Change the way minimum item level works

[Mhaeric]

Cons to your second and third option: lack of transparency to player leading to situations where people are confused why they're blocked when they meet minimum ilevel.

The only additional ilevel requirement I would add is a minimum main hand (and offhand for Paladin) requirement.

And add tiered ilevel requirements for alliance roulette based on the highest raid you could have access to so people can't cheese the queue to Crystal Tower as much. E.g. if you're level 70 you have to meet the level 70 alliance ilevel to queue for the roulette regardless of whether you unlocked the raid. They'd still be able to not unlock the later raids to force CT, but at least they couldn't do it by equipping a bunch of ironworks, or worse.

[QooEr]

Cons to your second and third option: lack of transparency to player leading to situations where people are confused why they're blocked when they meet minimum ilevel.

I just suggested they be secretly calculated to not confuse the user with statistics, but i am not particularly opposed to showing the information if its useful. Moreover if someone thinks "but i meet the min ilv!" and on closer inspection theyre wearing a lv 12 ring while everything else is lv 50+ gear, the problem would be obvious.