In many other mmos progression gear from dungeons was just used for that purpose, to upgrade ur stats. The only other thing that you could do would be vendor it. for this reason needing on piece of gear that isnt an upgrade on ur current gear is frowned upon.

This game works differently, they put effort on making old content relevant. there has to exist reasons for players to go back to old content and run it im order to make it relevant.

In this idea amongst other things comes dungeon gear, we can do a lot with it as many of u have pointed out and many players do run old dungeons just for the single purpose of glamour, oportunity for gc seals and desyn... (Tomes from roulettes...)

It my Idea that the current system is working well. What many of us do is, If we are looking for upgrade of gear or just looking for a specific gear, we just ask at the beginning and normally from my experience works very well.