I for one like these changes. I think it is utter bs that people were getting t4/t5 and even t6 equivalent gear by doing nothing but putting in 10 games a week. The only season that blizzard didn't mess up was this last season where you need a rating for almost every piece of gear. I am a firm believer that the people clearing the hardest pve content should have the best gear in the game. Way Way Way better than anything in pvp.

Farming bg's for hours on end isn't fun too me. So I am happy to see the change away from bg epics. As far as level 80 arena goes I might start up again when that happens. I started my team 6-7months ago and didn't have the heart to farm all the s2 stuff. Arena is always going to be an unbalanced system that requires you to be geared to compete.


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Did welfare epics show up after s3 went live? Before that didn't you have to do arena to get any "good" gear.