arena?

[Ualaa]

Conversely...

At 84th, you might be mostly wearing a combination of level 80 raid/pvp gear and/or whatever quest rewards were improvements over your level 80 gear.

At level 85, as a fresh toon, the rating conversion sucks initially and you might even be worse in the same gear than you were at 84th.
But you should acquire level 85 gear, which will eventually make you far better than you ever were at 84th.
The trick is just getting there.

[Kromtor]

why did they not make it a gradual shift from 80 to 85 for the scaling? or maybe they did and there's still a huge disparity on the last level. I didn't notice.

[Toned]

BGs are kind of wack still too. Even playing 1 toon. Health pools got too big too fast. Dmg remained about the same. Healing is great and all, but CC is really the game winner now.