you weren’t asking for equal gear, you were asking for only gear to matter, the exact opposite of equal gear:
IMO a better system is a flat ilvl for everyone. build and stat customization should be key, and borrowed power systems are part of doing a good build.
lots of people only log on to pvp, they only do expansion features if they are required to for pvp. if borrowed power an expansion features are disabled in pvp, then all of the borrowed power and systems of the expansion is essentially not relevant to pvp at all, meaning no full time pvper has any reason do see them. while on the surface this sounds wonderful, it doens’t take more than a few seconds of thought to realize that would only work for one season and participation would plummet the second season. the reason being that by that point the game is stale, class abilities only is showing us nothing we haven’t seen for the last 15 years.
right
i’ve consistently been against the ilvl for rating system since the minute it was announced and even took 2 forum vacations over it.