Patch 4.3 Mega Thread - Keep it all here

[Kedash00]

wouldn't AH prices be based on player base?
I can see them controlling vendor prices but AH is player set pricing, which they dont control.

I am hung over so i may be missing something, but i just dont get how they can say AH prices are going to go up when we control it.

[zenga]

wouldn't AH prices be based on player base?
I can see them controlling vendor prices but AH is player set pricing, which they dont control.
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That is why the post states 'rough costs', which is a statement at the discretion of mmo champ, not from blizzard.

[Khatovar]

The post wasn't about the AH prices going up, the post was about the change in Alchemy specialization. Right now, becoming a Potions, Elixirs of Transmute Master requires Burning Crusade stuff and is pretty cheap, especially if you do the Potions quest and pay the 150g to swap to Transmute, since Healing and Mana pots drop like candy, so all you need to make is Dreamless Sleep potion.

After the patch, it's going to use Cata stuff, which is going to make it cost more to chose a specialization. There's also rumors going around that you won't have the option to just swap for gold like you can now. People are saying that you unlearn the spec then provide the appropriate items to change. But, I'm not on PTR to check and it's always possible that they simply haven't added swapping in yet.

[Nikita]

Sucks that they changed the launch day for the new patch. I cant fking wait!! Has anyone seen the PvP gear stats and bonuses? I cant find em anywhere :/ Do we get to keep the lightning shield bonus from the Ruthless gear?

[Fat Tire]

4.3 Battleground Conquest Rewards
Originally Posted by Bashiok (Blue Tracker)
In patch 4.3 we’re changing the daily battleground (BG) to reward 100 conquest for a win (up from 25). In addition, every non-rated BG that you win will also give you 50 conquest. There is no limit to how many BGs you can run this way, up to the normal conquest cap.

Our intent is to start acting even more on our Mists of Pandaria philosophies of encouraging players to approach the content they want to, how they want to, and be able to work toward meaningful player progression. Arenas and rated battlegrounds will still earn Conquest faster, but with this change you can now work your way up by running normal BGs, if you so choose.

This basically kills off 2v2 arena. A real nice change though.

[pinotnoir]

As far as I recall the intention with the start of the current season was that:
a) you could take a max of 4k honor with you into the next season (from doing bg's, etc)
b) any conquest point you had left, was converted into extra honor, even if that would put you over the cap

Say you had 3900 honor at the start of the new season, and 4300 conquest points, it would mean that you should receive 7200 honor. And as long as you are above the 4k, you would not gain any extra honor from doing bg's.

They fucked up royally though and converted the conquest points into gold, rectifying this later by giving everyone 4k free honor.

The way I read it for the coming season is that thet step away from this and will converted conquest points that put you above the honor cap into gold, and not into extra honor.

They never fixed it for the people who got screwed by the conversion. What they did was give people honor who purchased pvp items off the vendor which changed item level. I took a good ass reaming on that conversion deal. The only good that came out of it is I no longer pvp for the latest greatest carrot on a stick.

[valkry]

They never fixed it for the people who got screwed by the conversion. What they did was give people honor who purchased pvp items off the vendor which changed item level. I took a good ass reaming on that conversion deal. The only good that came out of it is I no longer pvp for the latest greatest carrot on a stick.

You are saying it like it's a new change. Blizz have been doing this new set of gear every major patch for like 3 and a half years now.

Getting tired of the whole "I worked hard to get the best gear now I have to do it all over again," welcome to WoW, you new?

[Multibocks]

You are saying it like it's a new change. Blizz have been doing this new set of gear every major patch for like 3 and a half years now.

Getting tired of the whole "I worked hard to get the best gear now I have to do it all over again," welcome to WoW, you new?

Actually people have been able to save 8k before. Conquest + justice to get a jump on the other teams.

[valkry]

Actually people have been able to save 8k before. Conquest + justice to get a jump on the other teams.

Saving up 4k CP, buying conq gear before the patch, then selling back after the patch for full CP was a cheap method to get ahead, and I can pretty much say on behalf of Blizz that it wasn't intended to be possible. I'm glad they are changing it.

[Multibocks]

Doesnt change that it was possible.