The problem with that, though, is that all of the skill in the world isn't going to help you, if you're wearing Savage Saronite, or whatever is best for your class.

You can be the best PvPer in the world and you will still die in 3 seconds against anyone wearing purples.

At least in PvE, there ARE things you can WIN while wearing the "Blue Starter Set", namely Heroics.

In PvP, you will always die and die fast, until you get your purples.

Dying repeatedly without even making a dent in your opponent just isn't fun.

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This.

Also, something I would like to point out, is in #2 of GC's posts in which he talks about Resilience.

He says something like (I closed the other window, gah)... but anyways, he says something like:

"We feel that Resilience should be an attractive stat for the survivability it offers, but the starter resilience gear is either too hard to get, sacrifices too many other stats, or doesn't offer enough resilience. It takes 500 just to start noticing the difference, and more like 800-1000 before you can actually respond to attacks." (Paraphrased)

I'm inclined to agree whole-heartedly. I just started PvP with my paladin, and my DK both. Paladin has like, 150 Resilience and I'm trying to build up a resilience set. If I put on Savage Saronite, I might have 500-ish, but I take my stats WAY down into the dirt, for a loss of nearly 3k HP, a huge amount of Hit Rating (to the point it would be non-existant), and I'd lose a large amount of Critical Strike rating too. On the flipside, my DK who is wearing almost full Savage Saronite (except the helm) dies just as fast, if not faster, than my Paladin. Both are Lv80.

And Savage Saronite was supposed to be the "Starter PvP Set", right? Its the PvP set you can get without touching a single PvP game, to "Gear Up" for PvP? It doesn't hardly make a difference in how fast you die, not when everyone else is running around with Arena junk.

What's the next set up? Honor-bought equipment? That takes 30k to 49k Honor. It helped that they recently changed the dailies to weeklies in Wintergrasp, but still... one round of dailies + 2 wins of WG will yield about 20k honor. If I recall correctly, all of the pieces are between 30-49k, let's round that off and say 40k per. There's Gloves, Helm, Body, Legs, and Belt I believe. That's 200k honor, and at 20k honor per week that equates to 10 weeks before you can even become effective in PvP. That's the "Welfare" set, btw. That won't suddenly make you good at PvP, it will make it so you might not die in 5 seconds. There's also a pair of boots one can buy from WG with WG Marks, for 15 marks (5 wins), but still, to get the full "Honor Set", you're talking 8-12 weeks of Wintergrasp. You could speed it up a little by Battlegrounds, but do you really want to go to Battlegrounds where you are offering next to no help to your team effort? Do you enjoy dying in 5 seconds or less anytime someone attacks you? I sure don't... that's one of the things that turned me against PvP from the get-go: It just isn't fun dying in 3 seconds just because you haven't been PvPing since Vanilla and don't have the best PvP gear.

As you're levelling up, you die in 3-5 seconds against Twinks in low-level BGs.
As you reach Max-Level Cap, you die in 3-5 seconds against people wearing Arena gear.

There just isn't any escape from "Die in 3-5 seconds against your opponent", aside from "keep doing it you'll eventually gear up!"

That's like saying "Keep wiping to the first boss of Naxx with your green equipment, you'll eventually get enough 'points' to buy purples and win!"