Poll: Gear progression, horizontal or vertical?

[Sylve]

I'd say a hybrid. I want my gear to increase my main stats, but I also want it to have something to it that means I can reasonable see using it over a higher iLevel gear. What's the point in releasing a set of gear if everyone is going to throw it away the second something slightly better comes around. Gear near the same level should have a variety of stats that encourage people to try different things, instead of encouraging them to work towards the exact same gear set up.....

Unfortunately, you can too far in the opposite direction, as WoW showed us in the past.
Lots of occasions there where a set bonus on a lower tier of gear made the higher level gear worthless.

A nice balance could be struck, but getting that balance right is incredibly hard, as the theorycrafters will always math out which bonus is superior to ilvl gains and then that becomes the only piece of gear people want.