Quote Originally Posted by ErzaScarlet77 View Post
how does gearing up late game work in other mmos?
Gear doesn't get trashed as fast (although times are changing) so you gear up once with workable gear then work hard for BiS which is optional or trophy-like. Mostly, once you get up to workable gear you go and do the content. BiS may even be situational, so it is near impossible to have everything but none of it is needed (think red scrip class specific crafting gear vs shareable gear, except red scrip is not necessary, unlike the red scrip gear here). If you had BiS for some situation maybe you could pull off some cool video worthy stuff or have that moment of fame in a party.

In other words you don't gear up - you go and do content with mediocre gear and have fun doing the content because it's fun. (But again, times are changing)