Why vertical progression is poorly implemented

[Xellos2099]

It's a sadly very bland mindless progression, to put it bluntly what we have is thousands of cookie cutter job toons running around or standing around, all mindlessly grinding their dailies to hit 210 left and right side, for the casuals they will most likely do VA and perhaps slowly upgrade their eso, by the time the next gear comes out they will have enough 210 eso upgrades and probably no weekly cap so will just end up with it anyway. It's sorta like hey lets all race for the newest gear this -i5-i10 gear is junk now or glamour, repeat every 6 months or year.

What I truly miss about xi was you never knew what variation or armor kit someone had when joining an xp party or doing sky or sea, yep typically people had their scorp harness or hauberk but that was needed, however there was room for macro gear for ws and so on, plus alternate builds that made tons of outdated gear totally viable at 75.

Who really care what gear other people have as long as it does the job effectively? Actually i take that back. When I was hostign thordan ex pt last month i often check if they have all eso or pink gear. If all they have are those then I tend to get a bit worry.