season 9 conquest gear was made buyable by honor the weekend before the new season. Four days later, the new season went live and season 9 gear was replaced by season 10 gear.

3- Thus, players who were building up conquest points during the previous season lost the opportunity to cash in those points for gear before the reset. They (and other players) farmed up honor during AV weekend figuring to get a leg up on the next season, since Blizzard had not specified that in a few days the 365 gear would be replaced with 371 gear sold for the same cost. When they logged in on Tuesday morning in their brand new sets of 365 gear, they found out that the four days of farming had bought them gear that they would begin replacing immediately.

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As I said above, this is in large part Blizzard's fuck up. It was exacerbated by the fact that we (players) tend to grind like rabid monkeys when there is something available for farming (even someone as 'casual' as me has been doing the Firelands dailies from day 1, even though it was extremely crowded and crazy). Without the warning, a lot of people decided to grind out honor until they were ready to pass out, but if they'd known, they would've waited instead.

The downside to this for the rest of us is that now the random BGs have anywhere from 1-5 players who are just there to soak up honor. These days, I log in, run the PVP random daily until I get a win, then log off. Depending on who has the most leeches, that can mean I win on the first BG I run, or the sixth. Blizzard screw-up + lazy players who feel justified in leeching honor = less fun overall. If I was trying to farm honor to get pieces fast, I'd be going nuts right now.

Edit to add a link to the blue post: http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/1...ous-comparison

[Fat Tire]

The downside to this for the rest of us is that now the random BGs have anywhere from 1-5 players who are just there to soak up honor. These days, I log in, run the PVP random daily until I get a win, then log off. Depending on who has the most leeches, that can mean I win on the first BG I run, or the sixth. Blizzard screw-up + lazy players who feel justified in leeching honor = less fun overall. If I was trying to farm honor to get pieces fast, I'd be going nuts right now.

They are banning people for afking. One of my healers got a 72 hour ban for afking, not botting, just afking.