Quote Originally Posted by Themarvin View Post
Because you can, you can kit out character entirely with previous generation gear or use crafted, you may be off 10 ilevels for a while, but that is it, it wont make you stop being able to use your character for pretty much any content in the game as it is.
Unless you are siphoning resources from your main, everything else is stuck at, at best, the peak of the previous tier.

To be only 10 ilvl off means you either cleared Savage week 1 and got lucky on alt gear rolls (which still only covers 1 of several alternate gear classes), or you held your main back by funneling resources to another job.

For those unlucky with drops, that could often mean being unable to take part in Week 3 farms, given how high the community likes to jack up ilvl requirements.