After playing 8 Alterac Valley's in a row with my Rogue I switched to my Paladin to cut a +8 Resilence gem for a friend.
I glanced over my Paladin's gear... a mix/mess of anything with +Healing and mp5 on regardless of cloth/leather/mail/whatever
and thought I'd go check out the proper plate healer gear to see the stats and looks.
I was impressed. My Paladin would look awesome in that "Gladiator's Ornamented" gear.
(Mmmmm, lovely.)
So I wrote down the numbers for stuff required for future reference:
Here's the totals for 10 items:
(Chest, legs, shoulders, helm, gloves, boots, neck, bracers, waist, mace.
I haven't factored in rings or trinkets.)
70 Arathi Basin marks
50 Warsong Gultch marks
50 Alterac Valley marks
70 Eye of the Storm marks
~153300 honor points. (That may be slightly off but I'm pretty sure it's close.)
(Why is there no +Heal shield that can be purchased with honor points?)
Suffice to say the appeal of the gear dropped slightly.
I worked out that I can earn around 7000 honor a day, taking roughly 4/5 hours.
153300 / 7000 = 22 days.
If I were to commit to 9000 honor a day it'd be 17 days.
So... my questions are:
How many of you have actually done this? (And remained sane.)
Should I wait for the next patch or start chipping away at the honor requirements now? (Will the next patch make things easier or worse?)
How are PvE rewards in comparisson and would they take even longer to acquire?
Any tips for making the grind less.... annoyingly dull.|||hahah m8 your a legend. i have nearly the full set plus the mace. just about to buy bracers woop.
It does look very nice and is better than most of the stuff that drops in kara for a holy pally.
I work full time so i dont have much spare time, how ever spending most of my days off grinding honor when i can it didnt take too long. Although i had 1 really lucky day where i got like 50 eots marks haha.
But i didnt stay sane, infact i completely lost the plot lol.
After i get the bracers tommorow, i will retire from pvp. Well until wrath of the lichking and the lvl 80 stuff hits the shelves. God i must be insane.
But the best thing about the pvp stuff is......ITS GARANTEED, i wanted the plate chest i remeber from ramparts, i did 14 runs and it didnt drop. Thats my point, pvp might take a while but at least you are garanteed amazing gear after the grind.
Dont wait.. start now , otherwise you will always be waiting for better gear, so to speak.
Tip for making it less boring.... Yes. Put wow in window mode and watch DVDs while playing. haha thats what. i did. i got through the entire series of family guy and planet earth.
Good luck my friend.
All i will say is that it is well worth it. You look seriously cool and stats are insane. ;|||Ahh savier, you inspire me!
Alas, my internet connection is poor this weekend.
(Damn you NTL/VirginMedia, EVERY weekend this happens!)
Thankfully my Paladin has quite a few Marks from various BG's in her bags
but 70 EOTS Marks... *sighs*... I hate that BG.
I guess I'll start tomorrow when my connection improves.
I want to buy the most expensive item first and get it out of the way...
does that make sense to anyone else?|||Quote:
I want to buy the most expensive item first and get it out of the way...
does that make sense to anyone else?
I upgrade first by what gives the biggest boost from my prievious gear.|||Actually, depending upon which is your favorite BG the marks are the least of your problems. I actually like AV/AB and hate wsg/eye so those marks are a pain.
I think the honor numbers are the same for your gear regardless of which class.
The general guideline is to get the marks, then grind AV (or whatever weekend it is for a change) until your eyes bleed.|||Quote:
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The general guideline is to get the marks
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Preferably in a pre-made. Helps a lot.|||I have done the equivalent of that grind on 3 characters now.|||Quote:
Preferably in a pre-made. Helps a lot.
Indeed
I also noticed the op is assuming 7k honor per day. That's a bit more than I play, but I'm pretty casual. To help eleviate the boredom just figure that at 7k honor per day you'll be getting a piece every other day, sometimes more frequently due to left over honor. So instead of sweating a 22 grind to get it all done look at it more like one of your dailies and instead of money you get "teh epix!!!!!111oneoneone"|||my priest is 3/5 s1(has 2/5 of the +heal s1) and 2/5 S3
than all the veterans pieces but ring, and the vindicator ring.
you'd be amazed how quickly the honor and tokens roll in if you quit wasting time...get in with a solid premade and 1500+honor an hour is easy in AB/EOTS.
My priest has 3 PvP mounts, everything is Glad/Veterans or better except the weapons and 1 ring. And he has 100 of each mark...but only 9k honor...almost enough for the 2nd ring than its the weapons.../sigh to bad im about to shelve the dwarf shadowpriest in favor of my quickly leveling UD Warlock whom is a smudge of exp shy of lvl 55.|||Quote:
The general guideline is to get the marks, then grind AV (or whatever weekend it is for a change) until your eyes bleed.
Indeed ^^
AV still gives the most honour, even if it's another PvP weekend.
A few tips:
- Engage in arena fights every week. You may get a single S2 piece in a month or so but it saves you grinding. It looks the same (weapon), has better stats and arena only takes 10 times 3 minutes a week. 5 vs 5 gives the most arena points but even 2 vs 2 at low rating is ok.
- Do the daily PvP. It gets you extra honour and some money as well and accumulates tokens.
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