Ghostcrawler response to PVP Honor Weapons

A lot of PVP players are not happy with Blizzard not making PVP honor weapons available as a reward. This will make it hard for entry level players (from PVP or even PVE background) to start engaging and performing well in Arenas and Rated Battleground. Especially, if you're not lucky enough to get rare quality weapons for Heroic Dungeons or you just don't feel like doing them at all. I've been following Greg Street (You can follow him @Ghostcrawler) the Lead Game Designer of World of Warcraft lately and able to scoop some info from the developers themselves. I think the main reason that these weapons are not available is because Blizzard is too afraid that PVE players would take advantage and use them to clear PVE contents which has happened a lot in previous patches and even expansions. With the upcoming patch that will introduce more Open World PVP content in World of Warcraft, players will definitely need a basic weapon in order to participate when they hit level 90.

Greg Street aka @Ghostcrawler responses to PVP Honor Weapons

I have suggested to Ghostcrawler in tihs Twitter Conversation that maybe if Blizzard would make PVP Power and PVP Resilience the only stats available on these weapons, PVE players might just stay away and take advantage them. It would be rather an extreme change but according to Ghostcrawler, it could work.

Open World PVP is coming soon in one of the upcoming patches. Everyone needs a basic weapon to fight.

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