About those Level 70 AV items

[Watto44]

Could you just buy all the items now? I'm pretty sure I bought my AV items before 60 and popped them on the minute I capped on my hunter (Don Julio, how I love you). Of course, since the items don't upgrade, it might be different in AB/WSG.

If not, then it sucks for you. Probably not a whole lot of people are in your boat - paused in leveling to work BG's to revered to make their leveling easier? The loss of rest XP makes it a pretty non optimal strategy.

It's unfortunate that you can't purchase the BG reputation rewards when you've met the rep. requirement but before you meet the level requirement. That would probably placate the twinks, although I'm sure there are negative consequences there that I'm not seeing.

I'm actually in a similar boat with my mage. I've ended up leveling out of the 49 bracet earlier than I really wanted to in order to get myself positioned better as the patch approaches. I fully expect to get burnt on my AV rep. and probably my AB rep as well. (I won't be particularly heartbroken over the AV rep., but AB will be a bitter pill to swallow. 12000/21000 currently, and it will hurt to loose that progress.)

The main thing that Blizzard needs to do is give people plenty of warning before they patch the new system in. As long as I have a couple of weeks notice, I should be able to avoid getting burnt too badly. :)

On the plus side, I don't have to "earn" weapons that I'll never use to get my shiny warsong bracers! Or any other PvP item for that matter. I feel like a kid in a candy store. :w00t: