Quote Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH View Post
It is the same thing, though. You're keeping yourself at a minimal chance for success and leaving wipes as a more likely outcome by unmelding. You might as well be at the bare minimum ilvl.
All the debate has moved from needing the best gear to having the best gear with melds. Gear/melds does not equal skill, it not going to make a "bad" player better, cause you know can polish a turd but it still a turd.

On an separate note:
Maybe if the gear was not pretty much throw away gear that always being replaced and the content was harder that needed melds maybe more people would take the time to meld their gear.