PvP grind, back again...
Okay, as everyone knows Patch 2.0 brought alot of changes, including the 'elimination' of the PvP grind. Well, sort of. It's true that the nefarious decay system is gone, but it's still a bit of a grind. I didn't start PvPing again with Sakuran until the nerf to honor, so I've all I've done is with the slower amount. Seems like I can pretty consistently get around 300 honor per hour (I'll ignore BG tokens as they are NOT, even remotely, a bottleneck). The first thing I grabbed was the Lieutenant Commander's Leather Shoulders (+17 STA, +1% hit, +1% crit, +22 AP). A nice upgrade from my Spaulders of the Unseen (+22 AGI, +7 STA). The cost was 4125 honor, or roughly 13-14 hours of PvPing, which is a decent amount. However the net bonus on the gear was +10 STA, +1% hit, and +.24% crit. Really doesn't look like much when you put it like that.
So, I'm looking at some other upgrades and I'm just not sure how convinced I am that I want them. My current headpiece is the Shadowcraft Cap (+20 AGI, +13 STR, +18 STA) and am looking to replace it with the Lieutenant Commander's Leather Helm (+23 STA, +1% crit, +1% hit, +36 AP) for a cost of 6375 honor and 30 AV tokens. So, we're looking at around 21 hours of work for a net improvement of 5 STA, .31% crit, 1% hit, 3 AP, and actually losing 1.43% dodge. Now, I suppose I could go for the Field Marshall's Mask (+27 AGI, +31 STA, +1% crit, +1% hit), but that's at a cost of 19125 honor or roughly 60 hours of work. With Burning Crusade 26 days away, why the heck would I do that? I do enjoy PvP, but not to the extent that I'll sink 2.5 days of my life into an upgrade that is going to be replaced within, I'd say, 3 months. Not worth. That being said, sinking 20 hours into a piece that will be replaced in 2 months is a little more reasonable, but just barely...
I think that, rather than sink my time into PvP, I'll again focus on my alts and try to level them. Repentant is still sitting at 36 waiting for some guildies to grind with (not that I can't grind on my own, but kinda promised I'd grind with them). Laic is at 43 and I think I have a decent shot of getting him to the mid-50's, or even 60, by the time BC hits. Who knows, stranger things have happened.
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You've come to pretty the same conclusions about PvP, and the way to spend your pre-BC time, that I did.
The ironies of post-patch PvP...
(1) It was supposed to be a fix, but the consensus of pre-patch PvP-ers seems to be that the patch broke a lot of things instead (and don't even get me started about the honor nerf)
(2) Pre-patch I was at Blood Guard, progressing well, and 'unlocking' items as least as fast as the new system
(3) The patch drove me out of PvP and I won't be coming back anytime soon
I'll make one prediction: Once the BC is released, AV, AB, and WSG will be ghost towns.
I'm not quite as pessimistic as you Doeg, but still not overjoyed. I think the current PvP gear will still be worthwhile for for people coming through the 50's. For me however I spent a lot of coin on the best BoE gear I could find, unfortunately that means that the blue PvP gear is only a minor upgrade for me...
AV, AB, and WSG will still have their value as the level 70 PvP gear will still require token from them. And, for Alliance at least, I queue them all and play them as they pop. We don't have the luxury of sub one minute queues :P
"AV, AB, and WSG will still have their value as the level 70 PvP gear will still require token from them."
True.
My point was that people will be drawn away in droves to the new content - for a while. Later, some may be back in AV, AB, and WSG for required marks - but I would guess that many persons in PvP now will already have more marks than they know what to do with, come the BC.
Bored raiders currently in the battlegrounds will be in instances and raids, not PvP.
Casuals may come to see PvP as another boring grind, and are likely to casually mosey their way though to 70, and start new alts, trying out the new content, with PvP no longer on the radar.
And I'm told that Arena is where the good 70 PvP gear rewards will be, but I haven't checked that out yet. Since Arena will be 70-only, many PvP-ers will try to power-level to 70 in order to do Arena (thus another reason that the battlegrounds will be empty for at least a while).
I know several people who are planning a Warlock Blood Elf (including myself) with PvP in mind. But it takes time to level up, and if you're looking at taking a new toon to 70, then you may not be in the battlegrounds much for quite a long while. Time that's already short because you're probably leveling a main to 70...
Eventually PvP will rebound...
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