Quote Originally Posted by Kaurie View Post
This is very true. One of the main reasons I am here instead of Guild Wars 2 is due to vertical progression. That and better end-game & trinity.
Kaurie, what would you say if they slowed down the gear progression between expansions so that each major patch only advances gear by 5 ilevels? One of the most common complaints I see in this type of discussion is that gear is only viable for a short time. So I was suggesting earlier that the gear in the expansion be made upgradeable via the subsequent patch, and any new gear introduced in a patch be upgradeable in the next patch. Raid gear would always be best, and would be upgradeable with items from raids, and tome gear would be upgradeable by tome items, but even upgraded would still be short of raid gear. The whole things advances with new gear or upgrades differing by only n5 ilevels per patch so that gear remains relevant for more than a single patch cycle.