Comments on: Rags and a Rusty Dagger = Overpowered

By: Daggerin

Daggerin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:19:48 +0000

Do you work in this industry? YOu seem to know a lot about the subject.

By: Foton

Foton — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:31:09 +0000

Good work, cub reporter Ohsnap! That is so messed up, it deserves its own post so we can wtf.

By: ohsnap

ohsnap — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:45:40 +0000

OMG Foton, EPIC WoW thread. Page 16 has another post by the original poster. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=965646786&sid=1&pageNo=1

By: Acid

Acid — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:32:29 +0000

so long as I can actually see progression without having to play 4-6 hours a night like when I used to raid I’m content. I like the idea of getting arena gear to do better in the area. but not if it just turns into another form of raiding with a pretty name. /sigh Collage blows.

By: Evil M

Evil M — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:21:35 +0000

The reason they’re concerned is because you can exploit (if you have enough gold) the current arena system. 5 guys can disband and reform a team on a weekly basis, lose every single game maybe even win a couple and they’ll get decent points, around 400. I don’t think this is very efficient personally, but essentially you’re zeroing out your arena rating at 1500 every week. With that people were going in and 5-6 weeks later walking out with Merc Shankers and other arena weapons.

The idea seems like they want people to get the arena gear with the purpose of doing better in arena, not doing better in raids.

By: Torcie

Torcie — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:17:25 +0000

Acid,
yes the S1 arena gear is still available, and they made it cheaper than it was originally. Arena’s are tailor made for casuals – you can get away with as little as half an hour a week. You can lose repeatedly and STILL get points.

By: Acid

Acid — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:54:13 +0000

Noob question alert.

Is it still possible to obtain S1 arena gear with S2 out? Heck more importantly, is it possible for a casual gamer to play in the arena and get any kind of gear at all? =\ freakin blizzards just driving me closer and closer to AoC with every announcement =(

By: Evil M

Evil M — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:22:45 +0000

Well Bliz has already stated that S3 arena gear will not only have a point requirement but a rating requirement. This will prevent scrub teams from getting Hyjal quality weapons in 6 weeks.

By: Nonentity

Nonentity — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:56:52 +0000

Eh, I’m not concerned. Someone will go after Pardo with rags and chloroform. From all indication from what I saw at BlizzCon, they want to mainly keep it the same as they did with BC.

By: yunk

yunk — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:14:01 +0000

holy crap
they finally got a nice difference between arena and raid gear where you HAD to do arenas to get good resilience gear, and you HAD to raid to get good gear for raiding. Finally they had some balance where raiders no longer ruled the BGs. (Weapons may cross over but they could just redesign them a little.)

But now, it sounds like they want to lower the quality of pvp gear? To satisfy raiders?

This is why I quit. It’s a “raid or die” game. I thought they were starting to at least try to change, I guess I was wrong.