So I started working on gear since December and I think I’ve come close to catching up. With honor gear coming out tomorrow with 3.32, I’ll outline what gear I’m going with next season. I realize people may have other ideas with PvE options, but I think my gear will be pretty accessible with some moderate PvE work.
As far as the resilience change, I don’t think maxing out resilience is the answer; you’ve already gained survivability with the buff so wasting stat points on resilience seems like a waste to me. You’ll be getting that extra resilience as you gain new pieces of wrathful gear, but as long as you are at 850 + until those upgrades you should be fine. Depending on your comp you may even want to dip lower than that. I’ve also included most of the currently available PvE loot so people have an idea what’s available.
Notes: I’ll update this with links to wrathful when it’s released, and further updates as more PvE gear becomes released and available. If there’s any glaring mistakes, please leave a comment and I’ll get to it when I can.
PvP Rogue Gear Possibilities For Season 8
Rings
Wrathful Ring -
Location: PvP Honor Reward
Ashen Band of Endless Vengeance – The exalted ring is a bit of a pain to get, but its the best ring available. If you don’t have time for exalted, I would at least suggest getting the revered version. I socket this with 40 AP.
Location: ICC Rep Reward, Reputation with the Ashen Verdict
Saurfang’s Cold-Forged Band – Armor Pen and Haste aren’t the best choices for PvP, but not a bad option if you’re considering going double PvE Rings.
Location: ICC 10, Deathbring Saurfang
Band of the Bone Colossus – Not a big fan of the haste but it’s another viable hit option if you can get it.
Location: ICC 25, Lord Marrowgar
Seal of Many Mouths – The expertise isn’t great for PvP.
Location: ICC 25, Rotface
Neck
Wodin’s Lucky Necklace - It was a big gold sink for me, but I don’t see another way to get hit cap without going too far over and wasting stats on it. It’s really BiS unless you absolutely need the resilience. If you can’t afford it, wrathful is the obvious alternative. If you get wrathful ring and neck, you may need the hit versions of both to reach PvP hit cap but you go pretty far over which is a waste of stats. The additional socket makes this neck pretty amazing.
Location: ICC Trash Drop, Auction House
Precious’s Putrid Collar – Not a bad choice and the red socket is a cool bonus, but not really on the same level as Wodin’s.
Location: ICC 10, Festurgut
Trinkets
Now things get a little bit more vague for the trinket category. I personally am not a big fan of battlemaster’s. The attack power on it is nice, but I find I mostly die during stuns or cc, it will rarely save you and a lot of the times games are already decided by the time you need to use it. I know a lot of people who love it though so it’s not really an easy choice, and the question is, if not battlemaster, then what? It really depends on your luck and access to PvE gear.
Here are some options other than battlemaster that may work for PvP:
Death’s Choice
Death’s Verdict - Probably the best choice for offensive trinket, but also probably the least accessible. A very low drop chance but if I could choose, this would be my ideal second trinket for PvP.
Location: ToC or ToGC 25, Fjola Lightbane
Deathbringer’s Will
Deathbringer’s Will – Like Death’s verdict, a strong offensive trinket, but very hard to get. I understand it’s being changed to haste so it might not be a great option for pvp, and I’m generally not a big fan of this trinket, but if you have access it’s definitely an option.
Location: ICC 25, Deathbringer Saurfang
Whispering Fanged Skull
Whispering Fanged Skull – This is the trinket I got in icc 10 (normal version). So far I’m fairly happy with it so far, in my current relentless pvp set I’m at 44.3 crit, and with next season’s upgrades I should be getting close to almost 50 percent crit. It has a 35% procrate with an ICD, so like most other proc trinkets it will go off during the opener.
Location: ICC 10, Lady Deathwhisper
Tiny Abomination in a Jar
Tiny Abomination in a Jar – Another option, maybe not perfect for PvP but if you have access it’s worth a try. It also can solve hit concerns and mean that you don’t need to get the wrathful hit ring/neck/cloak. Anyone have any experience with it?
Location: ICC 25, Professor Putricide
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