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It’s generally considered a bad idea to use PvP gear in PvP – and I agree with this. PvP gear has resilience on it – which means it will lack one of your PvE stats, automatically generally making it worse.

However, that being said – to me there are times when PvP gear is actually acceptable. I’m not saying that we should aim for PvP gear instead of PvE gear, but that there are times when you might have a PvP piece that does actually end up better than any PvE piece you currently have.

Today I was turned down for a Baradin Hold run because I was wearing three pieces of PvP gear. (The fact that someone is turned down from Baradin Hold unless they’re wearing greens is of course an entirely different matter.)

Now, I’m not someone who will complain when people enter Heroics with PvP gear – as long as people do what they’re meant to, I quite honestly don’t care. Baradin Hold is the same to me. For my guild’s raiding – yeah, I expect people to get PvE gear, but if you’re filling out 2-3 slots with gear where you haven’t gotten anything better, no problem.

The issue here, to me, is that people assume that PvP gear gear is always worse than PvE gear. On a broad scale, yes it is. But you have to trust the person in question that they know what they’re doing.

I have PvE pieces from Heroics for every slot where I use a PvP piece instead. But the stats on them are worse. Even when looking at the resilience. After the discussion with the person turning me down I had another look at my PvP and PvE pieces to compare them to see if I was missing something. I ended up switching back one PvE piece, not because it’s better but because the gain wasn’t huge and if people are making an issue out of it I can wear it.

Would I not prefer to wear all PvE pieces?

Of course I’d prefer that, but Lady RNG hates me – as I’m sure she does others. There are times when you quite simply don’t have a better piece. If your Viscious Gladiator piece is better than any PvE piece you have, why not use it?

For me, I’ve carefully compared the two PvP pieces I still wear to the PvE pieces I have – and they’re clearly better for me. I’d love to have better PvE pieces, but I either haven’t had them drop or our resident Shadow Priest has won them over me in raids (yes, I’m looking at you Havoc!).

To expect me to wear a worse piece just because it’s “PvE and not PvP” is simply unreasonable. Surely anyone would want their raiders – even for a random PUG – to do the best they can, and for me to do that – I should wear those pieces until I get something better.

Comparison

Let’s look at the two pieces of PvP gear I still wear and see what I gain/lose by wearing them. I’m ignoring the gain in Stamina because it’s not as useful for PvE (though it does help your survivability I’d never choose something because it has more Stamina).

Piece 1
+22 Intellect
+29 Critical Rating
-114 Hit Rating

Piece 2
+33 Intellect
+134 Hit Rating
-112 Mastery

As you can see the difference is not huge. But it’s in favour of the PvP pieces because it gives me a bunch more Intellect. The Hit Rating from the first piece I don’t need because I’m hit capped (and yes you could argue that I could use the PvE piece and not use the second PvP piece with hit, but I’d lose out on 55 Intellect and some Crit) and Mastery is a pretty horrible stat for me.

There really is no reason for me to wear those two PvE pieces. They don’t give me anything that I need and rather give me less Intellect.

Conclusion

Don’t disregard someone for your group just because they’re wearing a few pieces of PvP gear. Obviously you may not want someone wearing a full set of PvP gear (though I’ve admittedly seen melee classes with that who still do more dps than some people in PvE gear), but someone having 1-3 pieces to fill out their gear most likely wears it for a reason.

I’m not saying for anyone to start chasing PvP gear instead of PvE gear. Definitely not. But if you have a piece anyway and it’s better than any piece of PvE gear that you have, I don’t see the harm in using it until you get the PvE piece that you need.

What is your opinion on PvE vs PvP gear? Do you use a few pieces to replace your worse PvE ones or are you strictly against it? (Or are you a lucky bugger who’s had every good PvE drop and it’s all the best?   )

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It’s Monday (yet again – where did the weekend go?) and I don’t have a “proper” post ready yet. I blame being sick for a few days last week and having had a busy weekend. So here’s some random ramblings about what is currently on my mind.

Completely Off-Topic

I’m going to be an auntie. For the first time. It may not seem as big news to anyone, but it will be the first baby of that generation in my family so to us it’s a bit of a big deal. He or she is expected somewhere around my birthday in August (is it selfish to think of it as a personal gift for me? *cough*).

It admittedly feels a bit odd though. I’m the oldest sibling (by far) and I always thought I’d bring the first little one into the world. But of course my brother goes and beats me to it. I bet it’s because I let him die that one time in PvP…

Project Ten

Like so many others seem to do, I’m pondering my own little Project Ten; having one character of each class at level cap.

I considered doing this in Wrath but ended up short on time and never did manage. This time around, it may be the same thing – but I wanted to at least give it a try. My Warlock will obviously remain my Main through all of it, but outside of raids she’s pretty much out of things to do at this point. Sure, I could do some achievements, but unless it rewards me with a mount or pet I’m just not too bothered.

So, cue the alts!

On Fare Wells and New Bloggers

I’m sure it’s not escaped anyone that Larísa at The Pink Pigtail Inn has written her final post. It’s sad to see bloggers that I “grew up with” stop writing, even if I can understand their reasons to do so. I will definitely miss Larísa’s insightful ponderings at the Inn.

Vidyala over at Manalicious reminds us that while this is sad, it is not the end – and that there are many bloggers still out there, as well as new ones cropping up every so often. She even issued a challenge to find a new bloggers and link to them.

Obviously I went out to quest, and I was determined to find one not already on my feedreader. My search eventually had me reading the Red Noob Diaries. It documents the journey of Rezznul, a druid and his journey through WoW as a self-proclaimed noob (who judging from things isn’t as much of a noob as he might let on!).

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