Noob question on gear score.

[Ualaa]

I'd think hiding item levels on gear, in Cataclysm would be a good move on Blizzards part.

If your toon is new, at the time the content is new, you are fine.

But if the content has been around for a while, and you're a new toon.
Or if your character is an alt, its the same boat as the new toon.

You won't have the achievement or the gear score.
Which will make it rather problematic to get either.

[zenga]

I'd think hiding item levels on gear, in Cataclysm would be a good move on Blizzards part.

If your toon is new, at the time the content is new, you are fine.

But if the content has been around for a while, and you're a new toon.
Or if your character is an alt, its the same boat as the new toon.

You won't have the achievement or the gear score.
Which will make it rather problematic to get either.

While that might be better/true in theory, i doubt this will solve the gs trend. People will just replace with an addon that assigns his own gs to gear. We know in what dungeon/raid a certain piece drops and if the content is new/old, shouldn't be too hard for a set of experienced players to make such a list that replaces gs. Lets just hope that the 'new one' will take gems/gear fits class into account.