If you are comparing apples to apples with pve then it is rng gearing. You gear your character in pve far before your pvp gearing schedule completes. The pvp gearing schedule is just bad luck protection for rng gearing.
But then you run into the issue like I had where you have to pick a higher ilvl weapon for an offspec or just ignore the offspecs. Don’t get me started on offhands either.
Most players don’t only gear through the conquest system. You should be able to get your weekly points and pick whatever piece you want, and not have to grind in long queues only to get clobbered by premade after premade with your reward at the end of that mess being a downgrade to the piece you already have.
At the very least allow us to get all of our conquest points in one arena session rather than this horrible system where you only get adequate conquest points for the first win each night. Being forced into trying to get one win in everything every night is as asinine an idea as it gets.