i'll try to explain it to you.

Let's say that the best pvp you can buy with arena point have 100 DPS on it. And then, there's content in pve that gives you a 130 DPS weapon. People that are more dedicated, and does both PVE and PVP will be able to outgear a player that purely plays pvp. Soon enough, there will be some pve items that are better than pvp items. Forcing serious PvP players to PvE just so they can keep up with the most dedicated players.

So in return, with the current system, pve and pvp gear gotta be on par with each other.

Let me know if it makes sense to you.

I dunno it still seems like people are just going to exploit the newest imba's to make super teams, i say gimp the damage and up the stam and resilience so it's worth it for pvp and that 's it. To be fair for a rogue right now the 2nd best swords under the warglaives themselves are the s3, so am I to expect that s4 will put 2 legendary weapons to shame, simply so a few pvpers can have the luxury of having equal gear when the put literally days less worth of time into it? Besides they're obviously moving in that direction of making arena take longer, that's why a lot of burst dps classes are slowly fading out in arena.

I'm with Niko...

"As Drysc explained earlier in the same post, PvP gear is designed to match PvE gear progression -- for instance, Arena Season 3 items are roughly on par with Black Temple and Mount Hyjal gear."

Why is this again? I can go lose a bunch of arena matches and in 3-4 weeks buy my BT/Hyjal quality gear? Good thing I can suck at PvE and get into BT/Hyjal in 3-4 weeks. I wouldn't even complain if the PvP gear was actually hard to get. The personal rating requirement is a step in the right direction, but I think it needs to be on more pieces, or they simply need to come up with another mechanic for limiting access.

Agree! :-D

Yeah im with Imbalance on this...

Its not fair until, you have to save up all your arena points run to the vendor - you give him your points - then you /roll and if you don't get of 80 then you get nothing and you loose your points... seems fair.

They are equally obtainable if you want to pve. You are missing the bigger picture. The popularity of arena is growing while the popularity of pve is diminishing. In simpler terms there are a whole lot of people that don't want to pve anymore. I happen to be one of them. I don't want to join some big ass guild to go raid a dungeon so I might get the gear I need. Thats just not fun for me. I would rather fight real people then the same random number generator over and over again.

If you look at the newer s4 gear it is clear they are trying to make it less useful in pve but still making it better for pvp. I think they are on the right track.

Thats just stupid. They would have to do the same thing with badge turn in then too wouldn't they?

I fail to see the gun pointed at your head forcing you to make the Arena the center of YOUR game. You play how you like. And clearly with a new 5 man and 25 man dungeon and raid they have nothing but the arena players in mind. And yes WoW is a role playing game. A role that you can define for yourself. Want to be an awsome arena player? Great you can! Want to go to Black Temple and spank the lord of Outland? Great you can! Please quite crying (yes I could use QQ....but its a blog people, not in game chat. There is no need to save time typing here.)

"I fail to see the gun pointed at your head forcing you to make the Arena the center of YOUR game."

You don't see the PVE nerfs, to my druid and my warlock, to make PVP 'balanced'?

I don't even play arena, but I'm being penalized.

Arena sucks.