Expansions should be for "catch-up" - not update patches (solution proposed)

[PArcher]

What does this add to a discussion about "average players who can't gear up classes properly because of weekly lockouts and bad itemization"?

Well, you can. It just takes longer. 6 months is long enough (I have 4 jobs over i200, and another one over 190, and could have more but I got lazy. Then again, I have a lot of Savage gear to help me, so...), and if it is not you are definitely not an "average" player (funnily enough, most of the "average" players I know have at least two geared, not even touching Savage or doing much Diadem, and they don't care to play more than those jobs anyway.)

And if you don't have the time to gear up one or two jobs in 3 months, you don't have the time to do much raiding either. Which is the main point of gearing up in the first place