I saw someone with epic ilvl 840 pvp gear... How?

[Ashkiman]

It's art around your character's picture next to health/resource bars in Blizzard's default unit frames.

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Holy shit they even got frame portraits into WoW?

[lordzed83]

I got luxky and trinkiet proced 850 and got 840 legs from pvp world quests i play fury/prot so need all gear in the world to be able to pvp

[Pwellzor]

You get templates in pvp, all stats on your gear are meaningless but 1 ilvl on your gear over the base assumed gear by that template is a 0.1% overall increase , so regular pvp gives ilvl 840 gear afaik (as do pvp world quests etc) and the really good gear 880, so thats 40 ilvls so a 4% increase in rated pvp.

Outside of the arena or bgs where the templates dont matter(i.e in the world) youll do way way more damage sure, but where it matters i.e real pvp the difference will be extremely minimal. The difference between a freshly dinged char and one in the best possible gear will be less then the difference between the 700 honour gear and the 710 conquest gear in WoDs last season.

I agree with you. Why are you quoting me?