Quote Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor View Post
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|

If you have it set up you can have both horizontal and vertical progression, just make a variety of cool gear sets.
And what content are you going to put all these "cool sets" in? . There has to be a reason to continue to run hard content to prolong the content between patches. So equal gear has to go into equal difficulty content which has to be created, which takes time. Time away from everything else, or slows down content production substantially based on how many "cool sets" you think there should be.