Honour and MARKS to be wiped...

by Zalgradis | 24/09/2008 18:16:29

Ok, i admit that this post comes from a sense of injustice a little too close to home, having farmed 75k honour and 100 of each BG mark on 3 characters in preparation for the expansion, so seeing the following post by Eyonix:

Q u o t e:
As many of you know we will be featuring a new Battleground, a dedicated world PvP zone and all new PvP items in Wrath of the Lich King. In order to make the transition from The Burning Crusade to Wrath of the Lich King flow as smoothly as possible, all accrued honor points will be reset at the launch of the expansion. We do this to ensure select players do not have an unfair advantage at level 80 from stockpiling honor to instantly purchase the newest Wrath of the Lich King PvP rewards. For those with unspent honor points prior to the release of the expansion, we will be offering a few upgrades and special rewards in next content patch solely for purchase via the honor system.

I read special items and now that's all I care about. Screw the upgrades what are those "special" things going to be?
The items should be on the PTRs now, or very soon.

Same as others have posted, curious about what will happen with pvp tokens/badges accumulated? possible to get a blue to clarify this please?
Marks of Honor will be wiped as well.

Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10043252440&
sid=1

Although this does suck for most likely 80% of the current PvP community who were really looking forward to actually playing the NEW content without having to grind the same events as we have been for the last 3 years, i guess it did give those people a bit of an unfair advantage preparation wise. Far be it from me to point out an obvious solution; increasing the honour pool, honour gained from events/kills/bgs upon the release of the expansion so that that 75k would be far from sufficient.. i guess wiping everything and disregarding the quite possibly millions of dissatisfied subscribers is a hell of a lot easier.

But one thing i simply cannot understand is this:

Q u o t e:
Same as others have posted, curious about what will happen with pvp tokens/badges accumulated? possible to get a blue to clarify this please?
Marks of Honor will be wiped as well.

So now for the question on everyones lips: (enjoy the capslock for emphasis on shere stupidity).

Why.

Why are you NEEDLESSLY forcing us to grind the SAME battlegrounds we have been grinding for almost THREE YEARS?

WHY are you forcing us you revisit this content when what we are really looking forward to is the NEW CONTENT?

WHY are you implimenting this change even though the advantage of stockpiling the tokens is almost COMPLETELY negated by the fact that we hjave a complete honour wipe, AND the introduction of needing Arena Points for virtually ALL set pieces?

Why blizzard?

I apologise for the rudeness of those comments, but this really needs clarification.

Please allow a Blizzard Rep. to respond.

Thanks.

[ Post edited by Zalgradis ]

Which items are Paladin items? Its quite simple really: If a warrior wants it, so do you.
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