| It's not that the items themselves are shit, many are pretty decent. It's just that Blizzard wants to maintain that "ladder" system that has served them well in the past and frankly, for me, that's not happening.
Accrue X Realm Points for benefit Y, I'm in. Maintain a lead over every pure PvPer in the game to wear/have Y, forget it.
Well, that and the present Honor system is so exploitable as to be laughable in my mind. On a PvE server we already are in communication with Alliance guilds regarding fairly consensual PvP that will result in huge gains for all. That's not even a structured system to farm points, just a "let's fight for a few hours" thing that will doubtlessly end up with everyone getting killed to the trivial point soon enough.
Time will tell but I have to say that every game released or in development that is planning on PvP to be the free content is not really going to get what they expect. I'll likely do the Battlegrounds for fun (presuming they ever provide a methodology for a guild to actually enter an instance, rather than a collection of random idiots) but I won't be doing them for rewards. As said before, I'd rather bang my head against PvE content for gear I can actually keep. That's still true, even if I do in fact like some of the PvP reward stuff.
Oh and god save the poor PvP players trying to level from 50-60 once this is live. The 60s that aren't in some sort of structured point-gaining system will be farming you like mad and they sure as hell know where to find you. |