Because there are a couple of LARPs in my future…

Notes to self:

1. Save up honor and marks for S2 weapon.
2. Save up arena points for S3 gear plus S4 hands and off-hand. I’d like more but who know if my arena ratings will be good enough for it. Rating requirements can be found on this rant.
3. Save up enchanting mats and pvp gems (those will be in high demand when people get their new gear).

So tailors can make 2 pieces ov pvp gear (not counting the back) but how does the unyielding set compare to the s3 stuff buyable through honor? It seems to me that tailoring is still screwed in terms of pvp gear:

Belt – Vindicator’s Dreadweave Belt (17,850 honour, 40 arathi basin) = 49 Stamina, 32 Intellect, 31 resilience, 41 spell damage. No socket.

Bracer – Vindicator’s Dreadweave Cuffs (11,794 honour, 20 warsong gulch) = 34 Stamina, 20 Intellect, 17 resilience, 29 spell damage, yellow socket (Bonus: +2 Spell Damage)

Assuming 4 resil, 6 stam gems the 2 combined give 89 stamina, 52 intellect, 52 resilience, 62 spell damage

vs.

Unyielding girdle = 28 Stamina, 20 resilience, 32 spell damage, blue socket, yellow socket (3 intellect bonus)

Unyielding bracers = 39 Stamina, 12 resilience, yellow socket (bonus: +2 Spell Hit Rating),

Unyielding girlde + bracers set bonus: increases resilience by 20.

With the set bonus and sockets filled with 4 resil, 6 stam steady talasite we get 85 stamina, 64 resilience, 3 intellect, 2 spell hit

So the vindicator’s belt and bracer compared to the unyielding set: Vindicators has 4 more stamina, 49 more intellect, 62 more spell damage. The unyielding set has 12 more resilience, 2 more spell hit. I didn’t do armor, but the gladiator stuff has more armor as well and looks to be the superior choice. The only thing is when season 4 comes out we’re not sure what will happen but the new stuff will probably be better than the s3 stuff I used for this analysis.

There could be a choice between the unyielding girdle and s3 belt however the s3 belt is superior in every way = (assuming steady talasite again for the 2 sockets unyielding girdle has) s3 belt has 9 more stamina, 29 more intellect, 3 more resilience, 9 more spell damage.

Why even bother giving tailoring a pvp set if it’s not really a viable choice? Sorry tailors but you need to go grind more honor because your profession is useless for pvp gear.

Hey, Jason here. Got a rant I need to let out. Hungryfreak’s battlegroup, hordeside, loses EOTS a lot. Way too much for my liking. I don’t see how they can be so dumb actually. At the beginning, we often lose Fel Reaver ruins because no one wants to stand there and wait for it to cap. Maybe they don’t know that we cap faster if we have more people standing in there, but they should definitely figure out that losing FR early blows hard.

Then they like to fight in the middle of nowhere which is exactly what you should do, if you’re up 3 bases to 1. If you need to cap a base, you can’t do that unless you’re in a base. Rocket science?

So you’ve got people who are stupid and you’ve got people who suck. Like if I am at say 50,000 damage, 40,000 healing – how could there be a hunter lower than me on damage? I spend at least half the time healing even though I am specced and geared for ret because…

Horde needs healers badly in BGs. Alliance always seems to have twice as much healing as Horde. I don’t get it.

Diabolicus and Gnometosser are at 57 and questing in Winterspring. We were feeling a bit aggressive and had killed a 62 gnome mage (go to outlands man!) and a 53 warrior.

We’re not such pricks that we both attacked the warrior – I attacked alone to give him a sporting chance. I am a big enough prick that when it seemed he was afk I kept attacking and killed him anyway.

So later we see a 57 druid. He goes travel form and runs. We chase. I guess he thought he got away cause when I catch up to him he’s fighting a mob. I kill him and wonder where Diabolicus is…

Turns out he’s fighting a 70 priest by himself. He somehow thought Kayona was the druid we were after…

So after I kill the druid I run back to Diabolicus just as he dies. Kayona is at half when I attack. A few seconds later, we literally kill each other at the same time. I shoot an arrow, her spell kills me, my arrow kills her. Was pretty awesome for us 57s to kill a 57 and 70 at the same time. Kayona must have felt like a big loser however. Probbaly nothing new since her arena rating is in the 1400s…

I guess camping us with the 57 druid helping made her feel better. Of course by the time we brought our 70s over she had gone into hiding… She probably guessed that we were bringing in some firepower and since she couldn’t handle 2 57s without help how could she handle 2 70s?

In her defense, warlocks and hunters are both bad matchups for a priest. And her gear is kinda crappy for a 70 while our gear is pretty good for 57…