Originally Posted by woeye

Compared to Guild Wars the PvP in WoW is really a huge, huge grind and time sink. In Guild Wars it is even possible to create a high level PvP-only character at the character creation screen. The focus in Guild Wars is very much on PvP itself, the team play, your builds and your skill at playing your toon. It's not about grinding serveral hours to weeks to get your gear just in order to be able to start with competitive PvP. Without the right gear in WoW you will get destroyed absolutely. And it's not fun for us newcomers to get torn into pieces by full S3 DPS classes.
And I wonder whether it's already too late for undergeared newcomers? The gear gap is huge. Is it possible to close the gap? I doubt it. So where's the motivitation and the fun for newcomers to play competitive PvP? I can tell you it is not fun to get destroyed by S3 teams game after game. I mean why aren't those teams playing in high rating? Why do we, with blues and S1, have to face those gladiators in lower ranking? What's the point with rating at all?