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

Every single victory in PVP you have because you were doing more damage or taking less damage then your opponent was handed to you. If you were as good as you say you are you would not need the advantage.

And that's the point. We support a game where you have to practice to get better. You support a game where your team gets to start on the 50 yard line, and your opponent starts on the 100. Then you go on acting like you are somehow "better" when you win.

Well he admitted he would just try to find some other exploit. Yet he seems to be silly enough to tell us that we are the ones who feel entitled. It's so ridiculous to see some of these people try to make it look like they are "hardcore" for needing training wheels.

It's totally different on my server, most of the people with any pvp skill have stayed in the 50s bracket, creating a pretty balanced pool of warzone players on both sides, the 10-49 bracket has gotten worse as I think most of the less able players have stayed there.

I don't mind "work" but it should be work towards perfecting a skill. I was in the top five at one point on my SWG server. I did not get there by gear, I got there by spending time with the best duelists and PVPers on my server learning from them, praticing my timing and perfecting my play style and build. THAT kind of work is enjoyable.

Forcing us to be the footstools for the people lucky enough to of ground out gear is not enjoyable.

I have no desire to be handed anything. But the system they created hands the victories to people who don't want to actually develop real pvp skills. They want to grind and then pretend they are "good" at something when they see their names on a scoreboard. Because clearly they have achieved something when they killed people who had absolutely no chance against them.

The funny thing is, the victories you get when gear is not a factor are so much sweeter. And the fights you have to fight in order to get those victories are a hundred times more exciting.

The developers said they wanted an E-sport worthy experience with PVP.

If that is what they want, they are going to have to develop this game in a direction that puts more emphasis on skill. This is why WoW was removed from the lists of competitive game play. Gear was too much of a factor and being good at PVP in WoW could just as easily mean having no life.

Well said.

But supposedly people who feel this way don't exist.

I would love to PVP and see my character's progression be marked by a ranking, valor rank, achievements, medals, matches played, titles, pets, mounts, position in a team, ability to play higher "level" warzones, PvP halls with rooms for ranks, special quests, ect.

I do not care about my gear, besides the way it looks (and barely even then). I only care about my gear because someone else has better gear than me, and I can't beat them. I loved pvp level 1-49. I would be happy if everyone in PvP was wearing Battlemaster gear so we can have an even fight.

Gear progression is not character progression. Especially when the gear is won by time and luck more than skill and character.

All I read in your post was "I have no patience for actually learning how to play. BW plz deliver me wins by making me do more damage and take less damage from everyone. That way I can pretend I won."

Gear: Supporting bad PvPers since 2001.

All these people acting like grinding pvp gear is work is sort of funny. You get paid to work. You are not being paid to play this. If you find any of it to be work. You need a job XD

Being good at PVP, (I mean actually good, not using the PVP gear training wheels.) comes from work to get better at PVP. Not from gear. The notion that you have some sort of "work ethic" is ridiculous. Practicing and strategizing and making that strategy work is "working long and hard" for a deserved victory.