Season 10 honor gear ...

[zenga]

(edit obv. meant s10)

I'm stunned. Spend the past week farming vicious gear on alts, now I can start all over again. To be clear: ilvl 365 gear will be removed from vendor, it's replaced by 371 who have same looks but upgraded stats. In order to buy the 372 weapons, you'll need to farm 18k honor points. This is ridiculous ...

The Season 9 set was removed today. The items available for purchase with Honor Points are now considered lower tier Season 10 items. They are still the same items from Season 9 in terms of aesthetics, but the item level and stats are slightly higher to ensure that the Season 10 honor gear has the correct item level relative to the Season 10 conquest gear.

It's likely this is how things will work going forward and we'll be sure to make that more clear when the next season transition takes place.

New basic transition flow:

1) Season X ends and rated play is unavailable; Season X gear becomes available for purchase with HP; CP is wiped.
2) One week later Season Y starts and rated play is available; Season X gear is removed entirely; Season Y introduces a low tier of items which replace Season X vendor items and are available for HP; Season Y introduces the new top items available for CP and rated play.

[Multibocks]

What ilvl is the non 2200 conquest stuff?

[Shodokan]

What ilvl is the non 2200 conquest stuff?

384 off pieces 385 regular

[Multibocks]

Sweet Jesus

[pinotnoir]

They did this so people will have to grind out new honor gear instead of sitting in full conquest of the prior season and not having to do any bg's. It's just another way to make the game the world of grind craft.


With this new change there is no reason to arena or rated bg for conquest gear. At the end of the season the honor gear will be better than all your arena gear. Why waste the time grinding for gear that will be replaced by honor at the end? The only reason to arena now is for the title and slightly better weapons if you can hit 2200+. Otherwise you may as well just use the honor gear until the new honor gear is out.

[Emo?]

Exept if you dont have a good time in arena. The reason i se is if you enjoy playing it, seams like you start to dont? :P

[Svpernova09]

This is a really shitty thing they've done. I started the season late and spent the past week filling out my priest to make sure I'd be able to catch up for this week. Now they pull this? It's fucking bullshit and I'm really tired of it. This may be what causes me to not resub.

I realize it'll likely not happen, but I put this in tonight:

[Nikita]

Amafuckingad!! Farmed like 15-20 k honor this week, and they pull this crap! Any1 gotten their freshly farmed vicious gear taken back in return of honor?!

[Emo?]

Why would they ever give back honor when they have devcided to do like this? Not even worth a try im affraid Still if its just a minor upgrade, id be happy to have blizzard makeing me farm more gear, in the end its the rewards that matters. I cant immagine sitting on full gear whole season and just get upgrades from arena, seasm... booring. People have done gladiator in blue gears before, should still work.

[Acidburning]

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.