Originally Posted by
Resentless
Telling people to stop bitching is one way to kill your game. I've also been playing for nearly a decade, and given your lack of response towards pve gear in PvP, I can tell exactly what kind of player you are and there is no arguing with someone who wants the call of duty experience of queuing up for some random bgs and just whacking people. Thats ok, there's plenty of people like you. But to say it's not an 'arena simulator' implies you are extremely close minded in how you expect PvP in this game to be. If it was your way, I'd still win anyway, but luckily there are more engaging and competitive things to do.
You're right, nowadays I will just gear my alts. Farming to 2k even in just greens is easy and luckily in BFA the random drops are massive increased from legion so I'll be 350 in no time. The same cannot be said for new players/people first trying out PvP however, and you know the number one thing that turns people off from pvping in this game? Going into a random bg and getting sent to the graveyard repeatedly by someone vastly outgearing them, just like in any period from mop down to vanilla. It's fun for the player doing that, but not for them. Templates eliminated this entirely. If you don't see that or why that's a good thing for the health of PvP then I don't know what to say. Luckily, there's still ilvl scaling between players so it effectively is the same as legion anyway.
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This person didn't get 'their' way, blizzard tried something new. Most of that system has stayed btw, if you haven't noticed. Only you keep your stats going into PvP, but now how much you hit an enemy for is entirely based on their ilvl Vs yours, with nothing in the game explaining that to you unless you look it up on forums.