Like my wintergrasp, and ret paladin posts before this one, I will be bumping this thread every day until unrated pvp gear is buffed to be on par with at least heroic raid gear in terms of item level.
Some context: I’ve made two posts based on ret paladins being broken overpowered and shortly after that, ret paladin self healing was nerfed. I made a post about wintergrasp defending being far too overpowered, and in the next patch wintergrasp defending is getting nerfed.
Well, I am now making a post about unrated pvp gear being pathetic in terms of item level and stats. And as per my past posts, i will be bumping this thread every day until unrated gear item level is buffed.
The reason it needs to be buffed is because gladiator pvp players are absolutely destroying unranked players in battlegrounds. 226 item level players just deleting your entire team because they play ranked content. And because I don’t play ranked content, blizzard punishes me by making my item level low. My item level being low means lesser primary and secondary stats. My item level being low means i die to gladiators. It should NOT be this way and i refuse to accept this.
Remember in wod when honor gear and conquest gear was the same item level even against gladiator players? Remember if you got a high rating the only thing you got was a transmog set, weapon illusions, and a much larger conquest cap?
Why does blizzard think this is a bad system? Why do they instead think that making high ranked arena players absolutely dominate unranked casual players in battlegrounds equates to a good gameplay feature?
I did the math a few weeks ago and to upgrade an entire set of honor gear it costs 68,400 honor. Weeks of grinding BG’s to only have 197 item level. We arguably grinded more than rank 1 players for our honor and are rewarded with being completely inferior and being dominated by gladiator players. There is almost no point even upgrading gear anymore. It’s more worth it to pay a rank 1 player to carry you with gold in arenas in order to get good pvp gear.
The game should not be this way. I shouldn’t have to be constantly stressing about how low my item level is as a casual pvp player because im constantly facing rivals, duelists, gladiators, rank 1 players, grand marshals, etc. I shouldn’t be PUNISHED for being a casual pvp player who wants to play alts.
Unranked pvp gear, as well as honor gear, needs to be buffed in item level by a significant amount. At a MINIMUM it should be equal to heroic raid gear. Heroic raids are easy. But heroic raid gear doesnt have pvp stats. The ideal pvp stats come from pvp. But you can ONLY have success in pvp if you are high rating. And to get high rating you need to have high versatility, which can only come from being high rated. It’s a vicious cycle.
This NEEDS to change. It’s demoralizing to be destroyed by players with 40k or more health every bg. It’s demoralizaing to realize ill never have that item level on my alts because I cannot physically rank up and gain rating on so many alts. It’s demoralizing that all of my efforts to gear my character with honor are wasted because of how pathetic the item level is. This HAS To change. It H A S to change. It has to change.
