Quote Originally Posted by statikcat View Post
The downside to this is.. if you save up tokens you could put the highest lv gear on an alt who has never ran the instance. You can do that with phil/myth but certainly should not be the case up to the very top.
I don't view this as a downside so much as I view it as a way for people to "do more than one coil a week." It's not exactly, but what it does is allows you to be more inclined to play the class your group needs to succeed than just your primary, but still be able to work towards equipping your primary. Or, you could equip an alt so that the alt is capable of being useful to the raid in the event you have a no show or need to change tactics.

For someone just starting, it helps to guarantee they have some kind of progression by using the tokens to fill in spots where they weren't lucky enough to get. As they progress, they can use them to gear up an alt and make them useful to the raid. Personally, I like it. I've already been in a situation where I dropped playing my WHM (best geared) to play my BRD, because that is what the group needed. That was only Turn 2, though, which full DL on my BRD is adequate. I do not think my BRD is geared enough to be useful, if that is what my group needed, for T4 or T5. I'd like my BRD to be capable, though, in the event that helped us progress.