Quote:I see a problem with your attempted assertion that MC gear is in any way comparable to GM or HW gear in PvP, since GM and HW gear beats most of BWL and AQ40 loot. Some of our HW players like to think that their HW weapons are even better than the Dark Edge of Insanity that you get off C'Thun. That's probably going overboard, but those weapons are close.
Mind you, you won't get good PvE tanking and healing gear via PvP, but that goes under the "duh" category.
I meant non-weapon gear compared to GM gear. Perhaps I was not clear about that. GM weapons are also outdone by some AQ40 weapons and Nef loot and GM gear is so much more difficult to get. Frankly I do not see how you could hit GM in the first place and play less than what... 10 hours/day or more... probably more, but you *can* raid regularly. Also, there are absolutely no good jewelry items from PvP aside from Don Julio's, so even a purely MC raider will outdo a PvP'er for jewelry. Hell, ZG is better.
I do not have a problem with the quality of many *top* PvP items as compared to raid items. My problem is that 1) The top PvP items are so much more difficult to get and even more importantly 2) There is a HUGE gap between the top PvP items and everything else gotten through PvP and there really is no large gaps as far as progression from ZG all the way to AQ40. It is a gradual transition, where a somewhat better item replaces another item as you move to higher and higher raids, so it's not "feast or famine" that it is in PvP.
.... and wait 'till Noxx gear starts spreading around. I took a look at the tables for that and it is sick. PvP got WSG epic boots....
-A