Quote Originally Posted by 'Bigfish',index.php?page=Thread&postID=182502#post 182502
Better gear also lets you progress through similar difficulty content faster.
But, what in fact you are doing, is trivalizing the content. Think back to BC when 5 shaman teams, like mine, could farm heroics without a tank. This wasn't intended, but we were geared with the PvP equivilent of Sunwell gear and it made the content trivial, since it was designed for people in quest blues. As Fur said, that's what blizzard is trying to avoid.

While it may sound elitist, I don't want everyone who only want to do 5 mans to have access to the gear I get from raids. The effort, time, and ability put into the raids is considerable, and it's not "fair" to the raiders if people can just farm heroics for days on end and end up with the same gear. This was evident in BC. With that said, I also think this system sucks. I've said it in my guild chat, in trade, and on the forums. Most people do pug raids now, and what's going to happen is that blizzard is going to create a gear gap where those of us who've progressed into Ulduar are going to have 0 motivation to do heroics. This'll lengthen the gear gap between people freshly hitting 80 and make groups harder to find.

It's a double edged sword. There's no ifs and or buts about it.

And to people who complain about gimmicks in raids, that's the nature of raids. It's about the coordination of 10 or 25 people to defeat an encounter using a variety of strategy, but there's absolutely nothing saying a boxer can't do it, and if anything, I have more fun playing multiple characters. I multibox becuase I enjoy having my own team to do what I want, when I want. I also play with a static raiding group (10 man) and am in a casual raiding guild (25 man) and we're all online friends. I just have multiple heads, and most of my guild enjoys it (our resto shaman hates me just because we roll on the same stuff).

But the end line is, if you want the best gear, you have to do the harder content. You can choose not to, but with that choice comes consequences. It's no different than people who want the best PvP gear and don't want to arena (but arena is a whole different story atm).