Grats on the gear.

Luckily I haven’t had to deal with jackasses who have a problem with my gear. I’m with you, stats are stats. If you got unlucky with certain drops and have enough honor to buy shoulders that have more of the stats that you’re looking for, then it’s an upgrade. By going with the PvP bracers, I gained intellect, spirit, stamina, and almost 60 spell power at the cost of 33 haste. That’s a good trade-off to me.

If you’re in a ‘hardcore’ raiding guild, and the success or failure of a certain boss depends on every player maxing out their gear with purple gems, the most expensive enchants, etc, then obviously PvP gear wouldn’t be ideal, since you’d be using up some of the iLevel item budget on resilience. But lets be honest, if you’re pushing end-game you would have picked up something more appropriate from PvE by now. For heroic FoS, that PvP gear chest was probably an upgrade from his blue quest reward. Take whatever item has the greatest amount of the stats you need most.

I remember in Burning Crusade, one of the best healer weapons was the Merciless Gladiator’s Gavel, a PvP reward. Players were grinding arena, then eventually honor because it was one of the best SP weapons and didn’t require getting lucky with a drop.