Quote Originally Posted by Zumi View Post
Your gear will have to be replaced at some point in the expansion.
In Cataclysm, i was replacing gear from Lich King himself by the end of the first quest zone.
In WoD, That endgame raiding gear is useful for much longer. Around halfway through the leveling process, In some cases, its even good almost up to the new cap.

I am not opposed to upgrading my gear in an expansion.
I AM opposed to stepping out of FCOB(for example) with the best gear available in the game, taking the very quest "go here talk to that guy" quest and getting superior gear for doing so. That just feels disgusting.

A gear reset is fine with an expansion, its useful since it puts everyone back on a level playing field for the new endgame. But, do NOT begin the leveling process with gear that is better than the previously best gear.
This leads to stat bloat of the WORST variety. Again, WoW had that. WoW was forced to "Squish" the stats in order to bring numbers down to a level that made any kind of sense. They had to do that because every time a new expansion rolled out, they began that expansion ABOVE the finest gear available at the end of the previous expansion.
We began ARR with i70/i90 gear and in 2.4, we're at i130. If we get i140 in 2.5, we'd be looking at starting endgame 3.0 at ilvl200 and climbing up from there.