PvE gearing is Superior to PvP gearing

Natalya-thorium-brotherhood · August 4, 2019, 6:16pm

Mame:

Title. This isn’t about vendors, or seperate itemization for PvP and PvE gear. I get it. Blizzard wants all gear to be good throughout all forms of content (ignoring itemization differences). We won’t be getting resilience or PvP power back either.

But why is PvP gearing inferior to PvE gearing? I’ve recently been doing some PvE again, after nearly 10 years (Ulduar!) because I needed the essence from Mechagon. Gear drops like candy in PvE. People I group with are barely able to play their class in a scripted setting yet they’re pushing 430 item level… meanwhile, players that choose to gear through PvP (again, ignore the vendor issue for a moment) are left behind. We’re left behind in terms of itemization options, we’re left behind when it comes to rate of progress.

Why?

Many people in the PvP community have a sneaking suspicion that it’s about trying to avoid a situation where PvE players feel forced to PvP for a gear advantage. The problem with that, though, is that PvPers are forced to PvE for gear instead. Why can’t gearing through both avenues be roughly equal? Again, this isn’t even about RNG, vendors, or any of those other issues. It’s about one simple fact:

Gearing through PvE will always yield superior results in today’s iteration of WoW.

Blizzard has stated many times in the past that this is not the intent. When can we expect changes?

WoW is first and foremost a PvE game so I suspect the developer’s philosophy around forcing PvPers to PvE to obtain gear will not change.

People can argue that WoW isn’t a primarily PvE game but I’m basing my statement on how Blizzard allocates resources into content development (PvE gains the lion share of new content).

As a primarily PvE WoW player now, I do miss PvP and I personally wish game design was based around more 1v1 match-ups (as someone who played mostly fighting games growing up, I hate team-based PvP). But given how PvP has generally been a side-project in WoW, I end up going to the FGC to scratch my PvP itch.