If you cap you go to the vendor and get a specific piece of gear each week.
If you retroactively cap you can pick up those pieces as you get the same amount of conquest as that weeks cap would have been.
This keeps a familiar feel of getting a piece each week, but keeps the RNG aspect out as well as not including the vault.
Or how about we stop suggesting bad ideas and just buff conquest?
We got BFA PvP gearing because Ion said that the average player couldn’t figure out how to buy a weapon from a vendor, and it wasn’t even good because of the wonky stuffs with pve gear being better 90% of the time due to scaling and whatnot.
PvE gear being better is an entirely different issue and actually has nothing to do with the PvP gearing system that BfA had. The system for acquiring actual pvp gear was good in BfA and made sense.
Yeah that’s fine the current TWW conquest each week needs to be buffed more to make up for the lack of a free piece each week.