Gear Score, in my ARR?

[Zumi]

If I get into the Alpha/Beta this will be one of the issues I'll be extremly critical on. Gearscore enforces trivialized gear sets instead of letting people be creative with the stats they want to roll with.

I'd rather not enforce cookie cutter builds anymore than the community does as it is.

You do realize some gearscore system is needed to gate the dungeon/raid finder. Because someone with very bad gear missing stuff queuing up and then bringing their whole group down because they don't have adequate gear for the dungeon they want to run. That would just ruin the whole run for everyone that queued up.

[Jynx]

You do realize some gearscore system is needed to gate the dungeon/raid finder. Because someone with very bad gear missing stuff queuing up and then bringing their whole group down because they don't have adequate gear for the dungeon they want to run. That would just ruin the whole run for everyone that queued up.

Then perhaps the game shouldn't be designed around playing with totally random strangers from different servers outside of your own control.

"Queing up" for content just isn't really in my priority list for what I want to see in 2.0, Gearscore does nothing but sound alarm bells about other thing the devs may be planning such as out-dating gear weeks after it was introduced. Begining a unstopable spiral into power-creep that can't be stopped and eventually implodes on itself. WoW has struggled with this issue for years and I doubt SE will get the same grace that WoW gets with it's players.