Originally Posted by
Verain
Yea, you obviously can't scale down the loot, the primary reward in the game, for "outside" because "you don't need it outside a raid". That would be WAY sillier than what they are proposing.
Also- Why do you care if BiS PvE is better? Keep in mind, heroic raiders are a small portion- but heroic thunderforged is FAR faller smaller than that. This sounds like an inflexible principle. Understand that PvE gear spreads a VAST gulf of itemization in the current paradigm. Saying you have to be better than heroic thunderforged- which only a small percent of heroic raiders will ever have a full set of- sounds straight up silly. It means that a raider would get 100% destroyed- no game at all- in normal gear. That might be what you want, but it's contrary to the "raid gear is instance gear only" thing that they are trying to fix.
That being said, there's a LOT of fixes. For instance, the pvp power on gear could be larger in the world, or the item level could be normalized to 510 instead of 496. I'm surprised at how dominant heroic raid gear will be over pvp gear.
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I don't feel it's fair to dismiss this. I mean, I'm all over not having to swap in PvP gear every time I do anything in the world. It feels lame to work so hard to earn raid gear and then only get to use it in raids. But at the same time, having PvP gear be so far behind is disheartening.