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Instead of making players wearing PvE gear feel weaker in PvP, this makes it so players wearing PvP gear feel stronger. One added benefit of this new system is that most PvE gear will no longer need to be downscaled in PvP areas, as the equivalent PvP gear is already a higher item level in PvP situations. That minimum is still lower than any of the actual PvP gear, but a fresh level-100 character who’s just wearing some dungeon gear, or even whatever they picked up while questing, will not be at quite as severe a disadvantage should they choose to step into a Skirmish or Random Battleground.

On top of that, all gear-even gear found in PvE content-will be scaled up to a certain minimum item level in any designated PvP area. Each piece of PvP gear will have its PvP item level displayed clearly on its tooltip, so there’s no guesswork involved. If you’re out questing with PvP gear, your items’ base item level will be used while fighting back the Iron Horde, but the second that raiding Druid tries to gank you, your higher PvP item level kicks in and you’ll have the upper hand. Instead, it will scale up to a higher item level as soon as you enter a designated PvP area, such as an Arena or Battleground, or as soon as you enter PvP combat anywhere else in the world. PvP gear in Warlords will no longer have PvP-specific stats. So, in Warlords of Draenor, we’re taking a different approach. That was largely a success in instanced PvP Arenas and Battlegrounds, but we think we can do better-while also granting players those same benefits in outdoor world PvP. In Mists of Pandaria we introduced the PvP Power stat, which allowed PvP gear to be functionally superior to raid and dungeon gear in PvP combat without exceeding the value of its equivalent PvE gear in PvE content. As Warlords of Draenor development continues, we wanted to share some exciting changes coming to PvP gear and how you’ll earn it in the expansion. War looms on the horizon, and although the Iron Horde poses a substantial threat to all of Azeroth, old grudges between the Alliance and the Horde are not so easily set aside. Winning a Rated Battleground will allow you to use a bonus roll token for a shot at a piece of Gladiator’s gear, similar to the Celestial world bosses on the Timeless Isle.Įpisode Three of WoW Source also revealed that in WoD every piece will have two item levels, such as 550 for PvE but as soon as you engage in PvP it goes to 590.Ĭommunity Manager Lore has mentioned separately on Twitter that the minimum ilvl to which players will be upscaled on entering PvP content will be increased season by season. This is being treated as a 4th 'tier' of gear and the minimum ilvl will be increased each season. This will be lower than even starting PvP gear. You can see just how with the Wowhead PvP Gear Scaling tool.Īll gear will be scaled up to a minimum ilvl in PvP. PvP Power has been removed and PvP Resilience has been reduced to 0 RBG wins will allow you to use a coin for a chance at Conquest gear

Rated Battlegrounds and Arenas will have the same base Conquest cap

Veteran's gear, from Strongboxes and Honor Points.

Starter gear, earned very fast from Strongboxes in BGs

Strongboxes can contain Honor Points, Conquest Points or Gear.

Rewards are issued at (for example) 500 points, 1000 points and 1500 points

Even if you don't win, you can still get rewards from Strongboxes.

Battleground rewards now come mostly from Strongboxes, you can find the initial data entries for them on Wowhead's Warlords of Draenor Database.

Blizzard posted a gearing blog, which you can read by expanding the blue box below, and the key points from within it are as follows: There are several changes to gear coming with Warlords of Draenor, as well as changes to how you get gear. Warlords of Draenor is introducing a huge amount of PvP changes to the game.Īlong with various quality of life changes, we also have:

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