Quote Originally Posted by Arkine View Post
For the "People won't buy gear since they can't resell it a few levels later" argument:

People already don't bother with updating their gear before 50, with the majority not spending money on melds even if they upgrade equipment regularly during their leveling, with some extreme cases where people will use the Lv25 GC set all the way to cap.
in 1.0 gear sets would go 5,10,15,25(Rare/ex),35(Rare/Ex),42,50. there was a giant gap where no gear needed to be purchased at all, that itself wasn't so bad until they did the major gear mat changes and stuff. the real issue was and still is too much gear is just being handed out.