Looks like we'll know the new season 2 gear anytime now today. With the new items being updated so close to the expected date of June 19th you think they're going to push the start date back once again to say June 26th and later?

So I was just on the test realm and the new items are there. The arena items are, as far as I could see, the same as before with an slight upgrade, i.e no caster shields The new honor rewards are bracer, belt, boots, ring and necklace. There's an healer, caster dps and melee version of all the items.

PTR is up with new gear. I'm sure links will appear shortly if they haven't already but there's healing honor gear for all the offslots except cloak.

Some of the new weapons








2 handers were 126 DPS

Awwww they put EPheonix's bow in, good stuff! Can we get some hits on that healing off-slot gear through honor?

http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.ph...af&topic=310.0

links to the new arena gear

Anyone able to check out the honor gear? Bracers, boots, belt?

http://zoid.shackspace.com/Honor2 New honor rewards vendor items is up now too.

Awesome thanks Zoid!

Ahh so the armor is the same price as arena season 1 stuff, but the weapons have gone up in cost. Now that's interesting.

Weapon prices look the same to me - 2625?

Not honored with Steamwheedle cartel..? :P

Now with thumbnails and next/previous buttons for better navigation!

http://zoid.shackspace.com/Season2/
http://zoid.shackspace.com/Honor2/

It's about time I gave my shack account a workout.

Did a summary of the paladin healing set for my own purposes:

Season 1 -> Season 2:
639 AC
30 STA
7 INT
44 Healing
12 Resiliance
10 Spell Crit

Set bonuses and "gloves bonus" remained the same. /sigh.

Ya I'm thinking I'm just gonna get the healing mace and start working on my lamellar/scaled gear.

Not mine but...
Mage Summary:

+997 armor
+6 sta
-9 int
0 crit
+ 4 res
+17 sp

Not sure what to make of that.

Adding additional armor to cloth caster gear is actually a rather remarkable change. Assuming that you arent getting sundered, 1000 extra armor is a substantial (off the top of my head, I'd say 2-3%) damage decrease when being hit by rogues hunters and warriors. Going by a general resilience formula (where 40 res ~= 1.5% damage mitigation against physical melee classes), that armor is probably worth anywhere between 40-80 resilience when facing melee classes.

What item level is the new honor stuff? The Belt with 959 armor is far above Karazhan 115 belt with 816.

PvP people did ask to get gear more along the lines of raiders ... now it's the same thing - after the initial gearup from blue->purple, each new tier isn't really that many new stats. ;P

I'm gonna get the new gladiator weapons and start saving for S3!

Mage armor now has more AC than rogue armor...

Notice that on the mage armor, the AC is green, so it basically has extra stat budget added to it.

Then there is the Dot/Resilience debate which now has an official blue "We're looking into it." response.

Season 2 might be interesting.

Yeah I know, hence the +997, its almost 1000 more than before, its just a rather large change to go from absolutely 0 bonus armor on mage/priest/warlock gear to literally hundreds of bonus armor.

Its a lot more than 2-3%.

I'd go from ~1100 AC to 2100 Thats a change from 9% DR to 16% DR. Incoming damage goes from 91% to 84%. Thats a ~7.5% decrease in what kills me: melee damage.

Now I wish I had actually saved up points. At my current 3v3 400 points a week ..... ick. I need to get in a 5V5 and not just play casually at the bare min 10 games without practice on an unoptimal team all specced PvE.

I like the new caster ring with well balanced stats and 10 spell penatration too.