Originally Posted by
rda
DAMN. It's been ~10% for two addons!!
I am F**KING TIRED of hearing the same nonsense from people who have NO CLUE about current PVP. You are person #138 who don't know what the numbers in PVP have been like for the last four years yet somehow you have the gall to write these stupid posts repeating this nonsense that you made up in your mind.
I am sorry, I am yelling, but I am really, really, really tired of hearing this same never-ending stream of nonsense on how the gear difference is so big today and how it gets reduced in Legion thanks to their *spit* ilvl scaling. They add ilvl scaling but remove ilvl boost and ilvl cap. Learn what the ilvl boost and ilvl cap do. The net effect is about the same 10% that they are saying is not important (it is, but that's a different story). And while we aren't typically going to see the whole 10% in Legion - current ilvls on the beta put a standard BG-only no-rated-play player at about 8% below top, this gap is NOT GOING TO REDUCE over time like the one in MoP / WoD did. You have to go do heroic / mythic raids, or go and try to be a glad to start reducing it. In MoP / WoD you were reducing the gap all the way to 0, this took half a season if you played just to get your cap and did no other PVP at all. In Legion you CAN NOT reduce the gap. There are MORE gear differences, not less.
Read the effing threads, they explain it in far more detail.
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You know what, I am not going to write any more explanations regarding the power gap in Legion and today again. I wrote like twenty in the past 4-6 months, they don't help. It's an uphill battle. Blizzard think they are so super-smart with that misleading statement regarding 100 ilvls translating to just 10% power (which is supposedly better than it is now, but only because they don't say a word about how it is today), fine, who am I to object. They are going to reap what they sow in Legion when people realize that this BS statement is technically true, but since it's not the whole truth, it's damn misleading, and it gets much worse on balance instead of better. They will feel cheated and disappointed again, and they will let those idiot monkeys at Blizzard know.