#1 - March 13, 2013, 3:53 p.m.
Inappropriate language removed ~ Nakatoir
14/02/2013 12:38Posted by Nakatoir
- 5.1 Malevolent Gear has a higher ilevel than 5.2 Malevolent Gear.
- 5.2 Malevolent Gear has more PvP Power/Resilience than 5.1 Malevolent Gear.
- 5.1 Malevolent Gear
- 483 ilevel (491 with 2/2 upgrades)
- ~30 ilevels of PvP Power and Resilience
- 5.2 Malevolent Gear
- 476 ilevel
- ~36 ilevels of PvP Power and Resilience
Can someone please confirm if this is intended or not???This is intended, at this current point we have no plans to change the stats on the current gear sets.
Sadly I cannot give much of a comment on the difference in stats as the 5.3 gear is yet to be released. I can say however that we want to try and make sure that going into all future patches, including this one, that gear rewarded through PvP remains the best for PvP purposes. We understand that the community is concerned with PvE gear returning in PvP and we will do our best to prevent this.14/03/2013 10:39Posted by ThornassThanks Nakatoir, and now that I'm back from an unfortunate ban, I'd like to ask you what your opinion is on the stat difference between the s13 Tyrannical gear and the 5.3 PvE gear. While you miss out on PvP stats, the ilvl from the PvE gear is so much higher that it might outweight PvP gear for certain classes. What do you think about this?
I totally misstyped me there, thank an all-nighter for that. I meant 5.2 Heroic PvE gear. Especially openers from Rogue teams (mass stealth) might totally gib the enemy teams within the first few seconds. We will see how it goes, I guess. ;)No biggie, I assumed you did and that is why I mentioned 5.2 in the post ;)
If you check our most recent hotfixes blog, you will find two key changes that we have made to help with these issues of gearing. I will list the two changes we made during the maintenance here to make it easier to find:20/03/2013 09:00Posted by ThornassThis is not hating, it's the majority of the community asking for a fair environment and a fresh start of the season.
These changes are designed to make S13 Malevolent armor equal to its S12 counterpart as well as making the Tyrannical weapons equal to the S12 2/2 elite weapons. This should help greatly in resolving any remaining gear disparity issues from last season. :)
- PvP
- Season 13 Tyrannical weapons had their item levels increased to ilevel 498, up from ilevel 493.
- Season 13 Malevolent Honor gear now gives more Stamina.
The obvious order of things should be:This is actually how it is intended to be and also how the gear currently functions. While the resilience and PvP power of the Conquest gear is slightly lower than the honor gear, the overall stats on gear are what results in it being an upgrade. Even if it is not apparent immediately just from a quick look, the Conquest gear is better than the Honor gear that is currently available.
Elite Conquest > Conquest => Heroic > honor => normal > LFR
This is certainly not the case currently!