Now, I find that I can just scrub my way past what I expect is another hallway dungeon, now just consists of one room and bosses that walk to me, dropping epix, by the two’s. Level 200 gear. Tier 7. Better itemization too! So let’s see, I build my PvE set, pug the hell out of 25 man content now, and just by my full set of Furious gear? What the hell is going on? People used to drool at the Furious gear you know…it’s a hell of alot easier to go through the PvE world to get my PvP.

And it’s not equally balanced at all. You want to roll even into VoA with PvP gear, sometimes people won’t take you because it’s a PvE world, true enough, but I see people rocking heads in PvP with full T8.5 prior to 3.2 and not having to invest in anything except a trinket. Don’t see people saving up their honor for that new T7.5 do you? But it’s acceptable to have my coffee poured into someone else’s mouth? Right.

You want to bring back the challenge, then the people know what to do to step up to get shit done, done deal. Ezmode instances and raids that give you and me the same gear, and then joe blow who just hit 80 rolls deep in heroix and get’s better shit than me, and has a full set of Furious? I have a right to be mad.

And yeah, I have been contemplating not renewing my subscription because of this, and another contributing factor to this is “Jedi > Orc” from what I hear.

Oh, and if someones wants to troll the fact that “skill > gear” on me, I still have a right to complain. It was a bad setup, the content may have bridged a gap, but it closed it hard on PvP. Apparently pride is no longer needed, and you even get a map for your dungeon now. Be sure to stay within the circle. Heaven forbid this place see a new and improved BRD. Not like it would launch that additional instance anyway.

—Cheers to 3.2

Quote Vaneras at our forums:

“The end goal of all these changes is help minimize the growing gear gap that is causing a lot of frustration for players trying to experience the latest content as well as encourage players to continue running the dungeons that were previously released.”

That is something I fully support. We had an example of a gear gap in our last Naxx-25 and I have to say we were really lucky to get so many useful drops there.

And for us? Well we have our two pieces of T8.5 now, should we really care if some people we don’t even know will have these two pieces after some months of PTR and then a month or two of “couple hours in heroics a week”? Cause getting all that Valor + Conquest gear is certainly going to take them a while. Meanwhile we’ll be using T9.5 by then anyway.

Btw, it’s been exactly the same with PvP gear for quite a long time now, and I don’t hear any PvPers quitting the game over last season’s gear availaible for honor points, badges or whatnot.

And in some ways I can totally understand, WoW always used to reward the best players with the best gear, and it seems now that anyone putting in a couple of hours a week in heroics can walk around in the same gear that other people spent hours working hard to achieve.

It’s a sad state of affairs. Time to reinstall Lotro I think.