2.0.1 PvP DiscussionFollow

Had been exalted in every BG for awhile and had the old blue PvP set I got awhile back so been pretty bored with PvP, and WoW in general. Now with this patch there's new builds and new things to learn about and counter. Playing casually, even with every BG exalted, I now have something to gain.

Edited, Dec 7th 2006 3:57am by StarryKnight

Does anyone think the new epic mounts are ridiculously cheap though?
I mean, 30 marks from each BG is pretty easy to pick up right? Especially if your farming honour at the same time...
Not complaining, just mentioning...

My latest character, a 57 Mage, just made it to honored with AV on Monday night.

1. I really liked the ability to earn experience while I was PVPing. After 1 WSG, I have 1 mark of honor and 0 honor. Nothing happens when I get 3 marks of honor anymore, like the rep and experience I used to earn. I'm kind of disappointed in that.
2. I have a Stormpike Insignia (trinket) that apparently won't be ranking up anymore, because there is no more rep. I have the Rank 3 version... woo hoo!
3. Obviously, the PVP gear you can buy appears to be out of this world. This has me really excited.

Guess it's time to go out into the real world and get my level up to 60, so I can use all of those Epics.

I don't know, a couple of my guild's priests are speccing mostly disc and they are saying it is pretty fun and powerful, even in PvP. We've yet to go on a raid yet so I don't know how it holds up in raids yet.

Personally, I love how insane PvP is now... nice and fast paced, keep you on your toes type things. However, it just seems to me that even though I like the new system blizzard screwed up some. They gave us these uber powerful classes and spells and such, and yet didn't give us the new gear to counter them in PvP. Remember in TBC seeing like 10k HP is supposed to be pretty common. That can stand up and actually let the person have a chance (small maybe) to survive and turn the tide. Or at least DO something before dieing in one or two hits... which blizzard has said is NOT the way they want PvP to be. Which is EXACTLY what we have now, only even WORSE then before. I have to wonder at blizzard's thinking on that.

Again though, even saying all that, i'm loving the patch and new PvP stuff. Well besides the bugs and such which are normal for each patch.

I'm curious about this. I played AV and some AB the other night, finally got a tally under the actual HONOR part and I had ~2000 Honor. I had only played for about 1.5 hours. At that rate I could be getting a nice GM weapon in about 15-18 hours of PvP.

Anyone else have estimates on honor/hour under the new system?

Likewise.



I was actually able to kill shamans, warlocks, mages, and shadow priests with my MM specced hunter last night. I could practially see the looks on the faces of the locks and shamans when they found out "WTF! What happened to my IWIN button against non-BM hunters?"

Silencing shot FTW

The hunter PVP flow is MUCH nicer now. Being able to do actual damage while kiting is going to help a lot. I used to use aimed shot nearly every fight, which was tough because you have to hold still. Now I can kite, use arcane and multi and serpent sting, and with talents shoot every 5-ish seconds. It's a lot smoother than it was before.

I like the new trap mechanics, too. Being able to use them once for 12 seconds is more than enough, and you don't have to hold still to spam your FD+trap macro anymore, you can drop them on the fly (although they take a second or two to "arm"). Plus, the opposing player doesn't lose their target any more, which is a little more "fair" to them. Overall I didn't think I was going to like this change, but it turns out I like it better than the old system.

I think the entire new system rocks. We've got interest in PVP again in TFS. Being able to get the rewards without selling my soul to WoW is going to rock. If I could get my Rank 14 XBow I'd be a happy happy hunter.

And I like how they made it a REQUIREMENT to run something other than WSG over and over and over and over and over again to get gear. Previously it was just WSG roll-teams that ran WSG and won once every 10-11 minutes and that was how you got to Rank 14. Now those teams actually have to be balanced in all different BG's and succeed in them (including AV, where you have to slug it out).


EDIT: OH! I almost forgot my OTHER favorite part of my build: Rapid killing. It's totally insane in BG's. It procs so often, one out of every 3 or 4 arcane or aimed shots was getting +20% damage, and my arcane shot was critting so often that a few times I got over 1400 damage from them. Wow. Just.... wow.

Edited, Dec 7th 2006 1:37pm by rappoccio