Originally Posted by
Siddown
No, his argument is that PvE gear will be much better than PvP gear, and that is baseless. He claims he shows "math", yet he never actually does. My math above might not be perfect, but it's far more than he ever presented and it totally shows that fully upgraded 522 gear will be worse for PvP than Tyrannical. You are gaining unneeded stats like extra Hit and Expertise and some useful stats at a cost of 15% damage reduction.
First, I disagree with anyone who uses twisted logic to try and meet a preconceived notion. If it turned out the math showed he was right, I'd gladly admit it. I've been theorycrafting and PvPing in this game since vanilla, including being the person who wrote the Enhancement Shaman Points that was on the original WoW Wiki for PvP (although looking at Google this appears to be long gone).
Also, I have no idea where this "vested interest" notion comes from. I only PvP, that's it. I haven't been in a raid since TBC. I don't like PvE at all, I find it incredibly boring. All I do is PvP in this game, which includes plenty of World PvP (on the smaller faction on a High Pop PvP Server), so if anything I should be leaning in Deleth's direction, but I'm not since his entire argument is full of holes that he will never admit.
And that's fine, I'm not saying this is wrong, I'm saying Blizzard doesn't agree with you. They have come right out and said that it's too hard for non-PvPers to get into PvP. I'm not making a value judgement on that, I'm just reporting what they are saying.
Their gear decisions are based on the differences between PvE and PvP objectives. I think this is pretty self evident.
I await your responses with baited breath.
Plus, at the risk of being pedantic, I don't think you know what "prejudice" actually means. I base my opinions of Deleth based on many threads where he has posted, which means it's not based on preconceived notions. He has dismissed me as a "PvE Troll" despite the fact that I don't PvE at all...which I guess would make him prejudice in the technical sense, but I'd never call him that because that would be silly. This is two people arguing about an opinion in a video game, don't devalue the word by attaching it to this first world problem.