…are harder than a world quest. And if you get put up against a premade (which is often) those health bars move just as fast as a keystone or raid. Should it be throwing out mythic raid gear? Probably not. But with the current iteration there’s no reason to do it other than for the sheer sport of it. Or if you really, realllllly like collecting fish. The ‘participation’ bar is tedious to catch up on, even after a fix, and most of the gear it gives is irrelevant by the time you get around to grinding it out. Keys are superior in pretty much every way. Even the prestige level rewards are stingy, half-hearted, and all but abandoned. The same mounts and toys reskinned over and over, a few titles, and dozens of levels of absolutely nothing. The rated gear is pretty stingy as well given the amount of time and waiting one has to put up with. There seems to be a certain level of disdain coming from the dev team on this.
It’s depressing that an entire playstyle is on life support. Used to, you could gear and finish a character and simply enjoy them (and not touch outside content unless you had an interest). You could do multiple alts and it wasn’t a colossal time sink. If you want to do up a PvP alt, the fastest and most convenient way is to hit keystones, to spend a lion’s share of your time in PvE content.
And the nightmare scenario to PvP giving more relevant and timely rewards: people use it to see content they probably wouldn’t bother with otherwise. The shock. The absolute horror! Who DARES. (This nightmare scenario played out in WoD, coincidentally, and… nothing came of it. Most pugs had a ‘no PvP gear’ rule.)
It seems Hazzikostas thinks battleground should be a once in a while after-raid playground and not much else.