Season 4

Wow I haven't posted in five days. That's a long stretch for me and considering everything that's going on: Season 4, WotLK updates, Summer Fire Festival thing, and Patch 2.4.3. Let's start with Season 4.

I have over 70k honor, enough marks to buy any of the gear, and 3872 arena points. The best rating we had on any of our teams at any point in time was 1635. This means I can get the neck, waist, and wrist pieces very quickly. The ring will be doable with a bit of work and the boots a stretch at 1700. What will be helpful is that I am replacing 2 pieces of PvE gear with the neck and waist. Granted the War-Feathered Loop was a nice cross-over piece with armor ignore and some decent stam, but nothing beats resilience. Those two replacements will give me an additional 39 resilience. The bracer upgrade does not increase my resil but does give additional stats.

For arena gear I am looking at the legs and chest as the first upgrades. Unfortunately my only two pieces of remaining S2 gear are the helm and the shoulders, so I will be replacing all of the S3 gear for starters. The 1550 rating on the legs should be very easy to obtain, with the 1600 doable once all the hardcore teams grind up to their 1900-2000 ratings.

This brings up a point I made to my team: let's not jump into arenas first thing on Tuesday. Considering that every team starts over at 1500 rating the uber groups will be sitting in the lower bracket grinding points off the mid ranks and the scrubs. So a team we would normally lose 6 points to could take us for 15-16 and do so over and over again. They don't seem to share my viewpoint so I told them I'd play a few but if we are getting wasted and losing lots of points we need to cool it until the weekend.

Good luck to you in Season 4 and I'll see you in the arena.