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Great... Season 4 is here, along with a new patch which I am sure to rant about tomorrow, but for now let's all remain focused: Season 4 gear. There has always been two basic games in WoW: kill monsters or kill players, more commonly known as PvE or PvP. And Blizzard has done their best to keep the gear rewards for both sides of this dynamic as balanced as possible... mostly. With Season 4 gear PvP seems to have stepped up a little bit, namely you have to do arena to get the best PvP gear. Period. Usually you could do AV until your eye's bleed or until your voice shriveled into oblivion from screaming at the screen 'cuz most people have no freakin' idea what to do in battlegrounds. But still, with the right combination of battleground weekends, and if you were lucky, a few premades along the way, within a few months ( yes, MONTHS ) you could have a decent set of PvP gear suitable to get your ass kicked just a little less in all those battlegrounds you just spent your life doing. ( Anyone else see the futility of this? ) But now, not only do you have to do all of that all over again to get honor points and marks and new Season 4 gear, you have to have a personal arena rating to get certain items. Holy crap! Okay, yes, I have four of five vengeful pieces. I also have some other fun PvP gear, but those damn shoulders keep alluding me. That personal rating was just to much of a personal time commitment to get - all freakin' weekend trying to wack people, figure out their possible tactics against me and hoping to get a lucky crit off now and again to fry someone just to move my personal rating up 17 points. Damn it sucked. And I guess it will again. Oh well... I'm off to arena...

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As we all know, Season 4 is almost upon us. What does that mean for me? It means Season 2 equipment will be available for Honor. Ideally, I would be grinding out Honor and tokens with the rest of the noobs who don't have Merciless or Vengeful gear yet. I'd love to buy a whole set of Epics, since both my Enhancment and Restoration sets have ugly blue holes in them. Unfortunately, I decided long ago that battlegrounds alone are much worse than battlegrounds with friends. Now, for me, this is pretty much the case with anything in WoW. But most of my time is spent dealing with guild organization (I had no idea what I was getting myself into), raids (same), or financing my habits, both in game and IRL. This leaves precious little time for battlegrounds and even less when friends are available. Alas, Season 2 gear, it seems we are not meant to be. I guess I will have to try and make those ZA runs in the future.

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Okay... maybe not you... but there a re a huge number of people who have no freakin' idea how to play Eye of the Storm battleground. And why is this important? Because if you want to get your classes PvP boots, neck or weapon, you'll have to get a lot of these Marks. And with season 4 upon us, you'll also have to do arena, but that's a different blog. Here's the two strats that I have seen work best in EotS:

1. Hold two towers and control the middle. Period. Don't go for other towers or get pulled away by enticing PvP kills. Just defend the towers and keep taking the flag.
2. Hold three towers and defend. Period. Don't go for other towers or get pulled away by enticing PvP kills. Just defend the three towers.

That's it. Do one of those - NOT BOTH - and you'll get your marks. EotS is not a gankfest like AV or Warsong can deteriorate into from time to time. You must defend your position and hold it to secure a win. And EotS IS NOT capture the flag. That is a silly diversion to keep you away from your real objective of taking and defending the towers. Now go do suggestion 1 or 2 - NOT BOTH - and go get yourself some pretty little PvP boots.

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