New starter PVP gear in 2.4

[ilikemages]

this means tons of rogues and warriors will now have like.... twin blades... lmfao @ furi and crew who spend like a year getting theirs.

[yarr]

if anything this will be great blackheart the inciter gear =P

[Emo?]

I liked S1, most because then if u was on 1500 rating u had blue gear, if u were on 1800+ u had some epix and 2000+ if u had full Gladiator, nowdays everyone has Imbah gear on 1500 rating because they have been saving the whole S2 to be albe to buy much S3 when it comes = good gear but still doenst matter if they dont have skill sins i come there with 5k hp and cant do anything really. But hey thats just how it is, imo we can always ask blizz to make the game better , but to make succes u also have to make some bad desissions.

- Emo

[aetherg]

Killing Illidan (or even getting to him) doesn't have a lot to do with gear.

[Eteocles]

People aren't gonna be running around with warglaives...like I said earlier and as stated in the post above, getting to illidan has little to do with gear; it helps, but you need experience and to not, yknow, suck, and know how to cooperate, listen, and communicate, and know your job and just damn well do it and do it right and do it on time to boot, to get to illidan, let alone -down- him. Even coordinated and longtime raiders have issues with him and other bosses on the way, any raid that isn't there already will most likely never down more than the first boss; too many DPS and Common Sense/Cooperation checks in the way.

[Bigfish]

The Rep-PvP rewards make sense. With the game being the age it is, finding groups for non-heroic 5-mans is hard enough (for the normies anyway) and the blue gear you get out of them is easily outclassed by S(n-2), which only requires a time investment. That being the case, a "starter" PvP set allows fresh 70s to actually contribute in BGs instead of being easy 1-3 shots.