Yeah Yeah Yeah, Stop Complaining
Okay, so I took a short hiatus after I got commander. Wah.
Rank decay is a bitch! After only a few weeks, I'm already down to Knight-Champion. What a bummer. Not only that, but Blizzard, in all it's money grubbing kindness, has declared that in the next patch, you can upgrade your PVP gear.
Wassat? Wassat you say? Blizzard also mentioned that if you got rank 12 or 13 ever in your miserable non-working pos existence, you wouldn't have to repurchase upgrades? It'd be... what? Autoeffinmatic? Wow! What a deal. Ruin your life, and you get free armor upgrades!
But what about all the months I put into getting rank 10. What do I get out of it?
"You gotz ta go grind up to get that gear again, buddy, if yez wanna upgrade."
There's been a lot of contention about this issue.
Most of it, unfortunately, is based on two factors.
1 ) People don't know how to write.
2 ) People don't know how to read.
So, someone asked the Devs in the real game forum, "So, will former rank 9 players be able to purchase upgrades?"
The Dev responded, "You must be able to purchase the pvp gear in order to get the upgrade."
What the morons in the forum interpreted this to mean is that you had to re-grind up to rank 9 to be able to purchase pvp gear, and then upgrade. However, if you were ever rank 9, and you lost rank, you can STILL RIGHT NOW go to the vendor and purchase rank 9 pvp gear. What that means is that you can get the upgrade even if you're rank 8... or 7. Or whatever.
But there's this assumption running rampant right now that anyone who wants to purchase an upgrade must be at that rank or higher. Besides a misinterpretation of the Dev's response, where'd this notion come from?
Apparently it came from players who have been testing the new patch in the Test server.
One of them, at least, has reported that a current rank 8 could not purchase rank 9 gear, even if that same player had previously been at rank 9.
This would mean that, as rumored, everyone needs to re-grind to rank 9, despite having that rank previously.
However, I haven't seen any patch notes indicating that Blizzard was specifically implementing a change in purchasing power of the former ranked. Rumors are all I've heard, and misstatements and misinterpretations from both sides on the Forum (which is truly a place of vileness anyway).
So, this lack of purchasing power could really be:
- a glitch
- a result of the character transfer process, somehow eliminating the "highest rank held" buying power ability
- a non-patch related tweak that the Devs are just playing with
- an intentional part of the new patch
A simple answer to this question would put at ease literally thousands of very pissed off former rank 9 players. Players who are, this week, re-grinding just in case.
What makes me sad is that in the official forums, players keep begging the Devs to "answer the question." Unfortunately, most of the players are too bereft of intelligence to be able to form the proper question in the first place. I should feel sorry for both sides of the issue, but I'm too busy working for the $15 per month pay-to-grind fee that should take care of most of my worries anyway.
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Rank decay is a bitch! After only a few weeks, I'm already down to Knight-Champion. What a bummer. Not only that, but Blizzard, in all it's money grubbing kindness, has declared that in the next patch, you can upgrade your PVP gear.
Wassat? Wassat you say? Blizzard also mentioned that if you got rank 12 or 13 ever in your miserable non-working pos existence, you wouldn't have to repurchase upgrades? It'd be... what? Autoeffinmatic? Wow! What a deal. Ruin your life, and you get free armor upgrades!
But what about all the months I put into getting rank 10. What do I get out of it?
"You gotz ta go grind up to get that gear again, buddy, if yez wanna upgrade."
There's been a lot of contention about this issue.
Most of it, unfortunately, is based on two factors.
1 ) People don't know how to write.
2 ) People don't know how to read.
So, someone asked the Devs in the real game forum, "So, will former rank 9 players be able to purchase upgrades?"
The Dev responded, "You must be able to purchase the pvp gear in order to get the upgrade."
What the morons in the forum interpreted this to mean is that you had to re-grind up to rank 9 to be able to purchase pvp gear, and then upgrade. However, if you were ever rank 9, and you lost rank, you can STILL RIGHT NOW go to the vendor and purchase rank 9 pvp gear. What that means is that you can get the upgrade even if you're rank 8... or 7. Or whatever.
But there's this assumption running rampant right now that anyone who wants to purchase an upgrade must be at that rank or higher. Besides a misinterpretation of the Dev's response, where'd this notion come from?
Apparently it came from players who have been testing the new patch in the Test server.
One of them, at least, has reported that a current rank 8 could not purchase rank 9 gear, even if that same player had previously been at rank 9.
This would mean that, as rumored, everyone needs to re-grind to rank 9, despite having that rank previously.
However, I haven't seen any patch notes indicating that Blizzard was specifically implementing a change in purchasing power of the former ranked. Rumors are all I've heard, and misstatements and misinterpretations from both sides on the Forum (which is truly a place of vileness anyway).
So, this lack of purchasing power could really be:
- a glitch
- a result of the character transfer process, somehow eliminating the "highest rank held" buying power ability
- a non-patch related tweak that the Devs are just playing with
- an intentional part of the new patch
A simple answer to this question would put at ease literally thousands of very pissed off former rank 9 players. Players who are, this week, re-grinding just in case.
What makes me sad is that in the official forums, players keep begging the Devs to "answer the question." Unfortunately, most of the players are too bereft of intelligence to be able to form the proper question in the first place. I should feel sorry for both sides of the issue, but I'm too busy working for the $15 per month pay-to-grind fee that should take care of most of my worries anyway.
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