Originally Posted by Pand
These changes are mostly to stop point-selling and monopolizing point-selling that top-tier PVPers gain.
Although the item power of these items will be given to PvPers, I -really- hope that s4 items gain significant stat gains due to the fact that PvE gear dominants arenas at the moment. I've never seen more imbalance and bias towards PVE gear these days in arena rating and ranks compared to the last 2 seasons. It's like how trivial StormHerald was in season 1, except that PVP gear isn't king anymore and it's acceptable to wear half PVE gear while maintaining 250-300 res. :/ Need DPS upgrades !
Although I approve of these changes (because they benefit my kin) however my means of income does demise 
My guild is the epitome of this change, we've generated more or less around 500k+ gold in point-selling teams since the end of season 2/3.
ps. Need BIG E for PvE is hard imo  |
Exactly
This may have stopped point selling, but lets be honest, how much gold has any point seller made? I know since S2-Present I've cleared over 40k probably between PR, and pointselling. On top of the occasional daily, this really hasn't affected anything for me.
See,in s2, having a stormherald was pretty good, much better than the s3 weapon, and having access to T6 was great in some pieces, i.e. CE, etc, but it wasn't a big deal since only so many people actually had access to all that content. But now, almost anyone has access to ArP gear, to heavy damage gear, that like above said, you can just wear tons of PvE gear and drop your resil low and boost your damage to unhealable levels.
i.e. 3v3
Warrior using
Full veng, Dreadboots, CE
Rogue using
Warglaives, Cursed Vision, T6 4 pc, PvP offslots
+
A resto druid
A make up like that is almost guaranteed to instantly destroy any sort of caster just because a rogue doesn't lose too much in the way of survivability during his CDs, and gains so much damage that half the time you can end the game within your prep CD chain.