Sorry Blizz. No Deal (SL PvP Gearing)

As much enjoyment as I’ve gotten from prepatch so far (in spite of Blizzard forcing me, as a low ilvl returning player, to PvP in low level brackets instead of at 50 because of a lack of catch-up gear), I’m not going to purchase Shadowlands if the PvP gearing situation isn’t overhauled and fixed.

Which means I’m probably not purchasing Shadowlands, unfortunately. Because we all know how well Blizzard has listened to players – and PvPers specifically – in the past. The current leadership ought to seriously be ashamed of how their own playstyle biases have impacted how the difference spheres of the playerbase have been treated and prioritized.

Reminder that not so many years ago, the amount of the casual playerbase participating in PvP exceeded that which participated in PvE. Now, the PvP community is comparatively a ghost town. Wonder why?

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It was too quick/low for PvE, and ruined PvE, forcing everyone into grinding ashran to get raid ready. So this is probably why they’ll NEVER do WoD PvP gearing again, despite it being easily fixed by just reducing the gears PvE ilvl ;/

Just look at PvP gearing from tbc-wod. There’s a reason why it worked for so long. A lot of people played arena and bgs then and liked the gearing system, overall just better.

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This is ridiculous. We need WoD gearing and pvp back.

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Guys please reply here and let blizz know that this is unacceptable for those of us that want to play PVP. PVP players should not be punished for doing what they love. Its ridiculous to have time gating and on sub par gear that is outdone by a simple mythic 7. Please blizzard respect us pvpers and let us play the game the way we want to.

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Please blizzard just make a pvp stat.

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However let’s not forget people crapped on WoD gear too before it was in it’s final version before launch.

currently regretting buying shadowlands already. but if pvp gearing is this horrible at launch my sub wont be renewing

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Honestly it’s not nearly as bad as it’s being portrayed as overall, compared to the speed of acquisition of all sources.

However, they definitely need to adjust the honor requirements and that renown level restriction…not even I can play Devil’s Advocate for that.

Because pure PVErs feel they should be the best at every aspect of the game without effort and PvPers are second class citizens

Biggest mouth gets the worm

Yes, that is a very easy fix actually.

Just lower the BG gear to the ridiculously low level it is at now, when doing PVE with it.

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Everybody here mentioning scaling and whatnot is missing another solution:

Add PvP Resistance or PvP Power

Seriously. We had these stats in WoTLK/Cata/MoP, right? They work fine and prevent overlap.

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this is too easy of a solution for blizzard
what do u expect them to do? make good decisions?

Imo blizz makes too much cash off of pve gold carries to change to WoD style gearing.

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@Mikesavage : Now it seems they make too much off of PvP Boosts. Seems like they had it all thought/planned out. No wonder they gave us such little information on PvP vendors. We would have rebelled. We, the players, lose again…

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Care to link a source?

Link source please.

I hope you got to play 2077 after a few patches…