There has been alot of recent discussion about the new pvp / reward system and wether or not it is effective. I am still upset about some of the changes, although i do see where they will help people get things they need.
Scenario 1: your character is 50+ and you have not done much pvp, it will now require less time to get the things you need / want to make your toon more effective.
Scenario 2: You start a new toon or just started playing, prepare to spend alot of time in bg's to get weapons and armor for each level bracket.
I disagree with having to constantly return to battlegrounds to earn more honor and marks to spend on armor which will eventually be reaplced anyhow.
Might as well level up to the 50 bracket, and then take on pvp.
This brings me to my main point which is twinking your toon. I recently twinked a rogue(cliche perhaps but rogue owns, face it) in an effort to gain enough rep for both WSG and AB so i could breeze to 60 with shiny new weapons and armor at my disposal without much more wasted time, just some wasted gold. i focused on the 29 bracket, since the 19 bracket is well.. the 19 bracket. 2 bars away from revered with wsg, the patch is released. Now im literally stuck up the river without a paddle. I feel like it has been a huge waste of effort.
Nobody with common sense would twink to simply farm HK's, everyone does it to earn rep, atleast the ones who are sane. Now that rep means jack-diddly, so does twinking, might as well just do bg's for a couple of upgrades and move on, theres no reason to hang out in a bracket now, which was good fun in my opinion. This may have been blizzards intention, or possibly just an added bonus. It just seems to me that it would make more sense to leave the rewards the same and adjust the ranking system so that players wont loose rank if they dont play for a short time. I have to admit being able to get epic mounts for a mere 30 marks per bg is kinda nice.
However whats done is done, so i suppose we can either adjust to the new system, or give up entirely, which is looking more enticing the more i think about it.
~~end rant~~