Rating requirements on gear is very detrimental to alts. It’s hard to find arena partners, so I generally only play with friends. This means that if my alt is a bad comp with them, it’s either incredibly annoying, or insanely grindy to get 2.1k on my alts.
Honor gear simply isn’t good enough to be competitive against people in high end raid and conquest gear, forcing me to grind to high rank arenas on alts. However, as I sad, it’s incredibly obnoxious. So I just DON’T play alts, since being that far behind in gear is simply not fun.
I would love to mess around in PvP on alts, but needing to meet such steep requirements just to have PLAYABLE gear is a big no no.
This wouldn’t be an issue if honor gear wasn’t -29 ilvls to high end gear, but it is.
Please reconsider rating requirements on gear.