Overview
- PvP Combat Rating is a statistic possessed by player characters representing the overall power of their PvP equipment. The PvP Combat Rating is calculated by averaging the item levels of all of a player's equipped items. It very much works like the (PvE) combat rating.
Background
- The general PvP CR was so far increased with every major PvP update.
- PvP Season 1 ( GU 25 - GU 33) had gear with PvP item level 77, 81, 82, 83 and 84.
- PvP Season 2 ( GU 33 - GU 41) had gear with PvP item level 86, 87, 88, 89 and 90.
- PvP Season 3 ( GU 41 -) has gear with PvP item level 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 and 101.
- To be able to access the next gear tier at the PvP vendors, all gear slots in the inventory have to hold a gear piece of the previous tier. E.g. to get access to tier 2 PvP gear (item level 98), *all* equipped gear must be of item level 97.
Trivia
- Until 2013 the combat rating was considered a PvE only statistic since unmodded PvP gear never had an item level higher than 30.
- Game update 25 introduced a PvP item level and now every player has a Combat Rating and a PvP Combat Rating.
- PvP item level 101 (a.k.a. PvP tier 5) was introduced with Hotfix 04/08/16.
- Modding did not increase a player's PvP CR. Prefab Mods were introduced for PvP gear.