Conquest Points

I had a couple hours of time to play last night so I queued up for Ashran and did a few BGs while I waited. It took about an hour for it to pop (ugh), but once inside I did a couple of events and got about 500 Broken Bones. When you win an event, it rewards all participating players with 125 Conquest Points and 250-500 Honor Points (based on location). I have no idea how often the events take place, but it seemed like the started pretty quickly - maybe ever 15 minutes?

Conquest Points are used to buy the good PvP gear. You can earn them from Ashran, Rated Battlegrounds, and Arena matches. Amazingly enough, you can actually earn up to the weekly cap just from playing in Ashran! Being that I don't have an Arena partner and haven't tried Rated BGs yet, this is my plan for the time being.

Conquest points are capped at 1800 a week unless you have a high Arena or Battleground rating. You can check your personal cap here: http://www.whatsmycap.com/

Assuming that the cost of gear is the same as when I was doing Arenas many years ago, that's roughly one epic piece of PvP gear a week! Some back-of-the-napkin math - it would take 15 Ashran events to earn 1800 conquest points. If they really start every 15 minutes, that's just under 4 hours of Ashran farming to hit the cap every week. Of course, that's assuming you actually win them all. I wonder if it's possible to do Rated Battlegrounds without a premade group? That would be interesting, I'd like to try that out!