i100 and i110 gear no longer special

[Fonkyama]

Gears still have restriction on them, bug or did they come to their senses?

[Kynian]

Im extremely dissatisfied with square's decision of the rank removal on those pieces.

I worked my ass off to get my rank up there, and now anyone can get them. I hate this change more than anything SE has done throughout my whole time playing the game ever since I picked it up.

At the most I expected a price reduction or a SMALL required rank nerf. Like, instead of rank 45, you'd need 40, or 35.

But removing it completely? That's, in my eyes, a big fat "F U pvp players. Getting into those 2 hours queues so you can look unique? Nah."

And btw, new gear sets do not look anywhere near as appealing to me. And some just look downright bad.

Awful move SE. AWFUL.

[Fyce]

I worked my ass off to get my rank up there, and now anyone can get them.

In short terms, you don't want new players to get interested in PvP, and you don't want faster queues to get your rank 50 gear.

... and you don't want this awesome coat.

[Kynian]

In short terms, you don't want new players to get interested in PvP, and you don't want faster queues to get your rank 50 gear.

You didnt read any of the previous posts, thats evident. I want faster queue times, but I do NOT want pvp rank removal. Increasing pvp xp earned prior to rank 40 would have the same effect without shitting on veteran PvPers like myself. Rank 50 gear looks bad.

... and you don't want this awesome mantle.

No, not really.

[Cidel]

Wow, I can't believe some people are actually upset as if this isn't what the devs have been doing every time the PvP rank increases. As someone already said, this sort of thing happens at regular intervals every so often even for PvE content when the gear has been out for a while and becomes yesterday's news. There's a new gear set to lord your special snowflake selves over the non-PvP rank 45 peasants, whether you like how it looks or not.

If this was an issue about the Frontline win # reward mounts, there'd be more of an argument; but for now, high PvP rank people are going to have to get over seeing people enjoy our "old toys." If you didn't see this coming, I don't know what to tell you.

[Fonkyama]

I don't think some people realize how much of a grind it was to get this pvp gear. There's nothing in the game you can compare that grind to. So yeah, people are gonna be pissed for good reasons.

[Fyce]

Increasing pvp xp earned prior to rank 40 would have the same effect without shitting on veteran PvPers like myself.

How is that? People still have to farm for Wolf Marks to get your special snowflake gear, you know. By the time they have enough, if you were to increase the exp, they would probably be rank 40-45 anyway.

[Fonkyama]

You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Check the xp curve for pvp ranks and then check how many marks you get for one match.

Marks was never hard to farm, you typically had enough to buy 2-3 gears by the time you hit 45. And that's even less an issue now that they also reduced the cost on those 100-110 gears.

[Kynian]

How is that? People still have to farm for Wolf Marks to get your special snowflake gear, you know. By the time they have enough, if you were to increase the exp, they would probably be rank 40-45 anyway.

Seriously dude? Do you even play PvP? The sheer amount of seals you get on the way to rank 45 easily nets you like... 4 or 5 full sets, if not more.

You can easily get seals for a set in a week. Getting the actual rank 45 can take up to months of hard grind, depending on queue times.

And now,thanks to SE's brilliant decision, rank 0-45 has NOTHING to show for it, not even stepping stone rewards, since literally anyone can get into pvp for one week, grind the required seals for an awsome animal set, then never go back to it again.

Only ppl happy with the change is ppl that dont give 2 shits about pvp. Wich I can only assume its your case.

[lyrz]

I know the PvP players are going to hate this but thanks yoshida! I hope you do this for the next expansion as well since PvE seems to be a repeat of the ARR launch this expansion too.

And now we know how Yoshida plans to handle PvP ranks and gear next expansion as well.