Suggestion: A way to make old raid content relevant again

[WellFooled]

Cool idea, but if old gear could have its stats increased to match whatever the latest Ilevel cap is, why increase the Ilevel cap at all? Either way, all end game gear would be at the same Ilevel eventually, but your system would call for more work to get some of it there. It seems that if the Developers wanted all end game gear to stay practical they would just adopt a full horizontal progression.

[Aodh]

why increase the Ilevel cap at all?

If you don't increase the ilevel, people would get the one best gear and not have a need to do new content. My suggestion keeps people going back to old content but still requiring they do new content to get the highest level.

[WellFooled]

If you don't increase the ilevel, people would get the one best gear and not have a need to do new content. My suggestion keeps people going back to old content but still requiring they do new content to get the highest level.

An excellent point.

Still, I think I would find it less fun to do new content to keep my old gear relevant than to do new content in order to get new gear. I think it would be frustrating to have to run a new raid, get the latest and greatest chest piece (one that I might want to hold onto for glamours btw) and then be forced to destroy it to keep my outdated chestpiece's stats up to code.

This could result in a situation where I'm raiding for an entire expansion just to keep bumping up the stats on a chestpiece I've been using for years, losing out on glamours the whole way because I want to maintain BiS.