From my tests when twinks were in BG’s I think player skill should be even further down the list. I was playing a warrior in twink gear and had no idea what any of the buttons even did, I just pressed them and could easily 1v3 in BG’s.
True. Guess we can chalk it up to those players missing gear were just not good to begin with.
It’s even better when you silence an arcane mage as an arcane mage. They just stare at you like " I can do that!?"
There still needs to be knowledge of class and postioning for a player to truly be effective. when I was ret in low levels I just played an injured animal, and ran into an enclosed area and most players followed not thinking that I can heal or deal damage now that I can be in their face.
You actually think most players care about honor?
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Not really.
They have turned casual pvp into a sandbox for the most highly geared players by rewarding them for queuing for randoms, which were always intended for anybody and everybody. They still need to maintain the appearance that anybody can queue. When that appearance goes away, so do the majority of those casuals who sub to spam randoms.
Considering the game rewards players for burning a flag and running off and leaving it undefended while punishing those who babysit a node that ends up not getting attacked, I don’t think the current scoring system can reflect the utility of a player.
Prestige was a terrible system in Legion. Who would have thought that making it account-wide would make it so much worse that people would just stop caring?
The truth is that until they get that conquest weapon, which will take a while if they’re not doing pvp, benthic gear will only bring their ilvl up to 330. Trinket and ring rewards for a player with an ilvl of 330 are not 420. Often there are none on the map. The cloak questline is tuned for ilvls of 400+.
Truth.
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Step 2 is honor gear, it was meant as a solution to people saying you could just afk to an honor set.
I’m just saying, they track metrics so it wouldn’t take much to convert that to some currency.
Just to comment on the benthic thing, a new or returning player will have no tokens to send to an alt (or have any pearls). Also, nobody should farm benthic gear in 8.3. If you want catch up tokens for an alt or even for some slots on your main, farm in assaults and get 410-415 ilvl tokens, not 385 8.2 crap that you then have to upgrade just to get to 400. The only downside is that the 8.3 tokens are armor type specific, but they’re not rare.
I believe any mob or chest in the assault that has the black empire stuff will drop the tokens.
edit: and by the time you get enough pearls to upgrade benthics to 425, you’ll have gotten gear for that slot from some other source, even random BGs give you 425s I think
or just buy uncanny combatant gear if you’re on a big server since it’s 400 ilvl and on my server apparently people are practically giving them away for less than 1k gold a piece in some cases.
Yeah, and going after that weapon while being under geared in rando casual BGs is not fun for new folks. I wish they had armor set tiers and only specific pieces with effects (trinkets, etc) for a mild edge, but mostly strategy/comp based.
That way we have tier 1, 2, 3 gear sets and can at least have some matchmaking option based on gearage. No one wanting balance wants to have sub 200k health matched with 500k+. It wrecks learning curves for strats and class mechanics, and it’s a horrid user experience when most of us want to have more people to play with and shorter queues.