Quote Originally Posted by azura84 View Post
All I'm asking is they straighten out the drastic difficulty spike so there is more ways and places to obtain gear and apply more quests that support gear progression or find another way to make it seem like putting that 405 weapon on the ground after the first dungeon of 5.0 doesn't feel like a complete waste.
Honestly, I agree with adding in more methods of gearing as one of the primary selling points of this game is that you can be everything on one character, except you really can't because of how the gear gating works.

But if you're expecting them to change the power creep between expansions so that your raid weapon from a year ago is still good, that's a hard no from me. Catch-up mechanics exist for a reason; to allow new players to get into the game easier, as that is where all the money is nowadays, like it or not. Players are not going to want to play this game if they have to play through 5 years of back content to gear themselves up enough to do the current stuff, and forcing players to wade through that is a dumb idea, which is precisely why those power level resets exist at certain points.