So the web is abuzz with the latest bit of news to drop from the 4.0.1 PTR, currency cleanup
As of 4.0.1 we’ll have
- Justice Points (equivalent to Emblems of Triumph at the moment)
- Valor Points (equivalent to Emblems of Frost at the moment)
- Honor Points (equivalent to Honor Points)
- Conquest Points (equivalent to Arena Points)
As the tiers are released existing Valor points will be converted to Justice points, so all players enter each new tier with zero Valor points.
All of this has already been announced, so what’s new?
As of patch 4.0.1 (on the ptr now, get your copy while it’s fresh) all Emblems of Triumph & Frost will be converted to Justice points. All other emblems and badges will be converted to gold. All PvP currencies will be converted to the new honor point system. Initially the conversion will be done with a ‘soft’ cap, where the conversion will allow players to have more than the maximum number but no new points can be earned until enough are spent (this will change later and any excess will be converted to gold).
Points will only be awarded for kills made at an appropriate level, so no killing Hogger in Cata at level 85 for points.
I’m completely happy with this, let’s be honest badges learnt at the lower levels are now pretty much junk which just clutter up the currency tab, they’re bloat from the original release and two expansions, so things were well overdue for a clean up. This also ties nicely in with the new points based system for PvE and PvP rewards.
I do want to see what’s in the pipeline for costs of items, how the older items are going to be priced, whether the pre-wrath badge gear is going away or will be available for gold and so on. It’s currently unclear how stone keeper shards are going to be handled, or whether they’re included in the “PvP currency” being converted.
What about the cooking awards, will these be converted into something else, I’m not sure at the moment, I strongly suspect not. They’re sat aside in their own little world and unless Blizz are going to remove the tie in with the daily quest to get the wrath recipies then I think they’ll stay. Though there is an argument to do so, realistically how many players coming up through NR are going to do the wrath cooking quests to level up their skill. It would make sense to change this to streamline the cooking skill development chain and not create a speed bump for no good reason.