S3 gear model?

[Iannis]

Hey there.
So since conquest gear each season is typically modeled after the current pve tier. Anyone have
any ideas what S3 conquest will look like? Wondering if it's been stated by blizzard somewhere
and I missed it.

[Deleted]

WoD S3 gear currently looks identical to S2, they'll most likely do what they did to Grievous/Prideful gear and simply swap the alliance/horde models around again.

[Iannis]

Well that's boring! I don't suppose anyone knows what S3 pve ilevel will be? Different question I know.

[Darchow]

Well that's boring! I don't suppose anyone knows what S3 pve ilevel will be? Different question I know.

Taken from a post on the front page a couple of days ago:

Arena Season 3
We’re also preparing to end Warlords Arena Season 2 and transition to Warlords Arena Season 3. We’ll have more details to share on this transition between seasons and the distribution of rewards in the near future.

Developer Insights
With Arena Season 3 we’ll be introducing new gear, including Warmongering Aspirant gear at PvP item level 715, Warmongering Combatant gear at 730, and Warmongering Gladiator gear at 740.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...-6-2-3-Preview

[Iannis]

Aye I get that pvp will scale to 740, so only 10 ilevels higher there? Doesn't seem as big of a scale jump as S1-S2 was.
Curious what the non-pvp, pve level will be on gladiator

[Rigsby]

Yes, it's too much work for Blizzard to make new PvP armor uglier than one last. The real solution is to take the uglyness, and swap it horde to alliance!

[DeicideUH]

Aye I get that pvp will scale to 740, so only 10 ilevels higher there? Doesn't seem as big of a scale jump as S1-S2 was.
Curious what the non-pvp, pve level will be on gladiator

They'll probably just increase everything by 10. So 630/680/710, I'd guess.

As for the looks of it, probably recolors.

[Adamas102]

They'll probably just increase everything by 10. So 630/680/710, I'd guess.

As for the looks of it, probably recolors.

I doubt those will be the base ilvls or people will just use their honor points for the S2 epic gear. WoD S2 Combatant gear was better than the S1 Gladiator gear. Going by that, I'd guess 705/730 for Combatant and 715/740 for Gladiator.

[DeicideUH]

I doubt those will be the base ilvls or people will just use their honor points for the S2 epic gear. WoD S2 Combatant gear was better than the S1 Gladiator gear. Going by that, I'd guess 705/730 for Combatant and 715/740 for Gladiator.

They had a lot higher numbers to play with in S2, thought. This time we won't see a new raid, so making the ilvls so high may be a problem since they'd make normal raiding and LFR obsolete for getting base gear.

[Eazy]

Yes, it's too much work for Blizzard to make new PvP armor uglier than one last. The real solution is to take the uglyness, and swap it horde to alliance!

^ Unfortunately this.

They made PvE same gear as PvP, why do you expect seeing other season with different models? They're too lazy for that.

[Rigsby]

^ Unfortunately this.

They made PvE same gear as PvP, why do you expect seeing other season with different models? They're too lazy for that.

Nah bro they changed the color totally different bro super sick bro bad ass 10/10

[Adamas102]

They had a lot higher numbers to play with in S2, thought. This time we won't see a new raid, so making the ilvls so high may be a problem since they'd make normal raiding and LFR obsolete for getting base gear.

Yeah, it's an awkward position they've put themselves in. One way or another something will be made obsolete, but why release gear that is simply worse than what you could buy for the same currency? If the new Combatant gear isn't AT LEAST 700 base ilvl then it will be strictly worse than the previous Gladiator gear (which I think is safe to assume will be available for honor like previous seasons have always been).