I heal as disc for pvp, and nothing angers me more than seeing people in ilvl 312 greens or worse. For me, there's no incentive to heal someone that I know will get 2-shotted and then scream at me for being a fail healer. Even worse is when that person is a 'dps' in a game like WSG, TP or AB, where all they do is take up a spot by doing less than 200k damage. I've seen people in 312 greens, Mount Hyjal 272 greens, Wrath gear, and worse. They usually have less than 86k health and are just free HKs for the other side.
While venting my anger in trade chat, we had a discussion about an idea. What if Blizz were to impose minimum gear levels for joining random BGs? This would cut down on the number of people in terrible terrible <312 greens and make some games a little more competitive. The minimum would probably be around 339, which is the gear level of the craftable pvp gear.
A few arguments you may have:
-How else are they supposed to get gear?
Ans: Heroics, craftable gear, BoE gear, Rep gear, small amounts of pvp gear from pre-85 BGs, do Tol Barad for honor.
-Everyone had to start at some point. Even you had to start at some point.
Ans: I did heroics, I got the craftable pvp gear, I got lucky on some BoEs. I got some decent gear before I went to the BGs.
-People still won't succeed without pvp gear, even if they have good pve gear.
Ans: Not true. I've been in games where the top damage/KBs was someone with average ilvl of 346 with Heroic 5-man gear.