Repost from Tethrina in another thread. It’s 100% not possible to get a “BIS” stat combo at max il from combined sources (PVE and PVP) of content right now. The availability of gear in Shadowlands release is not a reflection of BFA 8.3. There’s lots of gear stat combos not available.
My point - the perceived PVE “grind” is not that big because there isn’t much available from PVE that’s any better. This is what complainers keep skipping. YES PVP gear is limited, but so is PVE gear (for a pvper). The overlap of content is not that bad.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/underwhelming-gearing-options-for-pvp-vendors/633822/7
"So I am having the “Stuck in the vortex” issue on Beta, so it’s a bit loud, but I just went and looked at all the Mage gear. Here’s what I see. I’m thinking they haven’t itemized the Conquest gear yet because it all has Mastery, that or maybe they think Mastery is going to be “the” stat for PvP which would be…weird.
But let’s compare Honor gear to M+, I’ll just use C, H, M and V for Crit, Haste, Mastery and Versatility to keep it easy.
Honor:
* *Chest: VM* *Head: HV* *Pant: VM* *Boots: HV* *Gloves: CM* *Shoulders: HM* *Waist: HV* *Wrist: VM* *
So you have six pieces with Vers, but only three Haste + Vers, the optimal.
For M+, there are multiple pieces for each, I’ll just Separate with a “pipe”
* *Chest: CV | CH | CH | CM* *Head: HV | HM | HM | CM* *Pants: HM | HM | CM | HM* *Boots: CV | CH | CM | CH* *Gloves: CH | CH | HV | CM* *Shoulders: CV | VM | HM | VM* *Waist: VM | CV | HM | VM* *Wrist: HV | VM | VM | CV* *
So looking at that gear, there are only two pieces of Haste + Vers gear you don’t have, Gloves and Wrists. But you will also notice that there are only 4 pieces per slot in 8 dungeons, and most of those are duplicates, so while you might not have your “perfect” set, neither does anyone who PvEs.
What about LFR?
* *Chest: CM | CH* *Head: HM* *Pant: CM | HV* *Boots: CM | CV* *Gloves: HM* *Shoulders: CH* *Waist: CV | CH* *Wrist: CV* *
So you might want to do an LFR for the pants, but the good news is that’ll take like 30 minutes once a week to do just that wing, but other than that, there are no other Haste + Vers pieces in the entire Raid. Also, notice how much Crit is on those LFR pieces, so clearly they feel that is the “PvE” stat for mages."