Most of the players think this system is bad, and many have left as a result of the system and the current meta. We just need Blizzard to show us some love and address it, please Blizzard…
Honor gear should only be about 10 ilvl lower than conquest. That one level of conquest gear should have no rating requirements unless you wanna troll with shoulders or something. Otherwise, let us get BiS on any toon we want so we can play competitive games. We have plenty of other tasks if we really want to be competitive on a toon, we need at least the gear to be accessible and viable.
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I bet TR also has way more comp diversity as well
Ehh … kinda? Because of the tournament setting it’s all picks/counter picks it’s basically just as FOTM as possible within reason. If there was a ladder I’m sure it would be diverse though.
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I only wondered, because Dilly always talking about differences in tournament play vs ladder.
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In terms of what is viable into what, yeah there’s a massive difference in the actual meta. For example on live I would probably never want to play Kitty into RMPala, but on TR it feels extremely strong, etc. The entire meta is just different slightly
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I feel diversity would increase if we had a lower barrier of entry to pvp and I think WoD and MoP would have the same lack of diversity that Slands has if their barriers were larger.
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Definitely a factor, without a doubt. The longer it takes to get gear/whatever the longer it takes for the meta to “settle” on what’s good and what is not. Also why you see the meta shift dramatically mid season when something OP is found that wasn’t before, because it either takes tons of time to swap and no one is willing to try, or because it simply took that long to get to that point. i.e. Venth BM hunters out of nowhere, Necro WW, etc.
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I wish that the stats were distributed differently on the gear. They should continue to all have a high vers distribution, but it would be cool if some of the pieces had the remaining stats split between two others. So like instead of 162 vers 74 haste, 162 vers 36 haste 36 crit.
has it occurred to any of you yet that one reason this probly gets no blue views is
…its in the pvp section? this should have been posted front and center in general discussion area, something like that.
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They know about this post, it’s more popular than patch notes… literally. They just aren’t speaking on it because they are unwilling to admit the disaster that is pvp gearing.
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This is actually very unfortunate and disheartening. We all know that people make mistakes and would have been happy if they would just resolve them. It legit grinds my gears that they force us to deal with this system instead of owning it and fixing some of the glaring and easy to fix aspects of it. Guess we just remain left on read.
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PVP GEAR POWER ADJUSTMENTS
Lower item-level PvP gear will now scale to a higher item-level in PvP situations than before. This should reduce the power level gap so that new characters can feel that they’re able to compete in Battlegrounds and Arenas more readily. This change will not affect high item-level PvP gear.
What does this mean? Will all gear scale to duelist lvl? If not I don’t care 
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I would assume they’ll just make the lower ilvl conquest gear scale up 16 or 18 ilvl instead of 13, or something like that.
My hope is that they just say screw it and scale all the conquest gear up to elite gear, admit they were wrong about having separate tiers of conquest gear, and then in 9.2 going forward they’ll go back to 1 honor set and 1 conquest set non-upgradeable.
But that’s a pipe dream.
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I want to think it means that honor gear levels to about 250. Hopefully, they address the rating gating also and remove or severely limit it to like shoulders.
#1honorset1conquestset
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All these changes for 9.1.5 if one of them isn’t
[Pvp gear will no longer have rankings instead will be the full WoD model]
im not coming back
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Sounds to me like they are changing the honor gear but not the conquest gear.
My gut says they’ll cave though and at least significantly reduce duelist advantage, maybe narrow ilvl gaps more.
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My arena partner and I will re-sub if they reduce the gear to 1 honor set and 1 conquest set. It seems like a lot of people will based off what I’ve read in the last 20 min.
Come on Blizz! We’ve been with you a long time. Very easy fix to bring us back.
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