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Gearing up for PvP

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

I don’t know about you, but it can be rough just starting out in PvP. My poor alt warlock, with no resilience and damage running high in The Burning Crusade, is torn apart in short order sometimes. You may have a chance in some of the better raiding gear, but you’ll be at a serious disadvantage to your properly-geared pvp counterparts. What’s your quickest way to get the resilience you so desperately need?

You have 2 viable options. Your first will be a few select heroic dungeons, and the other will be arenas.

Let’s start with some gear you’ll want to collect from Heroics. For the sake of simplicity I’ve picked out trinkets and other items that most classes can use:

Alembic of Infernal Power: Heroic Underbog - Drops from the Black Stalker
Splendid Fire Opal: Heroic Underbog - Drops from most Bosses
Argussian Compass: Heroic Underbog - Drops from the Black Stalker
Beaming Fire Opal: Heroic Blood Furnace - Drops from most Bosses
Steady Cryophase: Heroic Ramparts - Drops from most Bosses

Whew, that should give you some things to aim for, no? You’ll also want to start getting into the arenas. I’m not going to give you an entire summary of all the gladiator gear that’s available, but here’s the link to everything you’ll need, including a time calculator. If you can’t get a 5v5 going for the most points, simply grab a friend and get to fighting. The queue times are almost always low, and you’ll only need 10 matches, win or lose, to earn arena points each week. Get your resilience as soon as possible by buying the off-hand weapons/items, as they are one of the cheaper options out there.

Good luck, gladiator.

Daily Quest News: 4000 Honor a Misprint

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

As you can see here.

I’m not sure if you are familiar with the idea of daily quests, but they’ve been a welcome addition for many players. Essentially they allow you to do a number of quests once a day for reputation and a good amount of gold. I’ll be sure to write up a daily quest guide in the future to explain where to go and how to do it in more detail. In the mean time, however, I’ll sum it up by saying I average about 50-60 gold for about a half hour of questing, which certainly does help for saving for my epic flying mount!

The new patch promises some new daily quests as well. These include heroic dungeon quests, as well as Battleground daily quests, which will reward honor. Originally on the PTR, you would receive 4,000 honor for completing the daily quest. This seemed a bit excessive, but quite a number of players were excited at the chance to get some pvp/resillience gear in a short amount of time, especially considering the season 1 gladiator gear will be available to purchase for honor as well come next patch.

Alas, it was not meant to be. As it turns out, this was a mistake, and the quest will actually reward a mere 400 honor for the turn in, as well as a moderate amount of gold. Personally I don’t think it’s a huge loss. While I really enjoy PvP and arenas as a whole, it’s hard to miss what you never had in the first place. Also, who doesn’t like free honor anyway?

Cleaning out the Cobwebs

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Hello all! As you can see our wow blog here has fallen by the wayside, and I’ve been brought in to spruce things up a bit! I’ve been a long-time wow player, even had a hand in the Beta, and I’ve really enjoyed the game and hope to bestow upon you some up-to-date knowledge and upcoming tidbits about improvements, patch notes, new armor sets, etc.

So, with that in mind, we’re going to start off with some news concerning the upcoming patch. As some of you may know, 2.3 has quite a number of exciting changes, one of these buying new sets of armor available for purchase via badges of justice. What do these armor sets look like? Here we go!

Cloth Set Druids Hunter Paladin Rogue Shaman Warrior

Not bad if I do say so, I think the warrior set looks particularly over the top but still pretty great. Questions, comments, stats? Feel free to drop me a line or leave comments!

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