Originally Posted by McTurok
These players that "struggle to even get 1700" are most likely the same players that struggle in Kz and/or SSC. So do you really think they deserve S4 gear (which is compared to Sunwell loot)? I don't think so. They get S2 and S3.
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I've killed Illidan with my guild, which now has the twins down. My top team rating ever was 1604, after a few weeks of 5v5 arenas. Yeah, I suck at arenas.
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Remember the honor items being tided to arena is done for a reason. It's very VERY comparable to loot from Sunwell too. Do you honestly think they should be basically handed out for free? Sure you might try hard every time in a BG to win but there are half a dozen who just run around doing nothing at all.
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This is a valid point, imo, and I don't know the answer to it. However, having recently gotten my rogue a S1 sword by getting 40 EOTS tokens (in 36 games, averaging 20 minutes each
), I feel like I put in my time.
Anyway, I think that if the game is going this way, they should probably at least be consistent and put honor and point requirements on the Arena items. As someone said earlier, it's all pvp, and therefore tied together.
The upshot of this for me is that I will no longer queue for battlegrounds. Because of my lack of interest/skill in arenas, I no longer see a need to do BGs for the S4 vindicators-analog that I would have otherwise probably tried to get. Yes, I could go for S3 vindicators, but I generally don't enjoy getting gear that isn't top of the line. I had to do my rogue's main hand because I was using
[The Castigator] until upgrading to the S1 weapon.
Hopefully, for Blizzard's sake, more people will enter the arena/bg system due to these changes than avoid it due to being in a situation/mindset akin to my own.