11-01-2006, 11:25 PM
Quote:Make no mistake, these are relatively easy purples. (please do not derail into weather or not that is too easy). 1 2h weapon, 5 1h weapons and a full suit of armor is about 170k honor. Assuming 10 to 1 honor change, that's the equivalent of 1.7 million. It is not unheard of to hit 1mil in a week. I could certainly hit 500k if I stopped raiding, meaning I could get better items in 1 month of PvP then I have in 1.5 years of raiding to this point. More to the point, after that month, I'd have no reason to go back to PvP.
After a month on this system, the expansion will probably come out. The current level 70 rewards available through this mechanism are blue in the beta, so they could easily be upgraded with new rewards every patch. The removal of the "rank = loots" and "rep = loots" systems means that Blizzard can provide true gear progression via PvP now. It gives them a lot of latitude for upgrading with time and establishes a certain gear baseline for people entering the arena system.