TalonBot
12-18-2008, 04:22 PM
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With gear upgrades these days being so easy to come by, I'm not so sure 'welfare epics' is such an accurate term for PvP gear anymore. That said, Arena Season 5 (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/season-5/) started the other day without so much as a whimper. It kind of crept in quietly, without even a patch to go along with it. I'm sure it's taken a few players by surprise to see so many new PvP gear available from different sources that it can get confusing. I know I wrote about it in an old post (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/10/06/blood-sport-everything-savage-hateful-and-deadly/), but quite a bit has changed since Beta, and some things don't quite apply. Don't worry, we're here to help you make sense of it all.
First of all, in the new PvP rewards system there are three tiers of PvP gear. The Savage Gladiator, Hateful Gladiator, and Deadly Gladiator are equivalent to Level 80 dungeon blues, 10-man raid epics, and 25-man raid epics respectively, with a lot of item points thrown in the way of Resilience and sometimes Stamina. These items aren't the best for PvE, so gear accordingly. You'll be wasting a lot of item points by way of Resilience, so keep in mind that all this new gear is best for your Battleground (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/battlegrounds/) and Arena (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/arena/) pursuits.Continue reading Wrath 101: PvP welfare gear (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/18/wrath-101-pvp-welfare-gear/)
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2008/12/zach_welfare_s5_dummies_02.jpg
With gear upgrades these days being so easy to come by, I'm not so sure 'welfare epics' is such an accurate term for PvP gear anymore. That said, Arena Season 5 (http://www.wowinsider.com/tag/season-5/) started the other day without so much as a whimper. It kind of crept in quietly, without even a patch to go along with it. I'm sure it's taken a few players by surprise to see so many new PvP gear available from different sources that it can get confusing. I know I wrote about it in an old post (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/10/06/blood-sport-everything-savage-hateful-and-deadly/), but quite a bit has changed since Beta, and some things don't quite apply. Don't worry, we're here to help you make sense of it all.
First of all, in the new PvP rewards system there are three tiers of PvP gear. The Savage Gladiator, Hateful Gladiator, and Deadly Gladiator are equivalent to Level 80 dungeon blues, 10-man raid epics, and 25-man raid epics respectively, with a lot of item points thrown in the way of Resilience and sometimes Stamina. These items aren't the best for PvE, so gear accordingly. You'll be wasting a lot of item points by way of Resilience, so keep in mind that all this new gear is best for your Battleground (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/battlegrounds/) and Arena (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/arena/) pursuits.Continue reading Wrath 101: PvP welfare gear (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/18/wrath-101-pvp-welfare-gear/)
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