So the point of rated WZ gear is...

The stats you earn in rated will be what will show how good or bad you are. The casuals and the bads will talk down stats saying they mean nothing. The truth is if you are bad it will show and you can't hide from stats that all can see.

I prefer competitive play with a beneficial reward system. (See: WoW and Arena with Gladiator mounts/ 2200+ rated weapons.) I can care less for showing my different coloured geared because it makes me *look* better.

Well if you get high rank with the same gear as everyone else, clearly you are the better player. And you got the equipments to show for it (the looks) and your stats too.

You wont have to hear, "You only won cause you got better gear."

So the whole point of PvP servers is to allow the occasional gank?

doh'kay

How people don't understand this is beyond me. I mean, I loved playing ball growing up and all we got was a stupid plastic trophy. lol I was happy!

I'm just like you, was a glad in wow for many seasons. Don't worry though because you wont even wear the rated gear. You will wear crit crafted oranges with augment slots because they will be better so you can look like you are level 10.

Props to my fellow glads. I'd like more info regarding what you are talking about though, what is this augment slot system and oranges I've been hearing about?

If you don't like it, quit the game and give me your account

Blizzard listened to people like you and destroyed WoW utterly.

It doesn't really matter.

Most people are going to rip the mods out of whatever they have and put them in their favorite look of gear. As long as the rated war hero gear is the only way to get that model of gear in that specific color, then those interested in that type of thing will know what gear they have.

I can tell you right now - within 5 minutes of logging in when 1.2 goes live - I will be ripping the mods out of my butt-ugly plywood covered Columni commando legs and putting them in my moddables that I had to bank. I literally look like crap right now.

I haven't looked at the war hero models but honestly, if they don't measure up to my moddable set, the mods would be ripped out and put in my moddables. That wouldn't keep me from joining a rated warzone team within my guild if I wanted to play competitively. I know that gear scaling has no place in competitive PvP though.

Imagine playing Warcraft 3 with someone that has an account bound item that makes them construct all units 20 seconds faster simply because they put more time in playing the game than you did. How would any game played against them ever be fair until you had put in enough time to get the same advantage? That is exactly what is wrong with gear scaling in PvP.

I'll break it down to you...

Come 1.2 you will be able to take all mod enhancements out of your gear and put them in orange customizable gear (they wanted to make everyone look how they wanted)

The problem with this is, the orange gear can be crit crafted, which opens up an augment slot. If you have an augment slot on every set of your orange craftables you are looking at like 100-200+ your main stat which is grossly superior to our ranked warzone ****.

So pretty much you have to get the ranked warzone **** for the mods/enhancements, buy orange crit crafted gear for 5 million credits cause it will be rediculous and put augments on them if you are a min/maxer like most glads are.


and everyone will look like they are level 10 cause they will be the easiest to get.

We will all look like noobs