If you make PvE gear as good as PvP gear is in PvP, how do you maintain the viability of gearing up via BGs? Should random BGs just start handing out mythic raid tier?
The idea that PvE gear should be one and the same with PvP gear is not conducive to the idea that BGs have any place in the gearing process, because they’ll get inundated with people decked out in higher-end PvE gear, which basically raises the bar for reasonable entry in BGs beyond what they can provide as gear upgrades.