Quote Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer View Post
no, horizontal progression is not having 3 ways of getting the same iLevel of gear with different stats. At all.
Then please enlighten us as to what you mean by "horizontal progression".



Vertical progression is where gear gets more powerful. It may (but does not have to) include higher equipping requirements. Consider the vertical progression your gear made as you leveled in ARR from 1 to 50. Then the vertical progression continued at 50, working up the ilevels instead of just the character levels. Then, in HW, the grind from 50 to 60 added more vertical progression, which continues from the leveling gear to the i160, i170, i180, i190, i200 gear you can get (through various means) all more powerful than the previous.

If vertical progression is gear power going up, then horizontal gear progression must be gear power staying flat. Is that not exactly what "3 ways of getting the same iLevel of gear with different stats" is? Different looks, different stats, but no power increase over the other items at that same ilevel?

Please, enlighten me.