Hey Thýri, I had to look up your previous posts and your profile, Arena achievements to understand where your frustration comes from.
Now, I do. You’re a highly skilled M+ runner but I can see you are struggling with rated PvP and it appears that you have just hopped into the Arena in 2020 according to your achievements. Ooof, worst possible time.
I agree with you on one thing, PvP is absolutely trash at the moment and it was way better in previous expansions. Climbing the rated ladder, is completely down to who has the luckiest/most corruption procs.
I can tell that you think back to Legion PvP, where as soon as you dinged, you could hop into Battlegrounds and just have fun. Those were good days, and I agree with you as a matter of fact.
I do not believe that gear should influence PvP. Unfortunately, here is the problem.
Players in a MMORPG believe that the more gear acquired and time spent on the game, the more powerful they should be.
And they are not wrong about that, it’s the fundamental core of a MMORPG.
- Time + gear = increase in player power
But how do we put that into a PvP perspective?
- Skill = increase in player power?
- Skill + gear = increase in player power?
- Skill + gear + time = increase in player power?
The problem is skill. You’ve seen it, some ilvl 425 utterly destroys a ilvl 475 player.
How do you measure skill? The gear and time investment is there to lower the influence of the skill factor. Think about how little your ilvl carries you in PvP and how much it carries you in PvE.
Legion spoiled us. A LOT. It’s hard to return to that fundamental core. We don’t fully know how Shadowlands PvP will be, how much will rely on gear, will some gear need to be acquired from PvE and how far behind PvE gear will it be.
I would hold off on BFA PvP and really give it a go in Shadowlands again. Keep pushing for Challenger and Rival I’m rooting for you!