Details about patch 2.3 released

[Trien]

I don't see this as a bad thing. I think that if you want the PvP gear, you should be good in order to earn it. Yeah, having less crappy PvE teams that are just there for easymode epics will make it more difficult to earn them, but again, that's not a bad thing.

Personally, I'd prefer that you be required to maintain the rating in order to continue using the items, but that might be a little unfair given the differences in battlegroup compositions. Still, I think it's ludicrous that people are getting PvP weapons (and sometimes the armor, too) for PvE uses. Obviously it's fine that one is viable in the other (you see Retrinoobs and Warriors running around with Gorehowl all the time), but PvP'ing to PvE has always been a concept I've despised.

Not sure from the wording which stance you're taking on PvP'ing to PvE... disliking that people are able PvP to improve their PvE capability, or that people have to PvP to improve their PvE capability?

The latter is something that has irked me for a long, long time. Given that I enjoyed playing the PvP and PvE games it wasn't a real annoyance for as it would be for some others, but the whole concept still rankled. Pre-BC, what did a bear tank have to do? Get AB and WSG rep to exalted. Oh, and if you wanted to play with cat at all, get AV to exalted as well. Granted, itemization for off-specs was horrendous pre-BC, to begin with.

And what do I find in BC? A good cat weapon comes from the arena, and a number of choice tanking armour pieces are honor point purchase items.