01/09/2018 02:15 PMPosted by OmegalOf course, when they fix it so PVP gear is competitive again, there will be a 21 page thread from pvers who feel forced to pvp for gear.
This has been a no win situation for years, and it has literally gone back and forth for years. Either pvp gear is good and pvers are unhappy, or pvp gear is bad and pvpers are unhappy.
They'll probably do something like make gear irrelevant in world pvp with scaling to try and bandaid it
Ehhh not quite. In previous expansions/systems, there really wasn't an option for step-in gear for a fresh toon other than lfr or pvp gear. Because of that, people felt "forced" to pvp to get a starting set of gear simply because the catch-up pvp gear was better for beginning pve than the lowest level entry pve gear. We have a bazillion ways to obtain quality pve gear now, and the ONLY thing that matters in instanced pvp is item level. Because of that - i just don't see it being an issue anymore where someone should feel "forced" to pvp when you have m+, world bosses, world quests, lfr, etc. all giving you guaranteed gear.
The specific problem right now is that the item level of the gear dropped from rated PvP is about 20 item levels behind where it should be. I.e., rival and duelist brackets are dropping LFR quality loot, which is stupid considering those brackets are the top 10%/3% (respectively) of the ladder. You should not be competing against players of that caliber for rewards equivalent to something that is basically free. As with anything in an mmo, people just don't participate if there's no reward/drive. Because of this gap - people just aren't participating in PvP.