Classes That Benefit the Most From Honor Gear
While some players are happy to have enough time to farm this gear ahead of the Dark Portal opening, some have stated that the pre-patch event should be a catch-up period for players to easily earn gear and not have to spend dozens of hours farming. One forum user even tracked their time spent in battlegrounds, and for a full set of PvP gear, it took them a total of 45 hours.
Spoilers if you don’t want to read post: Honor buffs weren’t enough. They need to cut cost by 50%, personally I think it should be cut further. Especially for a prepatch we only have 3 weeks to play in.
I did the entire honor grind just queuing alone the entire time and here are the statistics from just my personal experience from a fresh 60. I had 4 days off of work to do this grind
Bg’s played: 97
BGs Won: 48
Total time spent in grinding honor: 45 hours from the moment I started playing until I bought my last piece. This could be lower if you premade but this is to attempt to get a casual players perspective/experience.
So slightly under a 50% win rate which makes sense as im solo queuing and ran into premades in probably 15% of the bg’s. And this was for 8 pieces of gear. Weapons, and main set pieces. No off-set items from WSG, AB, or AV vendor. I mainly played WSG and AB as before the honor buffs I sat in AV for about 6~ hours getting 40ish marks.
For a prepatch this is way too much time to be spent grinding honor for 8 pieces of gear and when you factor in that most people play extremely casually for maybe 1-2 hours a day the grind for 8 pieces is simply not a viable route for people attempting to gear mains for tbc or even alts. Even if you cut this grind in half this would still for a lot of people be way too much of a grind. We also only have 3 weeks of prepatch. This isn’t a case of we have months and months of a phase to get gear. That means if a casual player (1-2 hours) of gaming did the grind they’d get all of their main set and weapon pieces a couple days after TBC releases.
What do you think of the pre-patch Honor grind? Do you think Blizzard should increase Honor gain or decrease the price of Honor gear to make them more affordable for fresh level 60s? Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below!
