Season 4 on PTRs

[Boubouille]

Update : Added a screenshot of the item prices, more screenshots of the armors, and two new weapons - the Brutal Gladiator's Blade of Alacrity and the Brutal Gladiator's Swift Judgement.


Season 4 Vendors are now on PTRs. They are PTR stats and could be changed at anytime before the release on live realms.

• Prices are the same as current season 3 items.
• Personal rating requirements aren't on the items, but will be here in the live version, scroll down to the blue post by Drysc for the details.
• Some of the usual high-resolution screenshots have been turned into very-high-resolution screenshots (especially on armors), any feedback on them is appreciated.
  

Item prices
Screenshot of all item prices

Armors
Druid
Brutal Gladiator's Sanctuary
Brutal Gladiator's Refuge
Brutal Gladiator's Wildhide

Hunter
Brutal Gladiator's Pursuit

Mage
Brutal Gladiator's Regalia

Paladin
Brutal Gladiator's Aegis
Brutal Gladiator's Redemption
Brutal Gladiator's Vindication

Priest
Brutal Gladiator's Investiture
Brutal Gladiator's Raiment Rogue
Brutal Gladiator's Vestments

Shaman
Brutal Gladiator's Earthshaker
Brutal Gladiator's Thunderfist
Brutal Gladiator's Wartide

Warlock
Brutal Gladiator's Dreadgear
Brutal Gladiator's Felshroud

Warrior
Brutal Gladiator's Battlegear


Others
Guardian's Pendant of Conquest
Guardian's Pendant of Dominance
Guardian's Pendant of Salvation
Guardian's Pendant of TriumphGuardian's Band of Dominance
Guardian's Band of Salvation
Guardian's Band of Triumph


Weapons
New weapons
Brutal Gladiator's Blade of Alacrity
Brutal Gladiator's Swift Judgement
Brutal Gladiator's Hatchet
Brutal Gladiator's Waraxe

Brutal Gladiator's Bonegrinder
Brutal Gladiator's Baton of Light
Brutal Gladiator's Barrier
Brutal Gladiator's Battle Staff
Brutal Gladiator's Bonecracker
Brutal Gladiator's Chopper
Brutal Gladiator's Cleaver
Brutal Gladiator's Decapitator
Brutal Gladiator's Endgame
Brutal Gladiator's Gavel
Brutal Gladiator's Greatsword
Brutal Gladiator's Grimoire
Brutal Gladiator's Hacker
Brutal Gladiator's Heavy Crossbow
Brutal Gladiator's Idol of Resolve
Brutal Gladiator's Idol of Steadfastness
Brutal Gladiator's Idol of Tenacity
Brutal Gladiator's Left Render
Brutal Gladiator's Left Ripper
Brutal Gladiator's Libram
Brutal Gladiator's Longbow
Brutal Gladiator's MutilatorBrutal Gladiator's Painsaw
Brutal Gladiator's Piercing Touch
Brutal Gladiator's Pummeler
Brutal Gladiator's Quickblade
Brutal Gladiator's Redoubt
Brutal Gladiator's Reprieve
Brutal Gladiator's Rifle
Brutal Gladiator's Right Ripper
Brutal Gladiator's Salvation
Brutal Gladiator's Shanker
Brutal Gladiator's Shield Wall
Brutal Gladiator's Shiv
Brutal Gladiator's Slicer
Brutal Gladiator's Spellblade
Brutal Gladiator's Touch of Defeat
Brutal Gladiator's Staff
Brutal Gladiator's Totem of Indomatibility
Brutal Gladiator's Totem of Survival
Brutal Gladiator's Totem of the Third Wind
Brutal Gladiator's War Edge
Brutal Gladiator's War Staff

Armor models screenshots

Male (Human)

Female (Blood Elf)

Rating requirements

While Season 3 is still going strong, we wanted to announce ahead of time the rating requirements that will be present for arena items once Season 4 begins. We also wanted to give everyone a heads up to some changes that will be in an upcoming patch, altering how points are gained and players are matched in the arena system. The patch with these changes is scheduled to release before the start of Season 4.

First though, the rating requirement changes:

When Season 4 begins, Season 3 items will be reduced in personal and team arena rating requirement to:
Shoulders: 1950
Weapon: 1800

The new Season 4 items will have the below personal and team arena rating requirements:
Shoulders: 2200
Weapon: 2050
Head: 1700
Chest: 1600
Legs: 1550
Gloves: none
Off-hand: none

In addition, some of the Season 4 quality items that will be purchasable with honor will also carry a personal and team arena rating requirement:
Boots: 1700
Ring: 1650
Bracers: 1575
Belt: none
Necklace: none
Trinket: none

The Season 2 items, which will move to the honor system when Season 4 begins, will continue to have no rating requirement.

The changes to the rating requirements for these items reflect the nature of the items, their power, and the relative difficulty that should be had when attempting to obtain them. These items are comparable to those found in the newest 25 person raid zone, Sunwell Plateau, and should therefore also feel very challenging to obtain.

To help ensure that the challenge in obtaining these items stays true to those achieving these ratings, we'll also be implementing new rules with an upcoming patch to curb practices that undermine the core concepts of the arena system. These rules are as follows:

• If a character’s personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.
  

This means that a player cannot join a highly rated team and begin earning points based purely on the pre-established rating of the team before they joined it. They'll need to compete, improve, and gain a personal rating worthy of the points they would receive.

• If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team’s rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.
  

This means that players cannot join a highly rated team and immediately face highly rated opponents, easily and quickly bringing their personal rating up. Instead they'll need to again compete, improve, and earn their rating.

We're excited to see these changes implemented, which will continue to emphasize the strong competitive nature of the arenas, and the challenge in obtaining the highest end rewards available for PvP.

[kuett]

so horrible
how crappy can they get?

[Sony]

Damn, the Hunter set looks the best of all listed above. especially the Shoulders. Not alot of ppl will wear it til they reach 2200?!

PS- I feel sorry for the druid. The set looks ugly! :'(

[Kagnar]

Shields look great imo.And healing mace look .... and yeah hutner set is the best

[arb]

Interesting that the hunters' Waraxe is now Main-hand, not Two-handed. Much reduced stats.

[Snooks]

UGLY


UGLY


UGLY


ill miss my season 3 so much. They make it the most difficult to get gear in the game and then make it so damn UGLY.

what a shame.

[Fugazi]

Heh itemization team strikes back again...

So with S3 most warriors are at 67 hit rating and need 79 - miss 12 to cap. This is fixed easily by surefooted (10) + (optional) 4 hit gem for example. Now S4 have additional 22 (!) hit rating so even if you remove all hit gems and all hit enchants you still will have 89 hit rating which is a waste of 10 hit unless you fight protection warrior or frost mage.

GJ Blizzard.

P.S. Oh and throwing weapon still have AWESOME model.

EDIT: HOLY SHIT IS THIS REAL?!
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...ecapitator.jpg
I... am... speechless...

[seron]

This is how they are nerfing Druids now. Making them ugly.

[pilch]

*shrug* Not like I'll actually be getting much of it, but I think the mage set actually looks very cool, especially since it will look somewhat more unique due to hardly anyone being fully decked out in sunwell gear yet.

[Snooks]

*shrug* Not like I'll actually be getting much of it, but I think the mage set actually looks very cool, especially since it will look somewhat more unique due to hardly anyone being fully decked out in sunwell gear yet.

Unique??

did you miss the part where is IDENTICAL to priest and warlock?

"Who are we fighting quick?"
"Well either a druid or an unstealthed rogue, 2 warriors or pallies or one of each and 2 casters of some type"

thx alot. Rather have the x-pan pushed back a week and get good s4 gear.



EDIT - Casters no longer wear cloth this season. New armor type for s4 is wood. UGLY

[ticklememo]

God these are ugly, and generic, and basically all copies of each other.

Shaman, hunter, lol

warrior, rogue, lol

BATTLESTAFF = LOL

war edge = level 1 grey

shield looks like something you get from level 50 instance.

Season three gear woops this crap up in style points.

[Elmot]

The best looking weapon in my opinion is the damned 2h sword ! cant wait till i put my hands on it ...

and although some of these items look ugly they got hell of nice stats

[pilch]

I only looked at the mage set, couldn't give a crap about the other classes

Also, the haste weapons look insane, let's hope they make it to live!

[Mortbert]

I've been asking myself if there is Season 2 stuff for T4 badges when Season 4 starts?

It would be nice if someone can find this out for me, i got a T4 token and dunno to change it into Season1 now or wait?

Sorry for my bad english but it would be very nice if someone understood what i mean and can answer my question.

[Fugazi]

I tried to check but armory is closed on EU PTR :/

[Arbaxas]

Currently on the PTR, T4 tokens still turn into S1 items, T5 tokens turn into S2, and T6 tokens turn into S2 items, as well... no changes. :-\

[gathriel]

hm I don't know guys, but e.g. that rogue's set does not look that bad when in game... at least on UD rogue, even with the new swords, it really ain't that bad as it looks here on the screenshot.

[Fugazi]

It seems that S2 shoulders does not really fit into S4 :/

[arb]

Any chance of a screenshot of the Brutal Gladiator's Hatchet pls?

[Mech]

Drysc said a week or 2 ago that the majority of the art team is working on WotLK so thats the reason why Sunwell gear is rushed and pretty bland.