Oh lawd

[Ashe]

My friend keeps trying to get me to let him just afk bot my druid through AV like he does so that I can avoid the grind and actually play with them again so that they don't have to level a druid and then gear it up themselves.

Let's completely ignore the moral question of "is botting a necessary evil or never justified" since that goes in circles and instead we skip to this point: If I have have to have something else autopilot me for 40 hours or more to earn the imaginary points by standing still just so that I can then buy STARTER level pvp gear that is a massive damage decrease from level 80 GREENS and yet only enough resil to make the most minor differences (but enough of a difference to keep you from getting the rating requirements to get actual decent low rank gear to begin going up the chain), then I feel there is something wrong there. I strongly feel that the intro level pvp gear should be purchasable (similar to where they later made BC pvp gear purchasable with rep) for at least the worst ranking pvp gear. To be expected to either spend a full month scraping together starter scraps or to rush into the arena in full 80 greens and thus stay so low ranking that you still take a month for one piece of gear is absurd.