FPS's don't have personality, unfortunately. Haha. As fun as Unreal or Half-life: Counterstrike is, there's little to invest in. At the end of the day, nothing's really progressed. I suppose that's why I like MMORPGs, because your character at least feels like they're going somewhere.

Of course.

I'm just being snarky because I believe that arena development is ruining PVE.

Well said, sir. Arena should be an entirely separate game, with rewards usable only in arena.

I'd agree with you on that, Clem. As long as you promise not to use any of the gear you get in raids outside of dungeons.

The problem with that is exactly what you stated. You don't want them to be entirely separate games, or else you have to choose whether you want to PvP or PvE. If you have read the last interview with Tom Chiton (or w/e) he addresses that exact issue.

The point is for you to be able to do both without to much barrier to entry.

You may bethinking about it in the wrong way. Alchemists cant use their potions (even the alchemist-exclusive ones) and no other profession (that I can think of, anyway) can use consumables. Tailors get to use any armor they have made, this is just not the best choice for arena. The distinction is between permanent and temporary.

A lot of professions don't extend to Arenas, Nasgoul. Alchemy is useless aside from maybe the various Alchemist Stones (which are still gimped). Engineering has many items which can't be used, etc.

Tailors can still wear the gear they craft. They can't use nets, sure, but they can pretty much use everything else, anyway. Just like how Blacksmiths can use their weapons.

im hoping they add in pvp recipes for professions, currently theres a few recipes with resilience on it but not many. it'd be cool if looting corpses in BGs would give you some sort of item that could be used to create gear made for pvp

Ayayay. Trust me, why do you think it took me months to decide? Haha. Fortunately for me, my wife has more money than she knows what to do with. I'll probably leech off her Mining toon, too.

I can relate to every single thing you said. =)

My 5-month old daughter smiles broadly every time I imitate "KILLING SPREE!" and "UNSTOPPABLE!" from the Unreal-drawn NECB Killing Blow SFX. Haha.

Want to buy middle aged wow playing husband.

Just as PvP gear won't cut it for high end raids. Too much item points are wasted on Resilience. A PvP-geared player won't be doing as much DPS as a similarly PvE-geared player of equal skill. There certainly isn't any PvP tank gear.

PvP gear for PvP. PvE gear for PvE. With some crossover.

The crossover is much greater from PvP to PvE than vice versa. Want to upgrade your Vengeful Gladiator's Battle Staff? Let's see, according to maxdps (http://www.maxdps.com/mage/frost.php), you'll need to down Illidan or Felmyst. How about your rogue's Vengeful Gladiator's Slicer? According to ShadowPanther (http://shadowpanther.net/swords.htm -- look at MAEP for the PvE rating), you'll need to down Kael'Thas (TK) or Illidan.

I'm guessing more people have hit 1850 in arenas than have farmed Illidan enough to get their weapon to drop.