Explain why I can't use my PvP Rewards?

[KarmaCha]

This is the issue. You don't want to do PVP because you enjoy it, you want to do PVP for the rewards. The rewards are there for people who grind PVP thus shortening queues. If it were simple to rank up fast and get your rewards, if that's what you're truly after, would you continue to queue? No, you would not. And what would happen if 1/4th of people who PVP do this. You guessed it! Queues will be even longer! Yay!

Yes, there are some serious flaws with how PVP is designed, but I do not think the ranking system is one of them. There are many parts of this game that are grindy, some much more than PVP. Have you finished a relic? I did Satasha HM 30+ times for 1 zodiac drop there. Yeah, I complained, but I accepted that grinding was part of the journey and sucked it up. It's the same with PVP. And ranking up is definitely not the most grindy thing I've done.

The rewards require commitment to the system, or it will only work for a short time and "new people", as you say, will be screwed in an entirely different way if it were set up how you'd like.

That said, you do not need PVP gear to do PVP. Even PVP BiS gives you a marginal ugrade over full i170 law gear for example. Success is not dependent on your PVP rank in the slightest.

Also this idea that people who are rank 50 win traded their way there is BS. I am rank 43, and I know a lot of people at 50. None of them have ever win traded. Because they enjoy the content and accept that the rewards are secondary to the experience. If you don't agree with that, you have no right to complain. This game doesn't owe you PVP gear that you don't need.

In other words: "I should be able to equip the level 60 summoner gear because I have the eso to buy it, even though I've never leveled Arcanist."