#1 - Oct. 2, 2012, 8:29 p.m.
This hotfix will ideally go out today, and once applied will change all Justice and Honor items (including those already purchased) in the following ways:
Justice Items
- Current – ilvl 450 Rare
New – ilvl 458 Rare
Honor Items
- Current – ilvl 464 Epic
New – ilvl 458 Rare
We’ll be increasing the PvP Power and Resilience on the Honor items by 15% to compensate for this change.
Again, our design in Mists of Pandaria is to allow for a greater degree of crossover between PvE and PvP using the same gear, but the original item levels simply made Honor gear (through Battlegrounds or conversion of Justice to Honor) a far better route to gear up for PvE. Players who enjoy PvE shouldn’t feel forced to PvP to get the best gear, and vice versa.