Quote Originally Posted by Akiza View Post
The gear grind is it part of every MMO and developer haven't replaced that system yet. There two types of end game progression the gear grind and increasing the innate power of the player character abilities.
The reason I responded to this thread is, this is changing with the first expansion for Guild Wars 2. One of the big changes they have been talking about is the idea of leveling gear via skills you can get, in this case a new npc race I believe will give you different skills to level up or increase your gear's abilities. Even though this is just one game, I would hope there is movement in this direction for other games including this one.