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Wintergrasp
Author:cartvip Date:3/30/2009 Source:http://www.cartvip.com
Prior to we covered achievements as something you might have overlooked. Depending on your performances, Wintergrasp is just the case.
There are so many things to do that it is really impossible to find time to do them all and have a life such as professions, making wow gold, raids, rep grinds and achievements, this game could easily chew up all your time.
We spent almost the time leveling alts and gearing toons for raids. But finally we made up our mind to get busy with the program of gearing for Player vs. Player. We started with battlegrounds but we figured it was pretty worthless to do them since we do not enjoy Player vs. Player that much and knew that it was a learning curve best done by gaining some proper gear first.
Also we have a bit of pressure from a certain guy who lives and dies for PvP. We had not taken the time to go to certain places like arena junkies to expand our repertoire of information so we were lost.
We looked at specs and macros, even rearranged all actions bars so we could shape-shift with some degree of fluidity. Got CC ironed out in a few battlegrounds and began looking at what gear we needed to get resilience above zero to some number that would actually do any amount of good.
It is glad to say that we are winning more than losing but we still have a long way to go. But it is not just that we have a huge hole for PvP. And also we had overlooked WG and Heroics.
If, instead of spending so much time working on a few other things, we had made an effort to attend WG whenever possible, and done a few heroics every day, PvP gearing would be much further along. With Wrath, Blizzard was apparently shooting for balance in game play so you really don't have to just BG until your eyes bug out any more.
Enter WG. There are some deadly gladiator quality items available from the vendor there but you have to have WG marks to spend. If you do not do WG, you can not get them. The advantage is that if you can get your boots and helm for a mere 55 marks. So if you had done WG even once a day over the last three months, you would have had something like twice that number even if we lost every single one.
WG matches also reward more honor than almost anywhere else you can go, especially if you are winning. Do it a couple of times a day and what with the daily and a couple of wins you can garner something like 7-10 marks, 3,000+ honor points and some stone keeper's shards to boot. Not bad for 30-45 minutes worth of work.
And then there are heroics. If all you do is PvE and raids, you've probably long since stopped running these. But it's not a bad idea to do a few when your faction holds WG for the emblems of heroism and stone keeper's shards. This was another thing we missed since we did not need anything from heroics because of 25 man raids, we just quit doing them. But if we had, we could have at least picked up a couple of bits of blue PvP gear for some more resilience right off the bat.
Since you need arena rating and points to get the deadly gladiator shoulders, you can pick up the BoA shoulders that get you started on the right foot with the stone keeper's shards. It's not a perfect plan, but it's a way better option than almost anything PvE.
Most of you are aware that you can also get a decent start to you PvP set by doing Vault runs, which is a nice twist in Wrath. The only problem is that you will be at the mercy of the loot tables and getting the chest, hands and legs from the same part of a Deadly set from the stone watcher would be a long process.
You are capable of getting ready for PvP more effectively than ever by just doing a few PvE things and a pretty fun battleground from time to time. It's not unreasonable to say that you could do a couple of heroics, and a couple of WG battles a day for a month or so and end up with 7 or 8 pieces of really decent PvP gear and a resilience rating around 400. And don't forget that you can add a couple of pieces from the Hateful set if you save you emblems of Valor as well.
If you have been looking at WG and heroics, just ask yourself if you ever plan on taking your toon into anything bordering on serious PvP. If you do, adding those runs to your routine will put you in a position to just run out and buy your starter set when you do get ready to get with the ganking.
There are so many things to do that it is really impossible to find time to do them all and have a life such as professions, making wow gold, raids, rep grinds and achievements, this game could easily chew up all your time.
We spent almost the time leveling alts and gearing toons for raids. But finally we made up our mind to get busy with the program of gearing for Player vs. Player. We started with battlegrounds but we figured it was pretty worthless to do them since we do not enjoy Player vs. Player that much and knew that it was a learning curve best done by gaining some proper gear first.
Also we have a bit of pressure from a certain guy who lives and dies for PvP. We had not taken the time to go to certain places like arena junkies to expand our repertoire of information so we were lost.
We looked at specs and macros, even rearranged all actions bars so we could shape-shift with some degree of fluidity. Got CC ironed out in a few battlegrounds and began looking at what gear we needed to get resilience above zero to some number that would actually do any amount of good.
It is glad to say that we are winning more than losing but we still have a long way to go. But it is not just that we have a huge hole for PvP. And also we had overlooked WG and Heroics.
If, instead of spending so much time working on a few other things, we had made an effort to attend WG whenever possible, and done a few heroics every day, PvP gearing would be much further along. With Wrath, Blizzard was apparently shooting for balance in game play so you really don't have to just BG until your eyes bug out any more.
Enter WG. There are some deadly gladiator quality items available from the vendor there but you have to have WG marks to spend. If you do not do WG, you can not get them. The advantage is that if you can get your boots and helm for a mere 55 marks. So if you had done WG even once a day over the last three months, you would have had something like twice that number even if we lost every single one.
WG matches also reward more honor than almost anywhere else you can go, especially if you are winning. Do it a couple of times a day and what with the daily and a couple of wins you can garner something like 7-10 marks, 3,000+ honor points and some stone keeper's shards to boot. Not bad for 30-45 minutes worth of work.
And then there are heroics. If all you do is PvE and raids, you've probably long since stopped running these. But it's not a bad idea to do a few when your faction holds WG for the emblems of heroism and stone keeper's shards. This was another thing we missed since we did not need anything from heroics because of 25 man raids, we just quit doing them. But if we had, we could have at least picked up a couple of bits of blue PvP gear for some more resilience right off the bat.
Since you need arena rating and points to get the deadly gladiator shoulders, you can pick up the BoA shoulders that get you started on the right foot with the stone keeper's shards. It's not a perfect plan, but it's a way better option than almost anything PvE.
Most of you are aware that you can also get a decent start to you PvP set by doing Vault runs, which is a nice twist in Wrath. The only problem is that you will be at the mercy of the loot tables and getting the chest, hands and legs from the same part of a Deadly set from the stone watcher would be a long process.
You are capable of getting ready for PvP more effectively than ever by just doing a few PvE things and a pretty fun battleground from time to time. It's not unreasonable to say that you could do a couple of heroics, and a couple of WG battles a day for a month or so and end up with 7 or 8 pieces of really decent PvP gear and a resilience rating around 400. And don't forget that you can add a couple of pieces from the Hateful set if you save you emblems of Valor as well.
If you have been looking at WG and heroics, just ask yourself if you ever plan on taking your toon into anything bordering on serious PvP. If you do, adding those runs to your routine will put you in a position to just run out and buy your starter set when you do get ready to get with the ganking.
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