Old PvP Gear Exchange Vendor Suggestion

[Gralle]

During today's Fireside, the devs encouraged us to make a forum post about this suggestion.

Suggestion: Add a vendor where players can trade in the old PvP gear from before the new PvP sets were introduced and receive Honor equivalent to the cost of the corresponding item from the new PvP set.

For example, Knight-Captain's Dragonhide Leggings could be traded in for the same amount of Honor that the equivalent new PvP leggings cost.

The old gear required players to reach PvP ranks 7, 8 and 10, in addition to paying some gold for the items. Allowing these items to be exchanged would give some compensation for the time and effort invested before the new PvP gear was introduced.

[Darktifa]

what time and what effort?

i reached r6 on pve realm with 19 Hk's, but i stopped playing cause pvp realm was announced



Others reached higher ranks with 100 - 200 Hk's which is ridiculously low
You are literally asking for free honour points, just because u played on a 200 pop realm with zero BG's

[Therealvda]

what time and what effort?

i reached r6 on pve realm with 19 Hk's, but i stopped playing cause pvp realm was announced



Others reached higher ranks with 100 - 200 Hk's which is ridiculously low
You are literally asking for free honour points, just because u played on a 200 pop realm with zero BG's

What the fuck is that PVE realm lol

[Zvyrhol]

what time and what effort?

i reached r6 on pve realm with 19 Hk's, but i stopped playing cause pvp realm was announced



Others reached higher ranks with 100 - 200 Hk's which is ridiculously low
You are literally asking for free honour points, just because u played on a 200 pop realm with zero BG's

What the fuck is that PVE realm lol

I think he got it during very early days of Octo when there were only hundreds of people playing. Rank 6 with only 19 HKs sounds strange to me now (unless he was carrying the flag in WSG as Druid or whatever).

[Dzielkus]

In mid may i got 1 hk which resulted in r3. I saw one bg pop up and ppl after this one bg was r6-8 (with city protectors titles).
You should get nothing for old pvp gear.

[Gralle]

what time and what effort?

i reached r6 on pve realm with 19 Hk's, but i stopped playing cause pvp realm was announced



Others reached higher ranks with 100 - 200 Hk's which is ridiculously low
You are literally asking for free honour points, just because u played on a 200 pop realm with zero BG's

I did open-world PvP every day while leveling, because there were no BGs available at the time like there are now. I still managed to reach Rank 8 and earned the old PvP set.

The problem is that the set I earned is now significantly worse than the new PvP gear, and the two sets aren't really compatible either because the old set bonuses don't combine with, for example, the new Feral set bonuses.

If other players chose to spend their time doing something else back then, that was their choice. That doesn't mean the time and effort spent by those of us who actually did open-world PvP should suddenly have no value.

On Turtle, players were compensated with 30k Honor for the same situation when the new PvP gear was introduced.

[Darktifa]

That doesn't mean the time and effort spent by those of us who actually did open-world PvP should suddenly have no value.

what time and what effort my dude?
r8 with less than 100 HK's is a joke

[Gralle]

That doesn't mean the time and effort spent by those of us who actually did open-world PvP should suddenly have no value.

what time and what effort my dude?
r8 with less than 100 HK's is a joke

Less than 100 HKs simply isn’t true. We were closer to 300-400 HKs by the time I reached R8, and almost all of that came from open-world PvP.

I played from day one, when there were no BGs and the server often had only around 200-350 players online. Most players you encountered weren’t even PvP flagged, so finding actual targets took a lot of time.

Farming enough honor for the four PvP pieces took us at least four weeks back then. Today, with active BGs and a much larger pool of PvP targets, the same amount of honor can be farmed in roughly a week.

So yes, there was absolutely both time and effort involved. I reached Rank 8 and bought the gear that was available at the time.

[Blindtongue]

What the fuck is that PVE realm lol

you should see Vanilla+ server bro lol, literally people there have bank alts r13/14 with 15-25 lifetime kills cuz the server pop was so low they were awarding BG marks to folks for simply queeing lol.

I told them i would be disgraced to wear that shit like that lol, absolute joke

[Dzielkus]

That doesn't mean the time and effort spent by those of us who actually did open-world PvP should suddenly have no value.

what time and what effort my dude?
r8 with less than 100 HK's is a joke

Less than 100 HKs simply isn’t true. We were closer to 300-400 HKs by the time I reached R8, and almost all of that came from open-world PvP.

I played from day one, when there were no BGs and the server often had only around 200-350 players online. Most players you encountered weren’t even PvP flagged, so finding actual targets took a lot of time.

Farming enough honor for the four PvP pieces took us at least four weeks back then. Today, with active BGs and a much larger pool of PvP targets, the same amount of honor can be farmed in roughly a week.

So yes, there was absolutely both time and effort involved. I reached Rank 8 and bought the gear that was available at the time.

400 hk is ~6k of honor. If you're really pvper then this amount is 2-3 hours winning ab with quite some kills.
In may i saw two ppl with less than 100 hk with r7 and r8.
This ranks "farming" was a joke.
Effort? What effort, killng those 5 ppl with warmode on you have met somewhere on Azeroth?

I will write it once again, you should get nothing, and surely you didnt deserve to be able to buy old pvp t1 set.
It was closed beta for finding bugs, helping Octo Team. You have got your Ozzy.

So the real effort in closed beta was doing quests and dungeons reporting bugs, if you were hunting ppls for few hk to bug up your rank then you lost our time, all of us.