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Originally Posted by Elerion

It's in the midde.

The difference lies in the fact that people who rank up now will get the better rewards by doing the exact same thing as the old R14's did.

The similarity lies in the fact that PvE people can't sit on their ass and have their current gear upgraded without doing anything to get it.

For people who already have their high end gear (PvE or PvP) there is no difference, work must be done to upgrade to max. For players who are working their way up the ladder (PvE or PvP) now, the effort needed to get the high end gear hasn't increased for PvP'ers, but it has done so for PvE'ers.

Blizzard obviously recognized this by making the armor auto-upgrade, but forcing you to rebuy the weapons. It's the middle way.

Thank you. You summed up the problem better than anyone else I've seen here.

Yes, I'm a High Warlord. Yes, I de-ranked down and am now Blood Guard or something because once you hit R14 there is no good reason to f*ck over the up-and-coming players by hanging out in the top standings.
Suggesting that players should have "hung around" at R12/13 just for this change is pure comedy.

There is a mage now on my server who is R13 and I assume going for R14. He is also in the resident uber guild who has Nef on farm status, so he can put together teams of geared up players to help him in his grind. When I did it, it was much earlier before people were farming BWL and as such, there wasn't really this kind of advantage by anyone on either side.
So the point is, if anything, current players have a chance to make their grind easier due to increasing gap of gear by pure PvPers vs. PvE'ers who PvP when they aren't raiding. Those players now have access to new weapons. I'm not going to bitch about it not being fair. What does bother me is that it's obviously a big gripe with players and yet there isn't a peep from Blizzard, EVER, in their own PvP forums.