PvP gear overview

[Vuurmannetje]

Just a technical overview, handy for myself, so probably for ya'll as well.

Currently the honor "soft" cap is 4000. With cataclysm this will become a "hard" cap. Any honor above 4000 will be converted into gold.

There will be 4 Currencies:

PVP:
Honor Points
Gained from normal, non-rated PvP activities.

Conquest Points
Gained from both rated battlegrounds as well as arena. Instead of a weekly reward like arena points, these are gained just like honor points, but have a weekly cap on them. This cap appears to a minimum of 1343, and raising as your Arena or BG rating gets higher. Someone reported a cap of around 2200 at 1900 2v2 rating. This cap is how much you can gain each week, as you'll be saving up for the gear.

PVE: (not going into details)
Justice Points
Valor Points

PVP stuff
The stuff thats most relevant to us. Ill link class/spec specific stuff later in the post.

Crafted:
(seperate items; ilvl 339)

Honor point rewards
"Bloodthirsty Gladiator's ###" (ilvl 352)

Conquest point rewards
"Vicious Gladiator's ###" (ilvl 365)


Costs:
The costs apply to both Bloodthirsty as well as Vicious items. The only difference is that the first uses Honor, and the second Conquest.

Items

Gloves / Shoulder: 1650
Chest / Helm / Legs: 2200

Trinkets: 1650 (including pvp trinket)
Jewelry: 1250
Cloak: 1250
Bracers: 1250
Belt: 1650
Boots: 1650

Weaponry
On the beta server, there does not appear to be a PvP weapon available for honor. As such, the costs are in conquest points.

Tier 1 weapons
One-handed weapons: 2450
Shields & Off-hands: 950
Two-handed weapons: 3400
Bows, Xbows & guns: 3400

Off-hand weapons: 950
Thrown: 700
Wand: 700
Relic: 700

Tier 2 weapons
These are available from a seperate vendor, currently called "Glorious Conquest Quartermaster"

You buy them by turning in your Tier 1 weapon + conquest points. The amount of conquest points is the same as your tier 1 weapon was.
These weapons require a Arena or Battleground rating of 2200 or higher.

Other stuff
This is what I could get from the Beta. Stuff can and will change before release. Other notable stuff below.

Tier 2 Vicious armor ?
Currently there is an option to turn in your vicious armor at the Glorious vendor. There is a rating requirement on this turn-in so I'm suspecting this will give either better gear (unlikely) or a recolering/prettier armor.



If you want me to look stuff up on beta, feel free to ask.

[mordrac]

very nice info. thank you ^^
do the first tier conquest stuff also need ratings?

[Vuurmannetje]

At this time, the first tier of Vicious weapons and armor does not need any minimum rating. However, everyone is limited by how much points they get each week to balance this out. The 2nd tier of weapons do need rating (2200)

[cwine]

I'm new to PvP, so thanks for the info!

[MCCOPRA]

The Dead Tread Rises Again :P