Dressed to Kill
I got my priest the 1h weapon this week, which was something like +400 spell power over the heirloom staff I was using previously. Of course, since the heirloom staff was Headmaster’s Charge, this is a huge downgrade in the visual department, but you can’t have everything! Now I just need to replace his s4 wand, and he has a full set of serviceable pvp gear, even if the set pieces are still mostly i213.
It’s actually surprisingly painless to gear up a character from zero; especially with the surplus honor you get from levelling in Alterac Valley. The tier 1 weapons are placed such that you can get them without a serious gear investment, which is good, since that’s the earliest pvp weapon you can get these days. Wintergrasp commendations being BoA mean that you can put your alts to good use farming honor for the characters you’re actively gearing.
On my rogue, I tried the 44/2/25 MP build that everyone’s talking about, but I really can’t stand the poison application and burst damage of running DP/WP. I can see how it might work in a cleave like RRP or RDKP where you’re mostly training a single target, but even in 2s when I was jousting with another rogue the entire match, my DP stacks would fall off way too often.