All the Gearsyncing is getting out of Hand, at least for me.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Let’s take a step away from savage gear and look at the casual player. They’re most likely wearing a full set of i500 captain crystarium gear made available by simply doing your weekly 24 man dungeon. No the stats aren’t perfect but hey, they’re still i500. Why even bother, why even cap your points each week when SE then cucks you and makes your gear pointless by capping a dungeon every time. You are actually now a high enough item level to complete the rest of the entire expansion. You have zero content to use your i500 gear because SE insists on making item level cap content. It’s not even a logical cap either, it’s i430 mostly which is the level of gear the moment you hit 80! Handed to you by an NPC for zero effort.

I for the most part agree with your point, but feel that it could be extended to cover other content.

The i500 gear will barely qualify you for the final Normal Mode and Alliance Raids as well as the second to last Extreme Trial. The only real midcore reason to upgrade during 5.4 and 5.5 is to participate in the final Extreme Trial if you have no interesting in Savage or the Ultimate.