Resilience
 
 
Contrary to popular belief, resilience is in fact a good thing, and for that reason I can understand why it is here to stay. Revisiting games like Shadowbane, and trying out the new Age of Conan was an eye opener at the lameness that was PvP long ago. In other games, and in pre-TBC, it was all about who got the opener. While two shotting was fun, it gets old quick, and after that you are left with a silly skillless PvP system. Resilience has come with it's own problems though. Mainly forcing casual players to choose between PvE and PvP. It also puts fresh 70s at a much larger disadvantage than pre-TBC. Pre-TBC it wasn't uncommon to see dungeon geared characters holding their own in PvP, but today that is pretty much impossible.  
 
Resilience gear has to come from more sources than what we are currently offered. People are already in the habit of AFKing battlegrounds, and all of the interesting pieces come from arenas. Other than that, we have had two other pieces of gear acquired outside of arenas. These two pieces are the second PvP cloak, and what ever stat trinket you prefer. Then there are some craftables frequently used in arenas (Stormherald, Nigh-Invulnerability Belt, Shadowsong Panther Trinket, etc.), and these craftables, along with the cloak/trinket, are items that have existed for 1.5 years now.  
 
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Arena
 
 
Arena can be awesome...if you ditch your friends, have the proper comp, have maximized gear, play a ton of games, hope you don't get countered much, avoid mace stuns, quit PvE (or ignore your real life), and... well....  
 
In all seriousness, arena has a lot of potential to be fun, but it really isn't for everyone. I personally love it, until I get bugged by real life friends to do arena with them. After I am stuck with ****ty comps with people I outskill, it just becomes a burden. So what are my options? Suck it up? Ditch them? If only there was a PvP system where they could progress, other than arena, then maybe I wouldn't feel obligated to run ****ty comps. If only there was some other form of PvP (NOT BGs) that I could do with them, then we would be able to do something together.  
 
I hope arena stays, and it obviously will, but honestly it shouldn't be the only option. It has already killed PvP guilds, RL friends being able to play together, and solo progression. Please add other options.
 
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Battlegrounds & New Players
 
 
Earlier this month I decided to start gearing up my level 70 mage. Welfare epics right?  
 
WRONG  
 
Sorry, but theres nothing welfare about this gear. First off, it is gear that is over 1.5 years old. It is just sub-par, and will just give you a fighting chance stepping into the arena. The boots/bracers/belt are obviously a different story, but the rating requirements have made those pieces more difficult to obtain for a fresh 70.  
 
But let's talk about my mage. The past couple of weeks I have been slaving away in battlegrounds, just to get to a point in which I could do arenas with my RL friends (impossible on my s3/s4 main). Basically I have accumulated around 175k honor, 60 badges of justice, and 1.2k arena points for the following stats:
 
9123 HP  
281 Resilience  
24 Spell Hit  
780 Spell Damage  
40 Spell Haste  
 
Level 60 5 min trinket  
 
Please note that every piece I have acquired has been enchanted with top enchants (goodbye gold for s2 gear). The sockets have been filled with stam/resil gems to become eligable for premade battlegrounds.  
 
Take into consideration the amount of time it takes to grind the 2k gold, 60 BoJs, 175k honor, and 1.2k arena points, and then tell me if that time is appropriate for the stats that I have acquired. Are those stats going to get me onto a quality arena team? Will those stats help me succeed?  
 
**Note: 60 BoJ isn't easy for a fresh 70. Getting into Karazhan these days either requires a terrible guild, or unnecessary stats. It can even be a chore finding a heroic group that will accept my 780 sd mage. Getting more spell damage will require a fresh 70 to farm a PvE set as well as a PvP set.  
 
Blizzard MUST lessen the time it takes to acquire this outdated PvP gear. It is ridiculous and only disinterests people from the game. I have had two fresh 70 RL friends quit within two weeks of honor grinding. Battlegrounds aren't fun enough to keep people from feeling like they are working a job.  
 
Both concerted efforts and s1 from t4, s2 from t5 were great ideas. Unfortunately, more must be done to make those changes usable by fresh 70s. S1 from t4 doesn't help fresh 70s much at all. While the helm and gloves may be somewhat easy to come by, Gruul and Mag groups generally require much higher stats to attempt. Picking up T5 tokens is very unlikely for a fresh 70 or a non-raiding 70.  
 
Concerted efforts has it's own problems, but these could be easily solved. My mage has had very few opportunities to use concerted efforts, due to the mark requirements on all of this S2 crap. These mark requirements were made to force people into doing battlegrounds that they didn't like, and that way the ****ty battlegrounds wouldn't become ghost towns. Concerted efforts promotes the same thing right? Do away with, or lessen the badge requirements. Doing BGs I hate will only increase the likelihood that I decide to afk leech from my "team".  
 
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Rated Battlegrounds {GUILD}
 
 
Arenas killed PvP guilds. This could bring them back. This topic has already been discussed thoroughly, and I won't get into it, but all I can say is that I support this idea 100%. MMORPGs need guilds for every group of player, and right now we only have guilds for one group of players. It would also make it much easier for RL friends to participate in competitive PvP together, without having to reroll due to fotm comps.  
 
The new map looks like it could be a cool Guild vs Guild map, but it will most likely be unbalanced, and if that is the case then WSG or AB would still make an awesome Guild vs Guild map.  
 
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World Arenas
 
 
I have posted several times this same idea. Almost always it has been ignored, and I don't know why. I personally think it would benefit PvP and the players on many different levels.  
 
Everyone has probably participated in STV arena at least one time. Why not? It's fun, theres usually a crowd, and being able to battle against the same faction is always a blast. Fighting over that chest every 3rd hour has brought a lot of great memories for me.  
 
So...with that in mind. Why not implement something similar in Nagrand and Blade's Edge Arena? The catch is that to get people interested (people don't have fun anymore unless theres a reward involved), make it so that which ever group loots the chest, will be rewarded 4 badges of justice, and a rare chance at a T5 token? The turnout would be huge, and the fights would be a blast. Drama would ensue as guilds fought other guilds over the chest.
 
Just an idea...  
 
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World Objectives/Rewards
 
 
Finally, if rated battlegrounds don't happen, then please make it so that arena quality gear can be obtained from world objectives. Isn't there going to be two arena sets per season anyways? Just put the lesser set as a world objective reward as well.