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

Thats actually an excellent idea... make it an option! Of course, there would have to be some kind of incentive for people to play in the harder bracket, but the option should be there.

Tell me what you know about Expertise in this graph.

And its "sentence" not "sentance."

Giving better gear to grinders in an MMO is exactly like giving more letters to older people when playing Scrabble. The older people did not do anything to earn the extra letters, they just were "there" longer. Now they have an advantage which they can use to curb stomp anyone who has been "there" less time. Your only hope in this situation is for new people to come along and have less letters than you do.

The MOST you can get in FULL Battlemaster is about 12.5%... so n o, it's not nothing. And that's if you put on decidedly sub-par BM implants, earpiece, wrist and belt, which are best avoided because you lose so much of other stats to put them on.

Most people roll in about 10-11%.

Assumption much?

Someone had more time to play a game then you did must be living in his mother's house basement?

Who are you to judge other people's lifestyle choice?

And I can't play the game right now because I am in a ski resort in Colorado replying these degenerating post with my iPhone.

It means PvP gear is outdated and people are sick of grinding like in PvE. PvE you can run lower instances until you get enough to play harder instances. PvP you have no control over the level of player you compete against and thus inevitably get run through the meat grinder again and again until you say F-it and either go full PvE, buy somebody's account, or quit.

That graph is severly broken due to the diffrent ratio's on the lines.

Interesting OP that I agree with.

They really need to get away from a gear based progression - and introduce more skill based progression. i.e. more advanced PvP'rs will be allowed to do more with their toon - not simply P-own another player by have 20% more DPS and ARMOR.

It's silly to have competitive PvP - (or competitive anything) where one team can easily ROFL STOMP another - just because they have better gear. It isn't fun - it's stupid.

I still think they need to break up the 1-49s into two brackets - but likely only after they allow cross server matches - which I think would improve gameplay - as you wouldn't end up playing against the same set of players every single gaming session.

PvP gameplay should be skilled based - not gear based. Rewards should not give a player a huge advantage over other players. Rewards do not have to be gear based - people posting here seem to think that is the only way you can design PvP for an MMO.

Wrong.

"PvP should be skill based"

Skill should and does matter, but there are so many other things that matter more, in an MMO, that you simply cannot ever change.

Class composition of your team matters more than individual skill, or gear, unless you are in greens.

Class balance throws skill right out the window. As a sniper, despite the nerf, most ops/smugglers are still kicking my face in before i can even hurt them, and if they dont manage to finish me off, they just get away and re-engage. There's no skill gap involved here; theres just nothing i can do about it. Im lying on the ground not playing my character.

If you want a game where skill is the only factor, it cannot be one with different classes and team comps. It has to be something where everyone is identical... a shooter or an RTS is about it.

MOBA games .. well, class comp is just as big there as it is here.

Yes, and the other half of their gear would be RAID GEAR. And they'd continue to crush the people who are only outfitted in half PvP gear and half crap gear.

And the gear gap continues to be a problem. The only solution for fair PvP is to remove it entirely.