Quote Originally Posted by Alexia89 View Post

Vice versa- if the new Allagan gear is more crit focused than last coils... poor WHMs!
The beauty of tome gear and coil gear being same iLvL was CHOICES. Being able to focus on getting the stats you desire rather than just taking whats handed to you.
Thoughts?
I think that it is fine if they want to make actual raid gear the highest item level gear in the game and, yes, better than tome gear. You figure, someone who has it is wearing a badge saying "I faced the hardest content in the game", versus "I mark capped for a couple weeks". That said, I agree that choices are important for optimal play, as right now with healers, the importance of secondary stats varies greatly. I think actual raids have always needed more loot. They need to drop more and the table needs to be larger. My point is that Tome gear doesn't have to be only alternative to raid gear; there can be multiple alternatives within raid gear and frankly, I'd prefer that.