i100 and i110 gear no longer special

[megaman]

The tooltips were not updated, but the restrictions are in fact lifted. My bearliege set still says it requires PvP ranks in the 40's but I can both equip it and glamour it at rank 37.

Ahhh OK cool, thanks. Do you by any chance know where to unlock the new map? I'm at work now but I want to try it out later

[Buff_Archer]

You don't have to unlock it if you have secure and slaughter unlocked, and are lvl 60.

[ChewieFlakes]

we will start seeing people who are only there just for the gear and don't care if they win or lose. These people are the same that entered pvp for light farming and would go LOL who cares about pvp in this game derp derp(yes I saw multiple people say this).

PvP is and always has been a slow grind for some cool looking glamour gear. It's not fun. It's not balanced. It's literally horrible. If you think otherwise you are simply fooling yourself.

[Juen]

For anyone that thinks giving FREE gear is fine, then the same should be given from PvE content. Coils/Zodiac/Dungeons, they all were tone down to be EASIER but not free. If in pvp, the requirements for the gear was lowered by 10 ranks, then yeah sure, that would have been fine, if the ranks were lowered by 10 ranks and the exp/marks were boosted, yeah that would have been fine too, but at least make it take more effort than simply running into pvp and derping around for a few matches to get gear. But besides armor, SE should have given other rewards for being at certain ranks. One idea of my was the ability to purchase materia for each 10 ranks in pvp, thus making higher ranks of pvp more desirable. For example, at rank 30 you can purchase tier 3 materia of your choice for around 10k marks.

[Maxwell]

The i100-i110 gear isnt free. They cost WM. This means players that were put off simply by the idea of grinding to 45 will now have something in their reach. This means MORE players doing pvp. And thats a good thing.

[Juen]

The i100-i110 gear isnt free. They cost WM. This means players that were put off simply by the idea of grinding to 45 will now have something in their reach. This means MORE players doing pvp. And thats a good thing.

Yes, I understand they cost WM, but those are so EASILY obtainable. How will the queue times be any different from the 30+ min queues from the past after a week when players are "oh, I got my WMs, I can buy my stuff because I JUST NEED WMs, time to dip out from pvp." I also understand that with the ranks no longer there, it makes players want to TRYOUT pvp and maybe they will like it and stay and maybe they wont. Just like almost every new content, players will want to try it out until they get bored of it, and that's where incentive comes in which was the ADS mount and pvp armor but that "incentive" has gotten reduced to almost nothing.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

-It's not even a slow grind. 2 months tops to get to the highest rank.
-If it's not fun then don't do it
-The balance is fine. What do you want? SE to hold your hand while you attempt to take down a elite pvper? Git Gud
-Nope not fooling myself neither are all the vet pvpers. Lazy players want everything for nothing. Suck it up princess

In 2 months I can get a full set of ilvl 200 gear. Why bother getting i180 with 2/3 a years worth of work?

I love this change, should remove ranks altogether! =)

[morerancor]

So everyone got there tainted gear and que times are back to an hour. quick let them have the new gear so they can stick around a few more days.

[Timat]

So everyone got there tainted gear and que times are back to an hour. quick let them have the new gear so they can stick around a few more days.

What did you think was going to happen?

If there is no incentive to play or if the incentive is perceived (whether accurately or not) to be too much trouble for the reward no one will go for it.

There should be

1) A reduction (note not elimination) in the amount of ranks and the time to get to top rank

2) A more evenly spread out reward system so you arent going through a bunch of rank ups without getting anything....hell even now its takes 4 rank ups to get 4 SP to spend on a skill....thats not fun

[Drtoxicmedica]

It's not like hitting rank 45 was really hard anyways boo hoo you sat in a q for 40+ minutes just to get your pvp gear I might actually feel bad if you lost exp from loses but that never mattered you just had to go in and mash buttons for all it mattered.
you want pvp waits to go down? You need to get people in with an easy to reach goal and try to hook them. Sad fact is if this gear requirement wasn't lifted seize would have flopped minus those joining for the roulette bonus. (Which is what most people are doing anyways) and your 40+ minute wait times wouldn't have changed at all. Be happy you can actually get into a match in 10 minutes for once. Beside go in with a premade and rip the nubs apart for awhile and idk enjoy the game