07-13-2006, 02:55 PM
Quote:The AV items are closer to the weaker MC drops than they are to the best non-raid blues. Esk's right claw at 48 and Thunderstrike at 59 for instance. Non raid ilvl 63 blues weigh in at 41 and 54 respectively. I recognise how much further raiding goes but the new AV is a good start at restoring some balance to the game.
The question is: Why is it that the best BG rewards = the worst raiding rewards? Logically speaking, they should be about the same, right? Sure, the best PvP rewards are similar to the better raid items, but they are still somewhat weaker by and large and more importantly they are a whole lot more difficult and in most case pretty much impossible to get.
Having said that, I think that the PvP rewards are sort of fine as is. I think the problem is that good (not necessarily the best) raid items are too easy to get. Of course now that pretty much anyone who raids has them, there is no going back. I think Blizz made a mistake.... not to make raid loot this powerful, but to make it this common. They should change this in the expansion and make the better items in the new raids less common, sort of like Obs/Drag/Zods were in D1. Then things will even out as at lvl 70, the present uber items while still being nice, will no longer be that overwhelming and the Xpack items would be very difficult to get. Not that I think this will happen...
-A