Thread: Reset Item Levels in 4.0?

I was hoping that in 4.0, with level raises and a new expansion, there might be a dive into the item levels and gear sets we have at this time. At the moment our level cap is 60 and our ilvl is 4 times that. This has become rather silly and to me is taking away the importance of both levels and the items we obtain.

I'd suggest lowering that ilvl with redoing the gear we have (time consuming, but not THAT time consuming, considering the new budget), so that we may obtain level 70 gear that is actually ilvl 70 or close to it.

Quite honestly I'd like to look into a whole new system (horizontal progression) so this doesnt repeat itself after 4.0...but thats another subject or at least a compromise I'd make just for the original request. Is there anyway we'll see a better flow of gear and weapons throughout the levels after 4.0??

edit- Sorry for the lateness of this, I was pressed for time when I made the post and honestly at first didn't see much of a reply.

However I would argue that there is quite a problem with spamming ilvl up without limitations. People think that ilvl is an imaginary number. It's not though. That number has stats to back it up. Quite obviously in a piece of 50 gear, an ilvl 90 is stronger then an ilvl 70. The same as a level 50 character isn't as strong as a level 60 character.

We're just progressing to a silly amount. In a game where it's mostly about mechanics anyway. We're not just level 60, we're level 250 now. Soon the level cap will raise to 70-75 and gear will probably be about 350-400. Numbers will be just silly. Is wow not a perfect example of this?

Granted, at the end of the day, its not game breaking, but it's still somewhat of an issue to be addressed. I dont know why we should wait until the absolute last minute to fix it when we can now