Prevent PvE being used in PvP

#1 - Jan. 8, 2015, 8:39 a.m.

Please Prevent Pve items being used and abused in PvP before it's too late.

Lets have a season where people don't get rating because unfair use of mythic items, It's PvP, not whoever raids and gets lucky.

Best way to fix this is scale all PvE iems to 650 ilvl while in PvP combat.

Edit:

We did it boys.

Lore

Community Manager

#105 - Jan. 23, 2015, 2:35 a.m.

We're actually working on some changes along these lines for Patch 6.1, which should be hitting the PTR relatively soon (but possibly not in today's build). PvE gear will be scaled down to item level 680 instead of 690, and Primal Combatant/Primal Gladiator trinkets are having their power increased.

Lore

Community Manager

#115 - Jan. 23, 2015, 2:48 a.m.

Why not just make the PVE trinkets and PVE set bonuses entirely unusable while in instanced, rated PVP? That way, it wouldn't hurt people that are gearing up and just doing BGs or WPVPers.

PvE set bonuses are disabled in rated PvP. If you find one that isn't, that's a bug, please report it!

We don't always have a great way to apply similar logic to trinkets, but we are able to adjust specific trinkets when necessary -- for example, we've just hotfixed the Scabbard of Kyanos' on-use effect to have a lower effectiveness in PvP situations.