Quote Originally Posted by Ilan View Post
And you really believe that people would make the effort or have the knowledge to upgrade their shire gear if they are to lazy to upgrade their normal leveling gear to a propper ilvl? They would still have to run 2 level 60 24 man raids for that and they would need to know that they can upgrade the gear, try again.
You can buy the upgrade items with poetics directly from the other vendor in the same shop. As long as people understand how the convoluted upgrade system works, upgrading is zero effort.

I disagree with the argument that you don't need to bother with upgrading your gear, but I do agree that when people talk about Ironworks/Shire gear, I would assume they are talking about the augmented versions..