it's gimp to have gear 7 levels below your rank now? So I'm required to update all of my gear every 5 levels or so? Seeing as how there is very little gear that comes from quests leves, that seems like a pretty ridiculous idea to me. Not to mention it doesn't explain why my level 21 pug was having such difficulty killing on-rank mobs in all optimal gear during leves. If gear is so crucial, I should have been mopping the floor with those mobs, yet they consistently took me down to yellow-red HP even after second wind and bloodbath.