Originally Posted by
Amorise
Hey you posted this same thing on the official forums! I'll just respond with the same stuff I posted there.
Except the fact that in pvp, outgearing someone to a certain extent is a guaranteed loss for the other team. The current pvp system comes out to where the top stay on top while the ones starting who could be great players, are kept down due to needing X rating for better competitive gear but they have to go through players in that gear already to gain it. It doesn't come down to who puts in the most effort or who is the overall better player. It comes down to who started gaining the pvp gear first. Someone who starts 2 seasons late will have a much more difficult time competing with people who started at the beginning even though they could be better.
With focus being on rated BGs now, I doubt Blizzard would want the outcome of 2 great coordinated teams to come down to k this team started pvp one season early or this one grinds much more so they automatically outgear and can trash the others in a head to head.
People confuse skill and difficulty with overall time sink..
Everything is on a level playing field now. Besides, I'd rather pvp in that scenario where most encounters come down to outplaying and outskilling the other team. It would be a much more satisfying victory knowing I earned it and not just outgear brute forced down the other team.
Keep an eye on the ratings of teams for rated BGs. With the cataclysm pvp system, if all goes live, will be the rebirth of WoW pvp for most players, draw in a larger audience, and really show who deserves to have the Gladiator titles. Those people will be some of WoW's top players an gives more of an incentive to play as a team and showcase your teamwork.
Think of it in these terms. You're playing Ground War Domination on MW2 with two highly skilled premade groups. That will be WoW pvp in cataclysm. Current pvp is like playing TDM with 2 teams of idiots who run to the campers.
It's not the issue with arena where it's expected to be that way of gear imbalancing for the more skilled. The problem comes in where those people in super duper top arena gear can steamroll people in battlegrounds with little to no effort just due to gear differences. And guess what cataclysm is focusing on? Yay BGs!
Removing rating from gear for rated BG setup simply puts everyone on the same level so that all encounters and all contests come down to skill. Period. Anyone who has an issue with that is one of the tards who roflstorms his way with skillmourne and wrathful in BGs and thinks they're amazing at pvp.