The Expertise stat has to go...

So, you want a game where everyone is on equal footing, and within the same paragraph suggest that people get rewarded with 'stats'* or 'abilities'**, which puts them at an advantage over others that don't have them.

* AKA Gear
** AKA Set Bonuses

With in the system you'll have progression in gear. Just the starting pre set gear would be there to keep from being blown out of the water

So in other words, you have never played a pvp mmo.

What? I've played WoW PvP plenty. I'm trying to figure out your own thought process, because you just contradicted yourself.

Do you want a game where

A) everyone has exactly the same stats/character strength, where it doesn't matter how much they win/lose, everything is equal

or

B) everyone has a variety of stats/character strength, based on the rewards they were given by their participation in PvP

?

What more strength? More hits? A special heal? Etc.

Hahaha WoW is not remotely a pvp mmo. Pay attention, I said pvp mmo, not pvp in a mmo. WoW is a pve mmo with pvp. Understand now? In most, not all pvp mmo's, you get bonuses that you can use to improve your character. Its nto all about gear. Heck in some, you don't get anything. Personally, I'd perfer some sort of bonus in which we can apply based on choice.

What more strength? More hits? A special heal? Etc.

Explain how that differs from gear?

You're still going to have a disadvantage, particularly if you show up 3 weeks late to the party, and people will still complain about it. It's an unending problem, ergo, you either have a PvP game like Pong, or you just deal with the fact that some people are going to have statistical advantages over you, because its those statistical advantages and rewards which is what keeps the vast majority of people playing and putting up with the grind (hence paying ongoing subscription fees) in the first place.

If you don't like that, why on earth are you looking for equally balanced PvP in an MMO?

That's my point why should you get anywhere if you haven't accomplished anything.

Crosby at 18 joined the nhl and at 19 was the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Tracy McGrady also joined the nba at 18.

You think all the young people that join pro team at a young age just go there because they cried and didnt work for it.

Understand, I'm not just saying stats. Lets say you have a pool of options based on class you could chose from to boost your character from points rewarded in pvp. They can be other abilities, things to boost your current abilities, faster run time, etc. Things like this have been done in pvp mmos. Thats all I'm saying. It seems that Bioware is going with gear and that's their decision, I just think it would be much more interesting if it was not based around gear. I'm sure those who have played pvp mmos would agree.