September News/Discussion

[Kevin]

If they were starting at 70, you might have a point... but as it is, they still have to work harder than anyone else to reach the cap, assuming you're not suddenly changing your main to a class you haven't played before. Speaking as someone who changed mains to a 50ish toon pre-TBC... it's not fun. Watching everyone else be 10+ levels ahead of you is hell, especially as you struggle through old content.:(Luckily Outlands isn't as bad as the old world, but it's still a penalty.

AND they do not get the benefits of the honor cap.

And this is yet another reason why I don't care. Even if you reset honor points all the other classes STILL have an advantage on death knights because they are at 55 and not 70 so they will still take longer to get to 80 and they will still be behind the curve.

So since they are going to be behind the curve anyway, who cares.

Of course if they do reset honor and arena points I don't care either, I'll spend what I have saved up on other stuff, the current honor gear will still last 4-8 levels into Northrend anyway just like badge gear and might still serve OK as a starter set for the L80 PvP crap.

And finally since the PvP playing field has never been remotely close to even to begin with it still doesn't matter. The folks who really want to PvP with Deathknights will end up on even footing within a few weeks of the arena season really getting moving. And will easily be on even footing by the time the 2nd season starts, which is the first season that will matter because all the people that take 2 weeks vacation to get to to L80 and start arena for points earlier than everyone else that will likely take 4+ weeks to gt to cap will have an even bigger advantage over everyone else.

WoW PvP is not and never has been fair. It's been decent enough that a someone like me has been able to have a lot of fun hanging around in the 1650 - 1750 range though and I don't put that much time into it. Sure I've seen the bad balance first hand, but it's been good enough that I could have fun with it.

I even took a completely new 70 into arenas about 2 months into season 3 and was still able to hold about a 1450 rating even though I was so amazing outgeared (I had one piece of PvP gear and I couldn't even get the full blue set because I didn't have all the reps yet) and I was partnered with another alt that was geared just as bad as me. But it was still fun. Had I had the time to stick with it, I would have gotten him pretty much on an even playing field within a month or 2.

So yeah, I don't care about the death knight imbalance. It is there no matter what you do. Well that isn't true, I suppose you could start DKs at L70, reset honor, eset gold, reset rep, reset mounts, and reset gear for everyone else. Then it would be a level playing field (because money does help you level faster, and if you level faster you can get an edge in PvP). So yeah, maybe if you start everyone naked at L70 with all the same rep and all the same money, and then change all the quest rewards and quest locations so that the folks who played beta don't have an advantage you can make it even. That sure would be fun. :)