Yeah, everyone and their mother wears those shoulders now, it's terrible. Terrible not so much because they're so easy to get, but because people still feel oh so special once they wear them. Every now and then some guy in green with epic PvP shoulders walks through Stormwind screaming "Look at my shoulders!", obviously not realizing that he's far from being alone.
That alone is enough for me to definitely not go for the shoulders first. I've got my ranged GM weapon now, time to go for the two fist weapons. After that, if there still is time, it will be chest and legs, we'll see.
Oh and
Mazra wrote:
To be honest, I think they overdid it a bit. By the time they launch the expansion, people will be decked in GM/HWL gear.
Don't think so, at least not on my server. The only ones that are really making progress are the organized guilds. I wouldn't exactly call me a "true casual" gamer, and I have a pretty hard time obtaining the gear via unorganized PvP. I know I'll never make the whole set until BC. Most people will get fed up with it after they got their shoulders/weapon. You won't see any "greens" suddenly being equipped all in purple. Not going to happen. If they didn't have the endurance to run Strath/BRS/Scholo multiple times for their T0, they won't last through the PvP grind.
Edited, Dec 19th 2006 5:11am by Ertrael