Will this be like WoW where gear becomes obsolte THAT fast?

[Bufkus]

Yes, steep vertical progression is the name of the game. Due to lack of implementation of any items which offer stats beyond the usual (Every piece is sequentially better than the next because gear is just stat porn) you just keep climbing tossing gear to your retainers as you go.

That's how it should be. That's how every successful MMO does it. Don't like it? You're free to go back to an archaic MMO like FFXI.

Every successful MMO?
You mean the very large pile of WoW-too attempts sitting in the F2P zone of irrelevant-opolis?
Or do you mean successful MMOs that have lasted for over a decade without needing to rely on cashshop gimmicks. Like the wicked old FFXI.

Try to discount WoW all you want but it's a model that works. As for FFXI, well its dwindling subscription numbers speak for itself.

If the so-called horizontal progression model was something that the masses desired, we'd see it in every MMO that came out. We do not, and for a good reason.