6.0 gear suggestion - take the good of 4.0/5.0 and get rid of the bad.

[Stellarcrusade]

In 4.0 gearing was separate for PvPers and PvEers. The best part of that was you could tune the amount of time each group would require to BiS gear. This was important because for PvEers, the process of gearing IS the progression. Whereas for PvPers, the game doesn't start until full BiS. For that reason PvEers could enjoy a nice long gearing process, and PvPers it would take 2 weeks to gear a char to full.

 

In 5.0 because PvP/PvE gear was the same, it allowed PvPers to dabble in PvE, and PvEers to dabble in PvP, which is a good thing. But it went downhill from there, because it severely took too much time for PvPers to gear up. This caused rediculous threads where half the posters (PvEers) claimed pace was fine, and the other half of the posters (PvPers) wanted to quit the game.

 

So, we need 6.0 to give us the best of both worlds.

1.) 1 set of gear, gainable by doing pretty much anything you like to do (like 5.0)

2.) PvEers to progress at an appropriately slow pace for gearing to BiS, but 2 weeks 0 to full for PvPers (like 4.0).

3.) Ability for PvPers to do PvE stuff w/o huge disadvantage, and PvEers to do PvP stuff w/o huge disadvantage. (like 5.0)

 

Possible solution:

- Lets have 1 set of gear for both. Like now, everything you do gains your way to BiS gear. The difference, we set bolster in PvP to the max of the current tier gear, and add an optional slot to every piece of gear for resilience items. You can gain resilience items by doing PvP dailies and weeklies, and takes about 2 weeks per char of PvPing to get to max. The resilience bump must be a tiny one, like 5% overall boost to PvP type stats in PvP only situations.

 

This means EVERYONE would continue to progress to gear up for the slow gear for PvE things, and anyone who likes to PvP will gain the extra little bump the resilience slots give for PvP only stuff.

 

And the beauty of it, both sides will have an acceptable rate to BiS, both sides can pretty much start playing the game they way they want right away. Anyone have ideas to make this even better? I think it is important to give good ideas right now for the devs to consider, before it is too late. Gearing has been such a nightmare in 5.0 the game REALLY REALLY needs to come out from day 1 in 6.0 with something all players like. We can have our cake and eat it too with this idea, or similar good ones.