Quote Originally Posted by Gorgodeus View Post
I also forgot to add that Artifact power does come into play. A person with a fully unlocked Artifact weapon will be stronger than one that has a weapon not unlocked fully. To be honest, on Beta one was much better off gearing up via PvE to get geared for PvP. Gear from PvP boxes was 805 ilvl and gear from heroic dungeons was 825, to give you an idea. Not to mention AP (artifact power) gained from PvP was simply a lot less than one could get from world quests and dungeons.
Apparently you can get = ilvl gear to heroic/mythic from rated PvP. Probably wasn't in effect during beta.