What does the 1-49 bracket teach us about PVP gear?

I love this post. Its the truth. If you werent 50 for at least a week before they changed the WZ system around you are now fighting and extremely uphill battle in WZs. Getting hit for 4k and barely hitting over 1k crits.

Gear should be important, to give an edge in a battle of equals (skillwise). But it should not be the defining factor in why you win a fight. The expertise stat should be removed.
A higher progression of normal stats on armor should be introduced instead, more armor factor, and main stats. So a BM should have 5k more hp and hit slightly harder, and take slightly less damage, and those can be debuffed. The biggest factor in higher valor players should be that their armor gives more hp. Not that they take a lot less damage and push out extremely more. Expertise is the way of failure for pvp.

I just hit 50 on my new main 2 weeks ago. For about a week I took my lumps pretty good. Everyone takes their lumps when the majority of the server's PvP population has been 50 for weeks/a month by the time you hit max level. It's the nature of MMO PvP.

Most of the people that were smoking me when I was a fresh 50, are now being scraped off the bottom of my boots. /shrug

I liked the claiming of keeps and stuff in WAR as well as the heraldry. The guild award system was ok,not perfect but they had something. Fighting for the keeps amd fortresses gave players something to fight for... Eventually it just turned into flipping them all for massive amounts of reknown.

I'm ok with it... I lose 12% damage, damage reduction and healing, but instead get a 67% damage boost every 9 out of 10 hits, higher armour value and more HP... LOL I'm more than happy running around in my Rakata kit

THANK YOU CRIT BOOST!

So many of you are so blind. So remove PVP gear and make it equal right? Wrong! Now PvE rakata gear becomes the best and people that don't want to grind 8/16 man HM ops will have no chance so should we remove this also?

If you are going to take this route then all gear needs to be removed or there will always be leverage.

If you're in a competitive environment... that's what's going to happen anyways. You have to learn how to play effectively which people are too lazy, ignorant, and ADHD to take care of. So they will quit as soon as you take that crutch away.

They will quit after their noob tears and cries go unheard. Main reason for their QQ'ing is because they can't win due to "gear" or everyone "hacks" so they dont have a chance in pvp.

Its everyone else an cant possibly be the fact they just can't play.

Your reading skills are what, 3rd grade at best?

Actually what the person said was in PVP gear shouldn't matter.

Progression <> Power.

Guild Wars PvP awarded progression with ranking (/rank tiger!), rating, cosmetic upgrades, and other things that let you show you were more skilled than other players.

Nothing that says you had better gear.

It's pretty obvious when you go to the 50 tier. If you're so blind to not see that I'm guessing you're the same folks that walked on the backs of level 10s pre-patch to get your ranks and gear and think that was them just being bad also.