What If ilvl was caped at 197 within casual pvp activities

PVP Battlegrounds
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This is a simple suggestion that aim to solve the “new alt” problem in pvp against elite pvp players with full 220+.

Ilvl197 is incredibly easy to reach. For a casual player, there is still a progression.

Casual pvp activities are : Random BG, Random Epic BG, Arena Skirmish and the occasional Brawl.

How it would work? All your gear is simply capped at 197ilvl within a bg. That is all.

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So your new alt with little to no time invested can be on par with people who’ve invested months?

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Yes, that’s exactly it.

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Then what’s even the point of having gear in this game? It’s an MMO not a competitive esports game for casual BGs.

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To have fun.

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So your idea of fun is stripping away everyone’s hard earned gear to benefit a minority of players?

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Here come all the sweats that are up in arms at even the possibility that their ability to dunk on fresh/noobs going bye bye because they grinded out gear faster and better than others.

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With my idea, EVERYONE is having fun. With the current gear system, only the greatly geared have fun. Seems like a win, no ?

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My current ilvl on this toon is 225. I think an ilvl cap in random BGs is a good idea, personally. In rated? Sure I want whatever edge I’ve worked to earn, but I think putting people who only do unrated PVP at a massive disadvantage is pretty lame.

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this is an amazing idea.
Why would you sweaties @ 2100+ care? ur not in random bgs ur playing rated bgs or arenas. Go grind that realm. I wanna have fun too in a fair match @ 197

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Would make sense for randoms. Then people could stop blaming their gear on their loses

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By the way, ilvl 197 is not arbritrary. its the max ilvl a casual player can get his hand on

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What is with people thinking everyone agrees with them, news flash, they don’t.

People like gearing up and feeling stronger, why would you take away one of the biggest draws for people?

There would literally be no reason for people to gear up if they only play PvP in this game, how anyone can think this is a good idea and that ‘everyone’ would have fun is laughable.

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I guess to be fair, it would be 200, since you can farm conquest through unrated pvp, but still.

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good point! i forgot about that!

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This is WoW … not a First-Person-Shooter.

If you want a fair fight, play Call of Duty.

RPGs like WoW are about building up your character and gaining power by playing the game. A necessary part of this is that those who have done elite content are stronger than those who just hit max level.

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wow is still a game. Games are meant to be fun.

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For me, capping the ilvl on my gear would feel weird. My character would be one way inside a random BG, and another way everywhere else.

Not a fan of that, but I would like to see some separation between higher and lower ilvl characters.

It sucks being 197 ilvl going against 220 ilvl 1800+ rated players in random bgs.
It also sucks being a 220 ilvl 1800+ rated player getting teamed up with 197 ilvl players when you need to farm honor to upgrade gear :stuck_out_tongue:

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True.

But fun is subjective.

  • It might be fun for low-geared players to have gear ilevel cap at 197.
  • But the higher-geared players who have their ilevel drop would probably have much much less fun. They would feel all their efforts to build their characters past 197 are pointless.
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I still feel like people who earned their 220+ gear will still be more skilled than a player who pvp for fun occasionally. Instead of losing 99 time out of 100, the casual player would now lose maybe 60 time out of 100 ?

that doesnt seems so bad, don’t you think ?

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