Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
OP, what you're asking for with gear already exists with the glamour system. When you boil down BiS gear, it's just stats. The glamour system basically allows you to slap those numbers onto whatever piece of gear you want so long as it is within your character's restrictions. Scored yourself a piece of i470 gear, but love your Cleric's robe from ARR? No problem. Glamour the Cleric's Robe over your new gear, and done. I find vertical progression along with a solid glamour system to be far superior to horizontal, especially in terms of keeping players motivated, or getting them to come back from a hiatus.

If the fights, story, loot, challenge, and ilv progression isn't enough to keep you motivated, already having BiS that you got from a 50/60/70 level raid isn't going to put your butt in there either.

New gear consistently being churned out is a very good thing. Even as it becomes outdated it increases the options of our available glamours. The YoHRa gear and 2B outfits that are so popular right now wouldn't even exist if this game worked as you suggest. That is an antiquated mmo style nearing on two decades in age.
I used to agree with you on the glamour aspect and its an example of an idea I would never of thought of. But at this point in the game life cycle, there are so many cool looking weapons that adding another "pretty" isn't the same as character progression. A lot of what i'm talking about is character progression. Also to quote myself from earlier what you said is enough to keep many players active or returning. But there are also large group of players that it is not. There are different types of gamers and I'm trying to give constructive ideas to add a little horizontal progression for those who enjoy that.