Thursday, July 16, 2015

A couple minor PvP differences

Last season, your first 3 rated battleground wins of the week would either provide you with an extra 50 conquest points or a random piece of epic gear. It was possible to not get a piece of gear, which is what happened more often than not (it seemed like, at least).

This season, each week you get a quest to win 3 games. Once you've completed the quest, you get a box with a guaranteed piece of epic PvP gear.

Long live the champ!
Overall, it seems like an improvement to be guaranteed a piece every week.

Are they jeggings? I hope they're jeggings!
In addition to that, there is a new weekly quest in Ashran as well. It requires you to win 4 events and then kill the opposite faction's leader:

Down goes Tremblade!
Given how atrocious Ashran was in the week between the end of season 1 and the start of season 2 when it wasn't possible to earn conquest (Horde refused to do anything but farm NPCs for fragments; they didn't even bother to try and win events!), I thought this quest would be impossible to complete. Turns out it's actually pretty easy! It rewards you with 500 conquest and another box which also holds a guaranteed epic piece.

So not only are you earning 1700+ conquest points a week, but also 2 pieces of epic gear! Seems like it should be really easy to gear up this season, right? So what's the catch?

The catch is (and of course there's a catch!) that all the gear with Versatility on it (Versatility is a secondary stat, like Crit, Haste, etc, that increases the damage you do, decreases the damage you take, and increases the amount you heal for; in short, it's awesome!) has been removed from the vendor. You simply cannot buy them anymore. Where did they go? Apparently, they can only be gotten from those quests.

So on the one hand, it will be faster to gear up to a full set of epic gear this way. On the other hand, it will take longer to get the specific stats you want - heck, it's even possible you could go all season without getting what you want!

I've gotten 3 epics this way (didn't do RBGs the first week, because I figured I wouldn't win a piece from my first 3 wins anyway ... woops!) and none of them are set pieces. I am not sure if it's possible to get set pieces from these boxes; I don't think the set pieces come with Versatility, so it's possible that you can only get non-set pieces from them. Then again, none of the three pieces I have gotten have Versatility anyway, so who knows!

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