Noob question on gear score.

[crowdx]

This is where palyer's alt toons get screwed, when people look at achievements . In some respect I just feel the game is a little broke with Gear score and other such ways of trying to assess how people will do. I think it was much more fun when everyone just jumped into a dungeon and hoped they survived, nowadays everyone wants "the smooth run" nearly seems like people want to out gear everything. Outgearing makes sense in multiboxing, but in one player one toon scenario I think it just takes the fun out of it.
On my server there are a ton of toons starting to pop up with 6k gear score, I am thinking that will be the next trade request, "LFM for ICC10, need 6k + GS" . Kinda sad.

[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.

[crowdx]

Well there is the issue, GS only seems to use iLevel of an item, some iLevel 200 items for certain classes work better than an ilevel 245 item (due to procs etc) and so the ilevel in some cases makes GS misleading and as you said, currently I could have a 5k gs with no enchants which really makes the gear equivelent to a much lower iLevel once it is missing enchants and gems.

[Ualaa]

If Blizzard ever irons out the issues with cross-server raids, ie lock-outs and continuation of an incomplete raid, they could force a certain gear level before a raid becomes available, as they do for some of the harder heroics.

At the same time, you could random-raid queue and get in if your gear was enough to do it, rather then if you gear is enough to do a 25-man two raid tiers later in the progression. The majority of PuG raids on my server want ICC25 level gear scores, to take you to their TOC10 raid; I've seen 5k GS requirements to get into Naxx10's.