Originally Posted by
Tyrean
I been browsing holinka's twitter but I don't see anything specific about it. He *might* answer if you tweet him the question. As for your points I do have some knowledge on some of those
I do not think there will be another full tier based on comments they have made, that does not rule out a ruby sanctum style raid with perhaps some different vendors/reps to add another tier of gear.
6.0 will probably be like the previous patches and be after the arena season ends for the last of the expansion anyway. They make radical changes in .0 patches so it would not do anything for pvp but let everyone have fun that last month of expansion. (traditionally the most pvp participation in randoms because there is nothing else to do)
They will never stagger tiers as that is a ghostcrawler no no. While GC pretty much does not care about PvP anymore since hiring Holinka (did you watch that developer stream with the two of them? GC looked like he was so bored and tired of talking about pvp he only seemed to even give a shit when someone talked about pve in any capacity.) Anyway, GC has said that they do not want to "force" pve people into pvp with the guise of easy/cheap upgrades so the pve gear will always outshine pvp gear. Just the way they are designing the game because so many people only do LFR and give them $15 a month to do so.