Please remove iLevel

[Sileka]

Snip.

Actually iLvL was invented by players. Blizzard simply added the feature because so many people used an add-on to display a numeral value based on gear. Though that is superficial to the point. My only problem with iLvL comes with how most people end up using it. They want folks to be over geared, not simply 'geared enough' so they cay plow through with as little trouble as possible. While I understand the desire to make a run as easy as possible, it makes it difficult for people to do instances they are geared for when they finally get geared for it. (Without being kicked out of a group or grumbled at.)

Otherwise I cannot say I agree. I have no issues with iLvL/Gear Scores in general since I see it as a way of judging if I am ready for an instance. My problem will always be how players eventually want over-geared and never give someone a chance to prove they are skilled even though they have an instance minimal Gear Score/iLvL.

[Nekodar]

I have no problem with people showing up with less than optimal gear...
But people shouldn't be allowed to enter for example WP with sub-AF gear and similarly low level weapons, if they want the DF to fill out the party. Want to try stuff undergeared? They can set up their own party and enter instead.
That's from actually having entered WP with such people and noticing early on that their damage output just wouldn't be enough for the pudding boss. Which it indeed wasn't.

[Keres]

Actually iLvL was invented by players. Blizzard simply added the feature because so many people used an add-on to display a numeral value based on gear

This is not true at all. Item level (as in, a coefficient that determines what sort of stat budget a particular item gets) has been in WoW since day one, and evaluating people based on their average item level has always been possible (though the "average item level" wasn't displayed in the UI until several years in). Even the weakest piece of gear in the game has an item level attached to it, and it simply determines how many stat points (and/or weapon damage) will be on that item. Vanilla WoW had a lot of instances where lower-ilvl gear was better than higher-ilvl gear, but that was mostly due to poor itemization (all 5 core stats on most pieces of Paladin gear!) rather than anything inherent to the game design itself.

What you're thinking of is "Gear Score," a player-made concept where a certain addon would take your item level, enchantments, gems, and other parameters into account and combine them all into one aggregate score.