Season 1 Prices revisited as items go on sale tomorrow
by Mike Schramm 
Nov 26th 2007 at 5:00PM
We heard a long time ago that Arena 1 sets would be purchaseable with battleground honor and marks, and it looks like tomorrow's the day-- all those marks and honor you've been saving up will be able to get you some Arena PvP gear.We posted prices a while back as well, but just in case you missed them, here they are again, at Curse's website. The full list of prices is after the jump-- lots of people will probably be headed for the weapons, but make sure to bring lots of honor and marks. While the offhand weapons are the least pricey (at 9k honor), the marks are probably what will break people-- you need 20 Eye of the Storm marks for all the one-hand weapons, and 40 AB marks for the two handers. Librams, relics and totems are the cheapest-- only 8k honor and 10 EotS marks.
The full list is printed for your convenience after the break. Got honor? If you want to grab some of that season 1 gear tomorrow, you're gonna need it.
Gladiator's Armor Breastplate - 14500 Honor 30x AB Marks
Gladiator's Armor Gauntlets - 10500 Honor 20x AV Marks
Gladiator's Armor Helm - 14500 Honor 30x AV Marks
Gladiator's Armor Leggings - 14500 Honor 30x WSG Marks
Gladiator's Armor Shoulders - 11250 Honor 20x AB Marks
Gladiator's Two-Hand Weapons - 27000 Honor 40x AB Marks
Gladiator's Main Hand Weapons - 18000 Honor 20x EOTS Marks
Gladiator's Main Hand Weapons(Caster) - 25200 Honor 20x EOTS Marks
Gladiator's Off-Hand Weapons - 9000 Honor 20x EOTS Marks
Gladiator's Off-Hand Weapons(Caster) - 9000 Honor 20x EOTS Marks
Gladiator's Heavy Crossbow - 27000 Honor 40x AB Marks
Gladiator's Shields - 15000 Honor 20x EOTS
Gladiator's Librams/Totems/Relics - 8000 Honor 10x EOTS Marks
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Andy Nov 26th 2007 5:11PM
Warning - typos in the price list (typos were in the source this is copied from).
40 AB marks / 40 AV marks - Big differance.
Me Nov 26th 2007 5:22PM
Um, how about posting the prices for the armor pieces too in the body of the main posts? I'm interested in the weapons, but nearly everyone I know is generally more interested in the ARMOR.
Me Nov 26th 2007 5:24PM
Wow, I'm an idiot. You did post them. n00b.
Callandra Nov 26th 2007 5:37PM
My question to anyone still stands! I'm going into S3 fresh at 70. With the honor that I rack up (16k in the bank) and the alebeit miniscule amount of arena points i'll get (2v2 BM hunter / Frost Mage) what should I go for first?
Aim to not replace anything, so start with the 3 pieces of vindicator from the honor system?
Go for fast pieces like shoulders / gloves (2 set bonus, 2 epics, glove bonus).
Save it all for S1 Xbow (might have the largest net impact on DPS, but not on survivability....other option is to hold onto Valanos)
????
Hexar Nov 26th 2007 6:00PM
What I did for my rogue was to analyze each item on a +upgrade per honor point (or arena point) basis. Using shadowpanther.net, I can easily get a rating system for PVE (DAEP) or PVP (AEP), calculate the upgrade amount (eg. +21 DAEP and +30 AEP) for a single item, and then divide by the cost (eg. 14,500 honor points).
Now you have a list of ratios in terms of the "strength" of the upgrade per honor or arena point, and you can then decide which items are the best deal for you and your gear. For me, I want items which are upgrades for both PVE and PVP simultaneously. Therefore, I'm planning on buying the Vindicator's Bracers and the Gladiator's Chestpiece tomorrow because they offer the best bang for my honor point buck. I'm also going to buy the S2 offhand dagger because it's cheap and it's the best offhand dagger in the game outside of SSC or TK or BT (and there are still Karazhan/Zul'Aman mainhand daggers which would be an upgrade).
Unfortunately, as far as I know, the non-rogue classes don't have easy PVE and PVP formulas to rate gear. If you can figure that out, you're 90% there. You could still calculate upgrade (or downgrade) ratios for each stat for a given piece, and then come up with your own formulas for PVP and PVE for your spec I guess...in that case, Excel is your friend.
my2cents Nov 26th 2007 10:41PM
Personally, I think it depends on whether you're grabbing arena gear as "charity epics" to raid/instance with, or for moving up the ladder in arena. If you're doing it for the sake of better arena ratings, etc, I'd say go for the item(s) that give you the biggest upgrade to survivability first. Nothing beats resil+stam in arena imo =P
Andy Nov 26th 2007 5:54PM
http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=1629.0#post_aprice
I believe this is the source the price list was copied from.
Some weapons need 40 AV marks - not the 40 AB marks in the text above. (I only checked the items im interested in / not sure if the rest of the quality of the transcription of the rest of the list)
jr Nov 26th 2007 6:00PM
cool
Mainstay Nov 26th 2007 6:14PM
Why AB tokens... Ugh... :\
Fenom Nov 26th 2007 6:22PM
uh, wand and throwing?
Dan Nov 26th 2007 6:54PM
Wands are the same cost as the Librams/Totems/Relics (I assume throwing weapons are the same as well.)
Johan Nov 26th 2007 7:09PM
Nah, no way, the marks are not the bottle neck here, it's the honor. I am sitting at 75000 honor and I have 100 AV, AB, EotS and 91 WSG. It's so much easier getting the marks than the points.
Dalton tucker Nov 26th 2007 8:31PM
Im glad they are doing this. I havent wanted to PvP in a while, and so my alt warlock had been sitting there with honor and AV marks, which now I can spend on the helm and hand armor. Hopefully this will recharge my PvP interest.
klink-o Nov 26th 2007 7:34PM
I wish they'd do away with the specific marks for each battleground and go to generic marks instead that would be the same from any battleground. That way you could actually play the battleground you like (or hate the least) instead of being forced into a specific one.
Airrol Nov 27th 2007 7:51AM
I totally agree!
Dave Nov 26th 2007 9:14PM
I'm sitting at 45k honor, which I guess means I get 3 pieces of S1 to go with my single piece of S3 that I can afford. not a bad way to start S3 with a fresh rating and some actual resil on my gear.
between queues for AV tonight I guess I should go through and see just how many points of improvement over my frozen shadoweave the gear adds... and potentially revise my choices but I'm pretty much clocking 15k honor/week because of the daily BG quests, so anything I don't get tomorrow I'll have by the end of the year if all goes well...
Hooray season 3!
Eric Nov 26th 2007 11:48PM
Where will the season 1 for honor vendor actually be physically located?
BenMS Nov 27th 2007 3:00AM
He's in the Champion's Hall, same guy who used to sell the Marshal's Gear - at least he is on the PTR.
Callandra Nov 27th 2007 9:07AM
Whats happening with all the Grand Marshall / High Warlord Gear??
plo Nov 27th 2007 11:49AM
Does anybody know if you get the set bonuses when mixing S1, S2 & S3?