Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
That being said, it's not like people are going to toss out an upgrade just it's not the BiS (due to secondary stats). An alleged upgrade can be rather disappointing, weight-wise, if non-optimal, but especially when the primary stat weight gains are as strong per ilvl increase as they are in XIV, there are no truly wasted pieces upon acquisition unless you already have equal or higher tier gear compared to the place you're looting.
Actually, this is EXACTLY the case and was one of the rampant problems the devs had with raiders back in WoW, players would actually not want an upgrade unless it was BiS. I can't find the exact quote as it's pretty old, but it's one of the mentalities Blizzard found really problematic with raiders. That could very easily happen here as well.