Originally posted by: TheVrolok
How do you make the Time = Gear > Player Input when it comes to WoW now? As far as arena gear goes all you need to do is play 10 games per week, and at the right time of day, that can take no more than an hour. Yes, you'll have to do a bit of the honor grind to get the non-set pieces, but considering you have an entire arena season (many months) to do it I wouldn't say that's too much to ask. With the personal rating the items have now, and all items will have personal ratings come Season 4, how can you claim it takes no skill? Certain people will NEVER get these items unless they're good regardless of gear. You HAVE to find a team that's good enough to get a good rating. Same could be said for end game raiding - yes, you do need the gear and that does take time, but you also need to find people that are good enough (quick reflexes, know what's going on, able to adapt, etc.) to learn/beat some of the boss fights. It seems like all you do is focus on the aspects that back up your points, and on none of those that don't - but I guess that's the point, isn't it?
Arena points will only buy you 7 of the 16 (or 8/17 if you DW) gear slots you need to fill. The remaining 9 slots are going to cost you ~150k honor which is 50-75 hours grinding BG's if you do it solo.
And good luck getting arena points with a fresh 70. It takes a looong time to save up for pieces with 1200-1300 rated teams. Like 6-10 weeks each for just the normal armor pieces which is seriously discouraging to casual gamers.
It's much easier than it used to be, but it's still a huge time sink.