Quote Originally Posted by Beckett View Post
This! I think it would be perfect if they removed rank restrictions on gear and instead made different vendors for different ranks. You technically don't have to be rank 50 to equip the top gear, but you would need to be 50 to buy it. If they made this change then they could put in all of the extra things that PVP rewards so desperately needs, like minions and furnishings and mounts, and still have them be unique and rare, since only the top PVPers would be able to access the top level stuff.
Yes, exactly. I really like the idea of having rank restricted vendors. It would incorporate a grind, make people more interested in getting those ranks, and open the door to much more rewarding uses of our Wolf Marks, which, in turn, would make us want to grind for more. I was personally thinking about applying rank restriction to specific purchases, but I think having it apply to vendors is a much better idea... but... I'm still a little hesitant to remove gear restrictions (from gear specifically) for one reason and one reason only: Morale bonuses.

Right now, worrying over Morale Bonuses seems totally useless, because Wolves Den is dead on most servers (unless you're match fixing with pre-mades); however, if the upcoming wolves den updates breathe some life back into it, taking out gear restrictions could seriously screw with the game mode. For example, if a person gets to rank 50 on one GC, buys some gear, then swaps to another GC, they would instantly be able to use rank the rank 50 gear while at rank 1 without the restrictions in place. This is a problem, because Wolves Den matches are rank sync'd. Removing rank restrictions to equipment would create an environment where Rank 50 players from one GC could swap and enter Rank 1 matches with another and totally faceroll their opponents. I like Morale Bonuses, and I believe players should get to use the rewards they earned, but not at the expense of totally destroying fresh players by exploiting the system.

Also... to be perfectly honest, I'm still holding a candle that SE will smarten up and remove the morale restrictions from Frontlines. They should not be there in the first place. It's a competitive game mode. There is no reason that rank 50 players should be denied the advantage they worked their butts off for, or, worse yet, be outscored by PvE gear from players who are at rank 1 but happen to have a raid group and spammed the living heck out of Savage Alexander.