Zarhym posted this sad but not unexpected news:




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The 1800 honor ruined PVP for this season. RUINED.

I am one of the people who actually ground out all my honor on my main and was fully geared before they made the change. Am I bitter that people from my guild that NEVER play started setting their alarms for every attacking TB and getting fully geared in less than 3 days? Yeah. But that isn't the main reason I am bitter. I am bitter because now no one plays anymore because they are fully geared. 3 arenas a week and you are done.

 

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I actually geared up my gathering alt who I managed to have at 85, so that I still had a reason to get honor on my main =) And now I feel like I need to make a link to the "rewards" thread...

 

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You won't be too angry against me, then... I indeed participated in a few 1800 honor battles, but I didn't setup an alarm, and I used the honor to buy the PvP mounts I was missing...

 

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I had four pieces prior, and too participated in a number of 1800 honor battles,I now have a full set including trinkets, rings and necklace as well as an heirloom for one of my alts. I did that in a casual manner had I thought about getting mounts that I do not have yet that would be another story but that completely slipped my mind.


I must admit is is kinda funny to see a sea PVP geared players in AV now, which has always been a hodgepodge since its inception.

This whole change made it very difficult for any casual players to compete in PvP now. Instead of a few hardcore people fully geared (they would have gotten there eventually anyway), now there are so many fully geared players in the BGs that it will probably be frustrating for casual/undergeared players to even showup.

 

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I think it was great and couldn't care less about the mighty and powerful and overly skilled individuals who managed to earn their honor the "hard" way a drip at a time. Yeah. Poor you. I managed to get a couple of my 80s in on the windfall of 1800 and would continue to do it. I think it was great and couldn't give a rat's behind about how people managed to get geared out.

Why should it matter?

I work and have a family, and I go on in the evenings and see folks in the guild and elsewhere with tons of PvE and other gear that I don't have and won't ever have because I don't have the fricking time to commit to it. For a brief few days some folks were able to rake in some extra gear. Why should that bother anyone? Afraid somebody having a little more resilience might not allow you to WTFPWNzor them as easily as you once did?

Throughout the history of the game there have been plenty of instances where objectives that were at one time very difficult to obtain, were later made much easier, for one reason or another. Blizzard gives and takes away good and bad like an alcoholic and abusive parent.

Remember when there was a period when they had XP in Alterac Valley that was ridiculous high and you could plunk a toon in there and fight a few battles and gain ungodly levels of XP?

Yeah, they made it easier to get honor gear for a while (providing you could get in the damn queue), but there are still PLENTY of GRINDS left in the game. If you feel insulted, why not drop all your profession and go out and raise something like jewelcrafting, enchanting and archaeology all at once ... just so you can have another grind or two to complain about.

Why complain about something relatively easy Blizzard gives out from time to time. It doesn't happen very often, and if the thought ever occurs to you "This is too good to be true" - don't worry, you are right and Blizzard will figure it out and take it away soon enough.

Instead of complaining about some folks getting some extra honor and pvp gear, why not complain about the important things, like how crappy many of the battlegrounds are anyway.

 

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Ah, you haven't learned yet that some people's self worth is tied into their gear standing versus other players? (I.E. "scrubs" or "bads"

You said you have a career and a family, perhaps that is why you are unconcerned with your relative gear standing. If you didn't have a family or career success, you would find that you were probably much more concerned with the ease that everyone was able to catch up to your "1337" status.

Please respond when you have properly adjusted your priorities so that WoW trumps all others. Only then will you truly understand how important it is that you outgear the lowly peasants.

 

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Exploit early, exploit often seems to be the rule in effect yet again.

Blizzard makes what is arguably about the stupidest hotpatch ever made and introduces 1800 honor per win on attack. Everyone knows this is stupid. How it ever went live will forever be a mystery.

Fine. I'll play. Except I can't get in. Ever. Well that sucks. Oh by the way, thousands of players are exploiting a bug where they get full honor even if they aren't in the battle. Fantastic.

So now, those of us who did not cheat have to spend weeks to get the gear that cheaters got in a day.

Exploit early, exploit often.

--Sly

 

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