Moonkin have more fun.

[Xanthippe]

The problem is that on very rare occasions you get two equally coordinated groups and gear dictates the outcome.  But 99% of the people who complain about gear imbalances have no chance of beating a good team naked.

I didn't think gear imbalances were that bad, until one day when I ran into some epicly equipped Taurens in Elwynn.  I was on my 20 mage at the time.  They were there to provoke some pvp, I guess, but nobody came out to play.  I danced with them and emoted to them and so on, and they played back.  One stripped and lost half hit hit points - I could tell when he put everything back on.

[Fordel]

You must not be familiar with the 2000-2003 (roughly) MMOG era that I dub the UO Therapy Session.  In that time, every Dev bent over backwards to not offend PvEers in any way ("offend" included the idea that PvPers were even having fun on another separate server in your game).  In that inglorious time, it was verboten to claim that PvP took any skill (it was all exploiter gankers) and it was worth the life of a dev to imply that crafting or PvE took even less skill.

That's why I love WoW so much.  In the Therapy era, if someone recited a third-hand story about a miner getting pked in UO, devs would change (or start out with) that person's chosen PvE mechanics to placate them (if the PvEer had TWO STACKS or more of garlic looted from their corpse, the devs would send a team to a PvEer's house with cookies and warm milk).  When PvEers whined in WoW about Gadget guards, the devs responded "learn tactix newb". 

Nope can't say I am familiar with any of that, my First 'real' MMO was DAOC, the idea of playing a PvE only game confuses me ;) PvE in DAOC was just that thing they made you do before you were allowed to actually go out and have fun in the frontiers. Something that frustrates me with WoW, I thought WoW was going to be more DAOC'ish with the Horde vs Alliance thing, not the pile of suck that the WoW PvP system currently is. Maybe outland will fix it? (probably not)



As to the gear advantage, It is just absolutely huge. Unless the team with the super epics is braindead, your going to lose unless you have your own super epics.