Who is gonna raid now with the iLvl 110 gear handed to people??

[cryptic_angel]

Well yeah at first, but eventually after a few patches those rewards are opened up to more and more people. That's the par for the course. Flipping out about upgraded tokens is just an aspect of you wanting to stir up shit and signal boost your raid ideas to the devs(which they'll probably never listen to).

Honestly I agree with a lot of what you say,but not how you say it. I also don't think anyone should be getting this damn upset about some upgrade tokens. Putting them on hunts was a bad idea but it's not worth embarrassing yourself over. Have fun arguing though.

It's a matter of the reward schedule. Every sane high end raider know their current "Carrot" becomes much easier to obtain when new raids come out. This is not the situation we have going on here. The raiding carrot, as it pertains to gear, is only a weapon. This is happening while the raid in question is the highest level of content available.

SE could mail people ilvl110 gear for all I care, once a new raid tier is out.

And it wasn't the highest ilvl gear from top end content of the time. That's what you're missing. The "welfare" gear as some like to call it was never on the same level as the best gear you could get.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Item_level In fact it was pretty much the bottom end for raiding of that time.

This is pretty much it right here.