Postby killets » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:53 pm
the best pve gear is only great for say, AV ownage.. maybe a little WSG/AB/EOTS ownage too, provided you're fighting weak pugs.
blizzard did a good job of using resilience to distinguish between the two. with that said, once you got past a certain point, it was more for pushing end-game encounters. despite what some MIGHT think, the encounters are honestly really cool... if only they nerfed some of them earlier (aka m'uru).
the reasons people still covet the gear, despite the pvp/pve differential, is a few ...
1) epeen and exclusivity. WoW is still more a PvE game than a PvP game.. there's really nothing separating people otherwise, since most gear is so ubiquitous. everyone has badge gear. everyone has kara/za gear. what distinguishes you from others, is the gear that not everyone can get... whether its the gear you get by insane luck (warglaives), the gear you get from being wasteful with money (spectral tiger), or the gear that you "earn" by putting in time with a raiding guild, its there for the epeen.
i mean, how many people do you know with a vanquished tentacle of c'thun at their bidding? its a pretty damn cool item.
2) security and expendability. people like feeling wanted... and to be honest, 50% of endgame raiding is kept in check by gear (the other 50% is stupidity... try doing heigan with idiots). some call the elite gear as sort of merit badges... they really don't want you able to compete at the highest levels without earning your merit badges at lower levels. and with that, is a degree of expendabilility. once you have the gear, the guild you're in won't be able to give up the investment they've made on you, and even if they do, having gear makes other guilds covet you more. guilds want to recruit the best geared... b/c that's an easy metric to recruit based on... the skill metric is extremely difficult to gauge without some sort of inside information.
3) well... there are a few slots where pve gear is better than pvp gear.. an excellent example is getting 4pc gladiator, 4pc t6 (only possible with the 3 t6 accessories for sunwell). the top end weapons as well.
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