Season 4

I know there was a thread about this before, but it hasn't been updated in a while. I've been holding on to my honor and marks waiting for the s2 gear to be able to be bought instead of buying s1 and turning right around again to buy s2. Any idea of when this will be? Am I better off just buying the s1 anyway? I'm a lock and will primarily be focused on PVE, but I've heard that some of the PVP is good for PVE too. Which pieces in particular would be good for me?|||The epic arena 2 socks are especially good. +50 to cozy toes and -20% to chafing from boots.

S2 > S1 by a large margin. S4 > S3 by sweet #*(@ all. It's worth it, but none is particularly awesome for PvE compared to similar PvE gears. Can work as starter gear. Plus warm toes are pretty important at night ^_^.|||there will be a patch before S4 starts ..

Slorkuz posted several new announcements at the European WoW forums, detailing some rating requirement and arena changes. Some of the changes he announced will take effect in the upcoming patch, which will be released before Season 4 starts.

Among his announcements is a reminder that Season 2 items will move to the honor system when Season 4 begins, and will continue to have no rating requirement. Here are the rest of Slorkuz's announcements on Season 4:

When Season 4 begins, Season 3 items will be reduced in personal and team arena rating requirement to:

Shoulders: 1950

Weapon: 1800

The new Season 4 items will have the below personal and team arena rating requirements:

Shoulders: 2200

Weapon: 2050

Head: 1700

Chest: 1600

Legs: 1550

Gloves: none

Off-hand: none

In addition, some of the Season 4 quality items that will be purchasable with honor will also carry a personal and team arena rating requirement:

Boots: 1700

Ring: 1650

Bracers: 1575

Belt: none

Necklace: none

Trinket: none

The changes to the rating requirements for these items reflect the nature of the items, their power, and the relative difficulty that should be had when attempting to obtain them. These items are comparable to those found in the newest 25 person raid zone, Sunwell Plateau, and should therefore also feel very challenging to obtain.

To help ensure that the challenge in obtaining these items stays true to those achieving these ratings, we'll also be implementing new rules with an upcoming patch to curb practices that undermine the core concepts of the arena system. These rules are as follows:

If a character’s personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.



This means that a player cannot join a highly rated team and begin earning points based purely on the pre-established rating of the team before they joined it. They'll need to compete, improve, and gain a personal rating worthy of the points they would receive.

the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team’s rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.

This means that players cannot join a highly rated team and immediately face highly rated opponents, easily and quickly bringing their personal rating up. Instead they'll need to again compete, improve, and earn their rating.|||I would wait, looks like its only a few weeks until s4 now.|||why do you say it only seems like a few weeks till S4?|||As far as I know, nothing has been posted by Blizzard stating that S4 will be starting anytime soon.

Some rumors going around are that Blizzard will either start S4 soon (like in a few weeks/months) and they will keep the same gear template as Tier6/Season3. Or, they will wait until after the next expansion is out for a new look to S4 gear.

To the original poster, if you are not planning on playing BGs all that often, then you might as well wait. But if you plan on playing a lot, just get what you want now. The better gear you get, the longer you can survive to farm more honor.