I read that season 3 is coming out for arena gear. I also read that season 3 arena gear will be using the tier 6 armor models, and I am not happy about this. I was a bit put off when season 1 and 2 used tier 4-5. I had to inspect others to see if they had actually earned their tier 4-5 or if they were just a pvper that bought it with honor/points.
I feel that PvE accomplishments are a lot bigger than just grinding PvP honor or arena team points (something you can do solo, regarding honor, or in groups of 2/3/5 compared to what you have to do in 25 mans, etc.).
Call me old school or a simple whiner, but I feel that even back in the days of tier 1 and 2, part of getting PvE gear also entailed bragging rights. You'd see someone in a full set of it and say "Wow, this person has been through MC (or BWL)". Now, sadly, the only difference between a PvPer who decided to grind some honor points up and a raider who spends endless hours progressing with his entire guild, are the stats.
I feel Blizzard could have at least designed a separate set for PvPers and PvErs. I don't think it would be that hard. So do they genuinely justify using the same models for both PvE and PvP sets, or are they just that lazy and decided to recycle the models the same way they recycled Warcraft 3 icons into WoW cast icons and are still recycling the same old gear icons from beta?
I'm curious as to what everyone thinks about this, although i'm sure many people don't care.
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Old 25-11-2007, 01:22 PM #2
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I personally like how the old PvP sets look (the blue ones) and would've appreciated Blizzard to continue and develop new looks for them.
Oh well, with the different colour tones it's possible to tell 'em apart, but still... I think Blizzard are just being lazy.
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Old 25-11-2007, 04:31 PM #3
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/agrees with Aerath (and on the lazyness of Blizz). 9.9 / 10 times a guy in seemingly full T5 will be wearing PvP gear.
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Old 25-11-2007, 06:21 PM #4
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exactly det there has been heaps of time when ive seen a priest in what looks like Tier 5 but is actually Season 2 blizzard just dont have any good ideas any more.
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Old 26-11-2007, 01:14 AM #5
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This system prevents people from quickly identifying PvE-geared (and thus low-resilience) players and focusing fire upon these easy victims.