Originally Posted by Spectear
They are not taking an opposite approach, you are just looking at it incorrectly. You are complaining because eventually PvE gear becomes outdated given enough time. PvP gear is the exact same way. Outdated arena gear is purchasable with either a discounted amount of arena points, honor points, or even with PvE set tokens. What was at one point the best possible PvP gear is now something that can be gained by any player given enough time slamming your forehead into your keyboard while queuing for AV.
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I agree with your analysis, but I think it is, in the end, a very, very bad design concept.
It seriously damage the feeling, and desire, of progression. When you see that anyway, whatever you do, everything will gradually "decay", then you start to wonder "why bother ?".
Of course, everything will be outdated one day. Each expansion basically reset the whole game (though I'm not totally sure it's really a good idea either, at least the way it is handled, and it irritates a lot of people too). But to have such a "programmed decay" season by season, is even more, well, depressive I would say. It makes the world lacking the stability required to build something.