Originally Posted by
Crruor
Have you played wrath recently? The gearing process in s8 or so was, ding 80, try to get into a fos/pos group to get up to 3k gs (no one uses that nowadays, but people did back then) or so, if you actually wanted to not be useless you farmed it to 3.5k with HoR, went to HC and started doing fos/pos/ror at HC to get to 4.5k. You still died in 2 hits against any geared character but you could do damage now. Then you started farming honour, which compared to mop took twice as long (you needed around 50k honour for a piece, a won bg was like 3k or so, + once per week you got one piece or so from wintergrasp).
So farming for weeks you had the furious mainset and the relentless offpieces, + eventually the trinket (for none humans) and some random pve trinket, you still couldnt get a pvp weapon so you either farmed enough gold to get a battered hilt (of you got lucky) or you used a random HC FOS/POS/HOR one.
Now at this point you were where you claimed you could go and do rated arenas to high rating, no you couldnt. You could get moderately high if you were a very good player and played certain classes, but a smourne war/hpala would reck you anyways cause the damage and hp/resil were just unbeatable for most classes. You basicely at this point were where a newly dinged 110 character is, after weeks of farming.
Next you had to do 10 games a week to get enough point to buy proper pvp gear, but you most likely werent able to buy most wrathfull (i.e real pvp gear) pieces because they required rating, so you had to buy relentless. Not to mention that at 1500 or so you needed 5 weeks of arena points to get a wrathfull (main) piece. So you spend your time farming wrathfull offset, where a piece cost about 62k honour. So again, weeks or bgs and wintergrasp.
Now you finally managed to get the full wrathfull set, the wrathfull weapon, enchants and professions and gems which took again a few weekss to farm just the gold for. So you had full wrathfull gear, - finished now?
Oh, no. Now its time to start farming the mythic (back then HC) raids to get the pve gear you needed, trinkets and weapons and quite a few pve offpieces were a LOT better. So after weeks of farming HC ICC (which by itself required you to farm normal ICC and frost marks to get the proper pve gear first) you finally got everything you needed and as most classes you were finished now.
As any class able to use a 2hand weapon now the grind to get shadowmourne started.
It tooks months to get at the level of the people atop of the ladder back in wrath. And even Mop gearing took a long long time, you had to farm the honour set (20k+ points, at 200 or so per win of a bg, with a piece costing 1250 to 2250), then you had to win way over 100 arenas to get all the conquest you need.
Wod gearing was amazing, yes. Despite how shitty the expansion was the gearing was awesome and almost perfect. A slight improvement of that system would be best + the current honour talents. However, the idea that legion gearing is hard compared to previous expansions is in general total bogus, its only true for wod and even there im not sure if the current system isnt faster.