Power creep?

[UBERHAXED]

At 210 Alex normal will be dead on arrival and will only be for gearing alts. Alts that, if you stayed subbed for 3.1, will already be partially geared in 210 because the game gives you a Farthing a week.


I'm not sure if you're quite seeing the problem here. You're making Alex normal completely irrelevant, gating new gear for non-raiders behind the tome, which was exactly the problem with six months in 3.0.

If you want another Heavensward example, you can look no farther than Bismarck. He was only ever run because he was a wall for Ravana. Dead on arrival because he was irrelevant, iLevel-wise. You just went and got a 180 Law weapon instead. Even non-raiders need a non-tome reward for progression to keep their interest.

That being said - the easiest way to fix this power creep would be horizontal progression, which, unfortunately, Yoshi seems to have no interest in. And before someone calls me out on it, no, horizontal progression is not having 3 ways of getting the same iLevel of gear with different stats. At all.

That's the point SE is doing o.o.
You don't need higher level gear unless you intend to use it in content that requires it.