baveux wrote:
Alright, so I should buy two pieces of armor before buying the X-bow? I've been told differently by everyone else ingame, telling me to save up for the X-bow(as it is the most expensive to get, and will help in both PVE and PVP).
I thought your focus was PvP.
For PvP you want resilence and hit points first, damage comes after that. Thus the PvP bow is not the thing to buy first.
If your focus is PvE and you want some gear upgrades from doing PvP for your PvE equip, then the PvP ranged weapon might be more interesting (although I'd still go for the other slots as there are three ranged weapons dropping in Karazhan alone and Valanos is a good bow to start raiding with).
baveux wrote:
I believe I'll still go with the X-bow first although it is a very hard choice now that I've been told otherwise. Along with this comes another question... is the Xbow the best I can get? I looked in the sticky for other ranged weapons that might be better, but there is nothing until heroics/revered reputation to some towns.
Doing a heroic several times or upping your rep is a lot less time consuming and probably easier than saving up > 25k honor.
baveux wrote:
As for my arena points, I still don't know what to buy. I don't have the rating needed to buy S3 gear and thought the 2handers from the vendor in gadgetzan looked pretty nice.
Most Season 3 items do not need a special rating. Shoulders need a 2000 rating. The Season 3 ranged weapon needs a 1850 rating. All other things do not need a rating at all.
The Season 3 melee weapon I mentioned in my post above does not need a rating, costs only 1000 points and unless you are survival specced is one of the best melee weapons for hunters in the whole game. A must have for all specs except survival.
baveux wrote:
Upon visiting the wowwiki site though, I found out the vendors are in Area-52? I'm still so confused about arena points.
By the by, rate ups to everyone who helped. Thanks guys/gals. : )
The arena vendors are in Area 52 and in Nagrand (next to the Nagrand arena, hard to miss and easy to reach from Shatt).
There you can buy all Season 2 (merciless ...) and Season 3 (vengeful ...) gear. You can also see which rating are required and what the stuff costs (the arena points you need to buy an item).