Quote Originally Posted by Arrius View Post
How does it hold you back?
If you mean gear-wise, you can just get the crafted equipment and augment it. Which has the same itemlevel as the Mathematics gear and Heliometry Tomestones are more readily available since they don't have a weekly cap.
Augmented crafted gear is only available in X.1, X.3 and X.5 that means one has to wait entire patch to even out their second favourite role to their main role (with the assumption they don't raid). That again limits them from doing stuff they like - they can't for example fill in as their secondary role in farm parties for older extremes or other activities where the community imposes a ilvl limit that more-or-less matches current expected iLevel that one would get if they played every week and got tomstone gear or in .1, .3, .5 if they got upgrades from alliance raids on top of that.