If you are a 475 mage fighting a 475 mage with identical gear, you will do less damage and take more damage than they will if you socket your identical gear. That’s as simple as it gets.
It was hard to read this thread amazed many of you kept feeding the OP. Don’t matter the socket bug is now fixed.
Now time to find out the other bugs… or we can just…
#RemoveScaling
#SaveShadowLands
because sockets count as a substantial ilvl increase, as they are factored in PVP scaling. That being said, if you placed haste sockets into your gear over verse sockets you would have faster cast times than the other mage.
Now after that update, sockets should now not give you any benefit but not worsen your performance.
However, this still doesn’t solve, the underlining issue of PVP scaling, and how a higher level trinket for example could make you take more damage.
Sockets no longer increase your pvp ilvl, IE they are functioning exactly how they would when you did the work around by socketing in the starting room.
Gems now give you a boost, they do not impact scaling in any way.
You are correct, currently as of right now, they are not changing your pvp ilvl at all, I’m not sure that’s intended as the hot fix wasn’t clear that was the goal. We’ll see.
Now for the rest of how PVP scaling changes the game. I think we all want higher ilvl items to improve us. Hope blizzard can find a better solution for PVP in shadowlands
Gems are disabled in rated PvP. Nothing was fixed, just ignored.
Why cant gearing just go back to any xpac between tbc-wod.
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