Ideas: PVP Rewards

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I disagree completely, player skill should always be the deciding factor not gear. That's effectively giving a rank 1 a knife, and a rank 50 a gun.

Nonsense. Even with Morale stat bonus, the difference in gear between PvP gear and PvE gear (which you can easily get without any skill whatsoever just by paying for it with poetics) is minuscule at best. So the analogy of giving rank 1 a knife and rank 50 a gun is way off the mark. Both players have a sword. The PvP player just has a slightly sharper sword.

Secondly, as it is now, players who simply bought their gear using Esoteric (which they can now update freely using weekly runs of Void Ark) have a slightly better edge than those who did the grind for PvP bear. Considering that grinding to 50 requires a HUGE amount of matches, even total moron would accumulate the experience, tactical awareness, and pvp skill you're talking about. Yet, the PvP player is given a duller sword than the guys who just run daily rolls to get Eso... How does that make sense?

You could call it a crutch for the PvE players, I suppose, but that's not accurate either. There is nothing stopping the experienced PvP players from equipping that gear either. In fact, it is FAR MORE LIKELY that a PvP player is going to work out the numbers and deduce which gear set combinations are better for their PvP loadout than a PvE players, so they're already being given the "gun," as you say, and there's really nothing wrong with that. Part of being skilled at pvp is knowing what gear to use and what gear to avoid. A player taking advantage of the right stats in a PvP environment is using skill to gain the edge.

Besides, now that Void ark is giving out free upgrades to ilvl 210, taking the morale restrictions out of PvP is not giving rank 50 players an advantage. It would be leveling the playing field with the no skill PvE gear.