I am sooo tired of joining a BG and having useless people show up. Example this kid shows up at level 20 in the bottom of the 20-29 bracket with 21 i-lvl and does 30 DPS
Paladin’s Chestplate
Item Level 1
Binds when equipped
Chest ===> NO STATS AT ALL
Plate
Durability 36 / 55
Expeditionary Plate Armguards
Item Level 3
Binds when picked up
Wrist ======> NO STATS AT ALL
Plate
Durability 13 / 20
Worn Wooden Shield
Item Level 1
Binds when equipped
Off Hand ==========> NO STATS AT ALL
Shield
Durability 14 / 25
MISSING BOTH RINGS ===> DOUDLE ZERO… GOOSE EGGS… EMPTY SLOTS
Expeditionary Plate Girdle
Item Level 5
Binds when picked up
Waist
Plate
+1 Strength
+1 Intellect
+1 Stamina
Durability 14 / 20
with empty slots and grey items they aren’t doing anything like questioning or running dungeons. those reward gear. running around opening zones gives xp. so does picking flowers. neither of those reward gear.
how is the most engaging part of wow a break from the rest of the benign activities? fighting against other players isnt a break from pve rotations against predictable AI.
at level 60 you cant run dragon flight dungeons until you have a certain ilevel but it’s perfectly fine to lose a battleground for xp?
this attitude is why some players at 70 dont want to win bgs, they just want the free honor for showing up.
no they dont need an ilvl req, what they need to do is scale all gear up to the ilvl max for that bracket of a dungeon blue. It would solve a good chunk of the issue ( not the grey/white item issues but you can only do so much to danger proof for players.)
Stop being dumb for a minute, lvling through bgs is terrible enough for gearing. You can cry all you want about every player not turning there xp off to farm out bis gear ( some of which can take weeks of gameplayed time) I offer a solution that would eliminate the majority of terrible geared players from bgs.
With the scalling system from wod you could make the crafted dreadful mop gear and be set from lvls 15-60 how is that lazy? that’s knowing how the game works and gearing accordingly. players with more knowledge and patience can farm other key pieces allowing them to just pvp without having to worry about regearing every 5 lvls to be competitive.
I never once defended players showing up in white and greys, its annoying having them on my team. unlike yo though I am looking for real solutions instead of crying and moaning on the forums while calling everyone lazy lol.
LoL I am not calling you lazy, if Blizzard gave every player a blank set of gear for PvP THAT would encourage people to be lazy and never get gear.
I don’t expect people to be in BiS
I don’t expect people to turn off exp and run 100 dungeons for gear
BUT
I do expect people to show up with something more than EMPTY slots
I do expect people to show up NOT wearing GREYs
I do expect to have people who are ABLE to assist the team instead of being a handicap
We’re talking about leveling brackets here. We might as well give the players template/scaling because the low levels are not worth worrying about beyond that.
Heh it’s kind of written like fan fiction, nothing too serious.
Something that I will say, is even in low gear these players are showing up to play.
This imho is pretty important. We need more players! Always.
Scaling up from the lower ends of characters item levels would work well, as it does at end game.
I visualized a working weapon rack in the starting room/gates which would allow players to select a Template item level. Missing slots filled etc.
This is kind of what works with Party Sync Templates, so why not for everyone else too?
Characters who choose to use the traditional route for gearing would not click on this rack.
We could theoretically have both templates and authentically geared players in the same matches.
I do like the scaling idea too.
Item Level 16
Transmogrified to: Ren’dorei Belt
Binds when picked up
Waist
Cloth
+2 Intellect
+2 Stamina
+1 Critical Strike
+2 Haste
Durability 24 / 30
Classes: Warlock
Requires Level 10
and when I try to tell the person how they can get some easy gear to fix it…
“I’m just leveling”
“it doesn’t matter bro”
“you mad kid?”
It’s like these clowns show up on purpose to fail, then cry when they get ONE shotted by a hunter.
I give him props for one thing… he left before the game started because the other team had 5 hunters… he knew he was going to get his a$$ destroyed BUT still wont replace his gear