Poll: Gear progression, horizontal or vertical?

[Gunspec]

I'd like for some pieces of gear to be relevant longer

I hear this a lot, but it worries me. When people say they want slower progression with gear, it occasionally hits me as people wanting a slower pace of content. I know that isn't what you are saying, but I hear it all the time in these threads.

When people complain about vertical progression,there are lots of comments about "letting the game sit and mature before adding more", and they are talking about both the ramping ilevels AND the content with ramping challenge. For a game that has a $15 subscription fee that I've been playing for almost two straight years, I LOVE the rate of content being added, and don't want it to slow at all.

So, I guess the big question is whether or not NEW CONTENT can be added without a jump in ilevels. Could they introduce a new raid with more ilevel 130 gear and not lose player interest? Max ilevel in FFXIV has gone up only twice in almost two years.

[Synestra]

Could they introduce a new raid with more ilevel 130 gear and not lose player interest?

Ah the good old TBC era where you had 6 diffirent raids from day 1 not to mention that ilvl from bottom to top was only in 20-30 range, each upgrade was marginal at best but it was still a upgrade and it kept gear diffirences in check pretty well imo. This also kept old content alive as there was still BiS items in there for some classes even if you were already farming latest content thanks to extremely small ilvl diffirences.