Brutal Gladiator and Guardian goodness

Posted Mar 4th 2008 1:30PM by Zach Yonzon
Filed under: Patches, Items, Analysis / Opinion

More news on the PvP item front: MMO Champion has uncovered more Season 4 items on the PTR. While they're not yet available from any vendor, it seems like the first Brutal Gladiator items have been appearing in trickles, including the first and so far only weapon, a 2-handed sword. The new sword seems to be taking after the trend started by Season 3 which added Armor Penetration into the item points. It's a good bet that all other Season 4 melee weapons will also contain Armor Penetration. The weapon also seems to be a massive upgrade over the previous season's Vengeful Gladiator's Greatsword, which has a top-end of 580 while the new weapon appears to have a top-end of 624, a full 44 more than its predecessor. In contrast, the Vengeful weapon only had 31 over the Merciless Gladiator's Greatsword. The PTR files peg the Season 4 2-hander at 144.4 damage per second, a whopping 10.2 DPS over Season 3's greatsword, which in turn was only 7.3 DPS over Season 2's greatsword.

The Honor-purchasable PvP non-set items have also been revealed to be called Guardian gear, following Season 1's General, Season 2's Veteran's, and Season 3's Vindicator's items. Just like their predecessors, the new belt, boots, and bracers are a visual match for their corresponding Arena set. This should be welcome news to those who like to look their prettiest in public. While the prices haven't been specified, there's good reason to believe that they'll match current Vindicator gear Honor prices, which means it's probably a good idea to start saving up those Honor and Arena points now. It looks like Season 4 might be coming out sooner than we think.

Tags: Arena, Arena-Season-4, Brutal-Gladiator, Honor, items, Season-4

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-04-2008 @ 1:36PM

RanWitScissorz said...

Anyone else notice the weapons and shoulders no longer have the 1850/2000 requirements?

3-04-2008 @ 1:41PM

Sam said...

They will do when the real items come out. These are just test items.

3-04-2008 @ 1:41PM

Adam said...

I'm predicting season 4 will start in April, and since this is probably the last major content patch before S4 will start, they're putting all the S4 stuff in there now so they don't have to do a major patch when it comes out, just a small patch to officially start it.

3-04-2008 @ 2:16PM

Malachi154 said...

Seems to me WoW is going to upgrade itself out of business. how long till we see that first two-hander that does 1k damage per swing? Then whats next? 1.5K? Its too bad so much of this game is chasing carrots...

3-04-2008 @ 2:33PM

BillDoor said...

The game is about chasing carrots as soon as you roll your first toon.

It doesn't matter if the new sword swings for 1k when the mob has a bajillion HP. Blizzard controls everything, we just see bigger numbers.

Who knows, maybe one day they'll reset the numbers, sorta like what Mexico occasionally does with the Peso :)

3-04-2008 @ 3:14PM

Rich said...

Or we'll see Final Fantasy type scaling. At level 100, we'll be critting for 999,999...

3-04-2008 @ 5:10PM

Nossy said...

Yikes. Should we expecting 10k Mortal Strike at level 80?

3-05-2008 @ 7:19AM

buenoexcellente said...

So its not enough that Warriors can already hit like a truck, take ten minutes to kill, and can instantly close gaps across the battlefield through snares? Now they have to make it impossible for cloth wearing classes to even absorb one hit?

Mark my words. Every mana using class that doesn't swing a sword of shoot a gun is going to be useless for anything but healing by Season 5

3-05-2008 @ 12:51PM

Nirren said...

Hmmm, you dont need any personal rating for this sword?

3-05-2008 @ 4:00PM

Killah said...

Yes, when they are released on the Live realms they will most likely require a 1850 personal rating. Although, I must say that I think Blizzard will move this rating up a bit, to, lets say: 1900, 1950 maybe?

6-02-2008 @ 2:37PM

milka said...

nah casters wont be useless .. remeber how blizzard likes locks :)

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