The S3 Arena pieces are nowhere to be found on the PTR, but we do have the PvP cloaks, trinkets and relics mentioned previously that require badges.

And as promised, several 4-piece bonuses on the arena gear have been changed. Some solid changes for Hunters, Druids, Mages and Shaman (click on image)… the Elemental Shaman 4-piece bonus is just jaw dropping.

Blizzard’s attempt is itemize for different specs is welcomed — especially for the hybrid players. The biggest downer looks to be the PvE cost of the items: many, many badges. For many PvP’ers, grinding out 130-150 more badges (25-30 Mech runs!) may be just a little too much PvE to stomach when previously the minimum required was 41 for the Icon/Brooch.

There is supposed to be a daily quest that gives 2-3 badges, and Karazhan and Zul’Aman bosses will drop badges as well — but that is still a lot of PvE.

PvP Badge Cloaks
(60 badges)

New PvP Trinkets
(75 badges)

New Relics
(20 Badges)

Additional Arena Relics
(presumably 1000 arena points)

New 4-pc Bonuses for Selected Arena Sets

Druid (Balance) 4-piece
Reduces the casting time of your Entangling Roots ability by 0.15 sec.

Hunter 4-piece
Reduces the cooldown of your Multi-Shot ability by 1 sec.

Mage 4-piece
Reduces the casting time of your Polymorph ability by 0.15 sec.

Shaman (Elemental) 4-Piece
Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting Lightning Bolt.

Shaman (Restoration) 4-piece
Reduces the cooldown of your Grounding Totem ability by 1.5 sec.

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For the rest of the loot (including PvE) found on the PTR’s: Wowhead new items

For items with updated stats: Wowhead changed items

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11 Responses to “2.3 PTR: New Cloaks, Trinkets, Relics, 4-pc Bonuses”

1. Basfish Says:
   October 12th, 2007 at 10:40 am

   Great, now I have to PvE for my PvP gear.

   Lame much?

2. Critickle Says:
   October 12th, 2007 at 10:45 am

   LOL 75 BADGES ROFL WHY DID THE TRINKET HAVE TO BE SO DAMN GOOD

3. Dankh Says:
   October 12th, 2007 at 1:18 pm

   Starting farming for the badges now… and it won’t seem too bad.

4. Gusty Says:
   October 12th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

   Hmmmm, let me see, lets make pvp items that require doing pve, blizzard has their heads so far up their ass they can’t see shit

5. SkyPower Says:
   October 12th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

   The chain lighting grants resilience lol?

6. Belu Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 2:14 am

   ‘Great, now I have to PvE for my PvP gear.

   Lame much?’

   Yes, its quite ironic isn’t it. Blizzard goes to the trouble of implementing personal rankings so that your average PvE Joe can’t spend a whole season just doing the minimal time in arena (10 games a weak, win/lose doesn’t matter) so that he/she can get a weapon they want to use in PvE. But, in the same patch, implements great PvP items that require PvEing. Hence, Blizzard doesn’t want people to farm PvP to get PvE gear, but doesn’t mind the fact that they actually want people to farm PvE to get PvP gear. Quite funny ay

   But, uno, i still love blizzard

7. Norzemen Says:
   October 15th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

   “Cruelty - Use: Increases maximum health by 1750 for 15 seconds”

   This is helpful to a rogue how?

   You buff ur health, at full health otherwise whats the point, so someone can heal you? And who would that be, your mother?

   I don’t get this buff at all.

8. bife Says:
   October 15th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

   It heals you for 1750 like the lifegiving gem and last stand do. After 15 secs the hitpoints are lost. It’s great to buy time for a heal.

9. Phalen Says:
   October 19th, 2007 at 7:33 am

   /GASP!!!! Blizz wants PvPers to experience more aspects of the game they have spent a lot of time creating than PvP?!?!? OMFG!!!

   Seriously, The rating cap for arena wpns and shoulders just made it harder for PvEers to get, not impossible. The badge requirement is doing the same thing to PvPers. Oh and btw, the time it takes to get that many bagdes equals the time it takes for a casual, low rated person to get gear in the arena. Sounds fair to me.

10. Mortalys Says:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 8:39 am

    time to quite wow

11. Namelessfear Says:
    November 2nd, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    Shaman (Elemental) 4-Piece
    Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting Lightning Bolt.
    I agree that lightning shamans should have this, but it should be nested in a talent they already take. As a hybrid ele-21/enhancement this is just awful. I have 4-gear for the shock crit and range boost, and everything else I have is built for AP and soon AP(.3) spell damage. LB is worthless to me, making my 4-armor bonus worthess. I want all my arena points back!

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