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Item Level != Required Level to wear item.

You can have a grey quality item that requires level 25 to wear have an item level of say 25 and a green quality item that requires level 25 to wear but an item level of say 34 (which gives it a higher allotment of stats compared to the grey quality item).

This method proved useful in WoW as it prevented people from rushing alts to end-game level and then bringing them into higher end dungeons via the dungeon finder (duty finder) without quality gear required to successfully run the dungeon and would severely hinder the party.

The only solution was to then kick the player from the group and wait for the dungeon finder (duty finder) to find someone else and hope they had the right gear for the run, which was costly if the player you had to remove was a tank and you then had to sit there and wait for a tank for a long while. Some dungeons are a severe gear check and implementing this helps people who have to wait for a long time to get into a queue not have to deal with grouping with people who lack the gear to complete the dungeon they're queuing for.