Originally Posted by Malakitoo
but they ran out of ilvl room through poor planning it seems.
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I think this is the saddest and truest statement about the whole arena experiment. Like others have said, the PvP gear should have been one season behind in progression (so s3 should be coming out shortly, while we're currently in season 2 gear). Then they wouldn't have felt compelled to add a bunch of stupid cookie-cutter badge weapons to stop the crying masses from crying.
I think the team basically failed at planning. Much like a group of sweaty teenagers in the back of a van, the designers failed to use foresight. By rapidly buffing 13 item levels a season (ridiculous by any stretch of the imagination), they forced six to eight month seasons and now the whole murky status of season 4 (what happens if WoTLK is delayed like BC was?) might cause problems.
Most times through Black Temple and especially Hyjal, nearly 1/3rd of the loot is sharded. SSC/TK aren't even touched because of the arena/pvp gear. S4 will be best in slot for numerous roles for numerous players who haven't farmed BT yet. But most decent PvPers will amass a nearly full set on the first few weeks of release. Dumb.
Yet people have this odd idea that they're entitled to ilvl 159 gear just for showing up and failing.