Champion track feels way too low for the amount of time and effort it takes.
I don’t think it is unreasonable to compare Arenas and Rated BG to Heroic raiding. Maybe gate it to higher ratings so it feels a bit more fair at least? Let’s say starting from 1800 onwards (can be whatever is fair).
I understand there’s an argument for “I don’t need it since I only PvP” but it does feel underwhelming to be kinda on the lower end on PvE if I ever want to jump to it. I would still want other pieces for different stats but having at least the ilvl bump would help since we have a ton of versa, which isnt as wanted in PvE, so making it low ilvl on top feels bad.
The issue is that it encourages boosting because PvE players will then gear through PvP. Which puts more money into bad actors pockets and hurts the ladder.
Gladiator gear can’t be gained outright faster than PvE at the start of season since Conquest is capped per week. What you describe can only happen mid season onwards, and by that point if you are buying a boost it would be the same or even more difficult than paying for a PvE boost.
its to keep PvE-ers away from complaining about being “forced” to pvp for gear since it would technically be much faster than doing any pve if the gear was equivallent
But isn’t versatility awful for the majority of pve builds? Wouldn’t you be investing time/valorstones early season into gear that will not fit into a BIS template?
Absolutely mind numbing if you actually pay attention to it, but sometimes I don’t really wanna do anything that requires thought, so I turn on a movie and click around. It’s basically delves for pvpers, in that it’s an easy, early season thing to do to move forward with the gearing process that isn’t fun so you don’t do it later on in the season when you can xfer honor.
I agree 100%. I actually think it should go a step further and think gladiator level pvp should give mythic track gear for pve.
And to any naysayers who go “pve shouldn’t be forced to pvp”, I agree. There is no forcing whatsoever because the current crest system already inhibits that and pve will still be better for gearing pve.
I agree, the verse heavy gear isn’t going to be BIS in pve even if it’s myth or hero so any time spent gaining pvp gear for easy hero would be better off spent getting hero that has appropriate stats.
