wow Will PvP-Specific Stats Return in Shadowlands?

[Stan 5,240]

Blizzard is aware of the current issues with PvP vendors in Shadowlands, and Ion came up with two possible fixes for the problem.

The current problem with the Shadowlands PvP vendors is that certain secondary stat combos are missing on the gear, forcing players to do PvE if they want to complete their sets and get the stats they want to be competitive in PvP.

Furthermore, spending ~165 hours on getting gear that's 7 item levels higher than Mythic+0 gear feels a bit underwhelming.

Game Director Ion Hazzikostas had a few words to say about PvP feedback in the latest Shadowlands Development Update.

While the developers think WoW is an interconnected ecosystem of different content and systems and the strongest players should be the ones who do various activities, each progression (PvP, Mythic dungeons, raiding) should offer the majority of tools required for success in that mode. The current vendors fall short in that regard.

The WoW dev team is considering two options to fix the problem:

1. Reworking secondary stat coverage on PvP vendor;
2. Providing PvP-specific bonuses through items.

We don't know what Ion means by "PvP-specific bonuses." To me, it sounds like they want to implement some set bonuses for PvP gear on the vendors to make it more compelling in PvP instead of making PvP-specific stats like PvP Power or Resilience return.

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PvP Itemization

We have been following the constructive feedback about the range of gear available on our PvP vendors, and we agree with the underlying concerns. While WoW is an interconnected ecosystem of different content and systems and we feel that the very strongest characters should be the ones who participate and excel in a wide range of activities, each individual progression path should offer the majority of the tools required for success in that path. The current PvP vendors fall short of that goal.

We are considering a few different solutions, such as reworking the stat coverage of the vendor gear and/or providing PvP-specific bonuses through those items. As soon as we've settled on a direction, we'll share our plan for feedback, and get the changes up on Beta for testing.

[Mishmish 65]

Oh right it's not neccesarily pvp stats. Oh well, just as good, what's important to me (and i dare guess to others) is that pvp is the best way to gear for pvp (or that you simply don't have to gear like in legion). Ion's suggestion has potential for that. 

[Ulzorn 29]

could be the "item has +whatever ilvls while in pvp" that was in WoD as well (just need to somehow avoid LFG tool from counting the boosted ilvl fop PvE listings at least,pretty sure that system was used to fake being geared higher back then)

[Syridian 14]

1 hour ago, Stan said:

 

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PvP Itemization

each individual progression path should offer the majority of the tools required for success in that path. The current PvP vendors fall short of that goal.

 

What a fantastically grey non-statement. This is almost a politiical level of spin.

To clarify, "The majority of the tools required for success" , in no sense means "the best gear available". Hell there's no definition of what he means given at all. Better start getting ready to look up the next BiS Raid Trinket for arenas.

[Asakash 22]

What bothers me, again, is that he says, the most powerful characters should be those, that do all types of content at the highest level.
That implies, that you will be forced to mythic raid and do high keys for top pvp gear, again. 
I'm so done with that sh*t...

[Kyroshi 0]

I would love to have both item sets viable for pvp, either from pvp itself or from mythic+ dungeons.

It would also feel bad if myth+ gear is not helping in pvp and if so many people would stop doing mythics then. A balance between both seems to be highly desirable.