I have found the current situation regarding gear that you need to essentially be at end game gear level in order to play the game. Its not really that cool adventure anymore, its more of grinding through renown and getting the 197ilvl before you can enter arena at all, and even then you are considered a bottleneck for the team. It would be good to make item level less of a jump so that if you level an alt and have purchased all the basic honor gear, you are not met against a 42k hp rogue who next to one shots you. It would just be good to bring that adventure back into the game
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Pvp is complete crap. Take the summer off cause 9.1 isn’t coming until July or Aug and if it sucks unsub and uninstall.
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This is not true, i’ve taken a 180 lock to 1.8k before with my friend and I never fought a lot of boosters, a lot of them were just hardstuck RBG kids with gear.
imo, the gearing is fine but I think what’s missing is people’s patience. They need to look within to become better players, or they’ll forever rely on made up issues like “gear disparity” for why they can’t climb.
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so you think being oneshot by someone geared suggests gear is fine? gear is such an advantage to the point that its game breaking. 1800 is no big deal, not to mention if you have people carrying you. this is the exact problem, people are paying for carrys left right and centre. you may have not needed to pay for carry but that doesnt justify the situation
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It’s an MMO so naturally gear will matter.
Do you expect the people that spend months on their main pushing rating for gear just suddenly bow down to your fresh 60 alt that you don’t even have keybinds set up for yet? Ofc not.
People want their time to be valued, and our current system does that.
and gear always has mattered, however gear matters too much where your ability to play means nothing. my thoughts are that anyone against this relys on their gear in order to play. either that or u paid money for carry and you would be upset if gear wasnt gamebreaking anymore. sounds a bit sus considering when i hopped onto my warlock at 182 ilvl a rogue one shot myself with shadowstrike from stealth… I had no time to respond at all so suggesting somehow you can carry yourself through the gear difference would suggest false information. others may have carried yourself whether paid or not but there was no skill factor in how you got there in this era.
What they need to do is implement a quicker catchup for conquest and cut the honor need for honor gear and upgrades by half. 25 conquest for 2’s win and 35 conquest for a 3’s win does not feel good. Let alone farming up like 75k honor to cap honor gear.
There’s a lot of factors that go into play to get one shot, but 182 is insanely low this late into the season and you’d have far better luck if you continued to gear up like the rest of us instead of complaining about made up issues like “Gear Disparity”, sorry 
@blizzard, this may be worth investigating the day of rival achievement made by the lock (Rankoneboost) and the persons who assisted as sounds like a carry (possibly paid carry).
I played with my friend who had 226 iLevel, we were able to climb pretty fast which is why I believe gear disparity or boosting to not be an issue at all.
If I can make it at 180 iLevel, anyone can
Many people like to play alts, my pally is currently 2020 ilvl however I found it horrible to try get an alt into arena. people will not even consider someone under 200 ilvl for arena, once entering arena you are versing 226 ilvl people due to rated battlegrounds being too easy for people. the inbalance is too difficult for people to have competitive arena as its no longer competitive due to gear being the main competition. if you dont believe me, join an RBG and listen to all the players discuss the opposing team members gear and health. if you don’t believe me, queue for 2k arena with 185ilvl and let me know how you go. “as apparently gear difference is fine”
Make your own groups, the solution is right there. I get that not everyone can overcome a little challenge here and there, but at the end of day you’re playing an MMO where time spent is rewarded with power.
If that doesn’t suit you, there’s always games like Fortnite
I started this season/character about a month ago. I am 224 ilvl. I was not carried. Don’t let your dreams be dreams friend.
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you are missing the point, the gear comparison is too large a scale. the advantage is too far ahead for someone geared when you are trying to gear. even my pally with 2020 ilvl has disadvantage in arena against RBG 2.1k players. even though these players cant get 1800 in arena i face disadvantage even though i can reach 1800 in arena. it doesnt make any logical sense to have such dire advantage due to gear. the amount of people who complained about trills gear a few months back may give you some insight.
The difference in gear from 220-226 isn’t the reason you can’t get 1800. I’m sorry it’s just not.
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What? did you attempt to read anything? I said I am 1800 in arena. if you cant put in the effort to read, i wont put in the effort to reply. look at the complaints about trills gear a few months back. no further comment required 
If you’re 1800 and you’re saying you are facing 2.1k rbg players who can’t get 1800 how are you facing them? Wouldn’t both teams be around the same MMR meaning they can in fact also reach 1800. I think you’ve lost me with your argument. 1- Agree that the difference in gear is noticeable. 2 ~ Agree that if you’re in honor gear that is not upgraded yet you are 95% going to lose to people who are in fully upgraded arena gear. 3 ~ Disagree that you are losing games at 1800 at 220 ilvl because of your opponents having 226. 4 ~ Disagree that it’s impossible to gear because I started a probably less than month ago and I am one more conquest reset away from being fully geared.
So you are suggesting i will never face other players in the game who can’t get 1800 but 226 ilvl? You will do this everyday and by the fact you didnt read what i wrote, i can assume you won’t notice what others ilvl would be when you verse them. there are many other aspects of the game, battlegrounds, skirmish, rated bgs, 2v2 etc. self explanatory i thought. On that, i wont be commenting further as what i am saying is self explanatory and this was a suggestion for the devs, not the melee cleaves fighting to keep their easy rating. thanks for the conversation all
Didn’t you say that you play holy paladin? I think you can try some melee cleaves for free rating. It might get you that 226 gear that’s keeping you at a severe disadvantage. Well goodluck friend!
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