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Originally Posted by kaplin42
Don't play WoW, so not sure what you're talking about. And the gem thing only solves the real armor vs appearance armor issue. Of course everyone wants the best stats (see Pellet Race comments above), and so they will all hunt for the same gems, but that's not any different than hunting for the same sword of the neck beard. At least this way, you have all armor looks available to you. Plus you don't have to have appearance armor, PVE armor, PVP armor, crafting gear, and resistance gear.
As far as the PVP thing though, why shouldn't PVP'ers who have devoted hours and hours and hours to that game style be able to cream the nubs that just pop in? I mean have you ever run a raid or dungeon with someone has top tier raid gear? It's not even funny how much more powerful they are, don't see why it shouldn't be the same for PVPer's.
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With WoW transmog model, there's no need. You can simply copy the appearance of item "A" over to item "B". It makes old content relative again as well since it encourages players to go back to old raids to get that epic staff drop so that you can use its appearance, while at the same time allowing Blizz to continue to create higher end game content with higher gear scores so nothing gets stale.
As far as the PvP thing goes, they DO get to cream noobs. For example:
A Complete PvP set will bring your Gear set score to 522. Lets say some elite PvE guys enters a Battleground with a PvE gear score of 560. That 560 Ilvl will then scale down in stats to 496 once he enters the BG. This ensures that PvE players who are new to PvP dont get completely destroyed but at the same time, keeps it so that having PvP gear in PvP content is actually GREATER than having PvE gear.
Also, WoW gives all players a base Resil of 70%. This means that all dmg done Player to Player is reduced by 70%. This keeps the insane PvE gear from one shotting people in lesser gear. PvP gear awards "PvP Power", which is the anti-Resil. The more PvP Power a person has, the less his dmg can be resisted by the 70% baseline Resil, again helping to add importance to PvP gear in PvP content.
So again, Someone who LOVES PvE and is in full 560 gear can go into PvP and be competitive, but still not as good as someone in 522 PvP gear, that doesn't get downscaled.
Ideas like these are why WoW is the King of the MMO.