Quote Originally Posted by Zumi View Post
Difference between FFXI and WoW and its clones is. FFXI has horizontal gear progression, everything seemed like a side grade most of the time, which kept you doing older content a lot longer. WoW has vertical gear progression, the newest raids in the patch dropped the best gear once a new raid is out there is no reason to go back and do old content. Unless it drops a vanity item like a mount and you can solo it.

But for me I prefer getting upgrades over sidegrades.
Ya I completely agree and understand that it's important to feel progression, and if there was a better way to upgrade while keeping away from just simply raiding the current patch's raid, then I'm all for it.

I don't really think of it as sidegrading though, there was tons of very hard options to get amazing things, so I felt like I had options to build my char. Obviously once you had everything you wanted... There was always an alt to get gear for lol. There was always something to work for, so I always felt like I was progressing.

I hope they find maybe a balance of the two. WoW's new xpac means my last 2 years of raiding gear are worse then greens in the xpac and I have to start from 0 again. I feel like I'm just starting over from scratch every expac, instead of expanding my character I'm just getting a higher gear score. That kinda seems the opposite of progression to me.