Quote Originally Posted by Listrella View Post
good gear isn't all that easy to come by when leveling, you have to hope you get a good drop from a dungeon.
In ARR, maybe. But that is also slightly where it doesn't matter as much. In HW and SB you get HQ gear pieces from the MSQ and similar-level sidequests, which should nicely take care of your main the first time you run through it. Barring that, you have NQ versions of those gear sets available through vendors.
On-level gear is readily available at all stages of the game post ARR.