Questions answered in this Sticky:
- When does season 13 end and when does season 14 start?
- What title will I get?
- What new gear will be available for honor and when?
- What new gear will be available for conquest and when?
- Will new crafted PVP gear be available?
- What is going to happen to the conquest points I have saved?
- How much honor can I save for next season?
- What will happen to my various Arena and Rated Battleground ratings?
- What will I be able to do in the down week between seasons?
- How can I best prepare my character for the next season of PVP?
If you have any questions not covered here please feel free post.
Q: When does Season 13 end and when does Season 14 start?
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A: This is yet to be announced. The time between Season 13 finishing and Season 14 starting is 1 week. This gives Blizzard time to decide who is eligible for titles and rewards.
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Q: What title will I get?
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A: Arena titles are awarded based on your teams % ranking in 3v3 and 5v5 Arena on your battlegroup, titles are not awarded in 2s.
Title Standing Percentiles:- Tyrannical Gladiator - Rank 1
- Gladiator - 0.5%
- Duelist - 0.5% - 3.0%
- Rival - 3% - 10%
- Challenger - 10% - 35%
Arena Title Calculator: TBA
For Hero of the Horde and Hero of the Alliance titles, your personal rated battleground rating needs to be in the top 0.5%.
For more information on how titles are awarded I recommend visiting this thread on Arenajunkies.com: http://www.arenajunkies.com/topic/83...adiator-title/
Q: What new gear will be available for honor and when?
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A: When Season 13 ends the existing iLvl 496 Tyrannical conquest gear will become available for honor points for one week. When Season 14 begins, one week later, new Season 14 gear will become available for honor replacing the 496 Tyrannical gear on vendors.
New Honor gear: TBA
Q: What new gear will be available for conquest and when?
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A: When Season 14 starts new conquest gear will become available. Like the previous seasons there will be an elite version of the gear with cosmetic differences available for players with 2200+ ratings in 3v3, 5v5 or Rated Battlegrounds.
New Conquest gear: TBA
Q: Will new crafted PVP gear be available?
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A: Yes, crafted gear is normally updated to ease the transition for freshly dinged 90s from questing greens to honor gear.
New Conquest gear: TBA
Q: What is going to happen to the conquest points I have saved?
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A: When Season 13 ends all conquest points will be converted into honor points, even if this puts you above the 4,000 honor point cap. During the down week between seasons you can spend the excess honor (the honor above 4,000) if you choose to. If you do not spend your excess honor it will be converted into gold when Season 14 starts.
If you already have full Tyrannical gear and don't want the gold, a good alternative is to convert the excess honor into justice points. It's important to note though that this conversion has a cost to it on both ends, 375 honor gives you 250 justice points and 375 justice points gives you 250 honor.
Q: How much honor can I save for next season?
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A: You can only directly carry over 4,000 honor points into the new season, however by using justice points as an additional means of honor storage as I mentioned in the previous question you can effectively store an additional 2,500 honor, for an effective total of 6,500.
Q: What will happen to my various Arena and Rated Battleground ratings?
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A: When Season 14 begins your RBG and Arena team ratings will be reset. Matchmaking rating (MMR) will not be reset.
Q: What will I be able to do in the down week between seasons?
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A: You will be able to participate in random battlegrounds and will still be able to queue Wargames. Rated Arena matches and Rated Battlegrounds will not be available during the down week.
Q: How can I best prepare my character for the next season of PVP?
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A: My personal recommendations on how to prepare your character for Season 14 are as follows:
- Buy your PVP weapon enchant now, that is 1000 conquest you can save next season. You could potentially buy 2-3 so you never have to worry about purchasing one. (Note: This might not be work and might get removed).
- Max out your justice and honor points, combined they will give you 6500 available honor points to buy new gear with in Season 14 - if the Season 14 honor gear is an upgrade for Season 13 Conquest gear.
- Buy all the gems and enchants you need now, that way when you buy a new piece of gear you can gem and enchant it on the spot, throw it on and hop right back into the queue to farm more honor.
- Complete the "Victory in Tol Barad" weekly quest, and turn it in after Season 14 starts. You can still only complete this once during the first week of Season 14, but it will provide you with a quick 200 honor boost without the need to actually fight the battle. Just make sure you spend some honor before you turn in the quest!
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I hope you found this FAQ and brief guide helpful, if you have any questions I did not answer please feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them for you. If you have any additional suggestions for how players can best prepare themselves for Season 14 please post them as well!
Sources:
www.wowhead.com
www.wowpedia.org
The Public Test Realms
Mod Edit: Updated Sticky for S13-S14 transition - Snuggli