Season 10 honor gear ...

[Yahtzee]

I know this sucks, and I as well grinded out a ton of honor over the weekend. Got all 5 toons full S9 + weps in preps for S10. I even had about 2500honor before I stoppled last night, I was trying to cap out at 4k.

One way to look at it -- you are just out 4k honor. If they didn't keep. You still need the grind the honor out in the next few weeks before you can buy the S10 weps anyways.

On the bright side, with the S9 gear, I think I went 8-4 in arenas tonight. Much better than the last 2 weeks when I was in blues.

But yes, Bliz should have given a better heads up in the 4.2 patch notes, I mean, WTF.

I'm not really mad that I lost my 4K saved up honor. I'm more irked that we weren't informed so I wasted my time last week to grind out gear on two of my teams. Not only that, because like everyone else, I assumed this would be the final version of the honor gear, it only made sense, so I went ahead and spent ~20k gold on gemming/enchanting/reforging. It really wasn't okay to pull this over on their playerbase. They bait and switched us and it's not okay to say "Sorry, we'll let you know next time" and leave it at that.

I firmly believe that if they don't do something, anything even, to remedy this, they'll lose a large chunk of subscribers, at least from the PvP community. They're already in some pretty hot water for several Season 9 shenanigans, including MMR exploiting.

I'm curious to see what their final word will be on this, and whether they'll take any action.

[daanji]

I actually didn't do any BGs this weekend as I was level my mage team. Got them from level 59 to 73, not bad.

I thought I would regret not taking part in AV - it was very tempting and my entire guild was having fun and begging me to go!

However, I was damn determined to level my mage ASAP. Then Blizzard does this and I'm stunned.

I'm sitting on 4K honor and 4K JP, so I can upgrade a lot of my gear.


@Acid,

I ran into your team tonight. This is my team
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/arena/fi.../Death%20Wave/

Were you playing all 5?

[daviddoran]

It's annoying, and it sucks, but it's not THAT big of a deal. The difference in the new gear is negligible. Granted, if we had known, most of us would have capped out at 4k honor and waited until today to buy their stuff, and a lot of people would have tried to work the system constantly buying back and selling gear to float above the 4k cap. I love AV weekend, so I farmed my gear and had a ton of fun doing it, so I don't feel too bad that my gear is 5 iLvl below what is available today.

I myself plan on upgrading the gear anyway to the season 10 full stuff, as the weekly conquest points pour in. Wow is a game about upgrading gear, always has been, always will be. Get used to it or you might be better off looking at other games.

[Yahtzee]

It's annoying, and it sucks, but it's not THAT big of a deal. The difference in the new gear is negligible. Granted, if we had known, most of us would have capped out at 4k honor and waited until today to buy their stuff, and a lot of people would have tried to work the system constantly buying back and selling gear to float above the 4k cap. I love AV weekend, so I farmed my gear and had a ton of fun doing it, so I don't feel too bad that my gear is 5 iLvl below what is available today.

I myself plan on upgrading the gear anyway to the season 10 full stuff, as the weekly conquest points pour in. Wow is a game about upgrading gear, always has been, always will be. Get used to it or you might be better off looking at other games.

It's not about upgrading gear, it's about upgrading gear and then having to upgrade it again the following week due to lack of communication. It was a fairly important change and should have been detailed in the patch notes.

I'm by no means furious about it, I had fun in battlegrounds the past week too. However, that doesn't really change the slap to the face they just gave to a large chunk of their playerbase.

[Atrocious]

Crap... Guess I gotta figure out which BG is on for this weekend and farm again.

[Shodokan]

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

wsg

[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.

[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.

[Acidburning]

@Acid,

I ran into your team tonight. This is my team
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/arena/fi.../Death%20Wave/

Were you playing all 5?

OMG, I was wondering if that boxer was going to be on DB.

Yars, I am all 5. I did terrible against you. Up until that point I was 6-0, I was getting a lil' excited about getting the 10-0 hot streak, lol.

When I saw 4DKS 1Pally pop up on Gladius, I didn't even know what to do to counter.

haha, it must have sucked for other people, 2+ boxers queing up last night, same comp. haha