This falls in the category of ranting. I don’t yet have a ranting category, in fact this entire blog could qualify as one big rant sometimes, but occasionally I’m more ranty than others. Ranty? Rant’ish? Rant-like? Meh.
So here’s the problem: I need a wand and I can’t get one.
In fact the title for this post could be… “WTF Blizz! Ur Pwning My PvP Lootz! … AKA: Where is my wand!!?!?!?” but that would get a bit long.
Maybe Blizz doesn’t have a lot of people with a character like I have, so let me explain which character I’m having an issue with.
It’s my frost mage, Sarine. She is in DIRE (!!!!) need of a wand.
Here’s the catch – I ONLY do PvP with her. It’s a point of pride to say … ha! I’ve never stepped into a Northrend dungeon with her. Never gotten that badges/tokens/whatever achievement for looting one, and I sure as heck am not patient with her enough to queue with a ton of morons who won’t understand that I don’t care if my dps is low, I’m stacked with resilience baby and I’m only here to get my wand anyway so get over it or bring it on!
Well, technically I am patient, couldn’t you tell? But see they stole that whole dungeon queue thing from us pvp’rs anyway and didn’t bother to give us a title for entering queue with random people… oh gee, yeah cause it’s for grouping with 50 random players.. lol, that’s like.. what doing one AV and one of anything else? BG’s are the original pug.
Ok, so I’m going off on a tangent.. back to the topic at hand.
Total lack of pvp wands!!
What happened Blizz? Was there a wand-crafters strike? Did all the little gnomes decide to ask for minimum wage or something? Come on!!
It’s annoying. Really annoying if you want a good wand and only do PvP.
Let me show you why. There are 7 PvP wands available in the game currently – 2 sets of them, and yes for each caster there is one that is most appropriate for your class (sorta like choosing between tank plate, heal plate, and dps plate) so technically there are only 2 real options, one from each.
Here are the first 4:
Wrathful Gladiator’s Baton of Light
Wrathful Gladiator’s Piercing Touch
Wrathful Gladiator’s Touch of Defeat
Wrathful Gladiator’s Wand of Alacrity
Notice anything special about this wand? Yeah, requires Arena Team rating. Well gee, in order to rank well in arena you have to not die. In order to not die you need decent gear. In order to … you see where I’m going with this? So where is the wand a level down if this is what you get when you’re really good?
Oh here they are, in the next 3 wands:
Brutal Gladiator’s Baton of Light
Brutal Gladiator’s Piercing Touch
Brutal Gladiator’s Touch of Defeat
Did you catch it?
No? Look again at those three wands.
They’re arena wands from BURNING CRUSADE!!! For level 70’s!
That’s it. Those are your PvP wand choices.
So what’s a gal to do if she doesn’t want to do dungeons? Apparently grind rep with the Oracles. The only two wands that even come close to PvP style with stamina on them are both from the Oracles. Purifying Torch and Shinygem Rod.
What makes me a little nuts is that there would be a total of 29 wands available with the resilience stat on them if Blizz hadn’t gone nuts removing all the PvP weapons from the game (never did make any damn sense why they’d do that).
Of those 29, 1 is a quest reward from Hellfire Peninsula with a high end damage less than a quarter what the Brutal wands from Outlands can do. Thanks but no thanks. Other lvl 70 wands include the Vengeful and Merciless set ones. What really ticks me off is that Blizz removed 16 of the level 80 pvp wands that were in game leaving no transitional pvp wand between the Outland one and the lvl 80 Arena reward.
I don’t know what gauge they’re using to make these decisions, but it’s getting insanely annoying.
