Your turning it into something that it's not. Damaging gear isn't restricting pvp at all, and in my opinion only makes it better. A good example of this would be, lets say, a 1 vs. 3 fire fight. I kill 2 of the 3, get shot and then I'm forced to run and bandage to stay alive. The 3rd and last member of the party sits there, waits for his friends to run back to him and grab all their gear. This system was broken as fuck, and almost everyone would do it. So you sit there and call people carebears. Well I say go and look in the mirror. The changes they've made make the game 100x more hardcore.
